Good idea in principle, but lets not forget that the debris from the explosion will probably hang around in orbit for a long time. Think of it as a million little bullets flinging around at high speed, and then try to figure out just how we're supposed to get anything else into space without it getting obliterated. Its quite dramatic, earth having a giant cage around it
Currently the version of MacOS that ships with MP G4's is a slightly modifed version that will put the full load of different processes on each processor. Yes, this isn't nearly the best way to do things, but its better than nothing. There is also a MP SDK out on Apple's site that any software writer can snag and make their program much more MP friendly
I think you're missing something on this, the presence of speakers isnt the problem with getting TI's to play mp3s, its rather the memory. The TI 82, 83, and 85 have 30k of ram, the 86 has 60k (I think). The closest you will get is a 89 or 92, which have half a meg of ram, but earlier bugged versions of that only have half of that, as the applicaiton flash memory is considered seperate (which you really cant do anything with without buying an expensive TI SDK). But also on the side of processing power, I think that the low end TI's have 2mhz Z80 chips and the upper 89/92's have 10mhz 68k chips (which just might be able to decode mp3s if you have a good enough optimized engine). Reguardless, it would be futile. BTW: if i'm off on any of this information, post the correct stats, its been a while.
However, I would like to point out this semi revelent point here, people download MP3's they already have maybe because they can't rip them? I have several CD's that have managed to develope huge gashes across some of the tracks (specifically Moby CD's, they seem rather than durable). Also, keep in mind there are a lot of people with blazing fast network connections and not as fast computers (I may have 100mbps ethernet, but I'm sitting here on a P166 with a 4x cdrom -- it takes hours to get the end product).
Do you have any sort of clue just how much of each CD the band rakes in? 3/4ths? Keep dreaming. Half? Not even close. Fourth? Eighth? From my understandings, the artist earns maybe one dollar off of every CD sold. Where does the rest go? promotion! recording lables! riaa! I'm rather sure Chuck D is all for having people being successful, but I'm sure, he, like practically all other artists, want the record companies to go fuck themselves.
Probably because you haven't checked it out as of late, but in my experiences, you can't get a better web browser than IE5 for the mac. Blazing fast, quite stable (as far as the browser is concerned, although its wonderful while running under OSXDP3). So basically, its good everywhere except Solaris, but then again, isn't Solaris sorta lousy too? *duck*
To reinterate here, MP3's are relatively new! Although the format may have existed previously, they didn't become largely distributed until late summer of 1996 by a group called CDA (Compress'n da Audio) of which RNS and a few other groups split off of, and pretty much all of them but RNS died in 1997. But, the point is, MP3's are still young, so don't blame Napster for causing the itch, it's just starting to catch on that its important. The only thing I would blame napster for is bandwidth loss.
There are more than several issues to consider here. The primary oen being that dedicated hardware always beats out nondedicated. The computer is designed to do several things, but we exchange speed for versibility. Also, keep in mind, because it is dedicated hardware, all of the chips and layouts are usually custom. That is, don't expect to be able to run these things natively. I would belive that many of the parts of the games are hardcoded for the hardware, hardcoded links for video ram, etc, which would not fly under the system at all. The only way to accomodate this would be to emulate the entire system, which connectix has already done with VGS. But, if we are emulating, then whats the point?
I'm sure any KDE extentions to QT have not been ported to windows, and most likely the QT lib's for windows do what the KDE libs would do anyway. On a side note however, there are other widget sets out there for Linux and Windows. For instances, the GDK layer (which controls all the low level mechanisms, drawing, etc) has been ported, so you could use GTK+ and probably GTK-- as well. I myself hate writing in C++, so I would go with GTK+ at least
Well, if you are bitching about it, its nothing new at all. Search back in the archives a year or two, you'll see that they were covering South Park even way back then. And I do consider South Park a show that geeks watch, although not 'geeky' persay. Similar to how Teletubbies is watched by stoners, although not aimed towards or made about (as far as we can tell that is) stoners. Just remember, geek culture is more than just coding and hacking and such.
it depends what you mean by 'decent' and just how much you're going to be doing with it. Seeing how you only want one, I doubt you're going to be doing much DJ action on it. It also depends on whether you want belt drive or direct drive on it. Now seeing this, I don't think you need a Technic (top of the line), and could probably settle for something far far less expensive. Check out http://www.audio-depot.com, they have a decent variety.
Spend a while coding demo's (hell, its pretty much the same except for IO), and you will know how demanding programming stuff like this is. A lot of programmers don't need to spend hours going over assembly of their innerloop to squeeze a few more FPS out of it or doing complete overanalysis with thousands of little tricks to get code to run faster, and prettier. Sure a lot of other things are hard to code, but the tricks to get graphics to run real time are pretty hardcore (unless you chicken out and use a high level api, grrr:P)
If I remember correctly, windows file shares by default run over netbios, which is not routeable unless there is a master browser configured to do the deed. Shares should still be accessable if accessed in a \\ip.address.here fashion, but shares wouldn't normally get past a router.
Maybe most people dont get a kick out of it, but I personally see it as one of the better parts I've seen of AntiOnline/AntiCode.. Redhat 5.2 ftpd exploit? I could really care less, putting that up only adds to the amount of clueless kids running around there attacking anyone they can, including dialup users. However, The Virii archives seem to add a bit of history to it. I've spent hours before browsing through, looking at some of the more historical Virii that raped newspaper headlines. At work one time half the computers around had gotten a virus that the antivirus said couldn't be removed; I check the archives, analyzed it (which is VERY fun if you know assembly.. (Tutorial). I dont see many people actually going out and compiling them, so just consider them to be historical documentation like text files.
Maybe you've forgotten, but there was a time back before B&N and Amazon went wild and dominated books. Remember those little local bookstores? All of them in my area are gone. I say instead of support B&N (Which has more than its share of stupid lawsuits btw), go out and buy books from your local dealer.
Really, I don't have a huge amount of respect for Abrash or the book.. Yeah, its good he wrote it, its a decent reference, but Abrash himself isn't that much of an inspiration programmer.. Each chapter in the book starts off with a really stupid story or him saying how Carmack told him how to do this. I'm not impressed.:)
This summer I got a new laptop, which neither XFree nor AcceleratedX managed to get X working on properly (despite using the correct settings and the card was said to be supported, a Trident Cygber 9388 I belive). I mailed the AcceleratedX people about it, and they said if I would loan them my laptop for a short while (they pay shipping both ways plus you get to keep some mega protective case) that they would both write the driver and give me a free copy of AcceleratedX. Their responce time was within minutes of me mailing it and they were very kind and informative. I do agree that in most cases you're better off with XFree (especially 4.0 that will have dedicated DGA mode or something similar!) or maybe good old console, but don't give them a bad rep for their customer service. Also, I might add, AcceleratedX has a MUCH MUCH better configuration interface than XFree; I constantly fuck up xf86config and find myself having to run it maybe 4 or 5 times until I have a configuration that is mistake free. I'd also like to point out on the stability issue, XFree crashes on me maybe twice a day; usually I just get so frustrated from near every app crashing nonstop I'll just stick to being a console jockey.
Achtung Debian user! Incase you aren't aware of it, the most redeeming feature of Debian is apt! I have it crontab'd to update my entire distro every night, just edit your sources file for the unstable, and `apt-get dist-upgrade`... mmmmmm.
FYI, Opera has been in the process of porting their browser to a multitude of platforms, including BeOS, Amiga, Linux (I think they were making it compatible with other unices too, I'd at least hope their coders know how to do bare minimum porting:P), and a few other ones. I belive the Linux version comes with a text browser too, which from what I've seen, blows Lynx's text layout clear out of the water (the tables look like *real* tables, not just lists:P). It's not going to be Free/OSS/etc, and it will be using QT (doh), and don't expect it to be free (maybe it will have the same trial dealy though; besides, just bust into #0-day-linux-w3b-w4r3z-d000000dz and pirate it:P
About a year ago (I belive..) GTK+ was ported to Win32 for the purpose of being able to have a Win32 GIMP (Which works and is out there as well, minus scriptfu). With the addition of GLib, it would be pretty easy to write code to go from Unix->Win with relative ease, as long as you dont use system specific things (/dev stuff, kernel calls, you get the idea). If you look on www.gtk.org I'm more than certain you can find it. BTW, GTK+ is a _breeze_ to code for, simple and logical, and MFC coders usually dont have much of a problem stepping over..
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I'm not seeing the error here at all?
6Mbits/sec / 8 bits/byte * 60 sec/min * 60 minutes = 2700 MBytes, sounds just about even to me.
Reminder:
Mb = megabits
MB = megabytes
Good idea in principle, but lets not forget that the debris from the explosion will probably hang around in orbit for a long time. Think of it as a million little bullets flinging around at high speed, and then try to figure out just how we're supposed to get anything else into space without it getting obliterated. Its quite dramatic, earth having a giant cage around it
Currently the version of MacOS that ships with MP G4's is a slightly modifed version that will put the full load of different processes on each processor. Yes, this isn't nearly the best way to do things, but its better than nothing. There is also a MP SDK out on Apple's site that any software writer can snag and make their program much more MP friendly
I think you're missing something on this, the presence of speakers isnt the problem with getting TI's to play mp3s, its rather the memory. The TI 82, 83, and 85 have 30k of ram, the 86 has 60k (I think). The closest you will get is a 89 or 92, which have half a meg of ram, but earlier bugged versions of that only have half of that, as the applicaiton flash memory is considered seperate (which you really cant do anything with without buying an expensive TI SDK). But also on the side of processing power, I think that the low end TI's have 2mhz Z80 chips and the upper 89/92's have 10mhz 68k chips (which just might be able to decode mp3s if you have a good enough optimized engine). Reguardless, it would be futile. BTW: if i'm off on any of this information, post the correct stats, its been a while.
However, I would like to point out this semi revelent point here, people download MP3's they already have maybe because they can't rip them? I have several CD's that have managed to develope huge gashes across some of the tracks (specifically Moby CD's, they seem rather than durable). Also, keep in mind there are a lot of people with blazing fast network connections and not as fast computers (I may have 100mbps ethernet, but I'm sitting here on a P166 with a 4x cdrom -- it takes hours to get the end product).
Do you have any sort of clue just how much of each CD the band rakes in? 3/4ths? Keep dreaming. Half? Not even close. Fourth? Eighth? From my understandings, the artist earns maybe one dollar off of every CD sold. Where does the rest go? promotion! recording lables! riaa! I'm rather sure Chuck D is all for having people being successful, but I'm sure, he, like practically all other artists, want the record companies to go fuck themselves.
Probably because you haven't checked it out as of late, but in my experiences, you can't get a better web browser than IE5 for the mac. Blazing fast, quite stable (as far as the browser is concerned, although its wonderful while running under OSXDP3). So basically, its good everywhere except Solaris, but then again, isn't Solaris sorta lousy too? *duck*
To reinterate here, MP3's are relatively new! Although the format may have existed previously, they didn't become largely distributed until late summer of 1996 by a group called CDA (Compress'n da Audio) of which RNS and a few other groups split off of, and pretty much all of them but RNS died in 1997. But, the point is, MP3's are still young, so don't blame Napster for causing the itch, it's just starting to catch on that its important. The only thing I would blame napster for is bandwidth loss.
There are more than several issues to consider here. The primary oen being that dedicated hardware always beats out nondedicated. The computer is designed to do several things, but we exchange speed for versibility. Also, keep in mind, because it is dedicated hardware, all of the chips and layouts are usually custom. That is, don't expect to be able to run these things natively. I would belive that many of the parts of the games are hardcoded for the hardware, hardcoded links for video ram, etc, which would not fly under the system at all. The only way to accomodate this would be to emulate the entire system, which connectix has already done with VGS. But, if we are emulating, then whats the point?
I'm sure any KDE extentions to QT have not been ported to windows, and most likely the QT lib's for windows do what the KDE libs would do anyway. On a side note however, there are other widget sets out there for Linux and Windows. For instances, the GDK layer (which controls all the low level mechanisms, drawing, etc) has been ported, so you could use GTK+ and probably GTK-- as well. I myself hate writing in C++, so I would go with GTK+ at least
Well, if you are bitching about it, its nothing new at all. Search back in the archives a year or two, you'll see that they were covering South Park even way back then. And I do consider South Park a show that geeks watch, although not 'geeky' persay. Similar to how Teletubbies is watched by stoners, although not aimed towards or made about (as far as we can tell that is) stoners. Just remember, geek culture is more than just coding and hacking and such.
it depends what you mean by 'decent' and just how much you're going to be doing with it. Seeing how you only want one, I doubt you're going to be doing much DJ action on it. It also depends on whether you want belt drive or direct drive on it. Now seeing this, I don't think you need a Technic (top of the line), and could probably settle for something far far less expensive. Check out http://www.audio-depot.com, they have a decent variety.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft wasn't Apple's largest threat back in 1984. Try IBM.
Spend a while coding demo's (hell, its pretty much the same except for IO), and you will know how demanding programming stuff like this is. A lot of programmers don't need to spend hours going over assembly of their innerloop to squeeze a few more FPS out of it or doing complete overanalysis with thousands of little tricks to get code to run faster, and prettier. Sure a lot of other things are hard to code, but the tricks to get graphics to run real time are pretty hardcore (unless you chicken out and use a high level api, grrr :P)
If I remember correctly, windows file shares by default run over netbios, which is not routeable unless there is a master browser configured to do the deed. Shares should still be accessable if accessed in a \\ip.address.here fashion, but shares wouldn't normally get past a router.
You might want to try to use TerminatorX (check at freshmeat). Allows you to scratch mp3's with each other, and I think it's audiofile/esd compliant.
Maybe most people dont get a kick out of it, but I personally see it as one of the better parts I've seen of AntiOnline/AntiCode.. Redhat 5.2 ftpd exploit? I could really care less, putting that up only adds to the amount of clueless kids running around there attacking anyone they can, including dialup users. However, The Virii archives seem to add a bit of history to it. I've spent hours before browsing through, looking at some of the more historical Virii that raped newspaper headlines. At work one time half the computers around had gotten a virus that the antivirus said couldn't be removed; I check the archives, analyzed it (which is VERY fun if you know assembly.. (Tutorial). I dont see many people actually going out and compiling them, so just consider them to be historical documentation like text files.
Maybe you've forgotten, but there was a time back before B&N and Amazon went wild and dominated books. Remember those little local bookstores? All of them in my area are gone. I say instead of support B&N (Which has more than its share of stupid lawsuits btw), go out and buy books from your local dealer.
FYI: The ants in Pi represented chaos, ie: chaos tookover the machine :P.
Really, I don't have a huge amount of respect for Abrash or the book.. Yeah, its good he wrote it, its a decent reference, but Abrash himself isn't that much of an inspiration programmer.. Each chapter in the book starts off with a really stupid story or him saying how Carmack told him how to do this. I'm not impressed. :)
This summer I got a new laptop, which neither XFree nor AcceleratedX managed to get X working on properly (despite using the correct settings and the card was said to be supported, a Trident Cygber 9388 I belive). I mailed the AcceleratedX people about it, and they said if I would loan them my laptop for a short while (they pay shipping both ways plus you get to keep some mega protective case) that they would both write the driver and give me a free copy of AcceleratedX. Their responce time was within minutes of me mailing it and they were very kind and informative. I do agree that in most cases you're better off with XFree (especially 4.0 that will have dedicated DGA mode or something similar!) or maybe good old console, but don't give them a bad rep for their customer service. Also, I might add, AcceleratedX has a MUCH MUCH better configuration interface than XFree; I constantly fuck up xf86config and find myself having to run it maybe 4 or 5 times until I have a configuration that is mistake free. I'd also like to point out on the stability issue, XFree crashes on me maybe twice a day; usually I just get so frustrated from near every app crashing nonstop I'll just stick to being a console jockey.
Achtung Debian user!
Incase you aren't aware of it, the most redeeming feature of Debian is apt! I have it crontab'd to update my entire distro every night, just edit your sources file for the unstable, and `apt-get dist-upgrade`... mmmmmm.
FYI, Opera has been in the process of porting their browser to a multitude of platforms, including BeOS, Amiga, Linux (I think they were making it compatible with other unices too, I'd at least hope their coders know how to do bare minimum porting :P), and a few other ones. I belive the Linux version comes with a text browser too, which from what I've seen, blows Lynx's text layout clear out of the water (the tables look like *real* tables, not just lists :P). It's not going to be Free/OSS/etc, and it will be using QT (doh), and don't expect it to be free (maybe it will have the same trial dealy though; besides, just bust into #0-day-linux-w3b-w4r3z-d000000dz and pirate it :P
Hey, it sort of worked for Bewitched, but then again I never was fond of that Darren Stevens boy...
About a year ago (I belive..) GTK+ was ported to Win32 for the purpose of being able to have a Win32 GIMP (Which works and is out there as well, minus scriptfu). With the addition of GLib, it would be pretty easy to write code to go from Unix->Win with relative ease, as long as you dont use system specific things (/dev stuff, kernel calls, you get the idea). If you look on www.gtk.org I'm more than certain you can find it. BTW, GTK+ is a _breeze_ to code for, simple and logical, and MFC coders usually dont have much of a problem stepping over..