when i got my first computer, (a dell pentium p60) I accidently installed a demo version of OS2 warp cause it came with a magazine and i thought it was a game, completely wiped out my dos/win 3.11 setup.
There is no such thing like C/C++! C and C++ are different languages with different standards.
See this is why people don't like nerds, no one said they were the same thing but they often get grouped together because of history, stop being so pedantic.
This sounds like a business opportunity. We got any venture capitalists in the audience? Let's put together a team to do this at much cheaper rates. We'll still make money of course, but it looks like there's a lot of wiggle room.
Set up a sattelite system, and charge people for using it to access the internet, yeah sounds real simple...
There are still a few new-ish unsupported devices (the Centrino wireless cards are an example), but the windows compatibility layer takes care of that.
Wireless support for linix is still really patchy, fair enough wireless is still a fairly recent technology (compared with most PC hardware) but if buy a wifi card without checking it's compatibility then your chances of it working with linux are less than %50.
But we've allowed them to succeed despite the fact that they've never contributed a damn thing.
Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine. Did he ever become as rich as Darl McBride or Mike Anderer?
As you point out, this is not exactly a new phoneomena, it's interesting that some of the most important poeple in the history of of our species either weren't interested in money or got screwed over financially....
I recently ripped all my cd's and used vorbis instead of mp3. Admitedly the vast majority of my digital music collection is still mp3 but I think it is inaccuarate to say that no one is using vorbis.
As others have pointed out the problem is power but no one has mentioned yet that each rover requires a heater to stop the extreme cold at night from damaging the electronics.
You can have an email address and servers which are totally independent of your ISP if you wish. Just pay around $30 a year to almost any domain hosting company for their basic package and you'll get email, web and ftp services, with your own domain name, for as long as you keep the domain renewed and the fees paid. You can change ISPs and even hosting companies all you like, and your domain (and therefore your email address) will always remain the same.
No need to use those silly webmail systems either.
Hotmail is slightly easier for joe average though isn't it ?
So, any links? I've been trying to find one for months. Not that they're not out there, just that I can't find one. I can say that the crap at Best Buy does not work.
There is a list on the net, google for linux wifi drivers or something similar...
And avoid the linksys wmp11 v2.7 (broadcom chipset) which is what i have, annoying other wmp11 cards with different chipsets do have drivers, just colour me unlucky i guess.
You think all that "we're going to Mars" stuff was a mistake or a coincidence?
I think that it probably had more to do with distracting the voting populous from the disastrous results of the american foreign policy because this is an election year.
Well the point is that there is always one complete copy availiable (otherwise how could it spread in the first place) so it can't be worse than normal http/ftp can it ?
It wholly depends on how many people are downloading it at any specific moment, so when you come back maybe 3 days later, the download speeds drop to a trickle because you're the only one downloading the file now. And nobody leaves their BT clients open longer than it takes to download a file - I'm sorry, but relying on people's altruistic behavior is plain stupid.
Doesn't the tracker host have a copy of the file though ?, if there is always one complete copy of it then there is no problem. As for leaving the client open, you could force this on the user.
They just want to know how much faster their games will go, their videos will encode, and how much quicker photoshop will render their favorite filter. Those is very difficult to represent with a single, common number.. especially across architectures.
Each GameBoy release is intended to be as good as the previous console. The GBC got the GameBoy up to NES quality, the GBA got it up to SNES quality and now the DS will get it up to N64 quality. This allows Nintendo to rerelease their old classics again for the portable system and get some more cash out of them.
Considering that the GameCube is practically portable already it wouldn't be much of a surprise if they next major GB release in a few years was as powerful as the GameCube.
However the jury is still out on portable 3D games, the GBA does have 3D capabilities however the games that have been most succesful are the 2D ones.
In fact the DS is if anything, a recognition of the fact that you can't just port mario 64 to a handheld the size of the GBA, it just wouldn't be very playable.
I was discussing this with a friend over dinner the other night. once games are released for Linux as well as Windows (UT2004, for example, and the forthcoming Doom 3), gamers need only be shown Linux GL benchmarks before they'll happily switch to a Linux 2.6.x system for 5-10FPS gains over Windows.
Incredibly naive statement. At the current time DireectX runs slower than OpenGL because it does more (e.g. it looks better, fancy effects, etc.). OpenGL's development has effectively stalled, lets hope it gets going again.
How good is Lucent at playing nice with the OSS community? Been so long since I saw some of their stuff out on the market. Could be one way to improve their image, like Apple and IBM improved their images a bit when they adopted free or *nix software.
So... a company did really well during a boom, didn't expect the - let's go with at least a century of data - inevitable bust
Neither did anyone else tho...
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All kidding aside, there actually is a fair bit of harm one could use this tech for. Make the "sound" of high enough intensity, and it would make a very effective, and undetectable weapon.
so you could use it to kill harkonens...
Can I smell something ?
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This tech is the very definition of vapourware, it's been in development for years.
Why then do students major in film and literature, hordes of populace attend movie theatres, towns pay for public libraries, etc?
*Sigh*
yes but these people don't focus all their attention on a single instance of media like Trekkies do. Most people are capable of enjoying a film and even enjoying a particular genre without obsessing about it like some science fiction fans. I thought this point was fairly obvious and didn't need explaining.
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when i got my first computer, (a dell pentium p60) I accidently installed a demo version of OS2 warp cause it came with a magazine and i thought it was a game, completely wiped out my dos/win 3.11 setup.
There is no such thing like C/C++! C and C++ are different languages with different standards.
See this is why people don't like nerds, no one said they were the same thing but they often get grouped together because of history, stop being so pedantic.
This sounds like a business opportunity. We got any venture capitalists in the audience? Let's put together a team to do this at much cheaper rates. We'll still make money of course, but it looks like there's a lot of wiggle room.
Set up a sattelite system, and charge people for using it to access the internet, yeah sounds real simple...
There are still a few new-ish unsupported devices (the Centrino wireless cards are an example), but the windows compatibility layer takes care of that.
Wireless support for linix is still really patchy, fair enough wireless is still a fairly recent technology (compared with most PC hardware) but if buy a wifi card without checking it's compatibility then your chances of it working with linux are less than %50.
But we've allowed them to succeed despite the fact that they've never contributed a damn thing.
Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine. Did he ever become as rich as Darl McBride or Mike Anderer?
As you point out, this is not exactly a new phoneomena, it's interesting that some of the most important poeple in the history of of our species either weren't interested in money or got screwed over financially....
I recently ripped all my cd's and used vorbis instead of mp3. Admitedly the vast majority of my digital music collection is still mp3 but I think it is inaccuarate to say that no one is using vorbis.
"Cassini-Huygens"
Just out of interest, how is the second word pronounced ?...
As others have pointed out the problem is power but no one has mentioned yet that each rover requires a heater to stop the extreme cold at night from damaging the electronics.
Of course if they had used RTG's....
You can have an email address and servers which are totally independent of your ISP if you wish. Just pay around $30 a year to almost any domain hosting company for their basic package and you'll get email, web and ftp services, with your own domain name, for as long as you keep the domain renewed and the fees paid. You can change ISPs and even hosting companies all you like, and your domain (and therefore your email address) will always remain the same.
No need to use those silly webmail systems either.
Hotmail is slightly easier for joe average though isn't it ?
So, any links? I've been trying to find one for months. Not that they're not out there, just that I can't find one. I can say that the crap at Best Buy does not work.
There is a list on the net, google for linux wifi drivers or something similar...
And avoid the linksys wmp11 v2.7 (broadcom chipset) which is what i have, annoying other wmp11 cards with different chipsets do have drivers, just colour me unlucky i guess.
I say we get all George Bush on the RIAA's ass, who's with me ?...
put your money where your mouth is, invest in it...
Not that long ago it was a serious pain to get an 802.11b card to work on a Linux machine
Still is, your lucky if your card is supported, if linux support is important to you make sure there is a driver availiable for any card you choose.
if this was a Microsoft problem the amount of bitching and conspiracy theories would never end. Lets see how it plays out.
I think we should wait to see how long until this bug is fixed before we accuse redhat of doing this on purpose.
You think all that "we're going to Mars" stuff was a mistake or a coincidence?
I think that it probably had more to do with distracting the voting populous from the disastrous results of the american foreign policy because this is an election year.
Well the point is that there is always one complete copy availiable (otherwise how could it spread in the first place) so it can't be worse than normal http/ftp can it ?
It wholly depends on how many people are downloading it at any specific moment, so when you come back maybe 3 days later, the download speeds drop to a trickle because you're the only one downloading the file now. And nobody leaves their BT clients open longer than it takes to download a file - I'm sorry, but relying on people's altruistic behavior is plain stupid.
Doesn't the tracker host have a copy of the file though ?, if there is always one complete copy of it then there is no problem. As for leaving the client open, you could force this on the user.
They just want to know how much faster their games will go, their videos will encode, and how much quicker photoshop will render their favorite filter. Those is very difficult to represent with a single, common number
So why can't a benchmark CD test these things ?
Each GameBoy release is intended to be as good as the previous console. The GBC got the GameBoy up to NES quality, the GBA got it up to SNES quality and now the DS will get it up to N64 quality. This allows Nintendo to rerelease their old classics again for the portable system and get some more cash out of them.
Considering that the GameCube is practically portable already it wouldn't be much of a surprise if they next major GB release in a few years was as powerful as the GameCube.
However the jury is still out on portable 3D games, the GBA does have 3D capabilities however the games that have been most succesful are the 2D ones.
In fact the DS is if anything, a recognition of the fact that you can't just port mario 64 to a handheld the size of the GBA, it just wouldn't be very playable.
I was discussing this with a friend over dinner the other night. once games are released for Linux as well as Windows (UT2004, for example, and the forthcoming Doom 3), gamers need only be shown Linux GL benchmarks before they'll happily switch to a Linux 2.6.x system for 5-10FPS gains over Windows.
Incredibly naive statement. At the current time DireectX runs slower than OpenGL because it does more (e.g. it looks better, fancy effects, etc.). OpenGL's development has effectively stalled, lets hope it gets going again.
How good is Lucent at playing nice with the OSS community? Been so long since I saw some of their stuff out on the market. Could be one way to improve their image, like Apple and IBM improved their images a bit when they adopted free or *nix software.
Where is the money ?
So... a company did really well during a boom, didn't expect the - let's go with at least a century of data - inevitable bust
Neither did anyone else tho...
All kidding aside, there actually is a fair bit of harm one could use this tech for. Make the "sound" of high enough intensity, and it would make a very effective, and undetectable weapon.
so you could use it to kill harkonens...
This tech is the very definition of vapourware, it's been in development for years.
Why then do students major in film and literature, hordes of populace attend movie theatres, towns pay for public libraries, etc?
*Sigh*
yes but these people don't focus all their attention on a single instance of media like Trekkies do. Most people are capable of enjoying a film and even enjoying a particular genre without obsessing about it like some science fiction fans. I thought this point was fairly obvious and didn't need explaining.