Not to belittle this project in any way, but didn't I see an article about a boombox Linux PC in Linux Journal about a year (or so) ago? Maybe someone on slashdot with more backissues can find it.
I seem to remember it making an appearance in one of the Hitman games for PC.
I don't play 'Hitman' but I saw the ad on TV... I thought I saw the guy carrying a cardboard tube, but my wife said I was just seeing things.
It pre-dates it, but the stick that Ico carries through much of the came looks a bit like a cardboard tube. Last time I played 'Ico' I imagined it was just a cardboard tube.:-)
I am not trying to undermine Gartner, but this poll seems to be inconsistant with the recent netDeck poll which stated linux hardware rose 31% as opposed to the stated 57% here.
Keep in mind that Gartner tends to survey a different set of customers/companies than netDeck does. So it's probably fair to say that among the largest companies (the Gartner survey) Linux hardware rose 57%, but more industry-wide (the netDeck survey) it only rose 31%.
As well as silencing your computer fans, you can also silence your hard drive. Guaranteed you won't hear the sound of a whining hard drive ever again, or in fact any noise from your hard drive at all.
One step closer to an all-silent computer system.
Lob all you want, but dont forget that that same inept government developed the internet or at least what became the internet, and without it, you would still be posting comments like yours on dial up BBS's...
Wait, this is the same U.S. government that gave us Amtrak and the USPS?
That said, my personal theory is the same as mentioned in the article (yes, I RTFA) - that Area 51 is a testing ground for new, experimental aircraft. As a result, they don't like visitors.
If anything, he should play Kirk's great (great?) grandfather or however it works out...
Maybe an Admiral Tiberius James "TJ" Kirk...?
This would only work if you could get Heather Locklear to also come on the show as a Capt Stacy Sheridan.:-)
No not on the death star. Thats when an officer says "T8247 what is your position" during the scene when the Millenium Falcon is captured and the gang sneak off to find a way to disable the tractor beam.
I think you're referring to the scene when the deck officer in the hangar calls on the comlink to Luke (dressed as stormtrooper) "Tk-421, why aren't you at your post? Tk-421, do you copy?"
And how sad is it that I can repeat that quote verbatim after how-many years? I think I'll go outside now.
What lawyer is worth even $200/hr (more on par on normal) much less several thousand dollars per hour.
I am not a lawyer, but I used to work for a company owned by a bunch of lawyers, and all our clients were lawyers. You aren't just paying for the lawyer's time. That $2000/hr or $3000/hr also pays for the computer investment that legal firms must use today. For example, the company I worked for did legal document production/discovery using a digital document management system.
Most firms buy into a "time share" system, because usage is billed to the firm on a per-time basis, and that makes it easier for the firms to bill back to their customers.
What's behind a digital document management system? Well, at the company I worked for, you have documents come in, you have temp staff who do data-entry on key fields for those documents (they'll type in the "To" and "From" and "Subject" lines if it's an email for example), someone else will scan those documents, someone else may run OCR if that's requested, and then the scanned docs are batched together with the data-entry and OCR into the document management system. Someone else (usually a clerk for the law firm) may do queries on the documents to divide up the docs between different lawyers (certain types of docs might go to your "expert lawyer" where the rest would be distributed to the rest of the team.)
That's a lot of money, but it's only used when the stakes are high and/or when there is a lot of paper being pushed around during production/discovery. And that's just the document management. As someone else in this thread has pointed out, the hourly fee for just the lawyer starts at $200 or $350, depending on the lawyer. Factor in a portion of their "time share" fees to the legal fees, add other costs not associated with document management, I can easily imagine how in case like Microsoft's a single lawyer's fees might be $2000/hr or $3000/hr.
Good enuf if you're a criminal and need to get access to someone's passphrase... so you can access bank records, etc. 80% might make the crime worth trying.
To me, the joy of playing Hard Drivin' wasn't the game per se (there were other racing/driving games that were better, if not totally 3D like this one), it was the force-feedback in the steering wheel. Every time I saw a cabinet (preferable a sit-down one) I'd put in my 50c and play the thing. I was 15, a year before I could drive in real life. It was great!
Sorry guys... playfair-0.3 was the most recent (AFAIK) before the site was taken down. Perhaps I have a copy to email to someone willing to mirror it... (and to Apple's lawyers: _perhaps_ I don't.)
You're forgetting one important thing M$ would lose on: revenue from games because they can now be pirated and played... without a modchipped console. People can just copy them from a friend and play them on a computer that contains no piracy check.
There's another thing, too. Microsoft depends on the XBox sales numbers to be somewhat reliable, so they can use those numbers to convince software developers to commit to creating new games for the XBox. It's a tricky thing. If you have people who aren't buying XBoxes, Microsoft's sales numbers are off.
This came out fairly early on when it was found that Microsoft was double-counting sales of XBoxes if you had to return your (then, overheated) XBox for a new one. Instead of counting one sale, they'd count two (one purchased, plus one given to you in exchange.)
From the review:
Much like the N64 release Paper Mario, Superstar Saga is an RPG with Mario characters. In this adventure, Mario and Luigi head into the unfamiliar world of the Beanbean kingdom to battle the evil sorceress Cackletta. The witch has stolen Princess Peach's voice in order to awaken the Beanstar, a sacred object which will allow her to rule the world. Although set in a completely new environment, Superstar Saga is brimming with familiar faces, like Bowser, goombas, koopas, wigglers, and more.
Looks like Duke Nukem (the side-scroller) was also released on the GB.
Interestingly enough, you can also find DOOM
and DOOM II for GBA. Some reviews indicate that DOOM/GBA was a pretty good game (basically identical to the DOS version, missing a few levels.)
christ slashdot sucks on april fools day.
How about doing something original, like weirdo moderation ("insightful" becomes "no shit", interesting becomes "word up", etc).
Actually, that's a very good idea. MOD PARENT UP. Slashdot is hella lame on April 1st. Ever since this morning, I've been avoiding slashdot (it's lunchtime now, so I'm slacking off.)
Sorry guys, I read slashdot for the news. When you don't post real news, you've become something like BBSpot or Fark, and I don't read them every day.
Just do something simple (I like the idea from the parent poster) and let that be it.
Pigeons carrying data? Web page has photos of baby birds as a way to replicate the system, photos of turtles for no good reason.
I think the posts for April Fools Day have started to arrive. Damn, it's early this year.
Better get mine in, then:
LZip for DOS - Yes, lzip 2.0 has been ported to DOS! Lzip is an advanced file compression utility that generates smaller file sizes than either gzip or bzip2, and does so much faster. Lzip can achieve these goals because it it based on a so-called "lossy" compression scheme.
What's the worst ever job you had to do in the name of 'software development' (or as a software developer)?
When I was a physics student, doing a summer internship with a research institute, it came out that I had learned FORTRAN as part of my physics undergraduate curriculum. And that I was good at FORTRAN.
"Aha," they said. "We could use that."
My assignment for the rest of the summer: update this old data analysis program, which was originally written in FORTRAN-IV (using punchcards.. even the data you entered was assumed to be entered via Hollerith) and later updated using FORTRAN66, and later touched using FORTRAN77. It needed to be updated to support some additional datatypes, and should compile on a quirky, incomplete FORTRAN90 compiler on the Macintosh (F90 had just been submitted as a standard, and wasn't official yet.)
I was a DOS & UNIX guy at the time. Macs were anathema.
I converted the program, and cleaned up the source while I was there, and it all compiled with their FORTRAN90 compiler. But it was an experience I never wanted to repeat.
Ironically, after university, I didn't do any physics research, and now I work with computers!
Mort lives in an alternate universe, exactly like ours, except that chickens are the dominant species. On this chicken planet, Mort is the star of his own television series, an animated series of shorts called The Mort the Chicken Show. It takes place on a farm, and depicts the adventures of Mort as he saves his little chicken community from a wide variety of dangers.
What the chickens in this world have never known is that there is another species living in a dimension parallel to theirs, a strange species of cube-like creatures called The Boolyon, who occupy a world of right angles and rigid geometry.
And Boolyon scientists have only recently realized that there is a world outside their own, inhabited by chickens. Due to a huge misunderstanding, the Boolyon elite come to believe that this chicken world is holding cubes as slaves and prisoners. Despite the protests of lesser Boolyon, the Boolyon leaders decide to snatch some baby chickens to hold as hostage until the "cubes are free."
Mort is performing in his television show when the Boolyon raid occurs. An interdimensional gate opens in the well and the Boolyon begin grabbing chicks left and right before anybody can react.
When the dust has cleared, every chick on the farm has gone, and the roosters and hens are dashing around like, well, chickens with their heads cut off.
Except for one chicken -- Mort. Like a fearless Clint Eastwood, with feathers and the ability to cluck, Mort dives into the well, to rescue the chicks or perish in the effort.
For those who want to know what a scramjet is, and how it works, check this page.
A ramjet has no moving parts and achieves compression of intake air by the forward speed of the air vehicle. Air entering the intake of a supersonic aircraft is slowed by aerodynamic diffusion created by the inlet and diffuser to velocities comparable to those in a turbojet augmentor. The expansion of hot gases after fuel injection and combustion accelerates the exhaust air to a velocity higher than that at the inlet and creates positive push.
Scramjet is an acronym for Supersonic Combustion Ramjet. The scramjet differs from the ramjet in that combustion takes place at supersonic air velocities through the engine. It is mechanically simple, but vastly more complex aerodynamically than a jet engine. Hydrogen is normally the fuel used.
This is all very different from conventional airliner engines, which are a gas turbine/fan nacelle called a "turbofan". (A "turboprop" is a gas turbine driving a propeller instead of a fan, BTW.)
I've been using this from CVS for about a month, and it only reads from the ipod. Write support is planned for the future.
In the meantime, you may consider GTKPod, a very nice GNOME interface to read/write songs to your iPod. It even supports AAC formats. I have 20GB iPod, and I've been very happy with GTKPod.
there's probably more script kiddies out there who could create a 'new' virus from the source code than there are antivirus analyzers who have trouble unpacking & disassembling a new virus.
I'm waiting for the virus that, in addition to spreading itself, will email out random Word docs found on the hard drive. This is more than a nuisance, it could potentially damage 1000s of companies. Imagine a Word doc getting out that contained corporate secrets.
Slashdot Mirror
Not to belittle this project in any way, but didn't I see an article about a boombox Linux PC in Linux Journal about a year (or so) ago? Maybe someone on slashdot with more backissues can find it.
I seem to remember it making an appearance in one of the Hitman games for PC.
I don't play 'Hitman' but I saw the ad on TV ... I thought I saw the guy carrying a cardboard tube, but my wife said I was just seeing things.
It pre-dates it, but the stick that Ico carries through much of the came looks a bit like a cardboard tube. Last time I played 'Ico' I imagined it was just a cardboard tube. :-)
I am not trying to undermine Gartner, but this poll seems to be inconsistant with the recent netDeck poll which stated linux hardware rose 31% as opposed to the stated 57% here.
Keep in mind that Gartner tends to survey a different set of customers/companies than netDeck does. So it's probably fair to say that among the largest companies (the Gartner survey) Linux hardware rose 57%, but more industry-wide (the netDeck survey) it only rose 31%.
As well as silencing your computer fans, you can also silence your hard drive. Guaranteed you won't hear the sound of a whining hard drive ever again, or in fact any noise from your hard drive at all. One step closer to an all-silent computer system.
:-)
Lob all you want, but dont forget that that same inept government developed the internet or at least what became the internet, and without it, you would still be posting comments like yours on dial up BBS's...
Wait, this is the same U.S. government that gave us Amtrak and the USPS?
That said, my personal theory is the same as mentioned in the article (yes, I RTFA) - that Area 51 is a testing ground for new, experimental aircraft. As a result, they don't like visitors.
-jh
If anything, he should play Kirk's great (great?) grandfather or however it works out...
Maybe an Admiral Tiberius James "TJ" Kirk ...?
This would only work if you could get Heather Locklear to also come on the show as a Capt Stacy Sheridan. :-)
No not on the death star. Thats when an officer says "T8247 what is your position" during the scene when the Millenium Falcon is captured and the gang sneak off to find a way to disable the tractor beam.
I think you're referring to the scene when the deck officer in the hangar calls on the comlink to Luke (dressed as stormtrooper) "Tk-421, why aren't you at your post? Tk-421, do you copy?"
And how sad is it that I can repeat that quote verbatim after how-many years? I think I'll go outside now.
-jh
I love it. Load it up, the very first line of the page is "SlashDot defense provided by Nexcess.Net"
Doesn't seem to be working ... site is slashdotted for me (Sun 5/16/04 8:10am US/Central.)
What lawyer is worth even $200/hr (more on par on normal) much less several thousand dollars per hour.
I am not a lawyer, but I used to work for a company owned by a bunch of lawyers, and all our clients were lawyers. You aren't just paying for the lawyer's time. That $2000/hr or $3000/hr also pays for the computer investment that legal firms must use today. For example, the company I worked for did legal document production/discovery using a digital document management system.
Most firms buy into a "time share" system, because usage is billed to the firm on a per-time basis, and that makes it easier for the firms to bill back to their customers.
What's behind a digital document management system? Well, at the company I worked for, you have documents come in, you have temp staff who do data-entry on key fields for those documents (they'll type in the "To" and "From" and "Subject" lines if it's an email for example), someone else will scan those documents, someone else may run OCR if that's requested, and then the scanned docs are batched together with the data-entry and OCR into the document management system. Someone else (usually a clerk for the law firm) may do queries on the documents to divide up the docs between different lawyers (certain types of docs might go to your "expert lawyer" where the rest would be distributed to the rest of the team.)
That's a lot of money, but it's only used when the stakes are high and/or when there is a lot of paper being pushed around during production/discovery. And that's just the document management. As someone else in this thread has pointed out, the hourly fee for just the lawyer starts at $200 or $350, depending on the lawyer. Factor in a portion of their "time share" fees to the legal fees, add other costs not associated with document management, I can easily imagine how in case like Microsoft's a single lawyer's fees might be $2000/hr or $3000/hr.
80% accuracy is far from perfect.
Good enuf if you're a criminal and need to get access to someone's passphrase ... so you can access bank records, etc. 80% might make the crime worth trying.
Blocking sites with "asian" in it must really help out those poor Chinese..
They also block the string "tv". There goes the whole ".tv" TLD.
To me, the joy of playing Hard Drivin' wasn't the game per se (there were other racing/driving games that were better, if not totally 3D like this one), it was the force-feedback in the steering wheel. Every time I saw a cabinet (preferable a sit-down one) I'd put in my 50c and play the thing. I was 15, a year before I could drive in real life. It was great!
Sorry guys ... playfair-0.3 was the most recent (AFAIK) before the site was taken down. Perhaps I have a copy to email to someone willing to mirror it ... (and to Apple's lawyers: _perhaps_ I don't.)
You're forgetting one important thing M$ would lose on: revenue from games because they can now be pirated and played... without a modchipped console. People can just copy them from a friend and play them on a computer that contains no piracy check.
There's another thing, too. Microsoft depends on the XBox sales numbers to be somewhat reliable, so they can use those numbers to convince software developers to commit to creating new games for the XBox. It's a tricky thing. If you have people who aren't buying XBoxes, Microsoft's sales numbers are off.
This came out fairly early on when it was found that Microsoft was double-counting sales of XBoxes if you had to return your (then, overheated) XBox for a new one. Instead of counting one sale, they'd count two (one purchased, plus one given to you in exchange.)
I never played the Super Mario RPG, but maybe this will be close enough for you: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
From the review: Much like the N64 release Paper Mario, Superstar Saga is an RPG with Mario characters. In this adventure, Mario and Luigi head into the unfamiliar world of the Beanbean kingdom to battle the evil sorceress Cackletta. The witch has stolen Princess Peach's voice in order to awaken the Beanstar, a sacred object which will allow her to rule the world. Although set in a completely new environment, Superstar Saga is brimming with familiar faces, like Bowser, goombas, koopas, wigglers, and more.
Commander Keen was ported to the GameBoy Color very shortly before the GameBoy Advance was released. Just get that to use in your GBA.
Yup, here it is: Commander Keen for GB.
Looks like Duke Nukem (the side-scroller) was also released on the GB.
Interestingly enough, you can also find DOOM and DOOM II for GBA. Some reviews indicate that DOOM/GBA was a pretty good game (basically identical to the DOS version, missing a few levels.)
"Apple Developer Profile Changing?"
By "Profile", I think Apple means that more Mac developers will look like this.
Hell, if more Mac developers/users had a profile like that, I'd switch to MacOS! :-)
I think Fox can take Phil Hartman off their payrolls, since he died in 1998.
christ slashdot sucks on april fools day. How about doing something original, like weirdo moderation ("insightful" becomes "no shit", interesting becomes "word up", etc).
Actually, that's a very good idea. MOD PARENT UP. Slashdot is hella lame on April 1st. Ever since this morning, I've been avoiding slashdot (it's lunchtime now, so I'm slacking off.)
Sorry guys, I read slashdot for the news. When you don't post real news, you've become something like BBSpot or Fark, and I don't read them every day.
Just do something simple (I like the idea from the parent poster) and let that be it.
Pigeons carrying data? Web page has photos of baby birds as a way to replicate the system, photos of turtles for no good reason.
I think the posts for April Fools Day have started to arrive. Damn, it's early this year.
Better get mine in, then: LZip for DOS - Yes, lzip 2.0 has been ported to DOS! Lzip is an advanced file compression utility that generates smaller file sizes than either gzip or bzip2, and does so much faster. Lzip can achieve these goals because it it based on a so-called "lossy" compression scheme.
What's the worst ever job you had to do in the name of 'software development' (or as a software developer)?
When I was a physics student, doing a summer internship with a research institute, it came out that I had learned FORTRAN as part of my physics undergraduate curriculum. And that I was good at FORTRAN.
"Aha," they said. "We could use that."
My assignment for the rest of the summer: update this old data analysis program, which was originally written in FORTRAN-IV (using punchcards .. even the data you entered was assumed to be entered via Hollerith) and later updated using FORTRAN66, and later touched using FORTRAN77. It needed to be updated to support some additional datatypes, and should compile on a quirky, incomplete FORTRAN90 compiler on the Macintosh (F90 had just been submitted as a standard, and wasn't official yet.)
I was a DOS & UNIX guy at the time. Macs were anathema.
I converted the program, and cleaned up the source while I was there, and it all compiled with their FORTRAN90 compiler. But it was an experience I never wanted to repeat.
Ironically, after university, I didn't do any physics research, and now I work with computers!
How about Mort the Chicken :
Mort lives in an alternate universe, exactly like ours, except that chickens are the dominant species. On this chicken planet, Mort is the star of his own television series, an animated series of shorts called The Mort the Chicken Show. It takes place on a farm, and depicts the adventures of Mort as he saves his little chicken community from a wide variety of dangers.
What the chickens in this world have never known is that there is another species living in a dimension parallel to theirs, a strange species of cube-like creatures called The Boolyon, who occupy a world of right angles and rigid geometry.
And Boolyon scientists have only recently realized that there is a world outside their own, inhabited by chickens. Due to a huge misunderstanding, the Boolyon elite come to believe that this chicken world is holding cubes as slaves and prisoners. Despite the protests of lesser Boolyon, the Boolyon leaders decide to snatch some baby chickens to hold as hostage until the "cubes are free."
Mort is performing in his television show when the Boolyon raid occurs. An interdimensional gate opens in the well and the Boolyon begin grabbing chicks left and right before anybody can react.
When the dust has cleared, every chick on the farm has gone, and the roosters and hens are dashing around like, well, chickens with their heads cut off.
Except for one chicken -- Mort. Like a fearless Clint Eastwood, with feathers and the ability to cluck, Mort dives into the well, to rescue the chicks or perish in the effort.
For those who want to know what a scramjet is, and how it works, check this page.
A ramjet has no moving parts and achieves compression of intake air by the forward speed of the air vehicle. Air entering the intake of a supersonic aircraft is slowed by aerodynamic diffusion created by the inlet and diffuser to velocities comparable to those in a turbojet augmentor. The expansion of hot gases after fuel injection and combustion accelerates the exhaust air to a velocity higher than that at the inlet and creates positive push.
Scramjet is an acronym for Supersonic Combustion Ramjet. The scramjet differs from the ramjet in that combustion takes place at supersonic air velocities through the engine. It is mechanically simple, but vastly more complex aerodynamically than a jet engine. Hydrogen is normally the fuel used.
This is all very different from conventional airliner engines, which are a gas turbine/fan nacelle called a "turbofan". (A "turboprop" is a gas turbine driving a propeller instead of a fan, BTW.)
I've been using this from CVS for about a month, and it only reads from the ipod. Write support is planned for the future.
In the meantime, you may consider GTKPod, a very nice GNOME interface to read/write songs to your iPod. It even supports AAC formats. I have 20GB iPod, and I've been very happy with GTKPod.
Web site: http://gtkpod.sourceforge.net/
Example: http://www.freedos.org/jhall/ipod/
there's probably more script kiddies out there who could create a 'new' virus from the source code than there are antivirus analyzers who have trouble unpacking & disassembling a new virus.
I'm waiting for the virus that, in addition to spreading itself, will email out random Word docs found on the hard drive. This is more than a nuisance, it could potentially damage 1000s of companies. Imagine a Word doc getting out that contained corporate secrets.