This sounds a lot like an article I found linked off Ars yesterday. Apparently some companies are trying to combine LARPing with GPS and computer games to make some sort of real life game. Anyone know if there's anyone doing this in San Francisco?
Umm, no it didn't. Some Chinese site had the first review yesterday before the NDAs. All the rest of the reviews (that's a roundup of them) came out at the same time, 9am this morning when NDAs fell. Oh, and extreme tech's reviews always blow.
I'm sorry, but stating that you can record studio quality sound using an ipod is just inane. I mean it won't be terrible, but it'll be the same quality as any of the other small handheld recorders. I'm sure even a Soundblaster would do better at recording than an iPod.
You're not the first person to ask this, and Johan responded to the same thing over at Ace's Hardware (where he was before heading over to Anand). Basically you can only do so much while having a reasonable article:
First of all, wtf is with that name? All it needs is a few more Xs for Xtreme.
Anyway, thanks for a bunch of pictures of the PSU without actually telling me anything. If you want a real review of PSUs, head over ot X-bit labs. All of their reviews contain actual power data with power draw vs rated voltage graphs and scope readings of rail fluctuations. And one picture of the PSU if you actually care.
I e-mailed this list around the rest of the students that were in my film class last semester because it's actually a good list. AFI did there similar Top-100 list a couple of years ago and holy crap was that list marketing crap. However this list has a nice combination of oldies (including some silents), foreign (Iran, India, Japan, Hong Kong, etc), and everything inbetween. I highly recomend everything on this list and it restores a bit of my faith in the mass media.
Geeze, why does/. keep on linking to physorg, which has crappy articles and no links to real information about stuff.
Here's a more in depth article on X-bit. NanoCoolers has a pretty in depth description of the product. It's basically a watercooling loop but using a molten metal. The really cool part is that because the metal is obviously electrically conductive, they're using a DC current combined with some magnets to take advantage of Lorentz force to propel the fluid.
I'm not sure if this is just the fact that I'm unlucky or what, but RAID-on-LVM has been less than stable for me. One of my disks threw an IDE error and managed to kick itself offline (the disk itself was fine, but got in a fight with the controller or something). Since there was the LVM layer the RAID layer still saw that part of the raid as active and continued trying to write to it, and as you can imagine the results were less than steller. I've gotten rid of the LVM layer and have straight RAID disk partitions. You still get a lot of the advantages, just you have to rebuild more often. If I want to resize a disk I just raidhotgenerateerror on all the partitions on that disk, take everything on the disk offline, then add them back.
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That's one of the main advantages of the new PCI-Express cards. AGP was built for video cards so is very lobsided. PCI-Express was built as a general purpose high-speed interconnect and as such has balanced bandwidth to and from the (video) card. Also a returning audio stream, even if you're doing stereo or surround sound, it's all that bandwidth intensive.
Just a quick clarification, Carnegie Mellon itself was not hacked. This was a Tepper School of Buisness machine that was hacked and their student data lost. As seems to be fairly normal, the buisness school is almost its own entity, even running on a different schedule than the rest of the campus.
OGM and MKV are interesting, but very much non-mainstream. If you want mainstream with subtitles and multiple audio tracks, go with MP4, which is a derivative of QuickTime's.MOV and what most apple software now produces.
The first linux drivers ATI released were for their firegl line of workstation cards. You could hack them to work with the normal cards, but for quite a while now ATI has provided drivers that work with all the cards. In fact, you can read anandtech's review of ATI and nVidia cards under Linux here.
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The sad part about this link is I can't tell if it's a parody or not. I've heard too many users say similar things.
I was trying to figure out wtf the ride is, and found this:
e _ttd_InOperation1_320_high_videofile.mov
http://70.85.70.32/cp_website_media/ttd/cp_websit
A far more elegant version is available for cell phones, so you don't have to have a whole laptop setup.
http://datenmafia.org/gpstron/index-english.php
thanks
Hey, that's the IT password at my school!
(IT for us != computing services. IT does the projectors, lecture setups, and stuff like that).
This sounds a lot like an article I found linked off Ars yesterday. Apparently some companies are trying to combine LARPing with GPS and computer games to make some sort of real life game. Anyone know if there's anyone doing this in San Francisco?
Gamers turn cities into a battleground
Umm, no it didn't. Some Chinese site had the first review yesterday before the NDAs. All the rest of the reviews (that's a roundup of them) came out at the same time, 9am this morning when NDAs fell. Oh, and extreme tech's reviews always blow.
That'd almost be as cool as the VU Meter shirt:7 02.php
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/005
I'm sorry, but stating that you can record studio quality sound using an ipod is just inane. I mean it won't be terrible, but it'll be the same quality as any of the other small handheld recorders. I'm sure even a Soundblaster would do better at recording than an iPod.
I'm somewhat curious as to who the 78 teams are that were cut from this.
You're not the first person to ask this, and Johan responded to the same thing over at Ace's Hardware (where he was before heading over to Anand). Basically you can only do so much while having a reasonable article:
Johan's response
I dunno, but there seems to be a cabinet that magically refills with tshirts about 3 times a week. It's great for the interns who hate laundry.
First of all, wtf is with that name? All it needs is a few more Xs for Xtreme.
Anyway, thanks for a bunch of pictures of the PSU without actually telling me anything. If you want a real review of PSUs, head over ot X-bit labs. All of their reviews contain actual power data with power draw vs rated voltage graphs and scope readings of rail fluctuations. And one picture of the PSU if you actually care.
I e-mailed this list around the rest of the students that were in my film class last semester because it's actually a good list. AFI did there similar Top-100 list a couple of years ago and holy crap was that list marketing crap. However this list has a nice combination of oldies (including some silents), foreign (Iran, India, Japan, Hong Kong, etc), and everything inbetween. I highly recomend everything on this list and it restores a bit of my faith in the mass media.
Geeze, why does /. keep on linking to physorg, which has crappy articles and no links to real information about stuff.
Here's a more in depth article on X-bit. NanoCoolers has a pretty in depth description of the product. It's basically a watercooling loop but using a molten metal. The really cool part is that because the metal is obviously electrically conductive, they're using a DC current combined with some magnets to take advantage of Lorentz force to propel the fluid.
I'm not sure if this is just the fact that I'm unlucky or what, but RAID-on-LVM has been less than stable for me. One of my disks threw an IDE error and managed to kick itself offline (the disk itself was fine, but got in a fight with the controller or something). Since there was the LVM layer the RAID layer still saw that part of the raid as active and continued trying to write to it, and as you can imagine the results were less than steller. I've gotten rid of the LVM layer and have straight RAID disk partitions. You still get a lot of the advantages, just you have to rebuild more often. If I want to resize a disk I just raidhotgenerateerror on all the partitions on that disk, take everything on the disk offline, then add them back.
That's one of the main advantages of the new PCI-Express cards. AGP was built for video cards so is very lobsided. PCI-Express was built as a general purpose high-speed interconnect and as such has balanced bandwidth to and from the (video) card. Also a returning audio stream, even if you're doing stereo or surround sound, it's all that bandwidth intensive.
Just a quick clarification, Carnegie Mellon itself was not hacked. This was a Tepper School of Buisness machine that was hacked and their student data lost. As seems to be fairly normal, the buisness school is almost its own entity, even running on a different schedule than the rest of the campus.
OGM and MKV are interesting, but very much non-mainstream. If you want mainstream with subtitles and multiple audio tracks, go with MP4, which is a derivative of QuickTime's .MOV and what most apple software now produces.
I wish I had mod points. Take a look at the last few stories. This guy's just been copy/pasting stuff to get his FREE CRAP links up.
For another fine guide of theirs, check out the Parent's primer to l33t sp34k. Seems to be on par.
Google Search: CtrlAltDel.asf
all the links to andrew.cmu are dead as I've removed the video from my webspace, but there are plenty of copies floating around.
This story.
Would be better.
If it didn't read like.
One of Shatner's.
Speaches.
from the anandtech article:
Date: January 31st, 2005
(-1, Troll)
The first linux drivers ATI released were for their firegl line of workstation cards. You could hack them to work with the normal cards, but for quite a while now ATI has provided drivers that work with all the cards. In fact, you can read anandtech's review of ATI and nVidia cards under Linux here.