Honestly, I would give anything to get away from the Internet for two weeks. A disconnection, though probably disorienting for a couple days, would be so pleasant.
Unfortunately, since all my work (read: paychecks) come from the computer, I can't do that.
Thankfully, they will continue to implement their rip-offs in such a fashion that the service will be too difficult for Average Joe, sub-mediocre, and still not satisfy anybody's needs.
My name is Ryan, and I'm a Netflix fan. Still need to get on the Tivo bandwagon, though.:)
Of course this is how Sun and Microsoft perceive the future. Sun and Microsoft, for all intents and purposes, are not banking on their hardware. Their focus is primarily on making their software really, really good (and marketable).
Companies like Apple, however, would probably see this differently. Apple views the combination of their hardware and software as the ultimate synergy -- they sell the revolutionary, marketable software (the iApps for example) and the hardware to run it on; but also offer just the hardware for the 200,000 other uses that don't involve the iApps.
As for the operating systems: of course, the OS is bundled free with Apple's hardware, not hardware bundled free with software. Something Microsoft can't do since it doesn't make computers.
If NEOGEOman had bothered with a freshman-level physics or astronomy course, the conclusion that "your eyes suck at blue" would have been obvious some time ago.
It's well known; as our eyes drift to the blue and red end of the spectrum, we lose our sensitivity, off by many orders of magnitude from say, yellow. This is why you see blue, and more commonly, red, lights as "night" light sources.
The general reasoning: our eyes evolved with a single primary light source: the Sun. Which has quite the yellow tinge to it. Our eyes adapted to this, and as such, gave yellow the highest sensitivity and drifted off in a rough bell curve from there.
It was an interesting article, and certainly put the RGB sensitivity into perspective, but... it's not entirely new or surprising, either. Nor does the human eye really respond at RGB -- its response curves (beta, gamma, and rho) more closely correspond to blue, green/yellow, and yellow/orange.
That all being said, thanks for letting us meet Traci.;)
The fundamental problem with Linux gaining a bigger market share is that people think once it does gain a significant share on the desktop -- say even 25% -- you're going to lose this whole free-software-free-choice spirit. You're just going to turn into another commercial OS, even if it is free.
It means you're going to have a lot of applications in use by a lot of different types of users (now primarily at least somewhat computer-savvy folks, by necessity), and you're going to have to provide them not only more solid applications (a small subset of the available apps that actually work, as he mentions), but also good support, guaranteed bug fixes, dumber user documentation, a central hub for users to turn to when they need help and information, (there's a lot of those now, too) all these types of things that are core to Windows, Mac OS, and even Solaris users.
Also by necessity you'll have to stifle the "other apps", the alternatives to the big heavily-used ones. You might say, this is exactly the point of the article, but think about it -- Linux is about choice, about letting you do what you want to. However, you don't want your new 25% market share going and installing say, a crappy window manager... it will make their Linux experience terrible and move them away from it again. So, you must stifle the promotion (and eventually, the innovation) of these smaller packages. And like it or not, it's some of these smaller packages that have innovated, even in the form of inspiring the bigger players to borrow some features from them.
The growth of Linux's market share will also be its death, at least in the form that we know it now. It will become another commercial OS, and not what Linux has come to be these days. Such is the conundrum of such an open and varied software community.
Ryan
One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is that the prohibitive cost of running a radio station is music licensing. If you were to just turn on your Mandrake box, run the playlist, and then broadcast it over the airwaves, you'd have suit-clad lawyers all over you in minutes.
I don't know the costs of doing this for commercial radio stations, but we know how loving and understanding the Recording Industry of America is when it comes to helping out the little guys...
Make sure you research that before digging too far! Good luck!
I like how his userID is "Say no to Apple" when Apple will be one of the first companies to integrate Bluetooth with all their units... and was the first to offer integrated OS-level support for the technology.
You can have been able to buy a Belkin USB Bluetooth adapter and use it out the box with OS X for months now.
I can't believe you guys gave this rambling asshole +4. This is why Slashdot is no longer my mainstay for the day's tech news and community. You take this fool, who seems like something of an insecure asshole himself, and herald him with karma?
I mean, what kind of intelligent input is:
You're about as impressive as those guys who run around spouting about the advantages of the v-tec system in their 10 year old 4 cyl stock Honda (which they senselessly red-line daily).
The intelligent masses left Slashdot a long time ago for places like MeFi and K5. I should really just stop visiting.
Now you know somebody is going to go register heathercochran.com now, just because she mentions it at the bottom of the story. And it's probably going to be one of you. You fucking geeks.:)
Our team designed a microprocessor on an FPGA for our final project in our digital logic design class.
It was a nightmare, to be honest, but ended up a sweet project. It had its own RAM, its own machine code, and a number of IO channels. The instruction set included arithmetic functions and branching instructions (compares, jumps, addresses)...
In any case, it was freakin' sweet.;) And hell, I'm even a CS major... I actually found that yummy hardware goodness pretty fun.
Also, you state: "The $400 high end video cards made by the likes of nvidia outperform most of the 'high end' graphics workstations."
I don't know where you work, but high-end graphics workstations (say, from SGI) far outperform the latest consumer hardware. And don't tell me you said "most" -- you also said "high-end" graphics workstations, so even your little $20k defense counts.
You're right in saying gaming drives the 3D card industry, but it does not LEAD the 3D card industry.
Also, NVidia doesn't make consumer graphics cards.
I think what he was getting at was that the sentence started with "and"... unfortunately, contrary to years of grammar school teaching, it is actually legal to start sentences with "and" or "but."
I know, I was shocked when I learned that, too. Damned middle school fascists!
Most public universities have immense legal departments to deal with situations like this. My home, the University of Colorado, certainly does. Contact your legal department before going any further, they will be able to better serve your needs.
The QX3 is supported in the latest versions of Macam for OS X. I have not yet experimented with the software, but have heard okay-to-good things about it.
His CVS repository is a little outdated, so download the drivers from the web site.:)
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Because the two big-ass engines on the Google 767 scream "clean air."
Honestly, I would give anything to get away from the Internet for two weeks. A disconnection, though probably disorienting for a couple days, would be so pleasant.
Unfortunately, since all my work (read: paychecks) come from the computer, I can't do that.
That sucks.
Thankfully, they will continue to implement their rip-offs in such a fashion that the service will be too difficult for Average Joe, sub-mediocre, and still not satisfy anybody's needs.
:)
My name is Ryan, and I'm a Netflix fan. Still need to get on the Tivo bandwagon, though.
Before you non-astrophysics types start trying to be clever, it's "cosmology" not "cosmetology." Stars, not pop stars.
:P
You can tell, I get this one a lot.
Companies like Apple, however, would probably see this differently. Apple views the combination of their hardware and software as the ultimate synergy -- they sell the revolutionary, marketable software (the iApps for example) and the hardware to run it on; but also offer just the hardware for the 200,000 other uses that don't involve the iApps.
As for the operating systems: of course, the OS is bundled free with Apple's hardware, not hardware bundled free with software. Something Microsoft can't do since it doesn't make computers.
It's well known; as our eyes drift to the blue and red end of the spectrum, we lose our sensitivity, off by many orders of magnitude from say, yellow. This is why you see blue, and more commonly, red, lights as "night" light sources.
The general reasoning: our eyes evolved with a single primary light source: the Sun. Which has quite the yellow tinge to it. Our eyes adapted to this, and as such, gave yellow the highest sensitivity and drifted off in a rough bell curve from there.
It was an interesting article, and certainly put the RGB sensitivity into perspective, but ... it's not entirely new or surprising, either. Nor does the human eye really respond at RGB -- its response curves (beta, gamma, and rho) more closely correspond to blue, green/yellow, and yellow/orange.
That all being said, thanks for letting us meet Traci. ;)
. Is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?"
No. Stop generating FUD. Sheesh.
Never underestimate the creative powers of high-tech virgins!
The fundamental problem with Linux gaining a bigger market share is that people think once it does gain a significant share on the desktop -- say even 25% -- you're going to lose this whole free-software-free-choice spirit. You're just going to turn into another commercial OS, even if it is free. It means you're going to have a lot of applications in use by a lot of different types of users (now primarily at least somewhat computer-savvy folks, by necessity), and you're going to have to provide them not only more solid applications (a small subset of the available apps that actually work, as he mentions), but also good support, guaranteed bug fixes, dumber user documentation, a central hub for users to turn to when they need help and information, (there's a lot of those now, too) all these types of things that are core to Windows, Mac OS, and even Solaris users. Also by necessity you'll have to stifle the "other apps", the alternatives to the big heavily-used ones. You might say, this is exactly the point of the article, but think about it -- Linux is about choice, about letting you do what you want to. However, you don't want your new 25% market share going and installing say, a crappy window manager... it will make their Linux experience terrible and move them away from it again. So, you must stifle the promotion (and eventually, the innovation) of these smaller packages. And like it or not, it's some of these smaller packages that have innovated, even in the form of inspiring the bigger players to borrow some features from them. The growth of Linux's market share will also be its death, at least in the form that we know it now. It will become another commercial OS, and not what Linux has come to be these days. Such is the conundrum of such an open and varied software community. Ryan
...it was a Saturday night! 100,000 geeks without social lives, tonight on EFnet! :P
I don't know the costs of doing this for commercial radio stations, but we know how loving and understanding the Recording Industry of America is when it comes to helping out the little guys...
Make sure you research that before digging too far! Good luck!
I like how his userID is "Say no to Apple" when Apple will be one of the first companies to integrate Bluetooth with all their units... and was the first to offer integrated OS-level support for the technology.
You can have been able to buy a Belkin USB Bluetooth adapter and use it out the box with OS X for months now.
Asshat.
doesn't stand for anything! It's called Linux. Thank you.
No shit?
Now you know somebody is going to go register heathercochran.com now, just because she mentions it at the bottom of the story. And it's probably going to be one of you. You fucking geeks. :)
Our team designed a microprocessor on an FPGA for our final project in our digital logic design class.
It was a nightmare, to be honest, but ended up a sweet project. It had its own RAM, its own machine code, and a number of IO channels. The instruction set included arithmetic functions and branching instructions (compares, jumps, addresses)...
In any case, it was freakin' sweet. ;) And hell, I'm even a CS major... I actually found that yummy hardware goodness pretty fun.
Nothing like another Slashdot story peeled from the folds of fark.com
hhahahahaha
Also, you state: "The $400 high end video cards made by the likes of nvidia outperform most of the 'high end' graphics workstations."
I don't know where you work, but high-end graphics workstations (say, from SGI) far outperform the latest consumer hardware. And don't tell me you said "most" -- you also said "high-end" graphics workstations, so even your little $20k defense counts.
You're right in saying gaming drives the 3D card industry, but it does not LEAD the 3D card industry.
Also, NVidia doesn't make consumer graphics cards.
Troll.
I think what he was getting at was that the sentence started with "and"... unfortunately, contrary to years of grammar school teaching, it is actually legal to start sentences with "and" or "but."
I know, I was shocked when I learned that, too. Damned middle school fascists!
Heh. Well, if you don't look at resale value of a car, you're a pretty moronic fuck.
;)
That, or just an annoying rich fuck, and so we still don't like you anyway.
"I just bought a car for $19,000 that will depreciate to $2000 in five months, and I don't care."
Good man!
You have your own demilitarized zone? That's sweet.
Most public universities have immense legal departments to deal with situations like this. My home, the University of Colorado, certainly does. Contact your legal department before going any further, they will be able to better serve your needs.
The QX3 is supported in the latest versions of Macam for OS X. I have not yet experimented with the software, but have heard okay-to-good things about it.
:)
His CVS repository is a little outdated, so download the drivers from the web site.
http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/