I'm working on a home theater project myself, and have a Remote Control on the way.
I've seen the mod on the web, however, and it was a clever hack. Slashdotted now, but the flat pannel monitor had a goofy resolution he worked around with drivers. It would work if you did LAN parties... but I would rather pipe svideo (or a dvi out) to something that gave me a bigger picture for watching movies.
Course, the point of modding is usually because you can (grin)
Ever read the EULA's for Oracle, Visual Studio, etc? They owe you for the cost of the media, if that.
$200 or $5000 would not matter to me since this was more about personal pride at the time, but the suport contract are a great 'nail them for another 10-30% anually' if they need the hand holding. Code was solid, but now I know to better prey on the wallets of the stupid.
Most shops out there look at the price tag of software and equate that to "worth". Here is a personal example. I wrote some bioinformatics software in the early 90's that I used in my research. When others were looking for the same thing, I added the creature comfort features that I did not need, plus documentation. I _could_ give it away (under the radar), but for shops who had to buy software, no one would touch it if it was free. I stuck a $200 price tag, no nibbles - feedback was they were expecting shareware grade product at that price. Had a custom box made, charged $5,000 - and sold several!
Anyhow, point being it does not matter how much jboss rocks if those with the checkbook think webxxx is worth the.2-1M. Sometimes you have to charge a punitive amount to make them feel like they are getting something. They are not evil, just missing the point.
B. their beliefs are that if you hear the "higher level" teachings before you are ready, you will become sick and die.
I know I felt a little ill when I read a copy of the docs. Oh wait, does laughing till it hurts because some sucker paid for that content count as 'ill'?
First off, there is hardly a snowball's chance in hell of getting funding. You rule out university money, NIH, NAS, DoD, and almost everything else most biotechs are funded by. The burn rate for supplies alone makes the dot.com people look good. Were there even a lightning strike on the golf course odds, I might see that.
The other part is we don't get to decide how our taxes are spent. I would _not_ pay for lifetime benefits for my congress critter, an open baseball diamond for the Twins, or other things I dislike. Someone else might say they did not care for the military, medical help, unemployment, and so on. Just like the student service fees paid out, we get very little say about supporting things we do not believe in.
All that to say like or dislike should not have an impact on funding. Pure research outside the DoD is almost non-existent, everything else (commercial and academic more often then not) has to make something that 'maximizes shareholder value'.
Bush only issued a ban on federal funds being used for embryonic stem cell research. There was no effect on private resarch, nor, to my knowledge, state funded research.
Having worked in the field... federal funds touch everything. The DoT would require every road, public and private, funded by local taxes, etc., to be painted hot pink if a rule came out stating all road construction must be pink if it touched any federal money.
The effect? The US is no longer the leader of the pack when it comes to this type of biology. Real research is flocking overseas for some time now.
I saw it last night.... I noticed the article in USA today on my flight home, mentioned it to my bride, and made a date of it last night. She mentioned the local radio station was talking about the movie, so I picked up tickets in the afternoon for a 7ish show. No crowds, not even close to being sold out....
The movie was great! The good guys not all good, the bad not all bad. I love grey characters. After reading 'Memoirs of a Geisha' (Arthur Golden), a lot of patterns seemed familiar. Had to pay attention to the characters, but not terribly hard to follow. My take, anyhow... too bad folks are going to miss out on this one.
Take a look at the mini-itx boards out there. I have one of the early cuts with a 566mhz fanless cpu (at 2.8W). The 666mhz should be out, and the 800 & 1G versions can be modded to be fanless with some creative Zalman's CNPS6000-Cu cooler mounting. (might try underclocking an athlon too). Anyhow, I digress...
The 566 is fast enough for divx and mp3 on linux. It has one pci slot, which I use for a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card. I send video capture to another box that has the fast / hot HDD, proc, and video card. I'm going to have to pick up one of those 90 degree pci port benders to give me the low profile case, but the same should work with a TV tuner card. If I can fit my sound card, a tv card should fit...
As a poor slob who bought Both Sun and Microsoft, I can say they both suck rocks right now -- trash talking or not. A co-worker will short any stock I buy...
By cheap - at least in my case - I picked up an Asus board with a nForce 220(?) chipset. On-board sound, lan, video, etc... $80 for an all-in-one board. Not a KT333 or the new 400 anyhow. For RAM, it is crucial, but only PC2100. Amen to the monitor. My bride complained about my Sony until I picked up a pair of 21" monitors for her box...
Yup, just updated my folk's computer too... 1.2G duron w/heat sink for $40 shipped. A couple years ago that (600) was more than enough for Oracle, Weblogic, Visual Age, and my apps.... now, it hardly counts as a counter-strike server. Just plain nuts. I broke down and 'made due' with a xp2000... fastest thing I ever owned.
I do remember the healthy chunk of money I spent on a PII-400, however. Glad I paid extra for the retail three year warr.... By the time it wigged out on me, I did not want it to be replaced with another 400.
By the time the next AMD chip ships, RAM will change, HDD interfaces will change - heck, even the AGP port might make another big shift (8x a different pin count?) No point in buying RAM, a spendy mainboard, or even a video card. Bet it is not just the CPU / chipset makers getting hurt by good enough.
I'll buy the high end CPU's when I don't have to worry about chipping or cracking the silicon. Fool me once, shame on me... I know the P4 has a nice slab of nickel on top, but I don't care for the performance/price I get for the high end CPU's. That leaves AMD, and I'll be damned if I spend top dollar for something I can crush that easy (again). With much fear and trembling, I got my dual MP CPU's mounted in my workstation. I spent ~$100 for a 'disposable' CPU and ~$80 for mainboard, which was an AMD XP 2000 (1.66?) and a cheap Asus board with the works last week, but no way will I bite for the top end processor for my gaming box until I get a no heat sink whammy guarantee. When I see something I can lapp, I'll pull out my wallet for something that can run 1942 w/o lagging.
I know its coming... I've seen (pictures) of the engineering samples...
Maybe people should learn the "basics" in life (like spelling) before learning how to use a computer.
When the dice were rolled, they put the 17 on mathematics, 16 on chemistry, 7 on constitution, and 4 on spelling. Fortunately, I was able to create a character with dual classes since the primary attributes were high enough, and rely on artifacts like spell checkers to avoid a critical scribing fumble.
I've been thinking that the Mozilla project should do something like this. They have the resources to handle an Exchange replacement. Imagine "Mozilla Server" which is a single-install replacement for Exchange/IIS
Much more important to get the basics done first - like folding a spell checker into the email client. Kudo's to the spellchecker team (Pete, David Alen, Rob, Joshua, and all the others who are making this happen) for building the add-on. I look forward to seeing it bundled with the 'core' download, though they really made it easy to install this....
Again, huge props to the developers and testers for making the email client usable for us who kant spll. (grin)
I believe MONO just uses the CLR standard that is given to the ECMA. The rest is just reverse engineering of the class libraries which i believe is still legal.
And we all know there will never be a critical piece of code or algorithm that microsoft will patent once this gets traction. Why even dance with the devil?
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
After a fair bit of coding, I've found that even when you design GUI's for the lowest common denominator, nothing can save you from the divide by zero errors.
Oh, not so.... I'm a bit of a road warrior myself, and there is nothing quite like them trying to tell some 90 year old grandma why they want to emtpy her bag.
Turns out they nail middle age white boys too. I think the key is to be in a rush - about to miss a connecting flight helps. I went to a client site, had my normal work laptop and a demo box. Used the same battery pack, but I left half the cord at home. 'can you turn that on?' Nope. Aw crap... I missed the bloody flight.
For what its worth, the madness seems to be US (and our beer buddies up north). The rest of the world had solders with rifles at the airports for as long as I've been flying.
What is the publisher peice that is not included? I see the builder -- looks like a slick little app -- but I did not see anything about the publisher stuff, other than it is not included.
Have you not heard of.NET (will eventually be a complete replacement for the Windows API)? The NT Kernal (say goodbye to the win9x codebase), DirectX 8 (or 7 was the version where they got rid of a LOT of crap)?
.NET has become an ubiquitous term like ActiveX was a few years back - what ever marketing wants it to be for the day. I'm coding Web Services for the next couple weeks. Most of the server side on a J2EE app server, but I get to do a mess of client code on the window's side using the NET framework. SOAP works great for certain tasks, but trying to do everything as an XML message? API's are not going to disappear anytime soon....
Course, I'm a bit bitter... I had to debug some ugly DDE code last week. How many years ago was that dead and buried?
Stop picking on MS engineers for poor products, and level the blame at the correct place - marketing and management.
A huge part of the problem comes from never deprecating API's. It is one thing to tell someone to design and build something new - much harder to extend something that was not even close to what it was designed for (and did not have time to abstract things out).
To this day, I am amazed the windows kernel even compiles, much less runs...
If you are looking for an example, check out Turtle Beach's Audiotron for a case pattern. Granted, it comes with a mainboard... but idea is (slowly) growing.
Folks are still stuck on the "cable box" form factor rather than something that matchs the HIFI. I'm looking too -- my plexi & tin snipping skills are lacking.
This board looks a lot like the mini-itx form factor boards -- it uses a different chipset (I know there is a new one due... but I have mine already).
Anyhow, take a look at the http://mini-itx.com/hardware/cases.asp link. They have a few vendors for specific chassis, US, UK, etc... I'm carving one with an external ps for the dc->dc atx connector. Way easier to power this thing from my car if all I have to worry about is a good clean 12V DC feed then breadboarding my own ATX ps.
I'm going to make some assumptions you want to do this on the cheap.
If you are going to take a 4U-5U case and hack it, look real hard at the mini-itx form factor boards. Cutting up an existing mainboard trays makes the work go faster. Really low heat, so stuffing 4+ in a case should not be an issue. Course big delta's are someone else's problem since it is off (your) site. Same with sharing a good power supply, though you will have to do a bit of creative splicing. I got an old rm sun clone that I gutted for just this type of thing.... all it cost me was a case of beer. A little mod work, and you can make the thing fit in a 19" rack.
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I'm working on a home theater project myself, and have a Remote Control on the way.
I've seen the mod on the web, however, and it was a clever hack. Slashdotted now, but the flat pannel monitor had a goofy resolution he worked around with drivers. It would work if you did LAN parties... but I would rather pipe svideo (or a dvi out) to something that gave me a bigger picture for watching movies.
Course, the point of modding is usually because you can (grin)
Ever read the EULA's for Oracle, Visual Studio, etc? They owe you for the cost of the media, if that.
$200 or $5000 would not matter to me since this was more about personal pride at the time, but the suport contract are a great 'nail them for another 10-30% anually' if they need the hand holding. Code was solid, but now I know to better prey on the wallets of the stupid.
Most shops out there look at the price tag of software and equate that to "worth". Here is a personal example. I wrote some bioinformatics software in the early 90's that I used in my research. When others were looking for the same thing, I added the creature comfort features that I did not need, plus documentation. I _could_ give it away (under the radar), but for shops who had to buy software, no one would touch it if it was free. I stuck a $200 price tag, no nibbles - feedback was they were expecting shareware grade product at that price. Had a custom box made, charged $5,000 - and sold several!
.2-1M. Sometimes you have to charge a punitive amount to make them feel like they are getting something. They are not evil, just missing the point.
Anyhow, point being it does not matter how much jboss rocks if those with the checkbook think webxxx is worth the
B. their beliefs are that if you hear the "higher level" teachings before you are ready, you will become sick and die.
I know I felt a little ill when I read a copy of the docs. Oh wait, does laughing till it hurts because some sucker paid for that content count as 'ill'?
Ah, you are correct... it was a 533. Just picked up an IR remote for my home project.
First off, there is hardly a snowball's chance in hell of getting funding. You rule out university money, NIH, NAS, DoD, and almost everything else most biotechs are funded by. The burn rate for supplies alone makes the dot.com people look good. Were there even a lightning strike on the golf course odds, I might see that.
The other part is we don't get to decide how our taxes are spent. I would _not_ pay for lifetime benefits for my congress critter, an open baseball diamond for the Twins, or other things I dislike. Someone else might say they did not care for the military, medical help, unemployment, and so on. Just like the student service fees paid out, we get very little say about supporting things we do not believe in.
All that to say like or dislike should not have an impact on funding. Pure research outside the DoD is almost non-existent, everything else (commercial and academic more often then not) has to make something that 'maximizes shareholder value'.
It's suddenly private use when you start renting them out to other people, and selling them?
Same way you drink in in some "dry" states or cities -- you join a private club for 5 bucks, which just happens to offer a free drink for new members.
Bush only issued a ban on federal funds being used for embryonic stem cell research. There was no effect on private resarch, nor, to my knowledge, state funded research.
Having worked in the field... federal funds touch everything. The DoT would require every road, public and private, funded by local taxes, etc., to be painted hot pink if a rule came out stating all road construction must be pink if it touched any federal money.
The effect? The US is no longer the leader of the pack when it comes to this type of biology. Real research is flocking overseas for some time now.
I saw it last night.... I noticed the article in USA today on my flight home, mentioned it to my bride, and made a date of it last night. She mentioned the local radio station was talking about the movie, so I picked up tickets in the afternoon for a 7ish show. No crowds, not even close to being sold out....
The movie was great! The good guys not all good, the bad not all bad. I love grey characters. After reading 'Memoirs of a Geisha' (Arthur Golden), a lot of patterns seemed familiar. Had to pay attention to the characters, but not terribly hard to follow. My take, anyhow... too bad folks are going to miss out on this one.
Take a look at the mini-itx boards out there. I have one of the early cuts with a 566mhz fanless cpu (at 2.8W). The 666mhz should be out, and the 800 & 1G versions can be modded to be fanless with some creative Zalman's CNPS6000-Cu cooler mounting. (might try underclocking an athlon too). Anyhow, I digress...
The 566 is fast enough for divx and mp3 on linux. It has one pci slot, which I use for a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card. I send video capture to another box that has the fast / hot HDD, proc, and video card. I'm going to have to pick up one of those 90 degree pci port benders to give me the low profile case, but the same should work with a TV tuner card. If I can fit my sound card, a tv card should fit...
As a poor slob who bought Both Sun and Microsoft, I can say they both suck rocks right now -- trash talking or not. A co-worker will short any stock I buy...
By cheap - at least in my case - I picked up an Asus board with a nForce 220(?) chipset. On-board sound, lan, video, etc... $80 for an all-in-one board. Not a KT333 or the new 400 anyhow. For RAM, it is crucial, but only PC2100. Amen to the monitor. My bride complained about my Sony until I picked up a pair of 21" monitors for her box...
Yup, just updated my folk's computer too... 1.2G duron w/heat sink for $40 shipped. A couple years ago that (600) was more than enough for Oracle, Weblogic, Visual Age, and my apps.... now, it hardly counts as a counter-strike server. Just plain nuts. I broke down and 'made due' with a xp2000... fastest thing I ever owned.
I do remember the healthy chunk of money I spent on a PII-400, however. Glad I paid extra for the retail three year warr.... By the time it wigged out on me, I did not want it to be replaced with another 400.
By the time the next AMD chip ships, RAM will change, HDD interfaces will change - heck, even the AGP port might make another big shift (8x a different pin count?) No point in buying RAM, a spendy mainboard, or even a video card. Bet it is not just the CPU / chipset makers getting hurt by good enough.
I'll buy the high end CPU's when I don't have to worry about chipping or cracking the silicon. Fool me once, shame on me... I know the P4 has a nice slab of nickel on top, but I don't care for the performance/price I get for the high end CPU's. That leaves AMD, and I'll be damned if I spend top dollar for something I can crush that easy (again). With much fear and trembling, I got my dual MP CPU's mounted in my workstation. I spent ~$100 for a 'disposable' CPU and ~$80 for mainboard, which was an AMD XP 2000 (1.66?) and a cheap Asus board with the works last week, but no way will I bite for the top end processor for my gaming box until I get a no heat sink whammy guarantee. When I see something I can lapp, I'll pull out my wallet for something that can run 1942 w/o lagging.
I know its coming... I've seen (pictures) of the engineering samples...
Maybe people should learn the "basics" in life (like spelling) before learning how to use a computer.
When the dice were rolled, they put the 17 on mathematics, 16 on chemistry, 7 on constitution, and 4 on spelling. Fortunately, I was able to create a character with dual classes since the primary attributes were high enough, and rely on artifacts like spell checkers to avoid a critical scribing fumble.
I've been thinking that the Mozilla project should do something like this. They have the resources to handle an Exchange replacement. Imagine "Mozilla Server" which is a single-install replacement for Exchange/IIS
Much more important to get the basics done first - like folding a spell checker into the email client. Kudo's to the spellchecker team (Pete, David Alen, Rob, Joshua, and all the others who are making this happen) for building the add-on. I look forward to seeing it bundled with the 'core' download, though they really made it easy to install this....
Again, huge props to the developers and testers for making the email client usable for us who kant spll. (grin)
I believe MONO just uses the CLR standard that is given to the ECMA. The rest is just reverse engineering of the class libraries which i believe is still legal.
And we all know there will never be a critical piece of code or algorithm that microsoft will patent once this gets traction. Why even dance with the devil?
The only way to go is to Keep It Simple Stupid. Which means aiming at the lowest common denominator & designing a system that the stupidist simpleton can understand.
After a fair bit of coding, I've found that even when you design GUI's for the lowest common denominator, nothing can save you from the divide by zero errors.
Oh, not so.... I'm a bit of a road warrior myself, and there is nothing quite like them trying to tell some 90 year old grandma why they want to emtpy her bag.
Turns out they nail middle age white boys too. I think the key is to be in a rush - about to miss a connecting flight helps. I went to a client site, had my normal work laptop and a demo box. Used the same battery pack, but I left half the cord at home. 'can you turn that on?' Nope. Aw crap... I missed the bloody flight.
For what its worth, the madness seems to be US (and our beer buddies up north). The rest of the world had solders with rifles at the airports for as long as I've been flying.
What is the publisher peice that is not included? I see the builder -- looks like a slick little app -- but I did not see anything about the publisher stuff, other than it is not included.
.NET has become an ubiquitous term like ActiveX was a few years back - what ever marketing wants it to be for the day. I'm coding Web Services for the next couple weeks. Most of the server side on a J2EE app server, but I get to do a mess of client code on the window's side using the NET framework. SOAP works great for certain tasks, but trying to do everything as an XML message? API's are not going to disappear anytime soon....
Course, I'm a bit bitter... I had to debug some ugly DDE code last week. How many years ago was that dead and buried?
Stop picking on MS engineers for poor products, and level the blame at the correct place - marketing and management.
A huge part of the problem comes from never deprecating API's. It is one thing to tell someone to design and build something new - much harder to extend something that was not even close to what it was designed for (and did not have time to abstract things out).
To this day, I am amazed the windows kernel even compiles, much less runs...
If you are looking for an example, check out Turtle Beach's Audiotron for a case pattern. Granted, it comes with a mainboard... but idea is (slowly) growing.
Folks are still stuck on the "cable box" form factor rather than something that matchs the HIFI. I'm looking too -- my plexi & tin snipping skills are lacking.
This board looks a lot like the mini-itx form factor boards -- it uses a different chipset (I know there is a new one due... but I have mine already).
Anyhow, take a look at the http://mini-itx.com/hardware/cases.asp link. They have a few vendors for specific chassis, US, UK, etc... I'm carving one with an external ps for the dc->dc atx connector. Way easier to power this thing from my car if all I have to worry about is a good clean 12V DC feed then breadboarding my own ATX ps.
I'm going to make some assumptions you want to do this on the cheap.
If you are going to take a 4U-5U case and hack it, look real hard at the mini-itx form factor boards. Cutting up an existing mainboard trays makes the work go faster. Really low heat, so stuffing 4+ in a case should not be an issue. Course big delta's are someone else's problem since it is off (your) site. Same with sharing a good power supply, though you will have to do a bit of creative splicing. I got an old rm sun clone that I gutted for just this type of thing.... all it cost me was a case of beer. A little mod work, and you can make the thing fit in a 19" rack.