I think you are taking a very narrow view of the market. I think that many of not most internet users don't know or care about all the "big bad evils" that plague the hacker of the net, but are more concerned with the usability, ecomomics, and availability of such services.
If you could pay just a little extra for broadband over telephone, is there any reason why NOT to pay that little extra for faster downloads / etc..?
I would just like to say I am very happy with the broadband services provided in Canada. I am in Vancouver, where I can get Cable or (A)DSL. Both services have become very stable over the last year, and their availabilities are almost limitless. A very affordable $40CDN a month is pretty cheap for 400kps cable service that I get now.
The Cable companies Shaw and Rogers support internet basically everywhere you can get regular cable tv. It is fast, and they have scaled reasonaby to meet customer demand. I used to find rogers (when they were in vancouver) a little flaky, but that has all gone away now..
I think adoption of canadian broadband has been sucessful because:
a: Cheap
b: Reasonable to Excellent Quality
c: Availability
It uses lossy encoding. That is why it gets an entire 12:1 gain, or whatever. If you take a 384kps mp3, you will only get a 4:1 file size, but the sound patterns will be a lot closer to that of the original.
There is no use in doing a rewrite unless you do it right from the beginning. If you can't spend a decent amount of time planning the architecture of the system, then stop now, and quit.
Also, since you have decided to pour resources into this thing, then my opinion would be to make as much of your code generic so that you don't have to make code changes later. It doesn't matter if there is an initial performance hit with the systems, becuase in the short term, you can convince your boss to get a new leet server, and in the future, hardware needed to run your apps will be trivially cheap anyway.
If you are going to cut a new release, try to avoid going back and taking snippets of code from your old system. It makes people slide back into the odl paradigm and can cause detrimental effects on the bottom line of your new system. This is new, so the least exposure to the old one, the better.
But, you have never mixed win95 kernels with NT kernels, or vice versa. That was the point made, that the kernel was synonymous with the rest of the OS.
I don't think that it is such a big deal. I was confused to see SunOS 5.8 running on my machine when I explicity installed Solaris 8.. Ohhh...
Coming from a Windows world, it is a tough paradigm to break. Microsoft and Apple have introduced the OS a a very unified, singular object. One could never boot multiple kernels becuase 1. what is a kernel, and 2. YOU NEVER NEED TO!
Sorry to rant at the posters expense (becuas I feel it also), but I think unless they have been tought on Linux, or the few other production version OS's that commonly support multiple kernels, then it isn't necessarily a sign of weakness.
OT: I think that the multiple kernel boot has become so common that it has hindered the chance of progress in respect to a single kernel solution, with a more abstract module or device driver layer.
Hey, this is bull! 99% of canadians don't go around thanking their lucky stars for being behind the US's good graces, Maybe 1%, but the 98% that do think we have an innept millitary JUST DON'T CARE!
As so many have pointed out before, who would waste their time terrorizing Canada? We don't (generally) piss people off, exploit, discriminate, or anything else. The only thing we stink at is environmental protection, so I could see protecters putting spikes in.. prime ministers, but beyond that, I thnk Canadians don't care about national war machines because we have been given no need to fear.
PS: Plutonium is a reactor's byproduct, not the fuel. They use Uranium as the fuel.. That is why the US pushed for atomic energy in the 50's, to harvest plutonium for bombs.
I can't say that I like this issue at all. The music companies have all the rights in the world to do whatever they want to their distributed media, but consumers should also expect that when they buy a product labled as a compact disc, that it can work in all compact disc players. The label at least makes this very clear.
"They've been testing this in Europe and they're experiencing less than a 1 percent return rate from consumers." [ from the article ]
I doubt that the common audio listener cares how their music is stored, as long as it works for them. It is not the medium or presentation, just the content.
Another issue is that if a user has data devices unsupported by the initial copyprotection schemes, that person would be FORCED to pirate the songs in order to play them, because the record company does not supply properly presented CD's or what have you to the consumer.
EG: Minidisks. If I want a minidisk version of some super duper boy band(*chills*) in the US, I would implicitly be forced to copy that content from another source, or suffer without it.
All in all, the way things are turning out, I can only fear that the next musical format released to the world will not be so friendly for people to use. There will always be hackers to break any system that will ever surface, but how do they expect to keep it simple for all the joe six-pack's of the world?
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I have three computers living in a very tiny closet, which would normally kill all three. The trick I used was that the closet has a removable insulated panel which leads to a non-insulated crawl space. By leaving the panel open by varying degrees I can control the temperature in the closet to reasonable while not freezing my ass off outside of it.
Another solution if you don't ned physical access, just leave them in an uninsolated room and close the door. Warning though, watch out for the bugs;-)
MUD's may be popular, but I don't think that player interaction and role playing is enough of a holding factor for so many people.
MUD's may be acceptable for a small segment of die-hard players, but you will never get 10,000 people at any time into a giant chat room to role play.
RRORPG's give a direction for players to move forward, to give people structure in the fact that they are accomplishing things. That may be accomplishing goals, meeting new friends, selling your account on ebay, whatever, but "most people" can and do not become so imersed in a chat room.
Many people join these games for differing reasons. I may join because I love adventuring, becomming a better skilled player, and to meet new friends. Some may just want to pk my ass into dirt. These games are so big, because they give the user strong freedoms over what they do. This is baring many many limitations put in to spoil hard-core cheating.
I think there are some fundamentals that are necessary for a successful, large scale online game.
1 Large worlds to explore, with many hidden suprises
2 diverse character selection process, because the stats junkies love it
3 Simple, intutive chat system
4 Temporary grouping for common gain
5 A longterm allegence structure which benefits everyone in it (I liked the AC experience pyramid a lot)
6 Strong insentives to be a moral player (aka don't be a bastard)
7 Detailed storyline with micro and macro plotlines (player or non-player, I think structure put in for both is good)
8 Trade skills are good if applied right(In DAOC, one thing I really haterdd was that there was no special hinderance in developing trade skills besides the time put in, so a character could spec in trade skills, and still have a non-gimped warrior. It leads to a more general player base without specialization)
9 Good balance between Average and extream character templates (This has killed so many otherwise good games...)
10 Good graphics / sound / playability / controls are always a gooder
11 Ugh.. this list is longer than I thought.
I would love to hear back what others would love to see in an MMORPG, so please respond with some interesting comments;-)
I can relate to the submitter in that I was once very bored with programming, and I found myself less and less interested in the work I was doing. I did some great stuff in school, so it was afterwards(cough java cough) that I began losing my mind. If you keep doing the same inane programming tasks over and over, you should start getting bored. It is human nature to aspire for new things. I think that he / she needs to learn that they will rarely if ever do truly cool things in the industry. The options are three things:
1. Get out - If you are really not liking it, and you don't see the initiative to change your own behaviour, then get out of it. It isn't worth getting burned out after a year because you can't stand what you are doing
2. Jump around - Keep searching for jobs until you finally find somethign that you really like. You probably will get bored with that after a while, so then it is time to move on again...
3. Code for fun - If you really like coding like you where when you were tounger, just sit down after work / school and make something that you want to make. I see that coolest little programs coming from people in university. You have the time and the determination, so go wild!
England changed the world with industrialism. The US just copied what was working for them.
even though everyones' standard of living is rising. Everyones'.
Can you attribute one to the other? Not everyone in the world has increased due to american innovation. Also, When was the last time quality of living went down? I can imaging it was long before the letters USA were ever deamed up.
The more important question should be, who's quality of living is rising more?
Despite most of the comments here, I cannot believe your the gaul. It is easy to compare a collage education to, well life.
"you should cancel my debt, I just graduated from college, blah blah blah"
Maybe you haven't heard of bankrupcy? You can get all your debt released. You just get a black mark on your record, just like these countrys do.
I cannot believe you are so naive as to compare 3rd world debt and your education. It may be hard for you, not getting a grant, having to work at mcdonalds for years just to get admittance. Well, if these people don't get our (1st world) help, their people die. May of them die. If you cannot support an economy, you cannot trade with the world. If you can't trade with the world or receive donation, you cannot advance at the pace of the world at large. So, the country rots, with the population never changing, never escaping their depressed state.
Grow your own goddamned corn and feed yourselves, and build your own industrial infrastructure, and your own educational institutions, and call us in 200 years
You are missing the point of being the loser in the game. If I, the 3rd world country was isolated from outside economies, I would grow at a rate FAR slower than any countrys that could amply produce goods for one another. Being able to grow faster means that they will always have a leg up on the other countries. Fastforward 200 years, and 3rd world country A has been working very hard to build up their industry.
Result: They can produce what 1st world countries can today, and 1st world nations will be colonizing Mars, or k-Pax, or wherever. All I am saying is that 3rd world nations will never get better. They could get some money if they had natural resources, but generally if they are still in that situation, they either never had any, or it taken from colonial times.
But hey, as long as you're happy, who cares right?
In a perfect world, you can ignore the "core values", but you are not in a perfect world.
* respect for one another
* cooperation
* intellectual and spiritual growth
* creative imaginings
* pride in a job well done
I don't really know the scope of the program, but what could it hurt? How does this program hinder your education, speaking of education, aren't each of the bullets quailities of an educated person?
Once again with affirmative action, what harm does it protray that they are protraying minorities in the school? I went to a school that did the same thing. It is not a hit to you. You know you have a say in the university, but those minority individuals must feel pretty unempowered in a place where racial discrimination still happens. To know that they are not burried or ignored can only help improve their lives.
Now if some racist parent refuses to send their kid to a school with a person on the cover, then SO BE IT!
This is the reason a well rounded education is important. Personally, this person does not seem to be a well enlightened kid. I am not trying to bash him; I know he is in high school and all, but he must understand that cowering in a croner by ones-self is not the optimal solution to solving problems, or living one's life.
The first thing they did to us when I went to post-secondary, the grouped us randomly into roughly 20 people, and these people were your life line. Almost every project done was in groups, and all the classes were taken with the same people. This is the way life is when you are in the real world, so it makes sence to teach that concept in school. You don't chose the people you work with, but 99% of the time, you will be forced to work with people you: A - Hate, B - think are incompitent, or C - Can work well with.
I am telling you son, it will be a hard life for you if you can't play nice with the "idiots". Maybe you can be like me, and concider everyone the same... Well I am trying..
I don't think you can concider the ability to learn on atomic and black and white skill. A parent who has a high school can't exactly teach their childern on how to best conduct long term research projects.
Every level of one's education, one either intuitively aquires skills needed to perform their tasks, or the are taught them. In high school, they tried to teach proper "life skills", which would help us benefit in the future, but since there was such a broad audiance, there was no way to suit everyones future ambitions.
Collage / University is just the process of narrowing down the sample so that the individual is getting the teaching and skills that are most suited to their interests.
In my school, the graduates were not necessarily the most intellectual or brighttest, but the ones that could best adapt to the situation that they were put in.
Difference:Kevin Mitnick was American, so it automagically negated all international laws. Just look at the American position on the international courts to see that they are backwater, and above any international rules.
Second, Kevin was presecutd for his crimes.
Third, the US on "harbored" hime because he was a criminal. I am sure if there was a legal case in other contreys against him, the US would have let him be sentenced by them also.
To harbor someone, you must knowingly be protecting them from an external entity. You can't say that Sklyarov was being harbored by Russia, becuase they probably didn't know he had commited a crime. Now, if the Iranian gov (Example only) decided to commit cyberspace attacks against the US to disrupt trade, then they would be harboring criminals of the US.
Now my moral boundary approaches.. Can you concider a hacker a terrorist for commiting acts against a nation, or national interests? It is tough. If I hacked into the US's nucular armorment and pressed the button, I would probably be a terrorist, but the same shouldn't be said about someone trying to disassemble a program, etc..
Credit cards are insured minus the deducatable, which is like $50. Plus, I am sure you can recoup that from the company that was hacked, or the gov, or something... Yeah the insurance companies, but they know the risks.
We will rise up, and wipe the world of all those infidel non-computer freaks. For our faith in the inane and bloody, we will be granted into the highest form of life, T1 connections!
We do run X windows on the board. It was a lot of "fun". I would like the fantastic people on the Xfree86 project, expecially Keith Packard, and Jim Getty for writing the "Tiny X" server. It is just like normal X Windows(same extensions), but lacks the unimportant features that an embedded device does not need, like laodable modules, or configuration files for different hardware layouts.
All in all, the libraries are ~2mb and the X server is ~700k. Then add all the extras, for another ~1mb.
So, for around 3-5mb, you can run X off the cerfpod.
By taking a position of superiority you show how nearsighted you are. Thus Spake ADRA
You can actually hot swap the CF cards on the fly. The static issue is becuase the PCB is exposed, so there is a chance for the individual to touch some component and have it burn out.
The static grounding makes it safe to touch the electronics inside. You don't have to tiptoe around the thing with the fear of frying it.
My words, are my own, thanks.
By taking a position of superiority you show how nearsighted you are. Thus Spake ADRA
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I think you are taking a very narrow view of the market. I think that many of not most internet users don't know or care about all the "big bad evils" that plague the hacker of the net, but are more concerned with the usability, ecomomics, and availability of such services.
If you could pay just a little extra for broadband over telephone, is there any reason why NOT to pay that little extra for faster downloads / etc..?
I would just like to say I am very happy with the broadband services provided in Canada. I am in Vancouver, where I can get Cable or (A)DSL. Both services have become very stable over the last year, and their availabilities are almost limitless. A very affordable $40CDN a month is pretty cheap for 400kps cable service that I get now.
The Cable companies Shaw and Rogers support internet basically everywhere you can get regular cable tv. It is fast, and they have scaled reasonaby to meet customer demand. I used to find rogers (when they were in vancouver) a little flaky, but that has all gone away now..
I think adoption of canadian broadband has been sucessful because:
a: Cheap
b: Reasonable to Excellent Quality
c: Availability
Keep up the good work guys!
It uses lossy encoding. That is why it gets an entire 12:1 gain, or whatever. If you take a 384kps mp3, you will only get a 4:1 file size, but the sound patterns will be a lot closer to that of the original.
There is no use in doing a rewrite unless you do it right from the beginning. If you can't spend a decent amount of time planning the architecture of the system, then stop now, and quit.
Also, since you have decided to pour resources into this thing, then my opinion would be to make as much of your code generic so that you don't have to make code changes later. It doesn't matter if there is an initial performance hit with the systems, becuase in the short term, you can convince your boss to get a new leet server, and in the future, hardware needed to run your apps will be trivially cheap anyway.
If you are going to cut a new release, try to avoid going back and taking snippets of code from your old system. It makes people slide back into the odl paradigm and can cause detrimental effects on the bottom line of your new system. This is new, so the least exposure to the old one, the better.
Because I can play al my favorite games on it. It's got it all, baby!
But, you have never mixed win95 kernels with NT kernels, or vice versa. That was the point made, that the kernel was synonymous with the rest of the OS.
I don't think that it is such a big deal. I was confused to see SunOS 5.8 running on my machine when I explicity installed Solaris 8.. Ohhh...
Coming from a Windows world, it is a tough paradigm to break. Microsoft and Apple have introduced the OS a a very unified, singular object. One could never boot multiple kernels becuase 1. what is a kernel, and 2. YOU NEVER NEED TO!
Sorry to rant at the posters expense (becuas I feel it also), but I think unless they have been tought on Linux, or the few other production version OS's that commonly support multiple kernels, then it isn't necessarily a sign of weakness.
OT: I think that the multiple kernel boot has become so common that it has hindered the chance of progress in respect to a single kernel solution, with a more abstract module or device driver layer.
Was this in Computer Science, or Information Systems Management? There is a world off difference starting with IQ, personallity, ..
Hey, this is bull! 99% of canadians don't go around thanking their lucky stars for being behind the US's good graces, Maybe 1%, but the 98% that do think we have an innept millitary JUST DON'T CARE!
As so many have pointed out before, who would waste their time terrorizing Canada? We don't (generally) piss people off, exploit, discriminate, or anything else. The only thing we stink at is environmental protection, so I could see protecters putting spikes in.. prime ministers, but beyond that, I thnk Canadians don't care about national war machines because we have been given no need to fear.
PS: Plutonium is a reactor's byproduct, not the fuel. They use Uranium as the fuel.. That is why the US pushed for atomic energy in the 50's, to harvest plutonium for bombs.
I can't say that I like this issue at all. The music companies have all the rights in the world to do whatever they want to their distributed media, but consumers should also expect that when they buy a product labled as a compact disc, that it can work in all compact disc players. The label at least makes this very clear.
"They've been testing this in Europe and they're experiencing less than a 1 percent return rate from consumers." [ from the article ]
I doubt that the common audio listener cares how their music is stored, as long as it works for them. It is not the medium or presentation, just the content.
Another issue is that if a user has data devices unsupported by the initial copyprotection schemes, that person would be FORCED to pirate the songs in order to play them, because the record company does not supply properly presented CD's or what have you to the consumer.
EG: Minidisks. If I want a minidisk version of some super duper boy band(*chills*) in the US, I would implicitly be forced to copy that content from another source, or suffer without it.
All in all, the way things are turning out, I can only fear that the next musical format released to the world will not be so friendly for people to use. There will always be hackers to break any system that will ever surface, but how do they expect to keep it simple for all the joe six-pack's of the world?
I have three computers living in a very tiny closet, which would normally kill all three. The trick I used was that the closet has a removable insulated panel which leads to a non-insulated crawl space. By leaving the panel open by varying degrees I can control the temperature in the closet to reasonable while not freezing my ass off outside of it.
;-)
Another solution if you don't ned physical access, just leave them in an uninsolated room and close the door. Warning though, watch out for the bugs
All I can say about this article is their Serif fonts are crazy!!!
I couldn't look at it more than 2 seconds without going cross eyed.
MUD's may be popular, but I don't think that player interaction and role playing is enough of a holding factor for so many people.
;-)
MUD's may be acceptable for a small segment of die-hard players, but you will never get 10,000 people at any time into a giant chat room to role play.
RRORPG's give a direction for players to move forward, to give people structure in the fact that they are accomplishing things. That may be accomplishing goals, meeting new friends, selling your account on ebay, whatever, but "most people" can and do not become so imersed in a chat room.
Many people join these games for differing reasons. I may join because I love adventuring, becomming a better skilled player, and to meet new friends. Some may just want to pk my ass into dirt. These games are so big, because they give the user strong freedoms over what they do. This is baring many many limitations put in to spoil hard-core cheating.
I think there are some fundamentals that are necessary for a successful, large scale online game.
1 Large worlds to explore, with many hidden suprises
2 diverse character selection process, because the stats junkies love it
3 Simple, intutive chat system
4 Temporary grouping for common gain
5 A longterm allegence structure which benefits everyone in it (I liked the AC experience pyramid a lot)
6 Strong insentives to be a moral player (aka don't be a bastard)
7 Detailed storyline with micro and macro plotlines (player or non-player, I think structure put in for both is good)
8 Trade skills are good if applied right(In DAOC, one thing I really haterdd was that there was no special hinderance in developing trade skills besides the time put in, so a character could spec in trade skills, and still have a non-gimped warrior. It leads to a more general player base without specialization)
9 Good balance between Average and extream character templates (This has killed so many otherwise good games...)
10 Good graphics / sound / playability / controls are always a gooder
11 Ugh.. this list is longer than I thought.
I would love to hear back what others would love to see in an MMORPG, so please respond with some interesting comments
I can relate to the submitter in that I was once very bored with programming, and I found myself less and less interested in the work I was doing. I did some great stuff in school, so it was afterwards(cough java cough) that I began losing my mind. If you keep doing the same inane programming tasks over and over, you should start getting bored. It is human nature to aspire for new things. I think that he / she needs to learn that they will rarely if ever do truly cool things in the industry. The options are three things:
1. Get out - If you are really not liking it, and you don't see the initiative to change your own behaviour, then get out of it. It isn't worth getting burned out after a year because you can't stand what you are doing
2. Jump around - Keep searching for jobs until you finally find somethign that you really like. You probably will get bored with that after a while, so then it is time to move on again...
3. Code for fun - If you really like coding like you where when you were tounger, just sit down after work / school and make something that you want to make. I see that coolest little programs coming from people in university. You have the time and the determination, so go wild!
England changed the world with industrialism. The US just copied what was working for them.
even though everyones' standard of living is rising. Everyones'.
Can you attribute one to the other? Not everyone in the world has increased due to american innovation. Also, When was the last time quality of living went down? I can imaging it was long before the letters USA were ever deamed up.
The more important question should be, who's quality of living is rising more?
What humanity.
Despite most of the comments here, I cannot believe your the gaul. It is easy to compare a collage education to, well life.
"you should cancel my debt, I just graduated from college, blah blah blah"
Maybe you haven't heard of bankrupcy? You can get all your debt released. You just get a black mark on your record, just like these countrys do.
I cannot believe you are so naive as to compare 3rd world debt and your education. It may be hard for you, not getting a grant, having to work at mcdonalds for years just to get admittance. Well, if these people don't get our (1st world) help, their people die. May of them die. If you cannot support an economy, you cannot trade with the world. If you can't trade with the world or receive donation, you cannot advance at the pace of the world at large. So, the country rots, with the population never changing, never escaping their depressed state.
Grow your own goddamned corn and feed yourselves, and build your own industrial infrastructure, and your own educational institutions, and call us in 200 years
You are missing the point of being the loser in the game. If I, the 3rd world country was isolated from outside economies, I would grow at a rate FAR slower than any countrys that could amply produce goods for one another. Being able to grow faster means that they will always have a leg up on the other countries. Fastforward 200 years, and 3rd world country A has been working very hard to build up their industry.
Result: They can produce what 1st world countries can today, and 1st world nations will be colonizing Mars, or k-Pax, or wherever. All I am saying is that 3rd world nations will never get better. They could get some money if they had natural resources, but generally if they are still in that situation, they either never had any, or it taken from colonial times.
But hey, as long as you're happy, who cares right?
No loss to me on this one ;-)
In a perfect world, you can ignore the "core values", but you are not in a perfect world.
* respect for one another
* cooperation
* intellectual and spiritual growth
* creative imaginings
* pride in a job well done
I don't really know the scope of the program, but what could it hurt? How does this program hinder your education, speaking of education, aren't each of the bullets quailities of an educated person?
Once again with affirmative action, what harm does it protray that they are protraying minorities in the school? I went to a school that did the same thing. It is not a hit to you. You know you have a say in the university, but those minority individuals must feel pretty unempowered in a place where racial discrimination still happens. To know that they are not burried or ignored can only help improve their lives.
Now if some racist parent refuses to send their kid to a school with a person on the cover, then SO BE IT!
This is the reason a well rounded education is important. Personally, this person does not seem to be a well enlightened kid. I am not trying to bash him; I know he is in high school and all, but he must understand that cowering in a croner by ones-self is not the optimal solution to solving problems, or living one's life.
.. Well I am trying..
The first thing they did to us when I went to post-secondary, the grouped us randomly into roughly 20 people, and these people were your life line. Almost every project done was in groups, and all the classes were taken with the same people. This is the way life is when you are in the real world, so it makes sence to teach that concept in school. You don't chose the people you work with, but 99% of the time, you will be forced to work with people you: A - Hate, B - think are incompitent, or C - Can work well with.
I am telling you son, it will be a hard life for you if you can't play nice with the "idiots". Maybe you can be like me, and concider everyone the same.
I don't think you can concider the ability to learn on atomic and black and white skill. A parent who has a high school can't exactly teach their childern on how to best conduct long term research projects.
Every level of one's education, one either intuitively aquires skills needed to perform their tasks, or the are taught them. In high school, they tried to teach proper "life skills", which would help us benefit in the future, but since there was such a broad audiance, there was no way to suit everyones future ambitions.
Collage / University is just the process of narrowing down the sample so that the individual is getting the teaching and skills that are most suited to their interests.
In my school, the graduates were not necessarily the most intellectual or brighttest, but the ones that could best adapt to the situation that they were put in.
Difference:Kevin Mitnick was American, so it automagically negated all international laws. Just look at the American position on the international courts to see that they are backwater, and above any international rules.
Second, Kevin was presecutd for his crimes.
Third, the US on "harbored" hime because he was a criminal. I am sure if there was a legal case in other contreys against him, the US would have let him be sentenced by them also.
To harbor someone, you must knowingly be protecting them from an external entity. You can't say that Sklyarov was being harbored by Russia, becuase they probably didn't know he had commited a crime. Now, if the Iranian gov (Example only) decided to commit cyberspace attacks against the US to disrupt trade, then they would be harboring criminals of the US.
Now my moral boundary approaches.. Can you concider a hacker a terrorist for commiting acts against a nation, or national interests? It is tough. If I hacked into the US's nucular armorment and pressed the button, I would probably be a terrorist, but the same shouldn't be said about someone trying to disassemble a program, etc..
Credit cards are insured minus the deducatable, which is like $50. Plus, I am sure you can recoup that from the company that was hacked, or the gov, or something... Yeah the insurance companies, but they know the risks.
We will rise up, and wipe the world of all those infidel non-computer freaks. For our faith in the inane and bloody, we will be granted into the highest form of life, T1 connections!
Daniel from Intrinsyc:
We do run X windows on the board. It was a lot of "fun". I would like the fantastic people on the Xfree86 project, expecially Keith Packard, and Jim Getty for writing the "Tiny X" server. It is just like normal X Windows(same extensions), but lacks the unimportant features that an embedded device does not need, like laodable modules, or configuration files for different hardware layouts.
All in all, the libraries are ~2mb and the X server is ~700k. Then add all the extras, for another ~1mb.
So, for around 3-5mb, you can run X off the cerfpod.
By taking a position of superiority you show how nearsighted you are. Thus Spake ADRA
Daniel from Intrinsyc:
You can actually hot swap the CF cards on the fly. The static issue is becuase the PCB is exposed, so there is a chance for the individual to touch some component and have it burn out.
The static grounding makes it safe to touch the electronics inside. You don't have to tiptoe around the thing with the fear of frying it.
My words, are my own, thanks.
By taking a position of superiority you show how nearsighted you are. Thus Spake ADRA