Let's see if I can explain this correctly without the aid of pictures.
I was a die hard Mr Wizard fan. One show he did a feature on non-round wheels. He cut four rounded triangles out of 1" thick wood and stuck dowells through their centers as accels. Then he laid another board on top and pushed it the direction of the wheels proving that he could get a 'smooth ride' with non-circular wheels.
Because the changing supporting diameters were all equa-length the board moved evenly. The points were opposite the sides and the approaches to the points were eliptical in their curve, maintaining the consistant diameter.
Of course, the accels were going around in circles, not just rotating, as well and thus were useful only in keeping the paired wheels aligned.
I modded our XBOX (chip and larger hard drive) so we can store/run our games from the internal hard drive. It's just too big a risk ($50) letting my kids handle all those shiny disks.
And the added benifit of playing all our music, and displaying select photo albums... no brainer. The XBOX should have been shipped this way.
Is there room for one more in the trunk?
Good man! I agree with you whole heartedly. I have an unmodded XBox, but with the new ones being so cheap it's almost worth it to buy another and mod it up right, then put all my games on it. I get tired of disk read errors, lost disks, and my friends flat out walking off with my disks leaving me with nothing. Leaving the disks in the case also gives them better resale value. "Only touched it twice. Once to put it in the XBox and once to put it back in its case".
It's good to see the idea that failed for Windows adopted by the Linux community.
I wouldn't say it failed. It just wasn't properly constructed. Tablets need to be true tablets. I don't need a keyboard, CD-Rom, floppy, hard drive, 64mb video (!!) and track pad on my tablet. I need a screen that uses a pen-tool, a phat wireless connection, and some good video with a low power processor. Make the screen 8.5" x 11" and 150dpi and you've got something.
But I would say that Mp3s and broadband have had an impact on CD sales - maybe not huge, but definitely an impact. I used to buy a CD a week, and it may have gone up a bit with my employement over the past five years, but instead I've bought probably less than a CD a month during that time. Most of my friends have vowed to never buy CDs again. I find it hard to believe that CD sales aren't impacted by this.
I could be wrong, but haven't Sun, SGI and DEC all been making 64 bit workstations for like... 10 or more years? That was my complaint with those Apple ads.
The other ad I really hated was the original G3 ad that claimed, "Own a SuperComputer". Yeah, it's a super computer... compared to the standards based circa 1980. Moore tells us that you'd have to have 256 of those G3s to have a modern super computer in 1999 when those ads were run. Which incedently would have gotten them in the Top 500 in 1999.
They're not trying to "bring more people to their website" - they're trying to put someone else out of business. One guy comes up with a good idea, Walmart destroys him with quanity.
The fat lady is the only one left because she's sitting on the little guy, and she's singing about it.
This being said, I agree that a lot of average users would be very challenged by a Linux installation and configuration... But that's how people like me make money after all!
The same is true with Windows and Mac OS X. Windows more so than OS X... "there are so many things to click on, what does it all mean?". OS X is rather limited in comparison, but much simpler to install. The Linux distributions have a plethora of options that even I am blindsided by. I usually take the OS X method and just "install everything, don't ask me anymore questions"
I think that's what Linux needs more than anything. A distribution that is exceedingly simplified. The live CDs are an excellent route, though some of them still seem to have an over abundance of options. Look at Apple - one of everything. One text editor, one email program, one chat program, one web browser, one mp3 player... done. Mandrake Linux on the other hand... probably between five and ten of each.
Gray says he is actually the good guy. He said "I just wanted to prove how insecure these sites are. I have done the honest thing, but I have been ignored."
That's like shooting someone just to prove how unsafe firearms are.
I disagree. Hacking is one thing, and I believe his statement is correct. However, using the information he obtained for illegal acts is just stupid. If he can hack a credit company he needs to apply for a job.
Well great. You have determined that virus coders don't waste their time with the smaller market. If / When OS X becomes a large part of the computing population you can be sure it will join the ranks of virus ridden computers. But as it stands, an OS X virus would have little effect on the few hundred thousand computers it would infect. Windows on the other hand is in use on a few hundred million computers.
The more people who 'convert' the bigger likelihood of causing a problem.
I don't think is saying that this thing is the size of the Death Star. I think he saying when something that is the size of the Death Star comes our way and poses a serious threat that we'll be able to do something about it because it's apparent we'll be able to see it, as we've detected something much smaller.
I'm the sys admin for a 65 person advertising firm. It's difficult to stay ahead of the game on computer equipment when the designers computers are costing in the range of $10,000. The other employees get stuck with really old hardware. But one lady and I have come up with a plan.
She says she's willing to purchase a personal laptop to use at work and let me configure it as it needs to be for the office, and she'll be able to take it home and use it there also. When she's done with the company we can copy her personal data, wipe the drive, restore the data and send her on her way.
The catch is, just like the company, she can't afford to throw down on a nice computer. The company has the cash, but can't afford to spend it on things like that. So she wants an interest free loan with large payments provided by the company.
Makes sense to me. After paperwork is made out and signatures are applied, does anyone see a problem with this? The company gets free computer hardware during the stay of the employee(s), and the employee(s) get intrest free loans on computers. Win / Win, eh?
I don't know about the rest of you, but the war driving experience only provided about.5 hours of entertainment. After that I just wanted to go out and drink.
I didn't even get that far. Straight to the pub for me (:
Agreed. My roommate worked for a large broadband ISP in Arkansas which was regularly shutting off connections for usage abuse. Though they didn't have tools to help them. For the most part they just watched the load, checked the logs, and updated router configs manually.
But it worked. And they blacklisted addresses and names of repeat spammer offenders and refused service to them in the future. He said they had the same people buying ISDN lines under different names all the time. Or the same name at a neighbor's house - presumably as an agreement, "I'll provide you with internet if you let me keep a computer in your house". Or maybe the dude just lived on a country road and could set up all the addresses he wanted (:
In similar news, I've begun upgrading computers at work to OS X 10.3 and found things like AppleScripts I have made suddenly don't work anymore. WTF!? And various other installers (presumably using AppleScript) don't function either.
I'm all about progress and out with the old but ditching last year's technology is a bit quick.
Complete Liquidation of 100,000 sq ft facility - 100s of Servers (Sun, Compaq, HP, & Dell) Clarion EMC Storage - 100s of PCs, Notebooks, Printers - 100s of Herman Miller Aeron Chairs - 10,000 sq ft health club - Pool Table, Foosball, Video Arcade Games, Ping Pong. Artwork, Collectable Musical instruments, Contemporary Furniture & more...
What the heck are they doing with all this hardware? How can it possibly be required? A horrible waste of resources.
What in God's name were they doing with all that computer hardware? It's a website with a database. In a single picture there were several (five?) Sun Enterprise level servers, any one of which could do everything by itself.
I see two problems.
A) People have dumb ideas and think "the Internet" and more computers will help them make money. B) Some other idiots loan the idiots in problem A more money than is required.
Those companies wouldn't exist if it weren't for Microsoft writing bad code in the first place. Surely they had clue that some day Microsoft would fix their code and these companies wouldn't be needed anymore.
Well, from the sound of Eminem's going rate ($10million plus) it might be cheaper to just use the songs and then pay a smaller settlement fee. Just maybe...
Generally the settlement includes the original fee that wasn't paid.
Well... yeah, ok so that wasn't the most intelligent comment. But with Apple it seems more drastic than others, and very sudden. They do larger increments, which I think is a good thing, but it almost seems random. And they change the hardware completely. How many Gx generations have there been in the past four years? And Pentiums? What about motherboard spec changes? They're support Apple Video Connector, no VGA. Now they're supporting VGA. Now they're not. Now they're doing DVI, now they've created their own ADC. VGA is back, nope gone again. And that's just the video.
A friend of mine did that during the G3 to G4 Power Mac transition. I told him everyday for a month "don't do it, you'll only regret it". He bought the blue G3 and the next week they announced the G4.
Apple is notorious for that. Perhaps people will begin to learn and not make the same mistakes. Or, 11 years later, maybe they won't (:
Does this sound like a good way to DoS someone? Send a bunch of mail "from their server" and when all the other servers check to see if it's really them... no more Internet.
Grantid, that'd be relatively difficult to pull off, but it's still a method.
I have vague recollections of the kids in Iron Eagle using a portable handheld scanner. I assume these phones will do similar things. It was neat, but how necessary is it? More toys I guess.
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Let's see if I can explain this correctly without the aid of pictures.
... though fairly simple.
I was a die hard Mr Wizard fan. One show he did a feature on non-round wheels. He cut four rounded triangles out of 1" thick wood and stuck dowells through their centers as accels. Then he laid another board on top and pushed it the direction of the wheels proving that he could get a 'smooth ride' with non-circular wheels.
Because the changing supporting diameters were all equa-length the board moved evenly. The points were opposite the sides and the approaches to the points were eliptical in their curve, maintaining the consistant diameter.
Of course, the accels were going around in circles, not just rotating, as well and thus were useful only in keeping the paired wheels aligned.
Cool stuff
That and worms will hopefully not be so rampant anymore, provided that people stop opening exe email attachments. Don't we wish.
Where I come from, the mail admin takes care of that by scraping 'naughty' attachments before they get to the user (:
I modded our XBOX (chip and larger hard drive) so we can store/run our games from the internal hard drive. It's just too big a risk ($50) letting my kids handle all those shiny disks.
And the added benifit of playing all our music, and displaying select photo albums... no brainer. The XBOX should have been shipped this way.
Is there room for one more in the trunk?
Good man! I agree with you whole heartedly. I have an unmodded XBox, but with the new ones being so cheap it's almost worth it to buy another and mod it up right, then put all my games on it. I get tired of disk read errors, lost disks, and my friends flat out walking off with my disks leaving me with nothing. Leaving the disks in the case also gives them better resale value. "Only touched it twice. Once to put it in the XBox and once to put it back in its case".
It's good to see the idea that failed for Windows adopted by the Linux community.
I wouldn't say it failed. It just wasn't properly constructed. Tablets need to be true tablets. I don't need a keyboard, CD-Rom, floppy, hard drive, 64mb video (!!) and track pad on my tablet. I need a screen that uses a pen-tool, a phat wireless connection, and some good video with a low power processor. Make the screen 8.5" x 11" and 150dpi and you've got something.
But I would say that Mp3s and broadband have had an impact on CD sales - maybe not huge, but definitely an impact. I used to buy a CD a week, and it may have gone up a bit with my employement over the past five years, but instead I've bought probably less than a CD a month during that time. Most of my friends have vowed to never buy CDs again. I find it hard to believe that CD sales aren't impacted by this.
The article also mentions a PlayStation 2 price drop in mid-April, so don't buy an X-Box based on price just yet.
Or do, just make sure you get a bunch of them and mod every single one and use them as a server farm.
I could be wrong, but haven't Sun, SGI and DEC all been making 64 bit workstations for like ... 10 or more years? That was my complaint with those Apple ads.
... compared to the standards based circa 1980. Moore tells us that you'd have to have 256 of those G3s to have a modern super computer in 1999 when those ads were run. Which incedently would have gotten them in the Top 500 in 1999.
The other ad I really hated was the original G3 ad that claimed, "Own a SuperComputer". Yeah, it's a super computer
(:
They're not trying to "bring more people to their website" - they're trying to put someone else out of business. One guy comes up with a good idea, Walmart destroys him with quanity.
The fat lady is the only one left because she's sitting on the little guy, and she's singing about it.
This being said, I agree that a lot of average users would be very challenged by a Linux installation and configuration... But that's how people like me make money after all!
... "there are so many things to click on, what does it all mean?". OS X is rather limited in comparison, but much simpler to install. The Linux distributions have a plethora of options that even I am blindsided by. I usually take the OS X method and just "install everything, don't ask me anymore questions"
... done. Mandrake Linux on the other hand ... probably between five and ten of each.
The same is true with Windows and Mac OS X. Windows more so than OS X
I think that's what Linux needs more than anything. A distribution that is exceedingly simplified. The live CDs are an excellent route, though some of them still seem to have an over abundance of options. Look at Apple - one of everything. One text editor, one email program, one chat program, one web browser, one mp3 player
Gray says he is actually the good guy. He said "I just wanted to prove how insecure these sites are. I have done the honest thing, but I have been ignored."
That's like shooting someone just to prove how unsafe firearms are.
I disagree. Hacking is one thing, and I believe his statement is correct. However, using the information he obtained for illegal acts is just stupid. If he can hack a credit company he needs to apply for a job.
Well great. You have determined that virus coders don't waste their time with the smaller market. If / When OS X becomes a large part of the computing population you can be sure it will join the ranks of virus ridden computers. But as it stands, an OS X virus would have little effect on the few hundred thousand computers it would infect. Windows on the other hand is in use on a few hundred million computers.
The more people who 'convert' the bigger likelihood of causing a problem.
I don't think is saying that this thing is the size of the Death Star. I think he saying when something that is the size of the Death Star comes our way and poses a serious threat that we'll be able to do something about it because it's apparent we'll be able to see it, as we've detected something much smaller.
I'm the sys admin for a 65 person advertising firm. It's difficult to stay ahead of the game on computer equipment when the designers computers are costing in the range of $10,000. The other employees get stuck with really old hardware. But one lady and I have come up with a plan.
She says she's willing to purchase a personal laptop to use at work and let me configure it as it needs to be for the office, and she'll be able to take it home and use it there also. When she's done with the company we can copy her personal data, wipe the drive, restore the data and send her on her way.
The catch is, just like the company, she can't afford to throw down on a nice computer. The company has the cash, but can't afford to spend it on things like that. So she wants an interest free loan with large payments provided by the company.
Makes sense to me. After paperwork is made out and signatures are applied, does anyone see a problem with this? The company gets free computer hardware during the stay of the employee(s), and the employee(s) get intrest free loans on computers. Win / Win, eh?
I don't know about the rest of you, but the war driving experience only provided about .5 hours of entertainment. After that I just wanted to go out and drink.
I didn't even get that far. Straight to the pub for me (:
Still doesn't fix the lack of proper PNG support ... @#$%^!!
Agreed. My roommate worked for a large broadband ISP in Arkansas which was regularly shutting off connections for usage abuse. Though they didn't have tools to help them. For the most part they just watched the load, checked the logs, and updated router configs manually.
But it worked. And they blacklisted addresses and names of repeat spammer offenders and refused service to them in the future. He said they had the same people buying ISDN lines under different names all the time. Or the same name at a neighbor's house - presumably as an agreement, "I'll provide you with internet if you let me keep a computer in your house". Or maybe the dude just lived on a country road and could set up all the addresses he wanted (:
In similar news, I've begun upgrading computers at work to OS X 10.3 and found things like AppleScripts I have made suddenly don't work anymore. WTF!? And various other installers (presumably using AppleScript) don't function either.
I'm all about progress and out with the old but ditching last year's technology is a bit quick.
Complete Liquidation of 100,000 sq ft facility - 100s of Servers (Sun, Compaq, HP, & Dell) Clarion EMC Storage - 100s of PCs, Notebooks, Printers - 100s of Herman Miller Aeron Chairs - 10,000 sq ft health club - Pool Table, Foosball, Video Arcade Games, Ping Pong. Artwork, Collectable Musical instruments, Contemporary Furniture & more...
What the heck are they doing with all this hardware? How can it possibly be required? A horrible waste of resources.
What in God's name were they doing with all that computer hardware? It's a website with a database. In a single picture there were several (five?) Sun Enterprise level servers, any one of which could do everything by itself.
I see two problems.
A) People have dumb ideas and think "the Internet" and more computers will help them make money.
B) Some other idiots loan the idiots in problem A more money than is required.
They've got a bunch of cool stuff though.
Those companies wouldn't exist if it weren't for Microsoft writing bad code in the first place. Surely they had clue that some day Microsoft would fix their code and these companies wouldn't be needed anymore.
Well, from the sound of Eminem's going rate ($10million plus) it might be cheaper to just use the songs and then pay a smaller settlement fee. Just maybe...
Generally the settlement includes the original fee that wasn't paid.
Well ... yeah, ok so that wasn't the most intelligent comment. But with Apple it seems more drastic than others, and very sudden. They do larger increments, which I think is a good thing, but it almost seems random. And they change the hardware completely. How many Gx generations have there been in the past four years? And Pentiums? What about motherboard spec changes? They're support Apple Video Connector, no VGA. Now they're supporting VGA. Now they're not. Now they're doing DVI, now they've created their own ADC. VGA is back, nope gone again. And that's just the video.
A friend of mine did that during the G3 to G4 Power Mac transition. I told him everyday for a month "don't do it, you'll only regret it". He bought the blue G3 and the next week they announced the G4.
Apple is notorious for that. Perhaps people will begin to learn and not make the same mistakes. Or, 11 years later, maybe they won't (:
Does this sound like a good way to DoS someone? Send a bunch of mail "from their server" and when all the other servers check to see if it's really them ... no more Internet.
Grantid, that'd be relatively difficult to pull off, but it's still a method.
I have vague recollections of the kids in Iron Eagle using a portable handheld scanner. I assume these phones will do similar things. It was neat, but how necessary is it? More toys I guess.