He was just twisted enough, as played by Keaton, to be plausible. I'd much rather see a messed up, dark, brooding person as Batman than someone whose most popular role was as an elvis-alike...
I work for a school system. If you remember, school systems had invested fairly heavily in LaserDisc technology back when it was established enough to have had the bugs worked out. It flopped.
It flopped because teachers did not make use of it. Remember the old addage "Those who can, do, those who can't teach"? Trust me, it holds true. If you want to buy an LD player with less than 50 hours of use on it, go to a school district surplus auction.
I know that DVD has had significantly more market penetration than LD had, but at the same time, it's not the older, more established people who are buying into it. It's the video-game era people who are used to buttons and switches. It's the people who can program their VCR's clock to not blink "12:00". a LOT of people who teach, the vast majority, are before this was the norm. They don't rely on video to instruct. They don't use computers for the benfit of the kids except when absolutely required by the superintendency.
Until you have computer labs being booked solid in schools, without teachers deciding to skip computers for that day of the month that they get lab time, you won't see technology of this sort in schools, or at least not in an effective manner. It's just not going to happen.
My dedicated video/mp3 box is a Pentium 233MMX w/ 128MB RAM in 72 pin SIMMs. I've gone through the trouble of painting the thing black, including the drive bezels, and I've loaded it up with what I wanted it to have (i.e., 100baseT ethernet, 20GB hard disk, SB AWE32 sound, etc), and the box itself was given to me by someone who didn't want it anymore. The DVD Decoder in it is a Sigma Labs Real Magic Hollywood Plus, and it outputs beautifully at 800x600 for my video projector. The computer itself plays mp3s without stuttering, and I don't really have any reason right now to replace it. It's also a desktop case, rather than a tower, and is the same size as all of my component AV equipment. There are ATX cases in that form factor, but the case alone will cost a hundred bucks, so I wouldn't be saving any money by upgrading the machine to a Duron 1.0GHz processor, new motherboard, new RAM, new sound card (mine's ISA), etc. And, I have the extra benefit of having a TV-Out on the current card (which would also be on the Real Magic X-Card) so I could send to something other than my projector, like a regular TV or VCR.
5) The BSA Shows up, evil geeks-turned-corporate-lackeys and all, and attempts to enter a secured government building, waving a search warrant issued by some mis-informed lower-level superior court Judge. BSA peope are ordered to stop, they attempt to wave their document in someone's face, and suddenly a platoon appears, a'la Matrix, but instead of techno-leets kicking ass, they get blown away. Suddenly, there is now precedent to shoot any BSA official on site...
Oh, wait... sorry, I guess I got a little carried away there... *smiles at the thought*
"I can't envision hooking up 3 CRTs, but using 3 17" LCDs side by side would definately kick some serious asses."
Hell, I _have_ three CRTs hooked up together, two on my Matrox G450 and one on a Riva TNT PCI that was laying around. 3840x1024 is sweet!
"Just hoping they will have drivers for my favorite OS though.;)"
And yes, it works in X, so I assume that it'll be a priority to get X working on this new card. In fact, Matrox wrote the initial stuff for the G450, and I would think they'd likely continue this trend.
Can you imagine what could have been if NASA had been quick enough to begin the construction of a full-fledged outpost on the Moon in the 1970's? I we could have stored the spent nuclear material on the Moon, where no one can (at least currently) mount a safe expedition. We could have had this up and running by the end of the 1990's, and if worst comes to worst, and the stuff exploded or something, all that would happen is that the Moon would be sent out of orbit or something, off to have it's own adventures...
"...For those who don't know it, NC has this rather odd policy of redirecting the right lane off onto *almost* every exit and adding a new lane somewhere else to compensate..."
Here in Arizona, or more specificially Maricopa County (where Phoenix and the rest of the local cities are), the freeways commonly have lanes that exit and reappear. We, though, have big yellow signs over the lanes and different dot patterns for the lanemarkers so in theory it should be pretty damn obvious that the lane is not going to be a part of the freeway for very long, and that if you don't want to be killed trying to cross the gore-lane, merge now.
The only problem is that it seems that there are a lot of fucking idiots here, and almost no one bothers to notice the yellow sign, changed dot pattern lanemarkers, two and a half foot tall letters, etc, and the traffic generally merges at the last minute, causing wrecks again.
No offense, but have you checked to see if there are any of these dot pattern changes or signs along your freeways?
... I don't see how this is a huge problem. I am a science fiction fan, to the point of being a member of a local club (that actually has been meeting regularly for 25+ years), and I don't see how people making serious "part of the universe" Star Wars videos will really help. Honestly, this falls into the "Get a Life!" section of fandom. At least parodies and documentaries show that people have had to put some thought into what they want to present, and especially in parody, working to actually add something different and off base. These people generally show that they're intelligent enough take Lucas' work and twist it around to something very much in the spirit of Star Wars, but at the same time, completely their own. Troops was a perfect example, where they made an almost perfect satire of both Star Wars and Cops, and it's one of the best fan made videos that I've ever seen.
"There's a whole world out there! When I was your age, I didn't watch television! I LIVED! So... move out of your parent's basements! And get your own apartments and GROW THE HELL UP! I mean, it's just a TV show dammit, IT'S JUST A TV SHOW!" --William Shatner, Saturday Night Live, 1987
The entire point though is that I have access to the devices. I don't expect to pound everything all at once, but I don't have to play with cheap consumer USB devices to do things that I can use slightly higher quality add-in boards for. I also don't have to worry about losing access to the devices if someone trips over the cable connecting the device to the port. I like assemblies to actually stay together.
That there's some kind of happy stuff ingestion going on. It's not just at ABIT though. In the review they said:
"you are only going to get 3 PCI slots. This is because most of the peripherals that would use a PCI slot, such as the Ethernet adapter and sound card, are already onboard. Personally I've never used more than 3 PCI slots, and with this board, not a single slot it used. Yep, 3 should definitely be enough."
WHAT?! Only three?! I have a fairly decent board, one of the Microstar KT7 Turbo Ltd boards, and I'm using all six PCI slots. Granted, most people don't have extra video cards, TV Tuners, multiple SCSI controllers, additional sound, etc, but the fact of the matter is that anyone who would actually go for the all USB approach that isn't buying it in some OEM's computer would probably skip on this one. I'll admit that the addition of the IEEE1394 and USB 2.0 is neat, but in many regards, the board is simply crippled by having no legacy ports, and no real place to add them if you actually need such.
I'm still wondering why it's a full sized board with only the three slots. I could at least justify its existence if it were micro-ATX, for it'd be useful to then actually USB things. Right now, it's just dumb.
Wasn't it John W. Campbell that made all of the early advances with Campbellian Science Fiction? Granted, I'm not done reading Invaders from the Infinite yet, but he was the lead editor for Analog and it's predecessor...
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> Magnetorquer [...]for the attitude-control of the satellite.
Do they work on girlfriends as well?
If your girlfriend is large enough that the satellite is orbitting her, you've got other problems...
Slashdot Mirror
Damn Slashdot Effect...
He was just twisted enough, as played by Keaton, to be plausible. I'd much rather see a messed up, dark, brooding person as Batman than someone whose most popular role was as an elvis-alike...
this idea blows...
I work for a school system. If you remember, school systems had invested fairly heavily in LaserDisc technology back when it was established enough to have had the bugs worked out. It flopped.
It flopped because teachers did not make use of it. Remember the old addage "Those who can, do, those who can't teach"? Trust me, it holds true. If you want to buy an LD player with less than 50 hours of use on it, go to a school district surplus auction.
I know that DVD has had significantly more market penetration than LD had, but at the same time, it's not the older, more established people who are buying into it. It's the video-game era people who are used to buttons and switches. It's the people who can program their VCR's clock to not blink "12:00". a LOT of people who teach, the vast majority, are before this was the norm. They don't rely on video to instruct. They don't use computers for the benfit of the kids except when absolutely required by the superintendency.
Until you have computer labs being booked solid in schools, without teachers deciding to skip computers for that day of the month that they get lab time, you won't see technology of this sort in schools, or at least not in an effective manner. It's just not going to happen.
...for me to POOP on!
"Why should I buy an add-in card?"
Uh, because most old systems are AT?
My dedicated video/mp3 box is a Pentium 233MMX w/ 128MB RAM in 72 pin SIMMs. I've gone through the trouble of painting the thing black, including the drive bezels, and I've loaded it up with what I wanted it to have (i.e., 100baseT ethernet, 20GB hard disk, SB AWE32 sound, etc), and the box itself was given to me by someone who didn't want it anymore. The DVD Decoder in it is a Sigma Labs Real Magic Hollywood Plus, and it outputs beautifully at 800x600 for my video projector. The computer itself plays mp3s without stuttering, and I don't really have any reason right now to replace it. It's also a desktop case, rather than a tower, and is the same size as all of my component AV equipment. There are ATX cases in that form factor, but the case alone will cost a hundred bucks, so I wouldn't be saving any money by upgrading the machine to a Duron 1.0GHz processor, new motherboard, new RAM, new sound card (mine's ISA), etc. And, I have the extra benefit of having a TV-Out on the current card (which would also be on the Real Magic X-Card) so I could send to something other than my projector, like a regular TV or VCR.
The "Duron Solution" is no solution at all.
Three steps to a successful ad campaign:
1) Build a mildly useful, yet somewhat gimmicky product.
2) Build a website and host it on a high-bandwidth provider
3) Submit your site with a catchy story to Slashdot, and watch the orders come in...
"rr... am I missing some key distinction here? Last I checked, "Earth" and "our planet" were one and the same."
Well, are you a male, or a female?
5) The BSA Shows up, evil geeks-turned-corporate-lackeys and all, and attempts to enter a secured government building, waving a search warrant issued by some mis-informed lower-level superior court Judge. BSA peope are ordered to stop, they attempt to wave their document in someone's face, and suddenly a platoon appears, a'la Matrix, but instead of techno-leets kicking ass, they get blown away. Suddenly, there is now precedent to shoot any BSA official on site...
Oh, wait... sorry, I guess I got a little carried away there... *smiles at the thought*
"Public domain is for those who think that the BDS licence is not free enough."
Back in the '80's he was part of the free OS movement at Berkley. I think he did a little too much BDS...
... and bandwidth restricts it to 128K...
US Geological Survey Info here...
Well, I had the distinct luxury of spending about $250 for all of the monitors...
Ha! Beat that! Mister High and Mighty Silicon Graphics Man!
*grin*
" Did none of you guys spot that TWX's post was a joke based on a Space 1999 reference? (TV sci-fi show from the mid-70s)"
Yeah, after a day or so of checking up on the post, I was beginning to become concerned that Slashdot didn't have any sci-fi geeks of any note left...
"I can't envision hooking up 3 CRTs, but using 3 17" LCDs side by side would definately kick some serious asses."
;)"
Hell, I _have_ three CRTs hooked up together, two on my Matrox G450 and one on a Riva TNT PCI that was laying around. 3840x1024 is sweet!
"Just hoping they will have drivers for my favorite OS though.
And yes, it works in X, so I assume that it'll be a priority to get X working on this new card. In fact, Matrox wrote the initial stuff for the G450, and I would think they'd likely continue this trend.
Hey NASA! Over HERE!
Can you imagine what could have been if NASA had been quick enough to begin the construction of a full-fledged outpost on the Moon in the 1970's? I we could have stored the spent nuclear material on the Moon, where no one can (at least currently) mount a safe expedition. We could have had this up and running by the end of the 1990's, and if worst comes to worst, and the stuff exploded or something, all that would happen is that the Moon would be sent out of orbit or something, off to have it's own adventures...
"...For those who don't know it, NC has this rather odd policy of redirecting the right lane off onto *almost* every exit and adding a new lane somewhere else to compensate..."
Here in Arizona, or more specificially Maricopa County (where Phoenix and the rest of the local cities are), the freeways commonly have lanes that exit and reappear. We, though, have big yellow signs over the lanes and different dot patterns for the lanemarkers so in theory it should be pretty damn obvious that the lane is not going to be a part of the freeway for very long, and that if you don't want to be killed trying to cross the gore-lane, merge now.
The only problem is that it seems that there are a lot of fucking idiots here, and almost no one bothers to notice the yellow sign, changed dot pattern lanemarkers, two and a half foot tall letters, etc, and the traffic generally merges at the last minute, causing wrecks again.
No offense, but have you checked to see if there are any of these dot pattern changes or signs along your freeways?
... I don't see how this is a huge problem. I am a science fiction fan, to the point of being a member of a local club (that actually has been meeting regularly for 25+ years), and I don't see how people making serious "part of the universe" Star Wars videos will really help. Honestly, this falls into the "Get a Life!" section of fandom. At least parodies and documentaries show that people have had to put some thought into what they want to present, and especially in parody, working to actually add something different and off base. These people generally show that they're intelligent enough take Lucas' work and twist it around to something very much in the spirit of Star Wars, but at the same time, completely their own. Troops was a perfect example, where they made an almost perfect satire of both Star Wars and Cops, and it's one of the best fan made videos that I've ever seen.
"There's a whole world out there! When I was your age, I didn't watch television! I LIVED! So... move out of your parent's basements! And get your own apartments and GROW THE HELL UP! I mean, it's just a TV show dammit, IT'S JUST A TV SHOW!" --William Shatner, Saturday Night Live, 1987
So, now we know why the fight song opens with "I'm a ramblin' wreck from Georgia Tech"...
I find them for less than eight cents a pack, and if they're at ten, they're friggin' expensive!
The entire point though is that I have access to the devices. I don't expect to pound everything all at once, but I don't have to play with cheap consumer USB devices to do things that I can use slightly higher quality add-in boards for. I also don't have to worry about losing access to the devices if someone trips over the cable connecting the device to the port. I like assemblies to actually stay together.
That there's some kind of happy stuff ingestion going on. It's not just at ABIT though. In the review they said:
"you are only going to get 3 PCI slots. This is because most of the peripherals that would use a PCI slot, such as the Ethernet adapter and sound card, are already onboard. Personally I've never used more than 3 PCI slots, and with this board, not a single slot it used. Yep, 3 should definitely be enough."
WHAT?! Only three?! I have a fairly decent board, one of the Microstar KT7 Turbo Ltd boards, and I'm using all six PCI slots. Granted, most people don't have extra video cards, TV Tuners, multiple SCSI controllers, additional sound, etc, but the fact of the matter is that anyone who would actually go for the all USB approach that isn't buying it in some OEM's computer would probably skip on this one. I'll admit that the addition of the IEEE1394 and USB 2.0 is neat, but in many regards, the board is simply crippled by having no legacy ports, and no real place to add them if you actually need such.
I'm still wondering why it's a full sized board with only the three slots. I could at least justify its existence if it were micro-ATX, for it'd be useful to then actually USB things. Right now, it's just dumb.
"Joseph Campbell-esque"
Wasn't it John W. Campbell that made all of the early advances with Campbellian Science Fiction? Granted, I'm not done reading Invaders from the Infinite yet, but he was the lead editor for Analog and it's predecessor...
> Magnetorquer [...]for the attitude-control of the satellite.
Do they work on girlfriends as well?
If your girlfriend is large enough that the satellite is orbitting her, you've got other problems...