My point is that the PC "took off" as a gaming platform long before the ease-of-programming arrived.
Ok. Your post before said that "The PC platform is an awkward piece of shit", not that it "was", and just I wanted to point out that those concerns aren't really valid any more. Glad we're in agreement.
The PC platform is an awkward piece of shit (segmented memory, no standard video/audio hardware platform, etc) to program for compared to many of the platforms it displaced
Segmented memory - yes, you can use 16 bit segmented memory, but why would you? Most applications post-Win95 use 32 bit flat addressing.
No standard A/V - that's why operating systems and toolkits exist - DirectX, OpenGL, DirectSound, OpenAL, etc. Individual game developers don't really need to worry about what cards are in the machine unless they're right at the bleeding edge.
As is well known, we users of MacOSX are all tall with athletic bodies.
Speak for yourself.. I'm a fat sweaty geek sitting in a basement scoffing pizza and Pepsi while on a raid with his guild (WoW for OSX). No beard though, and it's my basement.
Look, I'm not going to take the popular road here, but CHRIST this is NOT a big sacrifice that's being asked of people.
It's an unnecessary sacrifice - the garage door openers could use a different frequency, or more resilient technology like spread-spectrum transmissions - and it's a sacrifice people were not aware they were making. Hence the complaining.
There is a little thing about Life and the pursuit of happieness, but that's just a little thing some people forget about on a regular basis.
Not sure what point you're trying to make there, but not having to get out of my car in the rain to open the garage door is a (very small) portion of my pursuit of happiness.
Wouldn't the salt just precipitate to the bottom requiring periodic flushing? You have the same problem with any desalination process... what to do with all the salt?
The other noteworthy point is that *after* they were dogsniffed, searched and cleared, US Airways refused to sell them replacement tickets. US Airways pointed them to other airlines, which proves it wasn't a safety issue.
The only things US Airways can do is 1. Call the cops (already done) 2. Not sell them a ticket 3. Possibly sue, which they are probably looking at now. US Airways does not have arrest powers.
OSX does it exactly the same way...I think Apple probably did some usability studies at some point...
If you're talking about Yes/No dialog boxes - no, they do it differently.
Instead of "Do you want to save the changes? Yes / No / Cancel" you get "You have unsaved changes. Save / Don't Save / Cancel". All of your choices are verbs. This avoids monstrosities like "Click Yes to do xxxx, click No to yyyyy", which I've seen in numerous Windows programs (Microsoft Access comes to mind).
From: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExper ience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGControls/chap ter_18_section_2.html "Button names should be verbs that describe the action performed--Save, Close, Print, Delete, and so on. If a button acts on a single setting, label the button as specifically as possible; "Choose Picture...," for example, is more helpful than "Choose..." Because most buttons initiate an immediate action, it shouldn't be necessary to use "now" (Scan Now, for example) in the label. Don't use push buttons to indicate a state such as On or Off (where it would be more appropriate to use checkboxes).
But what about dreams? surely dreams are worth something. Wouldnt you miss something in life if you never dream? (not sure if its worth 33 years of life tho).
I rarely dream (or at least remember dreaming), so they're not worth much to me.
The other two wires are for power. Notice how the phone works during a blackout?
Do tell me how using the other two wires goes though. I think you'll have a lot of fried DSL hardware.
So very, very wrong.
In a standard telephone wiring situation (RJ11 jacks, or the old non-modular jacks), the green and red wires are used for the first phone line. The yellow and orange are unused (or a second line). An easy way to remember the pairs are Christmas (green + red) and Halloween (yellow + orange).
Yeah, that's one of the scarier things about modern society. Replace person with a non-rational token vending machine and then show "zero tolerance" for people who don't have a token.
In NYC at least, you can buy Metrocards from retail stores and give your money to a human, if you really want to. Token booths with humans inside existed until the Metrocard rollout.
I'd argue that machines are inherently rational at their intended function - in this case, exchanging money for tokens - but then you can argue rationality as common sense rather than as a system of rules, and it becomes a semantics game.
Hint: try calling a number in a different area code from a landline without dialing 1 first. A fully qualified telephone number does not begin with the area code, it begins with the country code, which for the US is "1."
Many metro US areas have 10-digit dialing. In Charlotte, NC for example, you must dial 704-xxx-xxxx or 980-xxx-xxxx. The area code is not optional, and you don't dial a "1".
Not quite. You might given them a small fee (e.g. $5), but you don't normally pay full price up front. Online retailers (e.g. Amazon.com) don't charge anything.
Depends on the store I guess. ebgames.com/gamestop.com is quite willing to sell me Burning Crusade (expansion pack for World of Warcraft) now for $39.95, even though there's no official release date, just "Q4 2006". Gamestop has been selling it all year, at full retail price. Likewise for Super Mario Galaxy for Wii (to be released 11/15), selling now for $59.99.
I don't pre-order games normally. Good to know about Amazon's policy, that's actually really cool.
You'd think that after the horrible PS2 launch (faulty hardware, long lines, too many pre-orders not enough units...) retailers would be a bit more cautious about pre-orders. Instead we STILL see them shoving pre-order offers in our faces. They have no one to blame but themselves.
Game stores love pre-orders. You give them money now, they give you the product later. Pre-orders without enough product to back it up? You give them money now, they give you the product even later. It's an even better deal for the company. You're not going to cancel your pre-order (since the product is so hard to get), so they don't have to refund the money. The sales clerk will get yelled at and called names - the managers and executives don't care about that.
I thought it was more or less a joke when his wife started hitting on me directly infront of him saying he wouldn't notice anything outside his game. Then one day, she actualy started playing wiht me in a way that I knew she wasn't kidding and she definatly wanted some attention in certain areas.
Similar story, but Everquest back in the day. Dude started ignoring everyone and eventually started asking me, as a friend, to take the Mrs. out on Friday nights so he could raid. Then it was Saturdays too, and Wednesdays.. I never saw him any more, just his wife. She eventually left him. She and I dated for about a year after they split, good (if crazy) times.
Too bad, dude was a cool guy before.
Now I play WoW, but only raid on Monday and Thursday.. I try to keep most of the week for real life.:)
You haven't? Gee. You must be really new to computers
Insults aside, I'd really like to learn what you're talking about.
then TCP is what TCP/IP sits on. Several companies actually use this for direct communication over RJ-45 connectors and CAT5 cable. Some are for high end video applications as well, but that requires some expensive high end hardware. They don't bother using TCP/IP as that just adds an extra layer of complexity onto the TCP layer. Perhaps you should read up a bit more about networking?
You originally said "I generally don't trust external general purpose connections. This is mostly due to USB, PCMCIA and TCP experience." which is why I said I hadn't heard of a hardware port called TCP. Now you're saying that TCP is something run over CAT5 cable and RJ-45 connectors (which would obviously connect to RJ-45 hardware ports).
If TCP is the name of an "external general purpose connection", I'd love to know what it looks like, because as I've said, I've never seen or heard of one.
Whether or not it's a hardware port, TCP is the name of "Transmission Control Protocol", which is the TCP part of TCP/IP. You can also have UDP/IP (mainly used for games/streaming video), ICMP/IP (ping), AH/IP and ESP/IP (encrypted tunnels).
TCP, UDP, ICMP, AH, and ESP are all layer 4. It's the way you assemble random packets into streams. You may get packet 1-2-6-4-5, and TCP will request the missing 3, then straighten them all out into 1-2-3-4-5-6 so that your program will have a stream of data instead of random packets. IP is layer 3. It's simply a way of addressing networks. IPX/SPX is another way, as is NetBEUI (what Windows filesharing used before TCP/IP). Ethernet is layer 2. This is where MAC addresses and ethernet frames come in. Ethernet is a way of saying that the data on the cable is destined for a specific computer. The actual signaling is layer 1. This is electricity over copper, light over fiber, or whatever physcial means you have of transferring data. If the electrical signal is 20V for 5ms then 0V for 5ms to indicate a 1, and 10V for 5 ms then 0V for 5ms to indicate a 0, that's layer 1.
I mention all this because this is what I know of TCP. You've now made the claim "They don't bother using TCP/IP as that just adds an extra layer of complexity onto the TCP layer." Again, Google fails to provide anything.
Now, I ask you, please, please provide some more information (prefereably a link) to the claims you've made:
1. TCP as a hardware connector 2. TCP/IP over TCP 3. High-end video over TCP without using TCP/IP
I'm perfectly willing to believe that there's something I've never heard of in my 9 years of working networking and security, and that the 17 other engineers I work with at work have never heard of such a thing (I asked). I am falliable, as are Google and my co-workers. I'd really like to learn. Please, enlighten me.
For firewire it mainly comes down to no direct experience with it. I haven't had a peripheral yet that used it so I have no idea how good it is. I know it was designed for realtime video. However, without the experience of having used it I won't recomend it. I have direct experience with the Audigy cards, hence why I recomend it instead.
"For internal combustion engines it mainly comes down to no direct experience with it. I haven't had a vehicle yet that used it so I have no idea how good it is. I know it was designed for traveling long distances. However, without the experience of having used it I won't recomend it. I have direct experience with bicycles, hence why I recomend it instead."
Do you see how silly this type of post is?
Related to this. I generally don't trust external general purpose connections. This is mostly due to USB, PCMCIA and TCP experience.
I've never heard of a hardware port called TCP, and Google is no help (it wants to talk about TCP/IP). Care to enlighten me?
How difficult will it be to deliver that much power (for an interstate!) to a remote location? What if that station is down for some reason?
Solar panels at the station could help its electric usage immensely (and its dependance on the grid).
For that matter, covering the top of the car with solar panels would extend its range. My car sits in the sun all day while I'm at work. It would be great if it was recharging while doing so.
It's not resistance, just a lack of interest. Not enough people will care until after we run out of IP addresses and conflicts occur. Society tends to not be very proactive unless the drive comes from authority.
IPv4 has problems if we want to assign IPs to everyone. The thing is - we don't. Most businesses/organizations have a handful of external IPs, and RFC1918 private address space inside. Most end users are fine with being NAT'd.
We really don't need the huge expense and pain of converting to IPv6. IPv4 is "good enough", quite honestly.
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When I sit at the computer a long time, it hurts at the other end.
Ok. Your post before said that "The PC platform is an awkward piece of shit", not that it "was", and just I wanted to point out that those concerns aren't really valid any more. Glad we're in agreement.
Segmented memory - yes, you can use 16 bit segmented memory, but why would you? Most applications post-Win95 use 32 bit flat addressing.
No standard A/V - that's why operating systems and toolkits exist - DirectX, OpenGL, DirectSound, OpenAL, etc. Individual game developers don't really need to worry about what cards are in the machine unless they're right at the bleeding edge.
If nothing else, they'll run cooler. Heat is one of the main problems with designing better chips.
Speak for yourself.. I'm a fat sweaty geek sitting in a basement scoffing pizza and Pepsi while on a raid with his guild (WoW for OSX). No beard though, and it's my basement.
It's an unnecessary sacrifice - the garage door openers could use a different frequency, or more resilient technology like spread-spectrum transmissions - and it's a sacrifice people were not aware they were making. Hence the complaining.
Not sure what point you're trying to make there, but not having to get out of my car in the rain to open the garage door is a (very small) portion of my pursuit of happiness.
Put it in a container and sell it.
The only things US Airways can do is 1. Call the cops (already done) 2. Not sell them a ticket 3. Possibly sue, which they are probably looking at now. US Airways does not have arrest powers.
Instead of "Do you want to save the changes? Yes / No / Cancel" you get "You have unsaved changes. Save / Don't Save / Cancel". All of your choices are verbs. This avoids monstrosities like "Click Yes to do xxxx, click No to yyyyy", which I've seen in numerous Windows programs (Microsoft Access comes to mind).
From: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExper ience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGControls/chap ter_18_section_2.html
"Button names should be verbs that describe the action performed--Save, Close, Print, Delete, and so on. If a button acts on a single setting, label the button as specifically as possible; "Choose Picture...," for example, is more helpful than "Choose..." Because most buttons initiate an immediate action, it shouldn't be necessary to use "now" (Scan Now, for example) in the label. Don't use push buttons to indicate a state such as On or Off (where it would be more appropriate to use checkboxes).
I rarely dream (or at least remember dreaming), so they're not worth much to me.
So very, very wrong.
In a standard telephone wiring situation (RJ11 jacks, or the old non-modular jacks), the green and red wires are used for the first phone line. The yellow and orange are unused (or a second line). An easy way to remember the pairs are Christmas (green + red) and Halloween (yellow + orange).
There is no separate power line.
http://www.tech-faq.com/telephone-wiring.shtml
In RJ45, the center (first) pair is blue + blue/white.. Hanukkah maybe?
I'll forgive Brazilians for bad English, since my Portuguese is non-existent.
Why do all the GPS-enabled phones tell everyone else where I am, but not me?
In NYC at least, you can buy Metrocards from retail stores and give your money to a human, if you really want to. Token booths with humans inside existed until the Metrocard rollout.
I'd argue that machines are inherently rational at their intended function - in this case, exchanging money for tokens - but then you can argue rationality as common sense rather than as a system of rules, and it becomes a semantics game.
Many metro US areas have 10-digit dialing. In Charlotte, NC for example, you must dial 704-xxx-xxxx or 980-xxx-xxxx. The area code is not optional, and you don't dial a "1".
Probably would be a grammar checker rather than a spell checker.
The sentence is valid anyways. Snail Mail could be the name of the band, and for some reason they'll always have rolls. Perhaps they own a bakery?
Depends on the store I guess. ebgames.com/gamestop.com is quite willing to sell me Burning Crusade (expansion pack for World of Warcraft) now for $39.95, even though there's no official release date, just "Q4 2006". Gamestop has been selling it all year, at full retail price. Likewise for Super Mario Galaxy for Wii (to be released 11/15), selling now for $59.99.
I don't pre-order games normally. Good to know about Amazon's policy, that's actually really cool.
Game stores love pre-orders. You give them money now, they give you the product later. Pre-orders without enough product to back it up? You give them money now, they give you the product even later. It's an even better deal for the company. You're not going to cancel your pre-order (since the product is so hard to get), so they don't have to refund the money. The sales clerk will get yelled at and called names - the managers and executives don't care about that.
Similar story, but Everquest back in the day. Dude started ignoring everyone and eventually started asking me, as a friend, to take the Mrs. out on Friday nights so he could raid. Then it was Saturdays too, and Wednesdays.. I never saw him any more, just his wife. She eventually left him. She and I dated for about a year after they split, good (if crazy) times.
Too bad, dude was a cool guy before.
Now I play WoW, but only raid on Monday and Thursday.. I try to keep most of the week for real life.
Cue "The Dangers of World of Warcraft".. http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2
Insults aside, I'd really like to learn what you're talking about.
You originally said "I generally don't trust external general purpose connections. This is mostly due to USB, PCMCIA and TCP experience." which is why I said I hadn't heard of a hardware port called TCP. Now you're saying that TCP is something run over CAT5 cable and RJ-45 connectors (which would obviously connect to RJ-45 hardware ports).
So is TCP the name of a hardware port/connector?
RJ-45 is a hardware port. It has 8 pins, and a squarish connector with a clip. Looks like a telephone cord connector (RJ11) but with two more pins. http://www.cablestogo.com/resources/modular.asp
USB is a hardware port. It has 4 pins and a thin, rectangular connector. http://www.cablestogo.com/resources/usb.asp
PCMCIA is a hardware port with 68 pins. It's apparently called "PC Card" today, but I still call it PCMCIA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_card
If TCP is the name of an "external general purpose connection", I'd love to know what it looks like, because as I've said, I've never seen or heard of one.
Whether or not it's a hardware port, TCP is the name of "Transmission Control Protocol", which is the TCP part of TCP/IP. You can also have UDP/IP (mainly used for games/streaming video), ICMP/IP (ping), AH/IP and ESP/IP (encrypted tunnels).
Here's a decent description of the OSI model:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
TCP, UDP, ICMP, AH, and ESP are all layer 4. It's the way you assemble random packets into streams. You may get packet 1-2-6-4-5, and TCP will request the missing 3, then straighten them all out into 1-2-3-4-5-6 so that your program will have a stream of data instead of random packets.
IP is layer 3. It's simply a way of addressing networks. IPX/SPX is another way, as is NetBEUI (what Windows filesharing used before TCP/IP).
Ethernet is layer 2. This is where MAC addresses and ethernet frames come in. Ethernet is a way of saying that the data on the cable is destined for a specific computer.
The actual signaling is layer 1. This is electricity over copper, light over fiber, or whatever physcial means you have of transferring data. If the electrical signal is 20V for 5ms then 0V for 5ms to indicate a 1, and 10V for 5 ms then 0V for 5ms to indicate a 0, that's layer 1.
I mention all this because this is what I know of TCP. You've now made the claim "They don't bother using TCP/IP as that just adds an extra layer of complexity onto the TCP layer." Again, Google fails to provide anything.
Now, I ask you, please, please provide some more information (prefereably a link) to the claims you've made:
1. TCP as a hardware connector
2. TCP/IP over TCP
3. High-end video over TCP without using TCP/IP
I'm perfectly willing to believe that there's something I've never heard of in my 9 years of working networking and security, and that the 17 other engineers I work with at work have never heard of such a thing (I asked). I am falliable, as are Google and my co-workers. I'd really like to learn. Please, enlighten me.
"For internal combustion engines it mainly comes down to no direct experience with it. I haven't had a vehicle yet that used it so I have no idea how good it is. I know it was designed for traveling long distances. However, without the experience of having used it I won't recomend it. I have direct experience with bicycles, hence why I recomend it instead."
Do you see how silly this type of post is?
I've never heard of a hardware port called TCP, and Google is no help (it wants to talk about TCP/IP). Care to enlighten me?
Just replace the ultra-capacitor, like propane tanks. Pop out the empty one, put in a full one. Bring the empty one back to the store for credit.
Solar panels at the station could help its electric usage immensely (and its dependance on the grid).
For that matter, covering the top of the car with solar panels would extend its range. My car sits in the sun all day while I'm at work. It would be great if it was recharging while doing so.
IPv4 has problems if we want to assign IPs to everyone. The thing is - we don't. Most businesses/organizations have a handful of external IPs, and RFC1918 private address space inside. Most end users are fine with being NAT'd.
We really don't need the huge expense and pain of converting to IPv6. IPv4 is "good enough", quite honestly.
http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_good_en
That said, I would like to see IPv6, and if China moves to it, that may be enough of a foothold to get other people to convert.
Stag - bachelor :)
Stag do - bachelor party
Bloke - man, guy
"they spent the whole weekend getting blowjobs [..] my friends and I enjoyed more of the greenery" - "I am stupid and/or gay"