...it may be safe to assume that the 'Tier 1' vendors such as IBM, Compaq, and others that are embracing the open source community won't use a Trident chipset.
Those that don't, such as Dell, can use Tridents and guarantee that folks won't purchase those laptops.
...the older IBM 'clacking' keyboards, pre windows key, etc. I've been shocked removing a 5.25" disk from a floppy drive when I touched the disk, and the casing on those is plastic.
Have you shocked yourself on a speaker? A Mouse? A Keyboard? Each of those devices can roast the computer it's attached too. I don't remember seeing people run around sueing the manufacturers of those devices. The same 'ground yerself before you touch' principle holds up for any device attached to a computer.
If i'm taping/pvr'n something, I'm going to bleep out the commercials. The feature I can't wait for is the ability to email programs.
Think about it. How many times have you seen on big newsgroups for sci-fi programs someone missing something and wanting someone to mail them a VCR tape. If you could email a copy of a show you missed, that feature alone is worth the cost for us die-hard Farscape & Trek fans.
Very simple solution for having students need to install their own OSes when learning about Linux or others. Rather in-elegant looking but works. Except I cringe every time I see a student think that large amounts of force are needed to insert the drive.
When I think of unions, this experience comes to mind.
We are in Chicago, some trade show, early 1990s. We need to hang up a poster on the wall of our little area. We hang it up, no problem. 15 minutes later, some big burly guy starts screaming at all of us in the booth and fines us $250 for not using the union workers of this said complex to put that picture up. We take it down, and submit a request to have the picture hung.
Now, I kid you not, two hours later, four guys show up to hang our picture. One stands back 10 feet guiding the picture, one guy stands on each end rasing it up and down, and one guy is on a ladder holding the picture.
Imagine this applied to say, GPL Programming
How many guys does it take to write a int main()? We got one guy to declare the integers, one guy to declare the floats, another guy that has to be consulted when long integers or double floats are required...heaven forbid we call another program, because then that programs steward has to be involved to make sure we don't cause a conflict between the two applications, but wait, we must engage the operating system people, and then the system people to make sure it won't cause the hardware to crash....
I'm sure that's an extreme exageration, but think about it folks. This could happen to some extent. Most of us Uber Geeks here on Slashdot have not ever had a job situation, and working 80 hour weeks happens, but it's rare and the rewards are great, at least in my experience.
I mean, how many other jobs have you pulling down $150k in a state where the median income is $32K? Gotta love the Nebraska/Kansas/Missouri/Oklahoma region. We have over 3000 open positions in the major cities alone....not to mention the boon docks. E-Commerce will get you all your toys....
I have watched the entire first season....
on
Andromeda
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· Score: 3
...and the jury is still out. I was just getting to the point of not really being interested in it, but then the season finale came out and really kicked some butt. There is some interesting character development going on, and things are starting to come together.
I'm going to give season two a chance. But as I think back, I think that Star Trek TNG's first season: LAME, Star Trek: DS9 First Season: Oh, my god, this is LAME. Voyager: Took a few seasons and Seven of Nine (not for her boobs) to drag it out of the LAME pile to the passable pile.
It always seems that the syndicated Sci-Fi shows always suffer from budget crunches the first season or so, and then take off. Then just as they reach their break even point for syndication is when they are getting good.
Babylon 5 and Farscape are the only two I can think off that don't fit that mold.
I found myself almost reading his account like reading Cryptinomicon.
It was very interestnig for me to read how he built bots for IRC and collected four days of data on the ^BOss^ person and all their activities. I bet they probably crapped their pants when he popped in and started talking to them and said what he'd been doing.
I loved how ^Boss^ was very quick to point out that he didn't do it and wouldn't do it in the future. Ducking and covering there.
All in all a great read. I highly recommend you spending the time to do so. Almost like reading a fiction novel.
I'm 29. And if you believe the charts I'm about 100 lbs over my 'ideal' body weight.
Getting off our butt and out from front of the computer is critical. My body allowed me to do this lifestyle up until I was about 26, and then started to fall apart.
Rollerblading is fun, albeit deadly if you aren't careful. I've been looking into some type of eliptical to lessen the impact of my huge gut on my knees if I start running.
I've also been told (By a Doctor no less) to lower the amount of carbohydrates & increase the protein side for a while. I lost a few pounds, but then the superbowl came and I was back to my old habits again.
For those that don't know, when the name change came into affect all the AT&T Wireless & other companies that merged together phones change the logo over night.
A co-worker's non-techy brother came by and told him he dropped his phone and now it's in Spanish. They spent days trying to figure out how to get it to quit saying 'Cingular' on the screen before they knew that the name had changed and this was the new one.
Keep in mind people said the same thing about DVDs when they first came out. The first decks cost $2000 and media was $30 and it *gasp* wasn't recordable. Now the media is $10 - $15 at the big e-tailers and decks start at $99. You still can't record on it (yet) but over 4 million DVD players have been sold. However I think the main reason this won't succeed as well as DVD is the Extras and quick access you get with DVD. I've not had to rewind a VHS tape in over 4 years now.
Why? Simple. Content Control & renting control. DVD does not adhere to the 'sell through' pricing such as VHS currently does. Meaning when a movie is released to Video, it usually comes out first at a price of $120 or so per video. This allows Blockbuster to purchase them, and then rent the heck out of them. Then, three or four months later the video is released at 'sell through' prices around $20. DVD however is better quality, better content, and out at $25 MSRP day and date with the rental video. Blockbuster locks at this as a threat to their business model and do whatever they can to come up with another model to Stop this. MPAA loves this, because for now, the amount of data on the tape is too big to reasonably pirate over the 'net.
I would say that the US is still the most 'open' of contries economically. The government isn't as involved in our daily lives as most news reports would lead you to think.
Companies have been collecting information on you for years. If you've ever answered a Publisher's Clearing House advertisement in the last 15 years they know who you are. I have done some computing work for large colleciton companies and you'd be amazed the way they find you.
Computers have made it somewhat faster, but they still use time told methods that have always been around. Publisher's Clearing House is just a clearing house for your mailing address & interests. They sell these large databases on the open market every month or so, companies buy them, data mine them, and then track you down.
I've seen systems where you type in a persons name, and it comes back with every adress on file, who owned the home, if it had a mortgage who holds the mortgage, who your neighbors were, who owned those homes, and on and on.
At what point do you make collection of basic information illegal?
I will post this disclaimer, I do no have kids of my own. The reason I don't have kids of my own is that my wife and I are unable to have them without involving the forefront of medical science. So it takes longer and costs $$$$$$$$$
So, that being said, I love children. I have weekly contact with kids from my youngest nephew at 2 months, to a young man I've known/played with/talked to since he was born. He's 15 now.
All of the kids I talk to and play with (I have one of the largest collections of LEGO, Video Games, and Computers they've ever seen) are bright, intelligent, and overall very happy. Video games don't destroy them, Video Games entertain them.
They entertain them more than the TV does. I've seen them dance in their seats while trying to do a particular nasty jump, waving the controler through the air trying to push the character to it's next height. Laughing, joking, enjoying themselves.
Turn the TV on, their eyes glaze over and you never hear from them. An aquaintence of mine has a 15 year old son. He came home, found all the lights ni the house on with him glued to the TV. he turned every light in the house off while his son sat their glued to the TV, after the last light was off, he jumped up, and asked him there was a power outage....
Video Games are the easy enemy to pick on, 49 mins is nothing to the four or five hours average that is spent in front of the TV...
My first chance to talk to my all-time favorite band and I can't think for the life of me for a question.
Well here is my obligatory lame 'i can't think of nothing good' question:
Where did you get your inspiration for some of your songs off the early albums suchs as 'Ana Ng', 'Cowtown' and my all time favorite 'Where Your Eyes Don't Go'
Aha! Inspiration Strikes:
While your stance on the emerging digital music market is exteremly interesting, when can we expect a traditional release of some new material designed for us adult fans? I travel a lot in the car and would prefer not to have to spend a large amount of money to upgrade the car to take digital music when I can put a CD in the changer and listen away on my 3 - 4 hours of driving.
I know what you mean by the music. There are a few points where you hear the music, and I kept wondering if I was actually hearing the music or playing in my head from the movie. Or that the music that they did play was from the Movie.
The part I found most interesting was they almost went to great lengths to avoid the narration or monologues that the Lynch version did at such great length.
My wife is not a major science fiction fan and has not paid attention when I re-watch Dune the Movie or when I offered to let her read the books. I found myself pausing (gotta love TiVo) a few times to explain the backgrounds that were set up so well in the Movie.
The first two hours did seem to drag a bit, but I kept reminding myself they were trying to be true to the story line. I was very disapointed with the lack of the two pilots and the voice being used on them, instead they wake up in the desert and just run off like everything is OK.
Also Duncan needed to set his shield-bomb traps durnig the fight, and Gurney only ran into one Saudakaur (SP?) and they didn't really play up the emporers involvement in the actuall taking of the palace. Not enough fighting, it looked like the Atredies were just a bunch of incompetant boobs instead of a 'taken by surprise' great house.
Tonight should be interesting. I am TiVoing the whole thing and running it off to tape for my Dad, but I plan on buying the DVD when it comes out.
SPIFF is an acronym for something or other, but basically it's extra $$ on top of your comission for selling certain things.
Thought I doubt they sold the machines at much of a profit, the salesperson is probably lucky to get any comission.
As one of the 500k in the US that actually got one of these things, I can say I'm not 'overwhelmed'
I mean when I got my dreamcast, it blew me away. NFL 2000 was just totally amazing graphic wise. Madden 2001 is just a better designed game (play-wise) but the graphics aren't that much spectactular.
Dead or Alive vs. Dead or Alive Hardcore - the only difference is the scantily clad clothing the girls wear. Gotta love that Tina in her catsuit!
I don't know, if it weren't for the 'platformers' like Grand Turismo, and a few others, I'd have passed on the PS2.
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...it may be safe to assume that the 'Tier 1' vendors such as IBM, Compaq, and others that are embracing the open source community won't use a Trident chipset.
Those that don't, such as Dell, can use Tridents and guarantee that folks won't purchase those laptops.
SuSe is a major player for IBM in Europe. It is one of the more popular distros there.
...the older IBM 'clacking' keyboards, pre windows key, etc. I've been shocked removing a 5.25" disk from a floppy drive when I touched the disk, and the casing on those is plastic.
(yes, I meant 5.25")
Have you shocked yourself on a speaker? A Mouse? A Keyboard? Each of those devices can roast the computer it's attached too. I don't remember seeing people run around sueing the manufacturers of those devices. The same 'ground yerself before you touch' principle holds up for any device attached to a computer.
Think about it. How many times have you seen on big newsgroups for sci-fi programs someone missing something and wanting someone to mail them a VCR tape. If you could email a copy of a show you missed, that feature alone is worth the cost for us die-hard Farscape & Trek fans.
....it would get up in the top 10 so the others could find it and read this.
Very simple solution for having students need to install their own OSes when learning about Linux or others. Rather in-elegant looking but works. Except I cringe every time I see a student think that large amounts of force are needed to insert the drive.
When I think of unions, this experience comes to mind.
We are in Chicago, some trade show, early 1990s. We need to hang up a poster on the wall of our little area. We hang it up, no problem. 15 minutes later, some big burly guy starts screaming at all of us in the booth and fines us $250 for not using the union workers of this said complex to put that picture up. We take it down, and submit a request to have the picture hung.
Now, I kid you not, two hours later, four guys show up to hang our picture. One stands back 10 feet guiding the picture, one guy stands on each end rasing it up and down, and one guy is on a ladder holding the picture.
Imagine this applied to say, GPL Programming
How many guys does it take to write a int main()? We got one guy to declare the integers, one guy to declare the floats, another guy that has to be consulted when long integers or double floats are required...heaven forbid we call another program, because then that programs steward has to be involved to make sure we don't cause a conflict between the two applications, but wait, we must engage the operating system people, and then the system people to make sure it won't cause the hardware to crash....
I'm sure that's an extreme exageration, but think about it folks. This could happen to some extent. Most of us Uber Geeks here on Slashdot have not ever had a job situation, and working 80 hour weeks happens, but it's rare and the rewards are great, at least in my experience.
I mean, how many other jobs have you pulling down $150k in a state where the median income is $32K? Gotta love the Nebraska/Kansas/Missouri/Oklahoma region. We have over 3000 open positions in the major cities alone....not to mention the boon docks. E-Commerce will get you all your toys....
...and the jury is still out. I was just getting to the point of not really being interested in it, but then the season finale came out and really kicked some butt. There is some interesting character development going on, and things are starting to come together.
I'm going to give season two a chance. But as I think back, I think that Star Trek TNG's first season: LAME, Star Trek: DS9 First Season: Oh, my god, this is LAME. Voyager: Took a few seasons and Seven of Nine (not for her boobs) to drag it out of the LAME pile to the passable pile.
It always seems that the syndicated Sci-Fi shows always suffer from budget crunches the first season or so, and then take off. Then just as they reach their break even point for syndication is when they are getting good.
Babylon 5 and Farscape are the only two I can think off that don't fit that mold.
TomI found myself almost reading his account like reading Cryptinomicon. It was very interestnig for me to read how he built bots for IRC and collected four days of data on the ^BOss^ person and all their activities. I bet they probably crapped their pants when he popped in and started talking to them and said what he'd been doing. I loved how ^Boss^ was very quick to point out that he didn't do it and wouldn't do it in the future. Ducking and covering there. All in all a great read. I highly recommend you spending the time to do so. Almost like reading a fiction novel.
Now my enemies can detetct my agile flicks of the wrist while I stomp them into the ground while playing Quake. Whatever am I to do?
Having to bring down a server because your cooling system fails is extremely annoying & time consuming.
I'm 29. And if you believe the charts I'm about 100 lbs over my 'ideal' body weight. Getting off our butt and out from front of the computer is critical. My body allowed me to do this lifestyle up until I was about 26, and then started to fall apart. Rollerblading is fun, albeit deadly if you aren't careful. I've been looking into some type of eliptical to lessen the impact of my huge gut on my knees if I start running. I've also been told (By a Doctor no less) to lower the amount of carbohydrates & increase the protein side for a while. I lost a few pounds, but then the superbowl came and I was back to my old habits again.
For those that don't know, when the name change came into affect all the AT&T Wireless & other companies that merged together phones change the logo over night. A co-worker's non-techy brother came by and told him he dropped his phone and now it's in Spanish. They spent days trying to figure out how to get it to quit saying 'Cingular' on the screen before they knew that the name had changed and this was the new one.
Keep in mind people said the same thing about DVDs when they first came out. The first decks cost $2000 and media was $30 and it *gasp* wasn't recordable. Now the media is $10 - $15 at the big e-tailers and decks start at $99. You still can't record on it (yet) but over 4 million DVD players have been sold. However I think the main reason this won't succeed as well as DVD is the Extras and quick access you get with DVD. I've not had to rewind a VHS tape in over 4 years now.
Why? Simple. Content Control & renting control. DVD does not adhere to the 'sell through' pricing such as VHS currently does. Meaning when a movie is released to Video, it usually comes out first at a price of $120 or so per video. This allows Blockbuster to purchase them, and then rent the heck out of them. Then, three or four months later the video is released at 'sell through' prices around $20. DVD however is better quality, better content, and out at $25 MSRP day and date with the rental video. Blockbuster locks at this as a threat to their business model and do whatever they can to come up with another model to Stop this. MPAA loves this, because for now, the amount of data on the tape is too big to reasonably pirate over the 'net.
I would say that the US is still the most 'open' of contries economically. The government isn't as involved in our daily lives as most news reports would lead you to think. Companies have been collecting information on you for years. If you've ever answered a Publisher's Clearing House advertisement in the last 15 years they know who you are. I have done some computing work for large colleciton companies and you'd be amazed the way they find you. Computers have made it somewhat faster, but they still use time told methods that have always been around. Publisher's Clearing House is just a clearing house for your mailing address & interests. They sell these large databases on the open market every month or so, companies buy them, data mine them, and then track you down. I've seen systems where you type in a persons name, and it comes back with every adress on file, who owned the home, if it had a mortgage who holds the mortgage, who your neighbors were, who owned those homes, and on and on. At what point do you make collection of basic information illegal?
I will post this disclaimer, I do no have kids of my own. The reason I don't have kids of my own is that my wife and I are unable to have them without involving the forefront of medical science. So it takes longer and costs $$$$$$$$$ So, that being said, I love children. I have weekly contact with kids from my youngest nephew at 2 months, to a young man I've known/played with/talked to since he was born. He's 15 now. All of the kids I talk to and play with (I have one of the largest collections of LEGO, Video Games, and Computers they've ever seen) are bright, intelligent, and overall very happy. Video games don't destroy them, Video Games entertain them. They entertain them more than the TV does. I've seen them dance in their seats while trying to do a particular nasty jump, waving the controler through the air trying to push the character to it's next height. Laughing, joking, enjoying themselves. Turn the TV on, their eyes glaze over and you never hear from them. An aquaintence of mine has a 15 year old son. He came home, found all the lights ni the house on with him glued to the TV. he turned every light in the house off while his son sat their glued to the TV, after the last light was off, he jumped up, and asked him there was a power outage.... Video Games are the easy enemy to pick on, 49 mins is nothing to the four or five hours average that is spent in front of the TV...
My first chance to talk to my all-time favorite band and I can't think for the life of me for a question.
Well here is my obligatory lame 'i can't think of nothing good' question:
Where did you get your inspiration for some of your songs off the early albums suchs as 'Ana Ng', 'Cowtown' and my all time favorite 'Where Your Eyes Don't Go'
Aha! Inspiration Strikes:
While your stance on the emerging digital music market is exteremly interesting, when can we expect a traditional release of some new material designed for us adult fans? I travel a lot in the car and would prefer not to have to spend a large amount of money to upgrade the car to take digital music when I can put a CD in the changer and listen away on my 3 - 4 hours of driving.
I know what you mean by the music. There are a few points where you hear the music, and I kept wondering if I was actually hearing the music or playing in my head from the movie. Or that the music that they did play was from the Movie.
The part I found most interesting was they almost went to great lengths to avoid the narration or monologues that the Lynch version did at such great length. My wife is not a major science fiction fan and has not paid attention when I re-watch Dune the Movie or when I offered to let her read the books. I found myself pausing (gotta love TiVo) a few times to explain the backgrounds that were set up so well in the Movie. The first two hours did seem to drag a bit, but I kept reminding myself they were trying to be true to the story line. I was very disapointed with the lack of the two pilots and the voice being used on them, instead they wake up in the desert and just run off like everything is OK. Also Duncan needed to set his shield-bomb traps durnig the fight, and Gurney only ran into one Saudakaur (SP?) and they didn't really play up the emporers involvement in the actuall taking of the palace. Not enough fighting, it looked like the Atredies were just a bunch of incompetant boobs instead of a 'taken by surprise' great house. Tonight should be interesting. I am TiVoing the whole thing and running it off to tape for my Dad, but I plan on buying the DVD when it comes out.
SPIFF is an acronym for something or other, but basically it's extra $$ on top of your comission for selling certain things. Thought I doubt they sold the machines at much of a profit, the salesperson is probably lucky to get any comission.
As one of the 500k in the US that actually got one of these things, I can say I'm not 'overwhelmed' I mean when I got my dreamcast, it blew me away. NFL 2000 was just totally amazing graphic wise. Madden 2001 is just a better designed game (play-wise) but the graphics aren't that much spectactular. Dead or Alive vs. Dead or Alive Hardcore - the only difference is the scantily clad clothing the girls wear. Gotta love that Tina in her catsuit! I don't know, if it weren't for the 'platformers' like Grand Turismo, and a few others, I'd have passed on the PS2.