It's based on a 50-plus-year-old book. Whoever hasn't heard of the plot by now probably has been living under a rock. Why bother keeping it spoiler-free?
No offense, but there's nothing I do today that I can easily do on a P200 besides maybe IRC and read email. The rest of it -- sound editing, watching and recording TV, working on stuff in GIMP and building packages and kernels with GCC, doing website development in php and SQL, watching DVDs, and other more interesting shit -- is nigh-on impossible with an ancient P200. Sorry and thanks for playing!
They could have the best, cleanest digital signal processors in the world in that box. Would it matter if the average moron encodes their MP3s at 128 or 160K? You're not gonna gain much from superior electronics if your source material is crap.
CowboyNeal and I both have our copies of FFX on reserve and are planning on some time off to watch LotR and play FFX this week.
Very cool. Proud of ya both. Can you alert us to other mundane aspects of your lives, such as when you use the latrine and for how long? Also, some of us have expressed interest in knowing about Rob Malda's love life. Could you expand a little upon that in the future? Thanks.
Ugh, jesus, thanks for that...
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I'd gone for about 8 years without hearing or thinking of that highschool-mixer, slow-dance ass-grab song. That and anything by C&C Music Factory, or Another Bad Creation, or Martika.
Options 6, of course, is to tell you to fuck off and stop wasting everyone's time with this kind of crap. Oh no!, someone gave vague and non-specific legal advice, with a disclaimer stating that if you have a real legal problem, see a lawyer. Boy, what an egregious offense. I'm sure his professors will really care when some whiny little doof calls them up and tells them what he said on slashdot.
What about it? Can you even consider Linux a player in the real embedded market? Sure, there's "real-time" patches for it, but does it even begin to compare to operating systems which are designed from the ground-up to be real-time? Is Linux even a player in the embedded RTOS market? So far, the only win for Linux has been Tivo, and it's basically a PC in a VCR case.
Does anyone really expect to be able to run the latest kernel on their 386/486 machines? Let's think about it: Your system was built and purchased probably between 1989 and 1992. It is now almost 2002. That's really not a bad run for something so antiquated. Should the people who work on the modern 2.4 (and now 2.5) kernels really have to bend over backwards to support such ancient hardware? If you want a kernel for your 10-year-old hardware, use 2.2 or 2.0. If you want to take advantage of new hardware, use 2.4 or 2.5. Why is it that people can't understand this?
You found this site on Usenet in alt.* somewhere, didn't you? It's a rather alarmist site, wouldn't you say? Almost as if there's some sort of ulterior motive behind it?
Once I've had a problem with PayPal, I'll let you know.
I ask because Linux is a very bad choice, if that's what you're planning on using. How many professional 3D packages are available for Linux? Besides PovRay and Blender?
In horrible, geriatric, why-does-anyone-still-use-it Netscape 4.77, the only thing I see on that site is a little blue square. I'm guessing the actual content isn't much more interesting.
I tried installing NetBSD on my car last week, only to find out the transmission in my Yugo is undocumented, and they won't tell me how to bootstrap the thing without having me sign an NDA first.
Apple's chips simply run too slow to need any sort of active cooling. Besides, there's no way they'd mess with water cooling, not with the average intelligence of their users. Can you imagine hundreds of electrocuted Mac owners?
You *do* know there are various different kinds of things that are labeled "MPEG 4", right? Up until recently, we couldn't play "DiVX;-)" files, for example, on Linux, and that was a hacked-up version of Microsoft's MPEG-4 implementation (which we also couldn't play). The only reason they play on Linux at all is because someone swiped the libraries from a Microsoft player and figured out how to hook into them. Do you really think, once Apple figures out how to make their own, proprietary version of MPEG 4, that Linux will stand a chance in Hades of playing any more movie trailers than it can today?
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Tolkien was British.
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It's based on a 50-plus-year-old book. Whoever hasn't heard of the plot by now probably has been living under a rock. Why bother keeping it spoiler-free?
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cdrom.com ran off a Pentium Pro 200 (not a Pentium 200, which is significantly slower), with a gigabyte of RAM and 500 gigabytes of RAID disk.
Also, you don't remember how awfully slow it was before they upgraded it. I would routinely get 4KB/second off my college's T3 from that site.
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Somehow I doubt that much of our current culture will survive due to our legislation..
Is this really a bad thing? Does anyone want "Hit Me Baby, One More Time" lingering around like so much moldy dog turd in 150 years?
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No offense, but there's nothing I do today that I can easily do on a P200 besides maybe IRC and read email. The rest of it -- sound editing, watching and recording TV, working on stuff in GIMP and building packages and kernels with GCC, doing website development in php and SQL, watching DVDs, and other more interesting shit -- is nigh-on impossible with an ancient P200. Sorry and thanks for playing!
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They could have the best, cleanest digital signal processors in the world in that box. Would it matter if the average moron encodes their MP3s at 128 or 160K? You're not gonna gain much from superior electronics if your source material is crap.
SHN all the way for me...
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CowboyNeal and I both have our copies of FFX on reserve and are planning on some time off to watch LotR and play FFX this week.
Very cool. Proud of ya both. Can you alert us to other mundane aspects of your lives, such as when you use the latrine and for how long? Also, some of us have expressed interest in knowing about Rob Malda's love life. Could you expand a little upon that in the future? Thanks.
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This is still the case? The Quake 3 engine is almost 2 years old now, isn't it? Surely something better has supplanted it?
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Is that HP's site mentions "will the real Bruce Perens please stand up" - and calls slashdot "www.slashdot.com". Prophetic, maybe?
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Oh, come on. I'm sure SOMEBODY here runs IE in WINE! Or is forced to use it only at work!
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Probably from a store that sold crusoe laptops...
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I'd gone for about 8 years without hearing or thinking of that highschool-mixer, slow-dance ass-grab song. That and anything by C&C Music Factory, or Another Bad Creation, or Martika.
Blasts from the past they ain't.
so he's gonna get fired from school?
Options 6, of course, is to tell you to fuck off and stop wasting everyone's time with this kind of crap. Oh no!, someone gave vague and non-specific legal advice, with a disclaimer stating that if you have a real legal problem, see a lawyer. Boy, what an egregious offense. I'm sure his professors will really care when some whiny little doof calls them up and tells them what he said on slashdot.
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What about it? Can you even consider Linux a player in the real embedded market? Sure, there's "real-time" patches for it, but does it even begin to compare to operating systems which are designed from the ground-up to be real-time? Is Linux even a player in the embedded RTOS market? So far, the only win for Linux has been Tivo, and it's basically a PC in a VCR case.
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Does anyone really expect to be able to run the latest kernel on their 386/486 machines? Let's think about it: Your system was built and purchased probably between 1989 and 1992. It is now almost 2002. That's really not a bad run for something so antiquated. Should the people who work on the modern 2.4 (and now 2.5) kernels really have to bend over backwards to support such ancient hardware? If you want a kernel for your 10-year-old hardware, use 2.2 or 2.0. If you want to take advantage of new hardware, use 2.4 or 2.5. Why is it that people can't understand this?
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You found this site on Usenet in alt.* somewhere, didn't you? It's a rather alarmist site, wouldn't you say? Almost as if there's some sort of ulterior motive behind it?
Once I've had a problem with PayPal, I'll let you know.
I ask because Linux is a very bad choice, if that's what you're planning on using. How many professional 3D packages are available for Linux? Besides PovRay and Blender?
...you're actually creating legal MP3s?
Sorry, we can't help you with that one.
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In horrible, geriatric, why-does-anyone-still-use-it Netscape 4.77, the only thing I see on that site is a little blue square. I'm guessing the actual content isn't much more interesting.
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I tried installing NetBSD on my car last week, only to find out the transmission in my Yugo is undocumented, and they won't tell me how to bootstrap the thing without having me sign an NDA first.
It's a shame, it really is.
Apple's chips simply run too slow to need any sort of active cooling. Besides, there's no way they'd mess with water cooling, not with the average intelligence of their users. Can you imagine hundreds of electrocuted Mac owners?
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You *do* know there are various different kinds of things that are labeled "MPEG 4", right? Up until recently, we couldn't play "DiVX ;-)" files, for example, on Linux, and that was a hacked-up version of Microsoft's MPEG-4 implementation (which we also couldn't play). The only reason they play on Linux at all is because someone swiped the libraries from a Microsoft player and figured out how to hook into them. Do you really think, once Apple figures out how to make their own, proprietary version of MPEG 4, that Linux will stand a chance in Hades of playing any more movie trailers than it can today?
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Oops, sorry, Allen's is 536-58-3118.
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For example, from a filing from 1995, Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's is:
539-60-5125.
Bill Gates', whose URL I lost, is 539-60-5125.
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