It tried to but tripped on the laser on it's head...
not only that but I posted it at the same time as the first post but still got modded redundant;-( I guess the slashdot editors had a sweep on how many "fricking lasers" posts they would get in the first five minutes. We really are a sad and predictable bunch.
should have been pretty obvious from context but for the benefit of our transpondian cousins who don't speak english apparently, google is your friend. Who'd'a thunk it eh? Seriously tho, what do you call that place where you go to workout and stuff?
The old IBM raid controllers used to store the config on the disks as well. We experimented with how robust they were about 10 years ago and discovered that we could actually shuffle the array, move it to a different server, and it would still read the array no problem at all.
It's not open source development that's fuelling the copies tho; it's just development. The fact that this particular development happens to be open source is completely irrelevant.
The original Napster was closed source. Is that better or worse?
I understand that you are annoyed that the value of your virtual property has been somewhat dimished, but don't lash out at the whole open source concept in such a cackhanded manner. It just makes you look ignorant.
the clue is in the prefix: Million = (10^6)^1 (bi)llion = (10^6)^2 (bi) (tri)llion = (10^6)^3 (tri) (quad)rillion = (10^6)^4 (quad) etc etc, yada yada.
I think it's a relatively new thing but I remember moving from Dunfermline to Glasgow to go to uni (a few years ago) and noticing a difference in the adverts - there were regional variations even then. I think they are just more granular now.
actually we in scotland have somethiung called micro regions. They can target each transmitter with different ads. Funky huh? Of course you would expect the inventors of the telly to be a bit more advanced...
Speaking of cool lego sets, I almost creamed my pants (nb correct uk usage of pants.) when I saw this. You download a CAD tool which lets you design your lego thingy on your PC. Then you upload your design to the lego mothership, they count how many bricks you need and give you a price. They then ship it to you with a picture of your gizmo on the front. Fantastic!
ok it's a bit but pricey but OMG! (ok, I'm 35 and should know better but hey, it's Lego!).
it's not the landfill that's the problem tho, that's just the end of the lifecycle - its the energy and use of non-renewable resources required to turn dead dinosaurs and iron ore into landfill. It all adds up when you multiply it by the billions of items that people replace regularly because they are too lazy to reuse.
Try gbpvr - it's fully customisable (not open source, sorry - but it is free and well supported by the author). It needs a BDA compatible TV card, but there a lot of them around now. Certainly the obscure crappy DTV card I use is supported just fine. Setup is reasonably easy to get going - you setup the channels and EPG preferences (supports XMLTV, Bleb, zap2it etc) and setup the default directories, and that's it. (although you might spend a bit of time tweaking, but again, that's the beauty of these systems, you can tweak them to behave how you want them to). I use it as a DVR and to play music and (ahem) downloaded content. It also has the ability to launch external programs for different media files if you need it to. It can also launch separate exe's with parameters, so you can use it to launch emulators from a list of roms, which is very nice! WAF (wife acceptance factor) is pretty high too - it's pretty stable and easy to navigate.
The problem isn't just with girls now, it's both sexes. We've had this discussion on slashdot many times now but back when I was at school (many years ago) the only way to get the computers to do anything was to teach and learn programming. Nowadays, just learning the in and outs of an operating system is a course in itself. If you are lucky, or keen, you might learn file management. At least both sexes can see some utility to learning how to use a modern OS to get online or play games or whatever now. But learning to write programs is still as "geeky" as at always was, but with less incentive, since they can use the computer anyway.
Affirmative action may be illegal here but I work for a fairly large company (5 figure number of employees) and we are constantly being asked to fill out "diversity surveys" to determine how the company is meeting government targets. So how exactly can you set a diversity target and outlaw affirmative action at the same time?
Having said that, the impression I get is that people who "benefit" from affirmative action have to deal with so much grief about it that they end up having to be twice as good to prove to the bigotted fuckwits that they deserved the job in the first place.
It's not so much that it will generate flames, but that it will hopefully generate intelligent discussion on the topic. I'm sure he knows the article is obvious and hackneyed trash, but it's an interesting subject, and it has generated some thoughtful conversation, just not from you it seems. Maybe next time, eh?
Most companies see IT as a "cost centre" even though, as you said, they need the IT to do their jobs. So you collectively bust your arses to create a fully redundant, fault tolerant system which has near 100% uptime (ok it's hypothetical) then management look at IT and ask, why are we paying all this money for all these IT guys when the systems just work anyway? The bigest problem with our role (I count myself among the accursed sysadmins) is that if we do a good job, nobody notices, so they think we are an unnecessary expense.
ungrateful bastards.
To address your point about upgrading the systems tho, we also have to anticipate and plan for demand and make sure that the systems aren't going to fall over when they inevitably get overused. Which means we have to ask for money to buy new stuff while the old stuff is still working fine; yay, we're a cost centre again!
I used frotz then frobnitz for a while. I would say that frobnitz has more features than frotz but I would recommend clifrotz.
It is built on the ruins of frotz but has cool stuff like support for external cards (also means no need for messing about with pdb converters), quetzal file support (you can share the save files with other z-machines) and support for larger screens (used with graffiti anywhere means you can play the games in widescreen - very nice!) It also has v6 graphics support if you have any of those.
There is a useful page here which lists the different interpreters for palm.
The only real issue I have with Clifrotz, is that the up and down arrows give you a command history, which is cool and very useful, but this means that you have to drag the screen to get the game history which only gives you about 2 screen's worth of history to backtrack with. The code is being worked on tho so I'm sure we could ask the author to give it a better history viewer.
Seriously, I got one about a year ago and would never use a normal saddle again. You don't get the same "numbness" after a long journey with one of these.
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It tried to but tripped on the laser on it's head...
;-(
not only that but I posted it at the same time as the first post but still got modded redundant
I guess the slashdot editors had a sweep on how many "fricking lasers" posts they would get in the first five minutes. We really are a sad and predictable bunch.
do they have fricking lasers on their heads?
should have been pretty obvious from context but for the benefit of our transpondian cousins who don't speak english apparently, google is your friend. Who'd'a thunk it eh?
Seriously tho, what do you call that place where you go to workout and stuff?
sensible soccer! - you can even buy a standalone version these days. Get a pile of mates and beer and setup a league. awesome multiplayer game.
There is also worms or scorched earth as other people have mentioned.
Total Annihilation was always a favourite in our house, although you need multiple PC's for that one.
If you trust your mates not to peek then there is the classic Laser Squad and variants.
The old IBM raid controllers used to store the config on the disks as well.
We experimented with how robust they were about 10 years ago and discovered that we could actually shuffle the array, move it to a different server, and it would still read the array no problem at all.
It's not open source development that's fuelling the copies tho; it's just development. The fact that this particular development happens to be open source is completely irrelevant.
The original Napster was closed source. Is that better or worse?
I understand that you are annoyed that the value of your virtual property has been somewhat dimished, but don't lash out at the whole open source concept in such a cackhanded manner. It just makes you look ignorant.
the clue is in the prefix:
Million = (10^6)^1
(bi)llion = (10^6)^2 (bi)
(tri)llion = (10^6)^3 (tri)
(quad)rillion = (10^6)^4 (quad)
etc etc,
yada yada.
colonials, sheesh.
some nice ideas there ;-)
I don't think the bricks are exactly the same size as original lego bricks so that one is probably out.
There may be some milage in using previously frozen bricks as molds but you'd need to get the timing right, otherwise they will stick together.
Needs further investigatation methinks.
I think it's a relatively new thing but I remember moving from Dunfermline to Glasgow to go to uni (a few years ago) and noticing a difference in the adverts - there were regional variations even then. I think they are just more granular now.
actually we in scotland have somethiung called micro regions. They can target each transmitter with different ads. Funky huh?
Of course you would expect the inventors of the telly to be a bit more advanced...
(ducks)
I just bought some - they are great!
;-)
They'll make good stocking filler Christmas presents too.
Only thing is, I need to work out how to put bumps in the bottom so that I can build ice scupltures with them
(stacking the trays doesn't work cos the rubber is too thick on the other side).
+1 irregular webcomic reference - nice one!
Speaking of cool lego sets, I almost creamed my pants (nb correct uk usage of pants.) when I saw this.
You download a CAD tool which lets you design your lego thingy on your PC. Then you upload your design to the lego mothership, they count how many bricks you need and give you a price. They then ship it to you with a picture of your gizmo on the front. Fantastic!
ok it's a bit but pricey but OMG! (ok, I'm 35 and should know better but hey, it's Lego!).
it's not the landfill that's the problem tho, that's just the end of the lifecycle - its the energy and use of non-renewable resources required to turn dead dinosaurs and iron ore into landfill.
It all adds up when you multiply it by the billions of items that people replace regularly because they are too lazy to reuse.
now he can put it back in the sand where it belongs...
(his head, not his arse).
A scotsman, englishman and irishman walk into a bar, the barman takes one look at them and says...
"is this some sort of joke"?
Try gbpvr - it's fully customisable (not open source, sorry - but it is free and well supported by the author). It needs a BDA compatible TV card, but there a lot of them around now. Certainly the obscure crappy DTV card I use is supported just fine. Setup is reasonably easy to get going - you setup the channels and EPG preferences (supports XMLTV, Bleb, zap2it etc) and setup the default directories, and that's it. (although you might spend a bit of time tweaking, but again, that's the beauty of these systems, you can tweak them to behave how you want them to).
I use it as a DVR and to play music and (ahem) downloaded content. It also has the ability to launch external programs for different media files if you need it to. It can also launch separate exe's with parameters, so you can use it to launch emulators from a list of roms, which is very nice!
WAF (wife acceptance factor) is pretty high too - it's pretty stable and easy to navigate.
Let's not perpetuate this silly myth.
The problem isn't just with girls now, it's both sexes.
We've had this discussion on slashdot many times now but back when I was at school (many years ago) the only way to get the computers to do anything was to teach and learn programming.
Nowadays, just learning the in and outs of an operating system is a course in itself. If you are lucky, or keen, you might learn file management.
At least both sexes can see some utility to learning how to use a modern OS to get online or play games or whatever now. But learning to write programs is still as "geeky" as at always was, but with less incentive, since they can use the computer anyway.
Affirmative action may be illegal here but I work for a fairly large company (5 figure number of employees) and we are constantly being asked to fill out "diversity surveys" to determine how the company is meeting government targets.
So how exactly can you set a diversity target and outlaw affirmative action at the same time?
Having said that, the impression I get is that people who "benefit" from affirmative action have to deal with so much grief about it that they end up having to be twice as good to prove to the bigotted fuckwits that they deserved the job in the first place.
you missed out Scotland from your list.
(ok we never get past the group stage but we usually always qualify).
It's not so much that it will generate flames, but that it will hopefully generate intelligent discussion on the topic.
I'm sure he knows the article is obvious and hackneyed trash, but it's an interesting subject, and it has generated some thoughtful conversation, just not from you it seems.
Maybe next time, eh?
(ps. you don't have to read every article)
Most companies see IT as a "cost centre" even though, as you said, they need the IT to do their jobs.
So you collectively bust your arses to create a fully redundant, fault tolerant system which has near 100% uptime (ok it's hypothetical) then management look at IT and ask, why are we paying all this money for all these IT guys when the systems just work anyway?
The bigest problem with our role (I count myself among the accursed sysadmins) is that if we do a good job, nobody notices, so they think we are an unnecessary expense.
ungrateful bastards.
To address your point about upgrading the systems tho, we also have to anticipate and plan for demand and make sure that the systems aren't going to fall over when they inevitably get overused. Which means we have to ask for money to buy new stuff while the old stuff is still working fine; yay, we're a cost centre again!
From what I've seen, the game looks more like intelligent design to me..
(..ducks)
I used frotz then frobnitz for a while. I would say that frobnitz has more features than frotz but I would recommend clifrotz.
It is built on the ruins of frotz but has cool stuff like support for external cards (also means no need for messing about with pdb converters), quetzal file support (you can share the save files with other z-machines) and support for larger screens (used with graffiti anywhere means you can play the games in widescreen - very nice!) It also has v6 graphics support if you have any of those.
There is a useful page here which lists the different interpreters for palm.
The only real issue I have with Clifrotz, is that the up and down arrows give you a command history, which is cool and very useful, but this means that you have to drag the screen to get the game history which only gives you about 2 screen's worth of history to backtrack with. The code is being worked on tho so I'm sure we could ask the author to give it a better history viewer.
sounds like you need one of these.
Seriously, I got one about a year ago and would never use a normal saddle again. You don't get the same "numbness" after a long journey with one of these.