thousand years of dark ages in WESTERN EUROPE. midle east and china were doing just fine, thank you.
so much so, that europe only began its slow crawl out of the dark age into renaiscence after a lot of the science and art it lost was brought back from midle east during the crusades, plus one or another thing (*COUGH*paper*COUGH*gun powder*COUGH*) from china.
civilizations don't get destroyed, they migrate. science, culture, art, wealth. all that makes a civilization what it is, moves to more fertile grounds as the decadence begins. if this migration causes or is caused by decadence, i don't know, but it happens. look at history, as egypt decayed, greece apeared as a major civilization, as greece wanned, rome was rising...
AFAIK, china is the only civilization that hand endured for thousands of years without major interruptions. maybe US could learn something from them before this current decadence proccess becomes irreversible.
imagine if the government didn't mandate a standard type of power outlet, or a standard voltage on them, or a standard current type (AC instead of DC), or standard positioning of control pedals on cars...
the situation that'd arrive from that is the same that arrives from not having a standard type of charger: CHAOS!!!
here's my sugestion:
- USB: for anything requiring 5V or less - Firewire: anything requiring from 9V to 30V
i disagree. i've been playing 1st person shooters since doom I, and i never got a good grasp of the mouse/keyboard. what bothers me most is that i kept hitting surrounding keys that sometimes caused problems.
now, with quake wars on the PS3, my performance is a lot better than in other quakes.
summing it up, it's not the control itself that'll determine performance, it's how comfortable the player feels with it.
nothing beats sitting comfortably on the couch, feet up, with a wireless controler, on a large TV screen.
seriously, after my last desktop peecee smoked, i had the option of fixing it, selling the parts that were still good and kiss gaming good buy (an el cheapo notebook i had doesn't cut it for gaming) or buy a PS3.
i bought the PS3. couldn't be happier. the money i'd have to spend on a decent motherboard and CPU paid the PS3 and i got a bluray player free.
except that SCSI disks suck at sequential reading large volumes of data (like a 1GB movie). they're great for random ops on random, non-sequential operations.
i think this is the same thing that made pigs, dogs and cows a lot more docile than their wild counterparts. selective breeding.
dumb chickens are less likely to escape, wich is good for farmers.
you don't have to make a complex chirping weasel model to brain-freeze a chicken. just hold its head close to a surface, then draw a straight line with a marker starting on its beak and extending about 30cm. the chicken will stay there hypnotized for a couple of minutes.
if he's drinking the coolaid, you're smoking some serious shit.
compared to the kind of service we have from IBM here at work (a 3 letter acronym that just got bought by a 2 letter acronyn. check the news.) sun's support is AWESOME!!!
hell, last week IBM sent an "enginner" to our chilean site that didn't know how to use "sudo su -". then we all asked here: WTF ?!?
Sun even have dedicated engineers on two of our sites in US, and they're pretty quick to answer and solve our problems. a lot better than IBM in my experience.
Zones - I still have yet to see a reason to use this except for dedicated virtualization servers.
server consolidation is one use. if you have several small servers, and then decide to consolidate in a single, big one, having the services of each small machine on it's own zone can be a lot more flexible than hardware partitioning.
The ZFS filesystem is interesting for desktop installations - it does allow seamless use of the 1-2 terabyte desktop disk configurations that are now possible. ZFS was designed for the datacenter - eliminating the need for the time-honored but fragile combination of journaling filesystem over software volume manager (usually over HW RAID). It's the first real innovation in filesystem architecture since journaling filesystems were developed.
just karma whoring here, but it's important to mention that pretty much everything ZFS has to offer was already available on tru64's advFS: http://advfs.sourceforge.net/
it's a shame HP killed this fine unix to keep that abominable HP-UX, so kudos to sun for bringing back the functionality of tru64 back to the datacentre AND the desktop.
hmmm, i wonder if my notebook (presario v6210) is compatible with opensolaris...
patents may expire in 20 years, but copyrights don't.
i'm sure the NES had some sort of firmware on the console that's still covered by copyrights. this would make the work a little harder. the creators of this thingie would have to first develop their own firmware, right ?
GPL 2.x is pretty clear about that. they can charge for binaries to pay for the work of building it, the bandwidth or media to distribute, etc. as long as the source is provided.
- convertible submarine - windshield wipers (americans improved them by placing them on the outside) - helicopter with ejector seat - solar powered flashlight . . .
ok, i confess. i'm brasilian. couldn't resist joking, mod me down at will
i don't watch nascar to see "a bunch of dumb americans chasing their tail all day long.". i watch nascar to see a bunch of dumb americans crashing into the wall!!!
ndiswrapper have a userland tool to load windows drivers after you grab them from the internet, but the part that really does the job is ndiswrapper.ko, a kernel module that's compiled and instaled when you do a make; make install
here in brasil, UFRGS (federeal university of rio grande do sul) broadcasted test programs using stereo FM. one chanel would broadcast audio, the other encoded text to be decoded by an MSX computer and displayed on screen. the idea was to make talk radio accessible to def people.
hey, what's the problem with lantastic ? i earned my living out of it for a bunch of years. i liked the way the DOS boxes bleeped everytime the coax cable was open.
bleep! bleep! bleep! bleep!
and there i went with a 50 Ohm terminator to find the faulty node...
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thousand years of dark ages in WESTERN EUROPE. midle east and china were doing just fine, thank you.
so much so, that europe only began its slow crawl out of the dark age into renaiscence after a lot of the science and art it lost was brought back from midle east during the crusades, plus one or another thing (*COUGH*paper*COUGH*gun powder*COUGH*) from china.
civilizations don't get destroyed, they migrate. science, culture, art, wealth. all that makes a civilization what it is, moves to more fertile grounds as the decadence begins. if this migration causes or is caused by decadence, i don't know, but it happens. look at history, as egypt decayed, greece apeared as a major civilization, as greece wanned, rome was rising...
AFAIK, china is the only civilization that hand endured for thousands of years without major interruptions. maybe US could learn something from them before this current decadence proccess becomes irreversible.
imagine if the government didn't mandate a standard type of power outlet, or a standard voltage on them, or a standard current type (AC instead of DC), or standard positioning of control pedals on cars...
the situation that'd arrive from that is the same that arrives from not having a standard type of charger: CHAOS!!!
here's my sugestion:
- USB: for anything requiring 5V or less
- Firewire: anything requiring from 9V to 30V
problem solved.
i disagree. i've been playing 1st person shooters since doom I, and i never got a good grasp of the mouse/keyboard. what bothers me most is that i kept hitting surrounding keys that sometimes caused problems.
now, with quake wars on the PS3, my performance is a lot better than in other quakes.
summing it up, it's not the control itself that'll determine performance, it's how comfortable the player feels with it.
i came here to post exactly that.
nothing beats sitting comfortably on the couch, feet up, with a wireless controler, on a large TV screen.
seriously, after my last desktop peecee smoked, i had the option of fixing it, selling the parts that were still good and kiss gaming good buy (an el cheapo notebook i had doesn't cut it for gaming) or buy a PS3.
i bought the PS3. couldn't be happier. the money i'd have to spend on a decent motherboard and CPU paid the PS3 and i got a bluray player free.
except that SCSI disks suck at sequential reading large volumes of data (like a 1GB movie). they're great for random ops on random, non-sequential operations.
i think this is the same thing that made pigs, dogs and cows a lot more docile than their wild counterparts. selective breeding.
dumb chickens are less likely to escape, wich is good for farmers.
you don't have to make a complex chirping weasel model to brain-freeze a chicken. just hold its head close to a surface, then draw a straight line with a marker starting on its beak and extending about 30cm. the chicken will stay there hypnotized for a couple of minutes.
if he's drinking the coolaid, you're smoking some serious shit.
compared to the kind of service we have from IBM here at work (a 3 letter acronym that just got bought by a 2 letter acronyn. check the news.) sun's support is AWESOME!!!
hell, last week IBM sent an "enginner" to our chilean site that didn't know how to use "sudo su -". then we all asked here: WTF ?!?
Sun even have dedicated engineers on two of our sites in US, and they're pretty quick to answer and solve our problems. a lot better than IBM in my experience.
Zones - I still have yet to see a reason to use this except for dedicated virtualization servers.
server consolidation is one use. if you have several small servers, and then decide to consolidate in a single, big one, having the services of each small machine on it's own zone can be a lot more flexible than hardware partitioning.
The ZFS filesystem is interesting for desktop installations - it does allow seamless use of the 1-2 terabyte desktop disk configurations that are now possible. ZFS was designed for the datacenter - eliminating the need for the time-honored but fragile combination of journaling filesystem over software volume manager (usually over HW RAID).
It's the first real innovation in filesystem architecture since journaling filesystems were developed.
just karma whoring here, but it's important to mention that pretty much everything ZFS has to offer was already available on tru64's advFS: http://advfs.sourceforge.net/
it's a shame HP killed this fine unix to keep that abominable HP-UX, so kudos to sun for bringing back the functionality of tru64 back to the datacentre AND the desktop.
hmmm, i wonder if my notebook (presario v6210) is compatible with opensolaris...
grits is pretty much the same as the brasilian angu.
"Containing enough computational artillery to level a small village"
then don't let the russians put their hands on it. poor georgia.
patents may expire in 20 years, but copyrights don't.
i'm sure the NES had some sort of firmware on the console that's still covered by copyrights. this would make the work a little harder. the creators of this thingie would have to first develop their own firmware, right ?
GPL 2.x is pretty clear about that. they can charge for binaries to pay for the work of building it, the bandwidth or media to distribute, etc. as long as the source is provided.
"This makes Titan the only body in our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid on its surface."
i thought venus had molten metal rivers on it's surface. or is it just an uncorfimed hypotesis ?
anyone more knowledged tham me could please step forward ?
i'm in (except for the huma sacrifice, of course).
now we, computer geeks, can claim ancient greek heritage.
how cool is that, hmmm ?
airplane, voice transmission over radio waves, hot air baloon, caller ID for analog phone systems, dirigible baloon, photography, typewriter.
here: http://mundoestranho.abril.com.br/materia/materia_204346.shtml
just to mention a few.
portugal is for brasilians what poland is for you.
unfortunately for my karma, moderators here seems to have lost any sense of humor.
let's try it again:
"Maria was trying to light the stove without success. so she yelled to manuel:
- Manual, the matchsticks aren't working.
Manuel replied:
- That's not possible Maria. I tested each one of them earlier and they worked alright!"
some other inventions from portugal:
- convertible submarine
- windshield wipers (americans improved them by placing them on the outside)
- helicopter with ejector seat
- solar powered flashlight
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ok, i confess. i'm brasilian. couldn't resist joking, mod me down at will
i didn't just miss assembly. i still do.
it's a shame no one gives assembly the respect it deserves.
i don't watch nascar to see "a bunch of dumb americans chasing their tail all day long.". i watch nascar to see a bunch of dumb americans crashing into the wall!!!
nothing beats a nascar-style 10 car crash.
it's not userland.
ndiswrapper have a userland tool to load windows drivers after you grab them from the internet, but the part that really does the job is ndiswrapper.ko, a kernel module that's compiled and instaled when you do a make; make install
guess your ducking didn't help all that much
here in brasil, UFRGS (federeal university of rio grande do sul) broadcasted test programs using stereo FM. one chanel would broadcast audio, the other encoded text to be decoded by an MSX computer and displayed on screen. the idea was to make talk radio accessible to def people.
where are the grammar nazis when i need them ?
s/given/giving/
hey, what's the problem with lantastic ? i earned my living out of it for a bunch of years. i liked the way the DOS boxes bleeped everytime the coax cable was open.
bleep! bleep! bleep! bleep!
and there i went with a 50 Ohm terminator to find the faulty node...
ahhh, the good old times.
now get of my lawn, punk.