My first year at my high school I helped create a computer club called, F.L.A.T.T. (Forest Lake Area Technology Team).
Our teacher bought various cheap 486s, and whatever parts we could scrap up from varios local schools.
We did so much there. I had already knew a bit or two about computers before then, but this was like a crash course. If we wanted computers for the club we had to build them and get them working with what we had. I had a Mac Plus at home and didn't have much knowledge of PCs, but within 3 months I understood IRQ conflicts, RAM types, processors. I could install Windows 3.11 on a 386 blindfolded with both arms behind my back.
We practiced programming and the club grew. Unfourtunately it shrunk when I left to attend college early. It gave me more computer experience than any other experience so far. It was the best, I learned so much by spending many nights after school trying to get hardware and software configs to work.
The only somewhat mention of our group on the web is at the parrell mac computing site AppleSeed
Hello fellow slashdoters. Has the internet been slow for anyone today? Throughout all of Minnesota it seems we are having a major problem.
I live in St. Cloud (middle of state) and have standard cable modem service. My ping times to slashdot have been rising from 600ms (1:00 pm) to about 1,200ms (7:00 pm). I have a few friends near in the St. Paul/Minneapolis area that have Qwest DSL. They have been disconnected entirely or have extrememly slow ping times also.
I just got off of the telephone with my cable provider, they are experiencing it at their router, and so is their ISP. (which is connected to the backbone in Chicago, and Dallas)
Either a major line was cut somewhere, or the Code Red Worm is on it's cycle.
Has anyone else in Minnesota or the midwest experienced any problems? Because this seems to be at least state wide.
I can only dream of the days when regular people wake up out of their dreams that what they are being told is good for them, is actually good for them. They public doesn't care about Dimitry, the DMCA, hard drive copy protection, getting switched to MSN, having their government lie to them constantly, being lead by elected followers with records of drug abuse, sexual affairs. Why doesn't the world see what it is doing? Do people really go around believing there is a god? They don't care if IE in integrated with windows, it could be linked into their brain, if the majority tells them it's good for them they would do it.
Well what happens when the majority is wrong?
I can't believe the things people do on a day to day basis, I can't believe that as a race of supposedly sentient beings, we live this way. The drugs, the sex, the violence, the dominating government, the dominating companies. We allow this to happen, we live out our little lives only caring about what is good for us in the short term. Well what is supposedly good for you is not good for you! Most slashdotter's seem to realize this fact because they are sometimes doing something about this messed up system we live in. Most everyone in this world is 'The Man's bitch... They take whatever he want's to shove down their throat. Why can't our world be focused on art and science and the developement of mankind. Why does it have to be the circus that it is.
Personally I am working to help out the world as much as I can in my present state. I am putting myself through college working in a job that produces scientific information that can help our understanding of the universe. My income can is refered to as sub-poverty by the government. But I personally am living quite richly because of my wise choices. I am surrounded by several other students who are being put through college by their parents, who have no job and constantly bitch about their life.
I simply wish I lived in a world full of thinkers and leaders, not a world full of ignorant followers.
If you know of a place, please let me know. Please...
This game has great potential, 10,000 simultaneous players, 1/2 scale map of European theatre, playing in any battle as any posistion, and being able to switch posistion. The big problem is that people are still not giving these games a chance. They don't realize that the programmers are not the one's making these choices.
Basically WWII: Online's producer forced it out the door early too. (see: aplha stage) The game is meant to be a pay for play ($10/month), but they are very kindly allowing everyone to just play until the game is completely developed.
WWII: Online isn't even feature complete. I feel for the programmers who have to take this morale beating at the worst time. I definately plan on buying it when it is complete, in about 6 months.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
I read through this review this morning, as I have been an avid fan of the Myth series since the begining. It was way ahead of it's time with it's unique style of gameplay.
Myth III will be available for OS X, as noted in this quote, "Yes, the Mac version will be fully carbonized for those who want to run it under Mac OS X.".
Don't worry about speed either. The reason the last four Mac OS X updates(10.0.1/2/3/4) have not gotten much fanfare is because version 10.1(Codename Puma) is coming out relatively soon. (See MacWorld) It will deal with a lot of the speed issues along with DVD playback also.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Most kids I knew used to get up early to watch Dennis the Menace or whatnot.
I remember I would get up at 5:30 to watch shuttle launches. I was about 7 or 8 at the time, my dad would come down to get ready for work and see me there at 6:00 glued to the TV.
T minus 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.... and we have liftoff!
Time for a big bowl of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Rocketguy has a website. Complete with simulation vidoes, and pictures of where he is building his rocket and centrifuge. ...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Why is everthing on the front page in italics, even the "Read more X out of X comments" section?? ...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
There was this old Solar System simulator for the macintosh that was based on the 'Orion Project'. It was really cool, your could 'fly' around the local star system in real time if you wanted to. At the speeds that would have been possible using the 'Orion Project'.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
If anyone knows if/when this movie is coming to minnesota, please let me know. Thank you.
I have looked all over and i can't find it playing here. ...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
The speaker was talking about how this technology didn't hinder copying of data, so you can copy is, but the 'unique media key' isn't copied, so your CPRM complient player won't play the data, since it can't find the media key.
What would prevent people from creating their own media players that don't follow the CPRM standard, and play the data (video, audio, etc.) regardless of the media key.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Watching the lecture now...
on
CPRM Lecture
·
· Score: 2
I was watching the lecture, and after about 5 minutes of the Prof. talking about how you had to be to 8 of the 10 lectures, otherwise you wouldn't get credit, I realized that I was late for my Astronomy class....
Oh well...
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
I had my own pathintosh for a while, when I put my mac into tupperware and used it as an in-car MP3 player. It was pretty cool. Now I just use my tupperware boxes as servers, because they're small and cool.
It was controlled via a laptop keypad, and I used an AppleScript I wrote that would play MP3s through SoundApp. I even had it where it would read the names of the songs out loud. All of this was done off of one CD-RW which was bootable. I never used a hard drive, because I feared the bumps would damage it.
I recently made two servers out of tupperware cases. You know the blue ones with the little locking handles...
Well anyway, I thought it was clever. They are rather small and fit a mid-tower sized motherboard, power supply, and hard drives.
For me(college student) the average $35-50 per case is too expensive and takes up too much room in my dorm closet.
$3 per case, and the whole server fits within 18" x 6" 12".
Lots of people ask about my tupperware computers. But I just smile and respond, "I don't care what it looks like, it works doesn't it."
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
I'm not bashing Pluto, but I really don't mind having eight planets. They argue how they should define a planet, whether by size or orbit type.
I just think we should define a planet as an object of a certain mass and diameter (Pluto's size or larger) that orbits on a similar plane as the other more noticable planets.
Instead of it's wierd tilted orbit.
Just my opinion. ...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
I would be on my way there right now... Just to ask for a tour. Someone from/. please go and visit this place for us if it is reasonable accessable for you.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
One thing I need(=really, really want) is IDE Card support for those Mac compatible PCI IDE Cards.
I would love to toss LPPC 2k on my 30 GB IBM Deskstar, but it's connected to one of those in my PM 9500. ...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
I wonder if you are actually writting this view of yours to the consumer. We all know that Linux is not windows or mac os, but in order to become used amoungst the consumer, it'll have to start acting like one of them, by becoming easier. No consumer would ever go through the steps you did to install that mouse, I didn't have to.
Plug In
Turn comp. on
insert CD
Run installer
Reboot
That's a little easier to explain to someone than
"Okay, now 'cd/dev/mouse', what?, no slash-dev!, what? OKay okay, type 'cd/' no, the other slash!"
You keep talking about, "it's easy! edit one line!"
Bullsh*t! No consumer cares where their/etc/X11/XF86Config file is, they just want control panels, and most don't even know where that is! Get out of your geek world with your geek OS. No consumer will want to use it unless it's easy, like windows(excuse the irnony).
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Their list is exactly what Linux will need before it is widely adopted by the consumer. I didn't really see space as the issue, but as more of what linux needs in order to streamline into a consumer OS.
Everyone here on slashdot is yelling about how windows has too much sh*t, well of course it does, but that doesn't stop it from being widely used.
Linux does need easy network/internet config tools for the consumers, linux does need preconfigured network file sharing support for other OSes, and a simple host of applications.
It can't be that hard. I spent all weekend trying to get my damn linksys card working, patching kernels, compiling drivers. The consumer shouldn't have to do that.
Linux needs a consumer front, and an interface that is familar. I've watched some of our sales people try to sell someone a linux system, showing them how to use her zip drive, showing her the mount command, unmount and all of that. Just so she could write files to her zip disk. She said, "That's too much work, just get rid of it and go back to windows."
Someone should write some decent apps for consumers that help set up their computer on install. Some nice scripts that automount the CD. Setup Internet access, set up filesharing. Like *gasp* the enemy OSes do.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
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All said and done I was able to toss a grapefruit about 60-70 feet with only 30 pounds of counterweight.
Pretty cool... I've always wanted to build a big one.
My first year at my high school I helped create a computer club called, F.L.A.T.T. (Forest Lake Area Technology Team).
Our teacher bought various cheap 486s, and whatever parts we could scrap up from varios local schools.
We did so much there. I had already knew a bit or two about computers before then, but this was like a crash course. If we wanted computers for the club we had to build them and get them working with what we had. I had a Mac Plus at home and didn't have much knowledge of PCs, but within 3 months I understood IRQ conflicts, RAM types, processors. I could install Windows 3.11 on a 386 blindfolded with both arms behind my back.
We practiced programming and the club grew. Unfourtunately it shrunk when I left to attend college early. It gave me more computer experience than any other experience so far. It was the best, I learned so much by spending many nights after school trying to get hardware and software configs to work.
The only somewhat mention of our group on the web is at the parrell mac computing site AppleSeed
Hello fellow slashdoters. Has the internet been slow for anyone today? Throughout all of Minnesota it seems we are having a major problem.
I live in St. Cloud (middle of state) and have standard cable modem service. My ping times to slashdot have been rising from 600ms (1:00 pm) to about 1,200ms (7:00 pm). I have a few friends near in the St. Paul/Minneapolis area that have Qwest DSL. They have been disconnected entirely or have extrememly slow ping times also.
I just got off of the telephone with my cable provider, they are experiencing it at their router, and so is their ISP. (which is connected to the backbone in Chicago, and Dallas)
Either a major line was cut somewhere, or the Code Red Worm is on it's cycle.
Has anyone else in Minnesota or the midwest experienced any problems? Because this seems to be at least state wide.
I can only dream of the days when regular people wake up out of their dreams that what they are being told is good for them, is actually good for them. They public doesn't care about Dimitry, the DMCA, hard drive copy protection, getting switched to MSN, having their government lie to them constantly, being lead by elected followers with records of drug abuse, sexual affairs. Why doesn't the world see what it is doing? Do people really go around believing there is a god? They don't care if IE in integrated with windows, it could be linked into their brain, if the majority tells them it's good for them they would do it.
Well what happens when the majority is wrong?
I can't believe the things people do on a day to day basis, I can't believe that as a race of supposedly sentient beings, we live this way. The drugs, the sex, the violence, the dominating government, the dominating companies. We allow this to happen, we live out our little lives only caring about what is good for us in the short term. Well what is supposedly good for you is not good for you! Most slashdotter's seem to realize this fact because they are sometimes doing something about this messed up system we live in. Most everyone in this world is 'The Man's bitch... They take whatever he want's to shove down their throat. Why can't our world be focused on art and science and the developement of mankind. Why does it have to be the circus that it is.
Personally I am working to help out the world as much as I can in my present state. I am putting myself through college working in a job that produces scientific information that can help our understanding of the universe. My income can is refered to as sub-poverty by the government. But I personally am living quite richly because of my wise choices. I am surrounded by several other students who are being put through college by their parents, who have no job and constantly bitch about their life.
I simply wish I lived in a world full of thinkers and leaders, not a world full of ignorant followers.
If you know of a place, please let me know. Please...
Man, now using that form of grammar in the NYTimes would grab any english major's attention. It had me thinking for a second, or thirty...
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Mod this puppy up, I laughed out loud... He just needed to add the "Buh dum ching"
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Basically WWII: Online's producer forced it out the door early too. (see: aplha stage) The game is meant to be a pay for play ($10/month), but they are very kindly allowing everyone to just play until the game is completely developed.
WWII: Online isn't even feature complete. I feel for the programmers who have to take this morale beating at the worst time. I definately plan on buying it when it is complete, in about 6 months.
I read through this review this morning, as I have been an avid fan of the Myth series since the begining. It was way ahead of it's time with it's unique style of gameplay.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Myth III will be available for OS X, as noted in this quote, "Yes, the Mac version will be fully carbonized for those who want to run it under Mac OS X.".
Don't worry about speed either. The reason the last four Mac OS X updates(10.0.1/2/3/4) have not gotten much fanfare is because version 10.1(Codename Puma) is coming out relatively soon. (See MacWorld) It will deal with a lot of the speed issues along with DVD playback also.
Most kids I knew used to get up early to watch Dennis the Menace or whatnot.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
I remember I would get up at 5:30 to watch shuttle launches. I was about 7 or 8 at the time, my dad would come down to get ready for work and see me there at 6:00 glued to the TV.
T minus 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.... and we have liftoff!
Time for a big bowl of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs.
This a really well done Linux POS system that has been done here. It is really top notch...
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Check it out here and a Screen Shot is here
Rocketguy has a website. Complete with simulation vidoes, and pictures of where he is building his rocket and centrifuge.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Why is everthing on the front page in italics, even the "Read more X out of X comments" section??
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
There was this old Solar System simulator for the macintosh that was based on the 'Orion Project'. It was really cool, your could 'fly' around the local star system in real time if you wanted to. At the speeds that would have been possible using the 'Orion Project'.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
If anyone knows if/when this movie is coming to minnesota, please let me know. Thank you. I have looked all over and i can't find it playing here.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
The speaker was talking about how this technology didn't hinder copying of data, so you can copy is, but the 'unique media key' isn't copied, so your CPRM complient player won't play the data, since it can't find the media key.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
What would prevent people from creating their own media players that don't follow the CPRM standard, and play the data (video, audio, etc.) regardless of the media key.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I was watching the lecture, and after about 5 minutes of the Prof. talking about how you had to be to 8 of the 10 lectures, otherwise you wouldn't get credit, I realized that I was late for my Astronomy class....
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Oh well...
Pictures are located here
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
I had my own pathintosh for a while, when I put my mac into tupperware and used it as an in-car MP3 player. It was pretty cool. Now I just use my tupperware boxes as servers, because they're small and cool.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
It was controlled via a laptop keypad, and I used an AppleScript I wrote that would play MP3s through SoundApp. I even had it where it would read the names of the songs out loud. All of this was done off of one CD-RW which was bootable. I never used a hard drive, because I feared the bumps would damage it.
I recently made two servers out of tupperware cases. You know the blue ones with the little locking handles...
Well anyway, I thought it was clever. They are rather small and fit a mid-tower sized motherboard, power supply, and hard drives.
For me(college student) the average $35-50 per case is too expensive and takes up too much room in my dorm closet.
$3 per case, and the whole server fits within 18" x 6" 12".
Lots of people ask about my tupperware computers. But I just smile and respond, "I don't care what it looks like, it works doesn't it."
I made two servers out of tupperware cases. You know the blue ones with the little locking handles...
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Well anyway, I thought it was clever. They are rather small and fit a mid-tower sized motherboard, power supply, and hard drives.
For me(college student) the average $35-50 per case is too expensive and takes up too much room in my dorm closet.
$3 per case, and the whole server fits within 18" x 6" 12".
Lots of people ask about my tupperware computers. But I just smile and respond, "I don't care what it looks like, it works doesn't it."
I'm not bashing Pluto, but I really don't mind having eight planets. They argue how they should define a planet, whether by size or orbit type.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
I just think we should define a planet as an object of a certain mass and diameter (Pluto's size or larger) that orbits on a similar plane as the other more noticable planets.
Instead of it's wierd tilted orbit.
Just my opinion.
There is a much shorter article in the December 2000 issue of Popular Science.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
In that article it mentions that the creator has plans to build another robot that would be able to search out it's own food source.
I would be on my way there right now... Just to ask for a tour. Someone from /. please go and visit this place for us if it is reasonable accessable for you.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
One thing I need(=really, really want) is IDE Card support for those Mac compatible PCI IDE Cards.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
I would love to toss LPPC 2k on my 30 GB IBM Deskstar, but it's connected to one of those in my PM 9500.
I wonder if you are actually writting this view of yours to the consumer. We all know that Linux is not windows or mac os, but in order to become used amoungst the consumer, it'll have to start acting like one of them, by becoming easier. No consumer would ever go through the steps you did to install that mouse, I didn't have to.
/dev/mouse', what?, no slash-dev!, what? OKay okay, type 'cd /' no, the other slash!"
/etc/X11/XF86Config file is, they just want control panels, and most don't even know where that is! Get out of your geek world with your geek OS. No consumer will want to use it unless it's easy, like windows(excuse the irnony).
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Plug In
Turn comp. on
insert CD
Run installer
Reboot
That's a little easier to explain to someone than
"Okay, now 'cd
You keep talking about, "it's easy! edit one line!"
Bullsh*t! No consumer cares where their
Their list is exactly what Linux will need before it is widely adopted by the consumer. I didn't really see space as the issue, but as more of what linux needs in order to streamline into a consumer OS.
...and I'm not sure we should trust this Kyle Sagan either.
Everyone here on slashdot is yelling about how windows has too much sh*t, well of course it does, but that doesn't stop it from being widely used.
Linux does need easy network/internet config tools for the consumers, linux does need preconfigured network file sharing support for other OSes, and a simple host of applications.
It can't be that hard. I spent all weekend trying to get my damn linksys card working, patching kernels, compiling drivers. The consumer shouldn't have to do that.
Linux needs a consumer front, and an interface that is familar. I've watched some of our sales people try to sell someone a linux system, showing them how to use her zip drive, showing her the mount command, unmount and all of that. Just so she could write files to her zip disk. She said, "That's too much work, just get rid of it and go back to windows."
Someone should write some decent apps for consumers that help set up their computer on install. Some nice scripts that automount the CD. Setup Internet access, set up filesharing. Like *gasp* the enemy OSes do.