while i am one for hacking hardware, and find things like this fun to hack, it just seems for less than 600 bux you could prolly just build a celeron 600 or so with similar components. get yourself a nice black rackmount case, and you're set. it's not like an i-opener, where you can get them for real cheap and then hack it, and it doesn't seem to do anything that a cheap computer can't do today. in order for these types of boxes to be desirable, they have to have a primary application or low price which makes it a considerable alternative to a regular pc.
who would steal a script and then make it known to everyone that they were trying to sell it for $100,000?
on that note, for 100,000 big ones, that mofo better cook me breakfast, suck my cock and sing the star spangled banner for me. That's ridiculous.
on the subject of jar-jar, i think i know how this should go...
STAR WARS, EPISODE TWO: DIE GUNGAN BITCH!
The movie begins with Yoda , Anakin, and Jar-Jar in a room discussing the status quo. Anakin is visably pissed
Yoda: Anakin, you must not have hatred in your heart, for lead you to the dark side, that will! Anakin: But master yoda, I FUCKING HATE JAR-JAR, and i'm going to kill him! Jar Jar: Yousa say i'ma gonna die? Anakin then unsheathes his light-sabre and rips jar-jar a new one, and jar jar dies. Yoda: Kill jar jar you did! Relieved I am, but now Darth Vader you become! Anakin: Small price to pay, bitch! Now i don't have to listen to that BITCH for the next 2 HOURS! Yoda: Thank you! Complete your training has now become!
copyrights, trademarks and other legal hurdles have historically only impeded technological progress. i hate them all. information is best when free in every sense of the word. but people are too wrapped up in protecting their own interests than doing something for the greater good. so you can't fault me for hipocracy, i am a firm believer in 'piracy'.
nothing studios (home of nine inch nails)
is the ultimate geek compound...
they have a lan setup in all the different studios so that they can send audio to different rooms without putting it on tape. there's no tape in the entire building. you can be in seperate rooms and play with each other... mmm music geeks... doesn't get much better.
my house has cat-5 already, and it wasn't too expensive. just tell your handyman that there's nothing magic about cat-5 but DON'T TAKE IT APART FOR ANY REASON. that would give you cat-3, which isn't as cool.
i think you must be confusing these people with social giants. we're talking about geeks! come on! if you want to form a geek house, go around playing quake 3, and assume that people with low ping rates must be well computer equipped. invite those people to your geek house. paint it blue before they get there because geeks can't paint. it's a fact. if it's blue when they get there, they won't want to change it!
...and not the kind that come in and make you do their work before leaving you, action free, in a depressing state of geeky blue-balls. you need the kind that sit back in the hot-tub (you need a hottub) drinking wine, smoking cohibas, and bitching about microsoft. that's a house, yo.
and for those of us who have $200 soundblaster live! platinum soundcards, it's even better, as they come standard with the livedrive SPDIF in/out on the front! If you were to copy the music to a wav and then compress that into a mp3 (or whatever compression algorithm happens to be cool at the time) you would prolly destroy any "inaudible" watermark, as the whole idea of music compression is to get rid of all of the unimportant stuff. mp3 is unaware of SDMI, so it doesn't know that the inaudible watermark is important, and it'd prolly just toss it.
and even if there was a generational loss, it wouldn't be that bad, and when you figure that most people will be doing this to trade music over the internet, can they really complain if it's free?
i'm no linux zealot. i actually run win2k exclusively on my machine, and i like it very much, thank you. However, I do get phone calls whenever her system goes BSOD because she has literally only learned how to use her computer in the last couple months. For day to day, normal use, I can't stand linux. It's just a personal preference as I've been using DOS since I was 5. However, seeing that all my grandmother does is turn on her computer and run AOL, I think using linux would be a good idea. Let's not kid each other, linux is more stable. I have had linux machines before, and they are a whole lot more stable than win 98. Stability is all that matters in this particular application, because the only software she uses is AOL. Now tell me, why is it bad to use linux in this situation?
my grandma runs AOL because, well, she's used computers for about 2 months now. I've been scared as hell (as she lives 200 miles away) that Windows is going to go BSOD on her and she won't be able to use it until i drive up there. If there really is a stable AOL linux client, I'd prolly be willing to switch. But, if AOL's software is unstable, there really wouldn't be any point to switching. Besides... I'm not sure if I could trust AOL to put out something stable.
Which legs would those be? It was incredibly unconstitutional, vague, and poorly written, to boot.
not because it was needed or that effective but at least parents had some sort of reassurance that they their kids "spiritual welfare" wasn't at risk
What defines spiritual welfare? Who says porn is bad for the spirit? Sure, Christians may believe this, but over 70% of the world is non-christian. A good number of people are atheistic or agnostic. There's alot of people who seem to think that morals have to be enforced by law. Not everybody shares the same morals. Try to be open minded.
no matter how many open PCI slots your computer has, you can only use one card. read the faq. this is too bad, as many slashdotters have already expressed interest in filling up boxes with these things. perhaps in the future they will release a card that is scalable. 6 cards with 6 processors each! it'd fly! now imagine making a cluster of such boxes! mmmm....
also, i think it'd be cool if a big OEM stepped up and started making these standard. we just have to find ET! he needs to get home...
what difference does it really make to AMD if people overclock or not? if they break the chip, they will have to buy a new one! Perhaps if there have been alot of people returning overclocked burnt out chips, but that's AMD's fault for not enforcing it's warranty terms well enough. some people will say that AMD wants people to have to pay for higher clock speeds. they will. sure, you can get 950 MHz from a 700 MHz duron, but how high do you think you could get a 1GHz T-bird up to? people will still pay for the higher clock speeds if that is what they want. AMD isn't making any sense
i mean, sure, space exploration sounds exciting, but have you ever thought why it is exciting? consider nasa. nasa has a recent history of losing things in space and/or crashing them into distant planets. do you want these people making your flight arrangements? I can just hear it now: "We're going to fly you past the moon, and then... uh... you're gonna just keep going... maybe"
Next, space isn't known for it's friendly environments. if you want to know what a human being in space feels like, stick a marshmallow into a vacuum chamber. Add to that the fact that the temperature of other planets is either really, really hot or really, really cold, but never even close to being habitable. And then there's atmospheric pressure, gravity, and food and water, and all these other things you'd have to think of when nasa accidentally shoots you at the wrong planet and loses contact with you until you were Lost in Space
the point i was making was that disney's been around forever. pixar hasn't been. i will not insult pixar by saying they haven't done their share of good, in fact my favorite disney movie to date was made by pixar. but having 20 years of experience in the video/animation/computer scene doesn't quite match disney's long record. but then again, there's people who will tell you that disney's just another formerly good company who's recently become a corporate bag of sleaze. the underlying point is that i still think jobs is best suited for computer-centric companies like apple or pixar. but then again, that's just my opinion. take it for what its worth.
i wouldn't call pixar prestigious. artistic, sure. prestigious, no. they haven't been around long enough, and show us that they have one good trick - computer animation.
okay... steve jobs is lining himself up to get bought by disney, right?
and then disney is supposed to make him chairman of disney...
it seems there's a problem with this, i mean why would steve jobs chair disney? i don't quite believe this article. steve jobs is a computer guy. not the chairman of a prestigious company which is known for it's artistic works. like disney or not, you have to admit that this would probably be out of steve's ballpark. unless maybe, he's getting ready to unveil...
the iWalt
that's right, the iWalt is a cute, candy colored replica of the cryogenically frozen Walt Disney. It will run your company, draw cartoons, even design theme parks in your back yard! All for just $999... i figure steve has some motives...
...because if you were to have a stationwagon with 1TB of mag tape in it, and it took you 11 days to get it to it's destination, that's still about 1MB/sec...
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while i am one for hacking hardware, and find things like this fun to hack, it just seems for less than 600 bux you could prolly just build a celeron 600 or so with similar components. get yourself a nice black rackmount case, and you're set. it's not like an i-opener, where you can get them for real cheap and then hack it, and it doesn't seem to do anything that a cheap computer can't do today. in order for these types of boxes to be desirable, they have to have a primary application or low price which makes it a considerable alternative to a regular pc.
or perhaps not. i guess we'll see how it sells.
who would steal a script and then make it known to everyone that they were trying to sell it for $100,000?
on that note, for 100,000 big ones, that mofo better cook me breakfast, suck my cock and sing the star spangled banner for me. That's ridiculous.
on the subject of jar-jar, i think i know how this should go...
STAR WARS, EPISODE TWO: DIE GUNGAN BITCH!
The movie begins with Yoda , Anakin, and Jar-Jar in a room discussing the status quo. Anakin is visably pissed
Yoda: Anakin, you must not have hatred in your heart, for lead you to the dark side, that will!
Anakin: But master yoda, I FUCKING HATE JAR-JAR, and i'm going to kill him!
Jar Jar: Yousa say i'ma gonna die?
Anakin then unsheathes his light-sabre and rips jar-jar a new one, and jar jar dies.
Yoda: Kill jar jar you did! Relieved I am, but now Darth Vader you become!
Anakin: Small price to pay, bitch! Now i don't have to listen to that BITCH for the next 2 HOURS!
Yoda: Thank you! Complete your training has now become!
end scene 1
i hate the GPL, and i loooooooooove napster
copyrights, trademarks and other legal hurdles have historically only impeded technological progress. i hate them all. information is best when free in every sense of the word. but people are too wrapped up in protecting their own interests than doing something for the greater good. so you can't fault me for hipocracy, i am a firm believer in 'piracy'.
nothing studios (home of nine inch nails) is the ultimate geek compound...
they have a lan setup in all the different studios so that they can send audio to different rooms without putting it on tape. there's no tape in the entire building. you can be in seperate rooms and play with each other... mmm music geeks... doesn't get much better.
my house has cat-5 already, and it wasn't too expensive. just tell your handyman that there's nothing magic about cat-5 but DON'T TAKE IT APART FOR ANY REASON. that would give you cat-3, which isn't as cool.
i think you must be confusing these people with social giants. we're talking about geeks! come on! if you want to form a geek house, go around playing quake 3, and assume that people with low ping rates must be well computer equipped. invite those people to your geek house. paint it blue before they get there because geeks can't paint. it's a fact. if it's blue when they get there, they won't want to change it!
...and not the kind that come in and make you do their work before leaving you, action free, in a depressing state of geeky blue-balls. you need the kind that sit back in the hot-tub (you need a hottub) drinking wine, smoking cohibas, and bitching about microsoft. that's a house, yo.
and for those of us who have $200 soundblaster live! platinum soundcards, it's even better, as they come standard with the livedrive SPDIF in/out on the front! If you were to copy the music to a wav and then compress that into a mp3 (or whatever compression algorithm happens to be cool at the time) you would prolly destroy any "inaudible" watermark, as the whole idea of music compression is to get rid of all of the unimportant stuff. mp3 is unaware of SDMI, so it doesn't know that the inaudible watermark is important, and it'd prolly just toss it.
and even if there was a generational loss, it wouldn't be that bad, and when you figure that most people will be doing this to trade music over the internet, can they really complain if it's free?
i personally think it was all a publicity stunt to see how many different ways the media would dance around the name of the site:
f*uckedcompany.com
(expletive)edcompany.com
fuckedcompany.com...for media with balls
a company with a bad 'f'word followed by edcompany.com
it's kinda funny how many times i've read people dancing around it.
not a zealot.
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if you read the thread, you'll notice that i'm not a zealot and i don't run linux....
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/08/13/1372
i'm no linux zealot. i actually run win2k exclusively on my machine, and i like it very much, thank you. However, I do get phone calls whenever her system goes BSOD because she has literally only learned how to use her computer in the last couple months. For day to day, normal use, I can't stand linux. It's just a personal preference as I've been using DOS since I was 5. However, seeing that all my grandmother does is turn on her computer and run AOL, I think using linux would be a good idea. Let's not kid each other, linux is more stable. I have had linux machines before, and they are a whole lot more stable than win 98. Stability is all that matters in this particular application, because the only software she uses is AOL. Now tell me, why is it bad to use linux in this situation?
my grandma runs AOL because, well, she's used computers for about 2 months now. I've been scared as hell (as she lives 200 miles away) that Windows is going to go BSOD on her and she won't be able to use it until i drive up there. If there really is a stable AOL linux client, I'd prolly be willing to switch. But, if AOL's software is unstable, there really wouldn't be any point to switching. Besides... I'm not sure if I could trust AOL to put out something stable.
The law did have a many a leg to stand on,
Which legs would those be? It was incredibly unconstitutional, vague, and poorly written, to boot.
not because it was needed or that effective but at least parents had some sort of reassurance that they their kids "spiritual welfare" wasn't at risk
What defines spiritual welfare? Who says porn is bad for the spirit? Sure, Christians may believe this, but over 70% of the world is non-christian. A good number of people are atheistic or agnostic. There's alot of people who seem to think that morals have to be enforced by law. Not everybody shares the same morals. Try to be open minded.
Of course Tivo says its okay to hack their machines... that way, they can SELL YOU A NEW ONE WHEN YOU VOID THE WARRANTY!
Hell, they'd probably help you break it open!
Perhaps, if we bother the people at ABC, we can get them to announce this:
Linux Community Says Fred Moody Sucks On Slashdot.
C'mon, it's worth a try....
i'm so happy, i could shit.
ahhh.
ok, i'm still happy.
10 bux says the RIAA has a group of script kiddies working on DoSing Napster users now, or maybe they're all doing that gay Cookoo Egg bullshit.
no matter how many open PCI slots your computer has, you can only use one card. read the faq. this is too bad, as many slashdotters have already expressed interest in filling up boxes with these things. perhaps in the future they will release a card that is scalable. 6 cards with 6 processors each! it'd fly! now imagine making a cluster of such boxes! mmmm....
also, i think it'd be cool if a big OEM stepped up and started making these standard. we just have to find ET! he needs to get home...
what difference does it really make to AMD if people overclock or not? if they break the chip, they will have to buy a new one! Perhaps if there have been alot of people returning overclocked burnt out chips, but that's AMD's fault for not enforcing it's warranty terms well enough. some people will say that AMD wants people to have to pay for higher clock speeds. they will. sure, you can get 950 MHz from a 700 MHz duron, but how high do you think you could get a 1GHz T-bird up to? people will still pay for the higher clock speeds if that is what they want. AMD isn't making any sense
details, details! i mean, just because we're going to get "torn to bits" by asteroids doesn't mean we should risk going into space! come on...
i see being stuck on earth as a good thing...
i mean, sure, space exploration sounds exciting, but have you ever thought why it is exciting? consider nasa. nasa has a recent history of losing things in space and/or crashing them into distant planets. do you want these people making your flight arrangements? I can just hear it now: "We're going to fly you past the moon, and then... uh... you're gonna just keep going... maybe"
Next, space isn't known for it's friendly environments. if you want to know what a human being in space feels like, stick a marshmallow into a vacuum chamber. Add to that the fact that the temperature of other planets is either really, really hot or really, really cold, but never even close to being habitable. And then there's atmospheric pressure, gravity, and food and water, and all these other things you'd have to think of when nasa accidentally shoots you at the wrong planet and loses contact with you until you were Lost in Space
the point i was making was that disney's been around forever. pixar hasn't been. i will not insult pixar by saying they haven't done their share of good, in fact my favorite disney movie to date was made by pixar. but having 20 years of experience in the video/animation/computer scene doesn't quite match disney's long record. but then again, there's people who will tell you that disney's just another formerly good company who's recently become a corporate bag of sleaze. the underlying point is that i still think jobs is best suited for computer-centric companies like apple or pixar. but then again, that's just my opinion. take it for what its worth.
i wouldn't call pixar prestigious. artistic, sure. prestigious, no. they haven't been around long enough, and show us that they have one good trick - computer animation.
okay...
steve jobs is lining himself up to get bought by disney, right?
and then disney is supposed to make him chairman of disney...
it seems there's a problem with this, i mean why would steve jobs chair disney? i don't quite believe this article. steve jobs is a computer guy. not the chairman of a prestigious company which is known for it's artistic works. like disney or not, you have to admit that this would probably be out of steve's ballpark. unless maybe, he's getting ready to unveil...
the iWalt
that's right, the iWalt is a cute, candy colored replica of the cryogenically frozen Walt Disney. It will run your company, draw cartoons, even design theme parks in your back yard! All for just $999... i figure steve has some motives...
...because if you were to have a stationwagon with 1TB of mag tape in it, and it took you 11 days to get it to it's destination, that's still about 1MB/sec...
just an observation.
but what about us people who live in the sticks who don't even get cable tv?
that sucks pretty bad.
no cable modems, no dsl. no fun for us.