There is nothing "wrong" with it. Just not what I want to do. The whole reason I have a car is not to go to work but get the hell away from it. I want an integrated solution. I don't want to have to bring my Zaurus with me or hook thinks up. Plus I like to tinker with things, so doing it just to do it has some appeal for me. For instance, I throw in an IR camera and now I have night vision too for cheap.
I agree about the old laptop screens. I have one here (DEC 386sx-16) and they do work well in sunlight though not enough contrast for my taste. My car has small windows and doesn't let in a lot of light on the console so I'm not too worried about visibility.
I agree when it comes to distraction, people are fucking brain dead. I've had more close calls then I can recall with people talking on their phones. I don't think it's inherently dangerous. Just that people are for the most part retarded. I will occasionally use my phone while driving (Usually answering a call) but I don't pay attention to it, I'm focusing on driving. I'd rather have someone repeat something than rear end someone. I'm in Boston and I see at least one idiot per day on a phone not paying attention (and I don't even commute)
Having said that, I am planning on putting a linux box in my car. For one, I can't see my dash as it's blocked by the steering wheel. (The wheel tilted straight blocks all gauges) So with ODB-II, I'll have a nice digital dash in the center console. I plan to have GPS as well and an MP3 player. Now for me, this reduces distraction, not adds to it. I also get the additional benefit of being able to install a rearview camera as the high back end gives almost no view, plus if there is a work problem, I can find a place to stop and fix the issue and continue on.
While there is a bit of "gee whiz", the main reason for me to put a computer in my car is to untether myself from work. I love the idea that if there's a problem at work, I can pull over, ssh into the servers and then continue on my way.
Perhaps I'll be able to leave the state once and awhile.
I'm waiting for the In-Dash Touchscreen Computer Monitor, which I hear will be released at the end of August.
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I'll thank you for not pondering about the attractiveness of my internals.:P
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I think the plan is important in the sense that the it gives members of the community an idea of what's going to happen who haven't been following it that close.
As far as delving into the guts, yes there is a book about the innards of perl5 Extending and Embedding Perl. A good read actually. I myself am looking forward to a refactored implementation. perl5 isn't too pretty inside the bowels.
Our family used to get death threats a lot due to my father being a PO. I answered my first when I was 5. I think this is a terrible idea. I still have to have all the shades drawn 25 years later because it's so ingrained. It's a very real threat to the police and their families.
". Itâ(TM)s hard to believe it was a little over ten years ago that Intel released the First Pentium Chips"
Yes it is. I've got a step 0 P66 CPU sitting on my desk. When I got it, it was the fastest PC you could buy anywhere (for about a month). It played a mean game of DOOM though. Pretty too. Even the top of the CPU is gold.
I used to work at a tech support company and with all my duties, I couldn't play Team Fortress with everyone else. So me and my friend next to me dug out a 486 with QBASIC Gorilla on it. It is a silly stupid game but it can be quite fun. (Not as fun as incinerating a mob in Vice City of course... but you take what you can.)
Generating electricity with hard-drives? Maxtor makes hard-drives? Ah.. forget it.
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Thank god the bubble burst before iDoors and other such stupid crap. I look forward to the day when everyone's pad is decked out in the iFridge, iFrame, etc.
That way, when they discover flaws, they can spoil all the food in my fridge, replace the pic of my girl on my mantle with some obscene imagery and then spy remotely on me as they sic my electronic dog on me:P
It's not like you have a line like you used to. Everything is multiplexed. One line provides many, many users but you all get charged for "your line". Here in South Boston, I forget how many people ( I think it's less than 1/3) , tried to make a call at the same time it couldn't handle it.
I think it is a question of perceived value. Look at portable MP3 players. The Nomad 40GBs are hundreds more than 10GBs. The only difference is the drive which is certainly less than $100 difference. How do the justify ~$300 price differences? They don't. Customers who don't know better think it's worth it. Me? , a new notebook drive, a little surgery and I saved myself hundreds of bucks. In general, they'll charge as much as the market will bear. I suspect competition will eventually drive it down to a more reasonable price soon enough.
We had nerf basketball hoops in the office. One of the guys tried to peg a coworker with it and knocked over a 20 oz Diet Pepsi off the top of the desk which drained into the back of my brand new 19" monitor. (It was pretty expensive at the time.)
I thought it was going to fry the whole thing and my CPU but it just poured out the bottom. The monitor is around 18" inches from to back and luckily it must have missed the tube and other electronics. Needless to say there was soon a "policy" on fucking around.
Point taken. I agree that education is ridiculously expensive. I wasn't thinking of the kid with 3 jobs putting himself through school. More like the kids I knew at UMASS drinking 24/7, doing naked beer slides and otherwise wasting the money their parents spent on them.
I totally disagree. It depends on the programmer. Everything more than a -e command line Perl program that I do has locations/ports and everything else abstracted away and all packaged up in a module.
As far as moving between envrioments, the biggest thing you hit is socket stuff which still with a little care be taken care of nice and easy which is just as easy if not quicker than recompiling a binary.
But I don't. I count it out such as not to obscure it. Does it guarantee me anything? No. But it helps. Or it did in the one case I had a problem. (Or maybe because it was only short $20 they just said fuck it.)
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There is nothing "wrong" with it. Just not what I want to do. The whole reason I have a car is not to go to work but get the hell away from it. I want an integrated solution. I don't want to have to bring my Zaurus with me or hook thinks up. Plus I like to tinker with things, so doing it just to do it has some appeal for me. For instance, I throw in an IR camera and now I have night vision too for cheap.
I agree about the old laptop screens. I have one here (DEC 386sx-16) and they do work well in sunlight though not enough contrast for my taste. My car has small windows and doesn't let in a lot of light on the console so I'm not too worried about visibility.
I agree when it comes to distraction, people are fucking brain dead. I've had more close calls then I can recall with people talking on their phones. I don't think it's inherently dangerous. Just that people are for the most part retarded. I will occasionally use my phone while driving (Usually answering a call) but I don't pay attention to it, I'm focusing on driving. I'd rather have someone repeat something than rear end someone. I'm in Boston and I see at least one idiot per day on a phone not paying attention (and I don't even commute)
Having said that, I am planning on putting a linux box in my car. For one, I can't see my dash as it's blocked by the steering wheel. (The wheel tilted straight blocks all gauges) So with ODB-II, I'll have a nice digital dash in the center console. I plan to have GPS as well and an MP3 player. Now for me, this reduces distraction, not adds to it. I also get the additional benefit of being able to install a rearview camera as the high back end gives almost no view, plus if there is a work problem, I can find a place to stop and fix the issue and continue on.
Yes, my own. No way I'd do it for someone else. Write apps and admin various servers amongst other things.
Perhaps the wrong choice of words. I'm already tethered 24/7, but I'm more than happy to extend the range to anywhere my car can go.
While there is a bit of "gee whiz", the main reason for me to put a computer in my car is to untether myself from work. I love the idea that if there's a problem at work, I can pull over, ssh into the servers and then continue on my way.
Perhaps I'll be able to leave the state once and awhile.
I'm waiting for the In-Dash Touchscreen Computer Monitor, which I hear will be released at the end of August.
I'll thank you for not pondering about the :P
attractiveness of my internals.
I think the plan is important in the sense that the it gives members of the community an idea of what's going to happen who haven't been following it that close.
As far as delving into the guts, yes there is a book about the innards of perl5 Extending and Embedding Perl. A good read actually. I myself am looking forward to a refactored implementation. perl5 isn't too pretty inside the bowels.
Can't "Dubba ya", just run popfile like everyone else?
I can see his buckets now...
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Kooks
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Our family used to get death threats a lot due to my father being a PO. I answered my first when I was 5. I think this is a terrible idea. I still have to have all the shades drawn 25 years later because it's so ingrained. It's a very real threat to the police and their families.
Perl programs in my experience tend to by much shorter than their C equivalent so I don't think it's a fair comparison.
". Itâ(TM)s hard to believe it was a little over ten years ago that Intel released the First Pentium Chips"
Yes it is. I've got a step 0 P66 CPU sitting on my desk. When I got it, it was the fastest PC you could buy anywhere (for about a month). It played a mean game of DOOM though. Pretty too. Even the top of the CPU is gold.
I used to work at a tech support company and with all my duties, I couldn't play Team Fortress with everyone else. So me and my friend next to me dug out a 486 with QBASIC Gorilla on it. It is a silly stupid game but it can be quite fun. (Not as fun as incinerating a mob in Vice City of course... but you take what you can.)
I got my Zaurus 5500 at www.hippov.com for ~$265
Generating electricity with hard-drives? Maxtor makes hard-drives? Ah.. forget it.
Thank god the bubble burst before iDoors and other such stupid crap. I look forward to the day when everyone's pad is decked out in the iFridge, iFrame, etc.
:P
That way, when they discover flaws, they can spoil all the food in my fridge, replace the pic of my girl on my mantle with some obscene imagery and then spy remotely on me as they sic my electronic dog on me
"Maxtor Blaster!"
It's not like you have a line like you used to. Everything is multiplexed. One line provides many, many users but you all get charged for "your line". Here in South Boston, I forget how many people ( I think it's less than 1/3) , tried to make a call at the same time it couldn't handle it.
I think it is a question of perceived value. Look at portable MP3 players. The Nomad 40GBs are hundreds more than 10GBs. The only difference is the drive which is certainly less than $100 difference. How do the justify ~$300 price differences? They don't. Customers who don't know better think it's worth it. Me? , a new notebook drive, a little surgery and I saved myself hundreds of bucks. In general, they'll charge as much as the market will bear. I suspect competition will eventually drive it down to a more reasonable price soon enough.
We had nerf basketball hoops in the office. One of the guys tried to peg a coworker with it and knocked over a 20 oz Diet Pepsi off the top of the desk which drained into the back of my brand new 19" monitor. (It was pretty expensive at the time.)
I thought it was going to fry the whole thing and my CPU but it just poured out the bottom. The monitor is around 18" inches from to back and luckily it must have missed the tube and other electronics. Needless to say there was soon a "policy" on fucking around.
Point taken. I agree that education is ridiculously expensive. I wasn't thinking of the kid with 3 jobs putting himself through school. More like the kids I knew at UMASS drinking 24/7, doing naked beer slides and otherwise wasting the money their parents spent on them.
Daddy's money not enough?
I totally disagree.
It depends on the programmer. Everything more than a -e command line Perl program that I do has locations/ports and everything else abstracted away and all packaged up in a module.
As far as moving between envrioments, the biggest thing you hit is socket stuff which still with a little care be taken care of nice and easy which is just as easy if not quicker than recompiling a binary.
But I don't. I count it out such as not to obscure it. Does it guarantee me anything? No. But it helps. Or it did in the one case I had a problem. (Or maybe because it was only short $20 they just said fuck it.)