I like how the slashdot crowd tries to tear this guy a new one for simply using a naming convention that THE LINUX COMMUNITY started. Linux is linux+ unix, and he was trying to build off that with the logic of lindows = Linux+ windows.... if you really want to bitch, go yell and Linus...
i go to school on the remains of Fort Ord, in monterey, california, it looks a lot like this, 10 years ago the miltary decided to up and leave a small town, leaving everything behind to fall apart, going in all the abandoned milatry buildings is interesting to say the least.
I don't care what the cost was, at least VHS Vs. Beta was simple!
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sure, hardcore, if by production server you mean i got drunk, and installed a demo of 2k3 server to run terminal services so that i can use my laptop to play my stereo from any room in the house.
i've oftentimes thought about building a electomagnet into my pc case, such that if a secret switch isn't held down as the case is opened, the electomagnet fries the HDD. never had any data valuable enough to bother though. Anyone ever done it/ know someone who has?
he's pretty much exactly on the nose there... my freeware search engine is sourceforge now. haven't used things like download.com for years. OH, and audacity rocks! its not soundforge, but its essentially windows sound recorder on a lot of steroids.
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drivers drivers drivers and drivers you mean? yes yes yes yes yes. desperately. don't get me wrong, it gets 9 outa ten drivers on every system i have, but lets be honest here, if one box has no sound in linux, and one has no modem, and one has no ethernet, and one can't use the video card, which one am i going to run linux on here?
side note: win2k3 server is worse in the driver department than linux, no joke! i had 4 nics in in my server all running in 2k adv. server, switched to 2k3 advanced server, and half of them died from not having compatible drivers, and these were netgear and kingston 10/100's, not some ancient crap...
I'll tell you what! I just shot my first days footage of a super hi def stop motion animation today. we shot 3 seconds of video at 2274X1704 resoltion, uncompressed 16bpp tiff files. how big was that 3 SECONDS of video, you may ask? 2.5 GIGABYTES. thats right, for a college project we were shoooting video at almost 1 GIG a second of uncompressed video. the video is 3:54 seconds long, or 234 seconds, or roughly 150 GIGABYTES for just the source footage, nevermind the editing, which can easily jump to three times the source. not to mention that these tiffs are going to be converted to B&W, so at least one point were going to need well over 400 GIGS free. to make a long story short, I'm buying 2 of these for a raid array when they hit the streets, and I'm just a student, imagine what the pro's need...
oh, and if your curious what the source looks like, heres a frame: http://home.csumb.edu/h/hayesaaron/world/sheep/sce ne600087.jpg
worked great for me when i was in college, except it was LAGGY as hell. for some reason they timing was just off enough so that you always seemed to start talking at the same time as the other person, leading to this sort of conversation roadblock. after trying it for a couple weeks my girlfriend finaly mailed me a 20$ phone card, i got the picture and stopped using dialpad except to call the folks back home.
Not only is it a general purpose chip, but the iPod linux folk have successfully installed linux on it and then successfully decoded ogg files in real time. I can't even fathom why Apple hasn't included ogg for their players, the processor can handle it
If my laptop can play back video, than you can use x86 as a consumer platform, go to whoever supplies the boards to the major laptop manufacturers, and buy how ever many you need, stick a moble chip in, mold a plastic case and cut the headers off of any port you don't want. for that matter, if your just making a demo, close the laptop, buy a PS2 stand thingie, and stick it upright and there you go, i mean, if the Playstation can sit next to the tv, so could my laptop. the trick it standing it on its side, makes it look sexier.
if intel engineers an x86-64 instruction set that is compable with AMD's, AMD still has one big advantage, they DESIGNED the instruction set, they have a more intimate knowlege of what they have built than intel, and hopefully know how to scale it better, since its their baby, after all.
nice, i especially like that last picture, when i clicked the link, it sent me to PARIS HILTON SEX VIDEO!!!!!!!!!! CLICK HERE!!!!!!!! either you've a funny sense of humor or you've been hacked(cracked?).
If your a car person get a power inverter, 100 watts or up should do it. sux to run outa batteries on the road, and you can use it as a car mp3 player.
I Just got a rio volt mp3 player for my friend, it was like 40 bucks and exactly what you described. I'd post links, but you really should be able to find a product online on yer own now, the interet isn't a new thing. try amazon.
I look like a whacked out bum, and when i talk to girls i tell them i do it to keep the dumb girls at bay, if they're smart enough they'll look past it. And you know what? looking like a bum and that little speach likely get me more women than the shoes would, the shoo girls would likely tire of hearing me talk after about 5 minutes and go fuck some random guy at the bar.
honestly, they aren't techies, you can plug a 286 into ANYTHING that looks like a network port, anywhere near the wall, and run a batch file (or perl script. or bash sript) that does something similar to x=1 10: count x++ echo X if X= 10,000, 100,000 or 1,000,000,000 etc... pause for 5 seconds goto:10 open a dos box or whatever, run the batch file, and TELL THEM its downloading war and piece, all they will see is a big book next to them, and some fast numbers... they'll never know the difference.
(yes, i know thats the worst code ever, i'm not a coder)
if that were true, beyond good and evil wouldn't have been pulled off the shelves almost immediatly, considering that it won game of the year on several sites, and consitantly ranks as one of the years top 10 on any platform. the simple fact of the matter is that by the time gamers realised what a gem they were missing, the low inital production run had sold out, but not fast enough for the publisher to decide to produce more. where i live you can't find a copy of it in stores anywhere, despite being about as criticaly acclaimed as windwaker. you wanna tell me thats cuz the game is no good? I hardly think so... play the intro, and you will understand how truly engrosing and original the game is.
oh, and i butchered the spelling this time, screw it, it's almost 5 am and i can't sleep.
it ranks up there with windwaker, and metroid prime as THE games of the last year. (so, yea, perhaps prime is a bit old now, but it was years ahead of its time) these are the games that make consoles worth having, and its a shame they flop in comparison to the crap sequels that are getting so mass produced these days.
The trick is that we have switched to a war of Financial interdependance, where no nation can destroy another nation because if they did, a large part of their financal empire would collapse as well. we've reached sort of an economic equilibrium with countries like china and india, but they, and we, are always trying for the financial upper hand, so that we could actually go back to old fashion style of war and take over their countries. the scary part is I can't figure out if this is a good thing or a bad thing. sure, its a dull homogoneous world now, but were aren't killing each other, which way is better?
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I like how the slashdot crowd tries to tear this guy a new one for simply using a naming convention that THE LINUX COMMUNITY started. Linux is linux+ unix, and he was trying to build off that with the logic of lindows = Linux+ windows.... if you really want to bitch, go yell and Linus...
or just buy the sandwhich, lace it with the foulest tasting non leathal thing you can find, and put it back.
i go to school on the remains of Fort Ord, in monterey, california, it looks a lot like this, 10 years ago the miltary decided to up and leave a small town, leaving everything behind to fall apart, going in all the abandoned milatry buildings is interesting to say the least.
" Remember to resize this if you ever start working with really large stuff - high-res video, 3000 x 3000 pixel Photoshop images, etc."
good god I am fu@#ed... I'm about to start working on 3000 x 3000 res video..... any sugeestions on what kinda system i should buy to do the editing?
so, just to clarify, here are the things that phycally fit into my Disk Hole next to my TV:
R W
audio cd
CD rom
cd-r
cd-rw
DVD
DVD-R
DVD+RW
DVD-R
DVD-
soon to add:
DUAL layer DVD-R
DUAL layer DVD+RW
DUAL layer DVD-R
DUAL layer DVD-RW
I don't care what the cost was, at least VHS Vs. Beta was simple!
sure, hardcore, if by production server you mean i got drunk, and installed a demo of 2k3 server to run terminal services so that i can use my laptop to play my stereo from any room in the house.
i've oftentimes thought about building a electomagnet into my pc case, such that if a secret switch isn't held down as the case is opened, the electomagnet fries the HDD. never had any data valuable enough to bother though. Anyone ever done it/ know someone who has?
he's pretty much exactly on the nose there... my freeware search engine is sourceforge now. haven't used things like download.com for years. OH, and audacity rocks! its not soundforge, but its essentially windows sound recorder on a lot of steroids.
drivers drivers drivers and drivers you mean? yes yes yes yes yes. desperately. don't get me wrong, it gets 9 outa ten drivers on every system i have, but lets be honest here, if one box has no sound in linux, and one has no modem, and one has no ethernet, and one can't use the video card, which one am i going to run linux on here?
side note: win2k3 server is worse in the driver department than linux, no joke! i had 4 nics in in my server all running in 2k adv. server, switched to 2k3 advanced server, and half of them died from not having compatible drivers, and these were netgear and kingston 10/100's, not some ancient crap...
I'll tell you what! I just shot my first days footage of a super hi def stop motion animation today. we shot 3 seconds of video at 2274X1704 resoltion, uncompressed 16bpp tiff files. how big was that 3 SECONDS of video, you may ask? 2.5 GIGABYTES. thats right, for a college project we were shoooting video at almost 1 GIG a second of uncompressed video. the video is 3:54 seconds long, or 234 seconds, or roughly 150 GIGABYTES for just the source footage, nevermind the editing, which can easily jump to three times the source. not to mention that these tiffs are going to be converted to B&W, so at least one point were going to need well over 400 GIGS free. to make a long story short, I'm buying 2 of these for a raid array when they hit the streets, and I'm just a student, imagine what the pro's need...
e ne600087.jpg
oh, and if your curious what the source looks like, heres a frame: http://home.csumb.edu/h/hayesaaron/world/sheep/sc
worked great for me when i was in college, except it was LAGGY as hell. for some reason they timing was just off enough so that you always seemed to start talking at the same time as the other person, leading to this sort of conversation roadblock. after trying it for a couple weeks my girlfriend finaly mailed me a 20$ phone card, i got the picture and stopped using dialpad except to call the folks back home.
Not only is it a general purpose chip, but the iPod linux folk have successfully installed linux on it and then successfully decoded ogg files in real time. I can't even fathom why Apple hasn't included ogg for their players, the processor can handle it
ah, but can the battery handle it?
so, I'm going, obviously, but my big question is, beyond benchmarking, are we going to actually COMPUTE anything?
If my laptop can play back video, than you can use x86 as a consumer platform, go to whoever supplies the boards to the major laptop manufacturers, and buy how ever many you need, stick a moble chip in, mold a plastic case and cut the headers off of any port you don't want. for that matter, if your just making a demo, close the laptop, buy a PS2 stand thingie, and stick it upright and there you go, i mean, if the Playstation can sit next to the tv, so could my laptop. the trick it standing it on its side, makes it look sexier.
if intel engineers an x86-64 instruction set that is compable with AMD's, AMD still has one big advantage, they DESIGNED the instruction set, they have a more intimate knowlege of what they have built than intel, and hopefully know how to scale it better, since its their baby, after all.
nice, i especially like that last picture, when i clicked the link, it sent me to PARIS HILTON SEX VIDEO!!!!!!!!!! CLICK HERE!!!!!!!!
either you've a funny sense of humor or you've been hacked(cracked?).
If your a car person get a power inverter, 100 watts or up should do it. sux to run outa batteries on the road, and you can use it as a car mp3 player.
I Just got a rio volt mp3 player for my friend, it was like 40 bucks and exactly what you described. I'd post links, but you really should be able to find a product online on yer own now, the interet isn't a new thing. try amazon.
I look like a whacked out bum, and when i talk to girls i tell them i do it to keep the dumb girls at bay, if they're smart enough they'll look past it. And you know what? looking like a bum and that little speach likely get me more women than the shoes would, the shoo girls would likely tire of hearing me talk after about 5 minutes and go fuck some random guy at the bar.
point goes to Grotus.
make sure that you're playing simultanious streams of PORN dvds, that'll help...
honestly, they aren't techies, you can plug a 286 into ANYTHING that looks like a network port, anywhere near the wall, and run a batch file (or perl script. or bash sript) that does something similar to
x=1
10: count x++
echo X
if X= 10,000, 100,000 or 1,000,000,000 etc... pause for 5 seconds
goto:10
open a dos box or whatever, run the batch file, and TELL THEM its downloading war and piece, all they will see is a big book next to them, and some fast numbers... they'll never know the difference.
(yes, i know thats the worst code ever, i'm not a coder)
if that were true, beyond good and evil wouldn't have been pulled off the shelves almost immediatly, considering that it won game of the year on several sites, and consitantly ranks as one of the years top 10 on any platform. the simple fact of the matter is that by the time gamers realised what a gem they were missing, the low inital production run had sold out, but not fast enough for the publisher to decide to produce more. where i live you can't find a copy of it in stores anywhere, despite being about as criticaly acclaimed as windwaker. you wanna tell me thats cuz the game is no good? I hardly think so... play the intro, and you will understand how truly engrosing and original the game is.
oh, and i butchered the spelling this time, screw it, it's almost 5 am and i can't sleep.
it ranks up there with windwaker, and metroid prime as THE games of the last year. (so, yea, perhaps prime is a bit old now, but it was years ahead of its time) these are the games that make consoles worth having, and its a shame they flop in comparison to the crap sequels that are getting so mass produced these days.
The trick is that we have switched to a war of Financial interdependance, where no nation can destroy another nation because if they did, a large part of their financal empire would collapse as well. we've reached sort of an economic equilibrium with countries like china and india, but they, and we, are always trying for the financial upper hand, so that we could actually go back to old fashion style of war and take over their countries. the scary part is I can't figure out if this is a good thing or a bad thing. sure, its a dull homogoneous world now, but were aren't killing each other, which way is better?