I use my PDA, along with a keyboard, to take notes during some of my heavier classes. I really don't need to carry a notebook to class anymore, excluding foreign languages. And I'm done with foreign languages after this semester.
Generally speaking, yes, I could get along without my PDA (and had to when I cracked the screen), but I'd rather not have to deal without it. I've also got a few hours (via a CF card) of music on it, which is great for keeping me awake during some of the more boring classes.
I wouldn't either. But then again, I wouldn't consider most of the public informed voters. The issue here, is that the tech community has issues that they deal with too, and would like the right people elected.
If people read/. on the day of the election, go out and vote, they will probably be helping the tech community just a little.
That doesn't even get into the issue of people who know that elections are coming up and just forgot what day it was on. I know that as a college student a reminder that today was election day might have been helpful. I glance at/. every morning before I go out to class. Now, I voted by absentee two weeks ago, so that doesn't affect me, but how many others actually would vote if they were only reminded to.
Remember, if you don't vote you don't have the right to complain about who's in office.
Right, but then, of course, who's to say what the important parts are? The company likely wants certain things hidden. They will certainly tell the lawyers what is "important" and what is "not."
I mean, the company may consider it important to let you know that you're forbidden to sell their content. However, they may consider it an unimportant footnote that by entering you grant them power of attorney.
if the "big crunch" theory is correct, it will probably be a singularity that the universe ends as.
I think you mean the "gnab gib." You, know, a Big Bang backwards? I've seen it before, and it's quite a sight. It plays every night at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
I, personally, haven't paid attention to FFXI's (proposed) release date. Whatever is announced is probably BS anyway.
My point is that by the time it's out, the GF5 could well be out. The card will, doubtless, tear up the Radeon 9700. Now, I've seen the Radeon in action, and it really can tear up any other card. The GF4 can't hold a candle to it.
My point is that now that ATI looks to be serious about graphics again, we're going to see quite the fight between them and nVidia. The cards are going to keep going back an forth. One company will gain an edge, retain it for awhile, and then the other will make a come-back.
It's not a huge stretch to figure this out.
It honestly doesn't make sense to optimize for any one platform / card. It makes sense to optimize the hell out the entire game. Sweet merciful crap, look at UT2003. That game/engine is optimized.
The cards don't make a lick of differnce. The newest will usually beat the latest from the other guy, especially now that ATI is being a more serious threat. DX9 doesn't matter that much. NV30 (the GF5) will have that too.
For the personal user, even the "6 hours" some say is required to install 2K is very little. For the corporation, they Ghost. It's a 5 minute install.
BTW, one of the above comments mentioned a 6 hour install of 2K? Well, sir, I will say that it did recently take me all of 6 hours to install all my drivers, updates, Office, etc. Of course, why would I ever mention that this was on a PII 266 w/ 256MB of RAM? Oh, and that the install was Advanced Server, not Pro?
It took, oh, maybe 2.5 hours, tops, to install (Pro) on my primary system.
Sigh. I digress. The issue is not about install time. As I said, corporations can do all their installs much more quickly. Ghost it, or use another system imaging tool. Home users might get screwed occasionally by a really long load time.
The real issue is stability and functionality. Who cares how long it takes to install if you don't have to do it again? I have had to blow away my copy of 2K twice since I've started using it. The cause BOTH times were for upgrades. Motherboard upgrades. I had a Mobo blow out on me, and the replacement had a bad memory controller from the get-go. Now, I've been running fine for over 6 months, and am well on my way to 5, if not 6, nines of uptime.
That is with the box being made to do gaming. I rarely need reboots, and haven't needed to reinstall. As much as I've played with Linux, on box #2, I've also never needed to screw with reinstalling it. It also doesn't get as many hardware upgrades. I don't use it for the same features, but you know what? I'm happy with both of them. I couldn't care less which one took longer to install. (BTW, Linux took longer but it was a clean Gentoo install so point == moot)
Step 1: CGI gets cheap Step 2: Popular sitcoms start using more CGI Step 3: someone figures out how to do the actors in CGI Step 4: Actors get fired Step 5: All the jobs move off to Delhi
At my home on campus, they are installing new showers. To do this, they needed to turn off the water. It's been off since Wednesday, and will likely be off until Monday or Tuesday. Talk about disgusting. We've been running out to Wal-Mart and buying gallons of water so we can flush the toilets. It wouldn't be that bad, but one of the guys in the house must have some major problems, because he has to go #2 a lot. And they smell real, real bad.
Where I'm interning right now we can purchase one copy of all MS software for use on all our Desktops too. Of course, that doesn't cover the servers. And the cost is about $300000/yr, which includes support and updates to all software.
The main reason is because the user want Windows. The team here would very much like to go Linux, but the users are the real hold-up. Honestly, $300000 / year could do a lot here.
That was poorly worded on my part, and I apologize. Maybe Nepotism would have been a better word.
My point was that it strikes me that, as was brought up my others, many web comics that deal with "News for nerds, stuff that matters" like PA and PVP (gaming) have had books published, and no story on/.. Why does MT get special treatment? Because their banner occasionally runs uptop? Is it because MT is done in a more Anime style? Maybe I'll submit a story about Exploitation Now being about to end. Or when Poe announces that he's putting EN into a book. Odds it get's posted, though EN is an anime-style comic? Probably not great.
I don't mind getting the announcement here, in fact it's nice to have it on my home page, but I just don't see why MT get's this kind of special treatment. That's all.
For the record, the subject does personally interst me, and I am the center of the universe.
Affirmative. I enjoy all three, as a matter of fact (and read too damn many others:). Real Life is very solid, the humor is wonderful. Greg's art style is Adobe Illustrator, and it's not amazing, but it get's the job done and is enjoyable. I'd like to see the occasional hand though.:) I think it's right up there with PA, and would love a RL book. It's Walky is great, but I don't care as much for Willis' art style as I do Gabe's. *shrugs*
Mac Hall, OTOH, I agree, is better in both art and humor, but I was put off on it for a long time this year when it was updated once a week at best. I think it's great and all, and I appreciate all Ian does for it, but part of what I appreciate about PA is that without fail on MWF I get a new PA. I know Ian has the same problems that the rest of us do (like work and classes getting in the way), and I respect that, and I hope he can keep his new schedule into the next school year.
And who said we don't count rants for humor?:-)
I almost always save PA for last when I read comics (and follow the link off RL), because they both almost always brighten my day. Lately, I'm saving Exploitation Now for last, since it is wraping up and, as I said before, Poe is doing a spectacular job.
Anyway, that's just my opinion(TM). You're entitled to your own, unless you live in China. Then you're part of the hive-mind.:)
You mean you'll be reading Exploitation Now for a few more weeks or months, right? I mean, you can't be reading it for much longer. It's dying. Not in a bad way, but the fact is that as we're Dreaming Away in Act 4, Poe is Ending It All.
I, personally, have been reading EN since practically the beginning. It's been impressive to see Poe's style evolve, along with the EN characters and storyline. I was actually saddened by ****'s (in case anyone decides to start reading, I won't spoil it for ya) murder last week. I know that I'll be sad to see EN go, but Poe is, so far, doing an excellent job at bringing about the end.
I'll be one of the first to visit his new comic, Errant Story (domain already registered), when EN ends. I really hope that Poe puts all of EN into a book when the series ends. I'd be more than willing to lay down $20-$25 for a hardbacked EN collection.
More OnTopic, Congrats to Piro. I'll be buying a MT book when it's released. I certainly can't complain about the $8.95 price. I still want Gabe and Tycho to make a PA Year Two book. While MT is decidedly excellent PA is, IMHO, the best web comic out there.
Tell me that you realize how absolutely that contradicts what we've been taught about economics?
If Lucas released, say, a Collectors Edition on DVD it would sell many, many copies.
If he then proceeded to release the Definitive Collectors Edition, some people would buy it even if they owned the CE. More money.
If he then released the Platinum Edition, some of the fans who bought the other versions would go, and like good little sheep, buy the new edition as well. More money.
Just ponder to yourself, how many fans own the original trilogy on VHS, the THX enhanced version, and the Special Edition? Or how about any of the above two? I would not doubt that there's quite a few people. Lucas woud be a fool to throw extra money away. He may not know how to make a good movie anymore, but he certainly knows how to make a buck.
I'm not buying it twice and I want the extra scenes, which means I'm waiting until November. Hmmmm.... maybe I'll make subtle hints at it for my birthday present.
Came to me on my birthday it did! Yes! Precious! My Precious!
The only reason to really have a floppy drive anymore, for me, is when I want to play around with the Menuet OS, which is designed to fit onto a floppy.
Sayeth the website: "Menuet is a fully 32 bit assembly written, graphical OS for asm
programming, distributed under General Public License.
- Graphical UI with 16 M colours up to 1280x1024
- Pre-emptive multitasking, multithreading
- Ide: editor/compiler for applications and _kernel_
- application and kernel sources included (GPL)
- Ethernet; tftp (& music stream)
- Free-form application windows
- Hard real-time data fetch
- All this in a single floppy !
Since Menuet fits to a single floppy, you only need one blank 1.44 M diskette.
Your hard disks are not affected in any way. Assembly programmers unite!
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I use my PDA, along with a keyboard, to take notes during some of my heavier classes. I really don't need to carry a notebook to class anymore, excluding foreign languages. And I'm done with foreign languages after this semester.
Generally speaking, yes, I could get along without my PDA (and had to when I cracked the screen), but I'd rather not have to deal without it. I've also got a few hours (via a CF card) of music on it, which is great for keeping me awake during some of the more boring classes.
I wouldn't either. But then again, I wouldn't consider most of the public informed voters. The issue here, is that the tech community has issues that they deal with too, and would like the right people elected.
/. on the day of the election, go out and vote, they will probably be helping the tech community just a little.
/. every morning before I go out to class. Now, I voted by absentee two weeks ago, so that doesn't affect me, but how many others actually would vote if they were only reminded to.
If people read
That doesn't even get into the issue of people who know that elections are coming up and just forgot what day it was on. I know that as a college student a reminder that today was election day might have been helpful. I glance at
Remember, if you don't vote you don't have the right to complain about who's in office.
Right, but then, of course, who's to say what the important parts are? The company likely wants certain things hidden. They will certainly tell the lawyers what is "important" and what is "not."
I mean, the company may consider it important to let you know that you're forbidden to sell their content. However, they may consider it an unimportant footnote that by entering you grant them power of attorney.
Kudos to everyone on /.! We've successfully eliminated them! I can't even get to their website anymore! BWAHAHAHA! First Panip, tomorrow someone else!
/..
Never underestimate the power of
200 miles is considered a fair distance here.
My guess is that most of the readers here
would willingly walk that distance if it
meant getting laid.
Well, I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more just to be the man who walked a thousand miles to fall down at her door.
if the "big crunch" theory is correct, it will probably be a singularity that the universe ends as.
I think you mean the "gnab gib." You, know, a Big Bang backwards? I've seen it before, and it's quite a sight. It plays every night at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
"My monitor died!"
I, personally, haven't paid attention to FFXI's (proposed) release date. Whatever is announced is probably BS anyway.
My point is that by the time it's out, the GF5 could well be out. The card will, doubtless, tear up the Radeon 9700. Now, I've seen the Radeon in action, and it really can tear up any other card. The GF4 can't hold a candle to it.
My point is that now that ATI looks to be serious about graphics again, we're going to see quite the fight between them and nVidia. The cards are going to keep going back an forth. One company will gain an edge, retain it for awhile, and then the other will make a come-back.
It's not a huge stretch to figure this out.
It honestly doesn't make sense to optimize for any one platform / card. It makes sense to optimize the hell out the entire game. Sweet merciful crap, look at UT2003. That game/engine is optimized.
The cards don't make a lick of differnce. The newest will usually beat the latest from the other guy, especially now that ATI is being a more serious threat. DX9 doesn't matter that much. NV30 (the GF5) will have that too.
Don't you mean, where is vi?
Why even bother comparing load times?
For the personal user, even the "6 hours" some say is required to install 2K is very little. For the corporation, they Ghost. It's a 5 minute install.
BTW, one of the above comments mentioned a 6 hour install of 2K? Well, sir, I will say that it did recently take me all of 6 hours to install all my drivers, updates, Office, etc. Of course, why would I ever mention that this was on a PII 266 w/ 256MB of RAM? Oh, and that the install was Advanced Server, not Pro?
It took, oh, maybe 2.5 hours, tops, to install (Pro) on my primary system.
Sigh. I digress. The issue is not about install time. As I said, corporations can do all their installs much more quickly. Ghost it, or use another system imaging tool. Home users might get screwed occasionally by a really long load time.
The real issue is stability and functionality. Who cares how long it takes to install if you don't have to do it again? I have had to blow away my copy of 2K twice since I've started using it. The cause BOTH times were for upgrades. Motherboard upgrades. I had a Mobo blow out on me, and the replacement had a bad memory controller from the get-go. Now, I've been running fine for over 6 months, and am well on my way to 5, if not 6, nines of uptime.
That is with the box being made to do gaming. I rarely need reboots, and haven't needed to reinstall. As much as I've played with Linux, on box #2, I've also never needed to screw with reinstalling it. It also doesn't get as many hardware upgrades. I don't use it for the same features, but you know what? I'm happy with both of them. I couldn't care less which one took longer to install. (BTW, Linux took longer but it was a clean Gentoo install so point == moot)
Later.
No, it's actually
Step 1: Get CGI
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
Didn't you mean Akinude?
At my home on campus, they are installing new showers. To do this, they needed to turn off the water. It's been off since Wednesday, and will likely be off until Monday or Tuesday. Talk about disgusting. We've been running out to Wal-Mart and buying gallons of water so we can flush the toilets. It wouldn't be that bad, but one of the guys in the house must have some major problems, because he has to go #2 a lot. And they smell real, real bad.
Toilet paper is the least of concerns.
Oohhh....
:)
Playing to what I always read the name as:
OS/2 never got half a chance.
"Linux waddles from obscurity"
In other news, BeOS left a sharp stinging pain.
FreeBSD claimed the souls of the damned. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Sun shined brightly. Mario was unsurprised.
Windows has been shattered.
Unix has been castrated.
Where I'm interning right now we can purchase one copy of all MS software for use on all our Desktops too. Of course, that doesn't cover the servers. And the cost is about $300000/yr, which includes support and updates to all software.
The main reason is because the user want Windows. The team here would very much like to go Linux, but the users are the real hold-up. Honestly, $300000 / year could do a lot here.
Of course the tech will only be available to the ultra-rich at first.
Suddenly the Borg Gates pictues makes all the more sense.
That was poorly worded on my part, and I apologize. Maybe Nepotism would have been a better word.
/.. Why does MT get special treatment? Because their banner occasionally runs uptop? Is it because MT is done in a more Anime style? Maybe I'll submit a story about Exploitation Now being about to end. Or when Poe announces that he's putting EN into a book. Odds it get's posted, though EN is an anime-style comic? Probably not great.
My point was that it strikes me that, as was brought up my others, many web comics that deal with "News for nerds, stuff that matters" like PA and PVP (gaming) have had books published, and no story on
I don't mind getting the announcement here, in fact it's nice to have it on my home page, but I just don't see why MT get's this kind of special treatment. That's all.
For the record, the subject does personally interst me, and I am the center of the universe.
Affirmative. I enjoy all three, as a matter of fact (and read too damn many others:). Real Life is very solid, the humor is wonderful. Greg's art style is Adobe Illustrator, and it's not amazing, but it get's the job done and is enjoyable. I'd like to see the occasional hand though.:) I think it's right up there with PA, and would love a RL book. It's Walky is great, but I don't care as much for Willis' art style as I do Gabe's. *shrugs*
:-)
:)
Mac Hall, OTOH, I agree, is better in both art and humor, but I was put off on it for a long time this year when it was updated once a week at best. I think it's great and all, and I appreciate all Ian does for it, but part of what I appreciate about PA is that without fail on MWF I get a new PA. I know Ian has the same problems that the rest of us do (like work and classes getting in the way), and I respect that, and I hope he can keep his new schedule into the next school year.
And who said we don't count rants for humor?
I almost always save PA for last when I read comics (and follow the link off RL), because they both almost always brighten my day. Lately, I'm saving Exploitation Now for last, since it is wraping up and, as I said before, Poe is doing a spectacular job.
Anyway, that's just my opinion(TM). You're entitled to your own, unless you live in China. Then you're part of the hive-mind.
Later.
I'm a big fan of MT, and congrats to Piro on the book.
But seriously, can we mod this story down as Offtopic?
You mean you'll be reading Exploitation Now for a few more weeks or months, right? I mean, you can't be reading it for much longer. It's dying. Not in a bad way, but the fact is that as we're Dreaming Away in Act 4, Poe is Ending It All.
I, personally, have been reading EN since practically the beginning. It's been impressive to see Poe's style evolve, along with the EN characters and storyline. I was actually saddened by ****'s (in case anyone decides to start reading, I won't spoil it for ya) murder last week. I know that I'll be sad to see EN go, but Poe is, so far, doing an excellent job at bringing about the end.
I'll be one of the first to visit his new comic, Errant Story (domain already registered), when EN ends. I really hope that Poe puts all of EN into a book when the series ends. I'd be more than willing to lay down $20-$25 for a hardbacked EN collection.
More OnTopic, Congrats to Piro. I'll be buying a MT book when it's released. I certainly can't complain about the $8.95 price. I still want Gabe and Tycho to make a PA Year Two book. While MT is decidedly excellent PA is, IMHO, the best web comic out there.
Tell me that you realize how absolutely that contradicts what we've been taught about economics?
If Lucas released, say, a Collectors Edition on DVD it would sell many, many copies.
If he then proceeded to release the Definitive Collectors Edition, some people would buy it even if they owned the CE. More money.
If he then released the Platinum Edition, some of the fans who bought the other versions would go, and like good little sheep, buy the new edition as well. More money.
Just ponder to yourself, how many fans own the original trilogy on VHS, the THX enhanced version, and the Special Edition? Or how about any of the above two? I would not doubt that there's quite a few people. Lucas woud be a fool to throw extra money away. He may not know how to make a good movie anymore, but he certainly knows how to make a buck.
Well screw you. :)
I'm not buying it twice and I want the extra scenes, which means I'm waiting until November. Hmmmm.... maybe I'll make subtle hints at it for my birthday present.
Came to me on my birthday it did! Yes! Precious! My Precious!
The only reason to really have a floppy drive anymore, for me, is when I want to play around with the Menuet OS, which is designed to fit onto a floppy.
Sayeth the website:
"Menuet is a fully 32 bit assembly written, graphical OS for asm
programming, distributed under General Public License.
- Graphical UI with 16 M colours up to 1280x1024
- Pre-emptive multitasking, multithreading
- Ide: editor/compiler for applications and _kernel_
- application and kernel sources included (GPL)
- Ethernet; tftp (& music stream)
- Free-form application windows
- Hard real-time data fetch
- All this in a single floppy !
Since Menuet fits to a single floppy, you only need one blank 1.44 M diskette.
Your hard disks are not affected in any way. Assembly programmers unite!
is normally considered the first book in the series even though it was the last to be published.
It was the sixth. The Last Battle was the seventh and last. Just splitting hairs. But NOT hares.