I live in South Dakota. You're telling me that the lack of intelligence here could be caused by pollutants? This is one of the lowest-emmision states in the US.
Everywhere else I've gone in the nation has at least had some ensembles of intelligent commerce and life in general. Not here. Then again, these _are_ hicks we're talking about.
I'm not much of a "professinal" photographer, but I like photography a lot, and like experimenting.
For me, everything ends up digital anyway, and that's how it's all distributed. Film isn't an option for me, really, due to the price of film and its development.
For what I do - taking pictures, editing them, and putting them on the web, digital is good enough quality. (for published stuff tho, I'd probably only use "film" cameras. not taht any of my stuff would ever get published)
I currently don't have a digital camera, but I've fallen in love with Sony's Mavica line. They produce fairly high quality images, have the ability to take mpeg movies, and have very inexpensive storage - floppies. That makes for great transport and cross-platformability. (if that's a word)
They should have just launched the living quarters module with the station itself! It would have saved them the repostitioning launch, as well as a 3rd launch for the module.
Or why not have made the module a part of hte station itself? Everyone that modules are slow and inefficient compared to something compiled directly to the kernel. I mean, it IS an essential component of operation. Sheesh, these NASA boys must run windows or something.
...why are things being "delayed" until 2007? If the technology is available, why not go for it ASAP, if it will increase performance, decrease pollution and fuel consumption all at once?
Yet another example of how large corporations become inefficient after they reach a certain "breaking point" size.
I agree. People might take it as an offense, but the only reason they're saying it's not porn is because they view it, and they don't like the stigmatism of looking at porn. They view porn as a bad thing (and it is).
People that defend pornography generally view pornography. At least, that's what I've seen.
Would an instant on computer not make computer pogram stability a near-useless feature? For me, loss of work isn't my fear through a crash - it's sitting their on my white skinny butt for X minutes while my machine reboots.
I switched to linux to prevent that. (And to geek around more, but that's another story.) Would such a thing make Linux's main strong point null, or would linux be able to develop it's other fields - digital image/video editing, audio, games, workstation software - in time to surpass wintel products, on a quality based assessment alone?
What about wire interferance? At those speeds, you're sure to have a lot of collisions. You'd even have collisions INTERNALLY at those speeds! Forget network traffic...
Floating point has a lot to do with mathmatical computations. In such a case, the K6-3 would be a lot higher than the athlon. I am not sure where the P3 comes in there, or the alpha, tho.
BeOS r5 for linux has been available for several days already! I've got a tarball on my system labeled "BeOS4Linux.tar.gz" and a date of Mar 28 19:46 on it!
I wasn't able to get on the FTP servers until a day or so after the initial release of R5 was available, and it took me maybe two days to get the whole thing due to a craptacular connection. I don't see how this item should allow for a slashdot posting, let alone several days after the fact.:(
Of course, I could be wrong. In such an event, I'd appreciate someone letting me know.
Every day, it seems, we hear more and more news about the government or a psychotic group trying to create a monitoring system to "protect" citizens from ourselves. Ironic, how the minority get removed from society. Creative, slef thinking individuals are the first to go - and why? Because we're abe to see things from our own point of view, which we we don't allow to be easily swayed by popular opinion.
I'm only 17, and things have gotten really crappy as far as freedom is concerned, in my lifetime. So many less freedoms, involving pretty much everything: guns, freedom of speech, equal rights. This country of the US of A seems a lot more like the psychotic, relativistic, humanistic, communistic, socialistic regime in Orwell's 1984 every day instead of a freedom based, God-centered nation that respects individuals.
I'm guessing that TV networks will start implimenting some type of "encryption" that will disable the copy of it, or the exclusion of the commercials, from the copy, if it comes down to devices that block out commercials. Either that, or maybe start charging extra fees for people with commercial blocking devices.
Many people would rather sit there and watch commercials than stare at a blank screen, anyway.
I personally enjoy watching my HTML load on a slow dialup connection.
And of course, we need to ask the question, "How many of these unemployed IT workers are actually of quality?"
There are sooo many people in colleges nowaday that are in IT type career paths merely because they heard it makes money. IT requires a good deal of maintanance. These people party and don't spend any time on their studies.
I'm sure a lot of people have experienced problems with NT servers or other win32 systems that have mounted shares on them go down one time or another. For me, this has led to a lot of irritation. There really don't seem to be too many easy ways to deal with this issue currently. Crontab doesn't quite cut it.
My question: When, if ever, do you see samba having a "dynamic mounting" of shares? Possibly a smbshares.conf that is read any each mount specified is monitored for activity. If the share dies, it is unmounted until it is available again, at which time it is remounted.
Think back to CDR's, before they first came out. First we had ity technology allowing us to write to a disk, still in the development stage. Shortly thereafter, we saw CDR drives on the market. Then a little while later, we had the immergance of CDRW's.
If this technology takes off, I'd say it's fairly likely that we'd see Tape-RW within several years due to special coating on the disks, or different poly types.
I personally don't see tape storage as making a comeback too extensively - unless we could have say, a 10gb tape and a 100gb tape (that would be one BIG roll!), and use them in the same drive. The possibility of someone packaging something up with it seems too high to me, and even the amount of space that such disks would take up compared to heftier CD-type disks. I think that DVD-RW is more likely to become mainstream, with probable higher densities as time goes on.
I'm by no means an old timer when it comes to computers or console gaming (first computer was in 96, first console was in 92 - Pentium 66 and NES, repsectively. About 2nd and 7th grades.) but I remember playing for hours and hours on the NES, which obviously resulted in blisters.
I remember playing Super Mario Brothers 3 and Zelda (mostly zelda - what a game! It's still a lot of fun to play the original) as a tike right up until my bedtime. Having played all day, and not wanted to have to restart from scratch, I would unplug the adapter from the back of the TV, and put a video cassette box in front of the power light so that my parents would be unaware that it was still on (they didn't like it - thought it was a fire hazzard or something). I would then get up early in the morning merely to finish my game. Sadly, many times I'd come back to find that it had crashed/frozen. Very upsetting at the time.
Back to the topic of blisters and such!:) The original NES controllers were hardly agronomic, and gave me terrible soreness after many hours of play. (we could also complain about the ~60hz refresh of the TV... after 8 or so hours, that can give you one splitting headache at relateively close range...):) (the gameboy was even worse, for that matter...) Still, something must be said for these device's durability. I myself never owned a gameboy, but serveral of my friends have, and their gameboys took/take tremendous beatings. If any newer devices that are similar in build (say, the palm) were to get dropped, stepped on, thrown, run over, submerged in water, etc, they most certainly would be destroyed. But I've seen the gameboy go through all that and survive, and rarely have cosmetic disorder, even. (I think this is because Nintendo of America seems to have a projected audience of 5-10 year olds in mind when they make their products... just a guess.)
still, every blister I got playing those games was well worth it. It made the game a lasting memory in my mind, made it a special event. No pain, no gain. I think that giving game players gloves to use free of charge will partially ruin the game experience for many of the players, minimalizing the preserverence that goes into beating a game.
More than likely, the main people playing mario party will be little kids - Mario gets fairly irritating for me, and would even if they made a sexy game with a quake 3 style engine using the guy. Considering that Mario is a kid thing, to a great extent, many of those gloves might go completely disused. (I know I wouldn't have used a glove... you lose tactility by adding an extra layer. Even I realized that at a young age - but maybe not with that verbiage.):)
Before Hitler started taking over Europe, he made all of the "citizens" or Germany register their firearms.
Right before he started his conquest, he took everyones' guns away. In this fashion, the discontented, starved, and oppressed people of Germany couldn't fight back.
I would have thought that the lession would have been learned...
So THAT's why my little brother always beats me in Quake 2 and Half-Life! No wonder he likes those female skins so much. (And he says it's because he likes the female death scenes! It's probably part of it.... but I think he likes his _edge_.)
That's cool technology and all, but... to me it (wireless/airport) just seems to ruin the geekyness of networking.
I mean, c'mon, what rocks more than taking the afternoon to lug half a dozen boxes to a central locality, spend an hour getting config info set, wires strung, and systems powered for a LAN fest? Wireless just kills the fun there. I mean, I just love to sit there playing Half-life or Quake 3 and have a large mass of RJ45 cable under my chair because it wasn't economical to cut. Having so much extra slack might hinder bandwidtha little, but so what? It's worth it.
It just makes sooo much sence to have miles and miles of cable obliterated in turn for excessively high-speed vibrations in our air waves. I mean, come on, what harm could high-speed vibrations in the air do, really? It's not like you'll get sick from it. And you can just use a different frequency if the one you're using is already taken. There are plenty available, and I'm -sure- the FCC is more than willing to allow just about anyone to use them free of charge.
It is my opinion, that, had some of his responses been posted on/. in the form of comments, they would have been given "flame" modification.
Katz seems to get very offended about certain questions that challenge his motives. He claims that such individuals are in the minority. If this were so, then these paticular questions would not have been moderated up, and thus would not be given to Katz in the first place.
This articles sounds a lot like "dribble" to me. It is a defense of things that he stands for - even though it is obvious to a majority of the/. community that he is slightly off base. It is my opinion that his reply is merely Katz krap.
I can imagine what these CAVEs are used for after hours! Just think, several socially-inept geeks working for the government, who happen to be working on CAVE, which is used to work on new weapon designs? Can we say, "I-am-going-back-to-grab-some-papers - and-maybe-play-some-quake3d"?
That, and a miriad of other practical entertainment applications, of course.
The average desktop user has not yet heard of linux, and has yet to pronounce it correctly. Most "average" users are still trying to figure out why they need a modem to use the internet. (Sadly, either that or similar situations are true.)
I find it interesting and surprising that ppclinux.apple.com has the "standard" linux penguin graphic on it for several reasons.
One, everyone knows that Macs specialize in graphical applications. The quality of that image should be better than that.
Two, they're a very large, prestigous company. The site looks very amature and slopped together. The penguin GIF is very poor quality, as stated before, and even the color is more lossy than is acceptable with GIFs. On even a cursory glance, one could tell that not much attention was paid to the site's HTML.
I also find it unprofessional that the link buttons are not the same as one ones on apple.com, which makes the site look somewhat like it is not an official part of Apple's site. (It's apparently sponsored by apple, but there's not a single link from their main site.) Not to label apple as bad - I actually now like Apple quite a bit, due to their spec releases, OS/X, and various other things. I just find that there is hardly any effort put forth in such a simple thing as a web site.
Considering that the G4 and Athlon have very similar architectures, I think it would be very logical to make a port to the k7.
Also, I believe Apple has the skill to make a very good athlon board. And, with the use of things such as firewire, Apple could really turn things around quick in the market. We'd have an x86 processor system with all the goodies that are normally reserved to motorolla processored systems. (theoretically) Probably would even be able to get the athlon up to the PC200 that it's capable of, I'd hope.
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Everywhere else I've gone in the nation has at least had some ensembles of intelligent commerce and life in general. Not here. Then again, these _are_ hicks we're talking about.
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For me, everything ends up digital anyway, and that's how it's all distributed. Film isn't an option for me, really, due to the price of film and its development.
For what I do - taking pictures, editing them, and putting them on the web, digital is good enough quality. (for published stuff tho, I'd probably only use "film" cameras. not taht any of my stuff would ever get published)
I currently don't have a digital camera, but I've fallen in love with Sony's Mavica line. They produce fairly high quality images, have the ability to take mpeg movies, and have very inexpensive storage - floppies. That makes for great transport and cross-platformability. (if that's a word)
Well, that's quite enough nonsense for now.
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Or why not have made the module a part of hte station itself? Everyone that modules are slow and inefficient compared to something compiled directly to the kernel. I mean, it IS an essential component of operation. Sheesh, these NASA boys must run windows or something.
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Yet another example of how large corporations become inefficient after they reach a certain "breaking point" size.
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People that defend pornography generally view pornography. At least, that's what I've seen.
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I switched to linux to prevent that. (And to geek around more, but that's another story.) Would such a thing make Linux's main strong point null, or would linux be able to develop it's other fields - digital image/video editing, audio, games, workstation software - in time to surpass wintel products, on a quality based assessment alone?
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BeOS r5 for linux has been available for several days already! I've got a tarball on my system labeled "BeOS4Linux.tar.gz" and a date of Mar 28 19:46 on it!
I wasn't able to get on the FTP servers until a day or so after the initial release of R5 was available, and it took me maybe two days to get the whole thing due to a craptacular connection. I don't see how this item should allow for a slashdot posting, let alone several days after the fact. :(
Of course, I could be wrong. In such an event, I'd appreciate someone letting me know.
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I'm only 17, and things have gotten really crappy as far as freedom is concerned, in my lifetime. So many less freedoms, involving pretty much everything: guns, freedom of speech, equal rights. This country of the US of A seems a lot more like the psychotic, relativistic, humanistic, communistic, socialistic regime in Orwell's 1984 every day instead of a freedom based, God-centered nation that respects individuals.
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And then, once I was on the team, I could pound the crap outta the guys that gave me heck.
But what about it being a concealed weapon? :)
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Many people would rather sit there and watch commercials than stare at a blank screen, anyway.
I personally enjoy watching my HTML load on a slow dialup connection.
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There are sooo many people in colleges nowaday that are in IT type career paths merely because they heard it makes money. IT requires a good deal of maintanance. These people party and don't spend any time on their studies.
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My question: When, if ever, do you see samba having a "dynamic mounting" of shares? Possibly a smbshares.conf that is read any each mount specified is monitored for activity. If the share dies, it is unmounted until it is available again, at which time it is remounted.
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If this technology takes off, I'd say it's fairly likely that we'd see Tape-RW within several years due to special coating on the disks, or different poly types.
I personally don't see tape storage as making a comeback too extensively - unless we could have say, a 10gb tape and a 100gb tape (that would be one BIG roll!), and use them in the same drive. The possibility of someone packaging something up with it seems too high to me, and even the amount of space that such disks would take up compared to heftier CD-type disks. I think that DVD-RW is more likely to become mainstream, with probable higher densities as time goes on.
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I remember playing Super Mario Brothers 3 and Zelda (mostly zelda - what a game! It's still a lot of fun to play the original) as a tike right up until my bedtime. Having played all day, and not wanted to have to restart from scratch, I would unplug the adapter from the back of the TV, and put a video cassette box in front of the power light so that my parents would be unaware that it was still on (they didn't like it - thought it was a fire hazzard or something). I would then get up early in the morning merely to finish my game. Sadly, many times I'd come back to find that it had crashed/frozen. Very upsetting at the time.
Back to the topic of blisters and such! :) The original NES controllers were hardly agronomic, and gave me terrible soreness after many hours of play. (we could also complain about the ~60hz refresh of the TV... after 8 or so hours, that can give you one splitting headache at relateively close range...) :) (the gameboy was even worse, for that matter...) Still, something must be said for these device's durability. I myself never owned a gameboy, but serveral of my friends have, and their gameboys took/take tremendous beatings. If any newer devices that are similar in build (say, the palm) were to get dropped, stepped on, thrown, run over, submerged in water, etc, they most certainly would be destroyed. But I've seen the gameboy go through all that and survive, and rarely have cosmetic disorder, even. (I think this is because Nintendo of America seems to have a projected audience of 5-10 year olds in mind when they make their products... just a guess.)
still, every blister I got playing those games was well worth it. It made the game a lasting memory in my mind, made it a special event. No pain, no gain. I think that giving game players gloves to use free of charge will partially ruin the game experience for many of the players, minimalizing the preserverence that goes into beating a game.
More than likely, the main people playing mario party will be little kids - Mario gets fairly irritating for me, and would even if they made a sexy game with a quake 3 style engine using the guy. Considering that Mario is a kid thing, to a great extent, many of those gloves might go completely disused. (I know I wouldn't have used a glove... you lose tactility by adding an extra layer. Even I realized that at a young age - but maybe not with that verbiage.) :)
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Right before he started his conquest, he took everyones' guns away. In this fashion, the discontented, starved, and oppressed people of Germany couldn't fight back.
I would have thought that the lession would have been learned...
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I mean, c'mon, what rocks more than taking the afternoon to lug half a dozen boxes to a central locality, spend an hour getting config info set, wires strung, and systems powered for a LAN fest? Wireless just kills the fun there. I mean, I just love to sit there playing Half-life or Quake 3 and have a large mass of RJ45 cable under my chair because it wasn't economical to cut. Having so much extra slack might hinder bandwidtha little, but so what? It's worth it.
It just makes sooo much sence to have miles and miles of cable obliterated in turn for excessively high-speed vibrations in our air waves. I mean, come on, what harm could high-speed vibrations in the air do, really? It's not like you'll get sick from it. And you can just use a different frequency if the one you're using is already taken. There are plenty available, and I'm -sure- the FCC is more than willing to allow just about anyone to use them free of charge.
Hmmm... somehow, that came out sarcastically.
Oops.
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Katz seems to get very offended about certain questions that challenge his motives. He claims that such individuals are in the minority. If this were so, then these paticular questions would not have been moderated up, and thus would not be given to Katz in the first place.
This articles sounds a lot like "dribble" to me. It is a defense of things that he stands for - even though it is obvious to a majority of the /. community that he is slightly off base. It is my opinion that his reply is merely Katz krap.
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That, and a miriad of other practical entertainment applications, of course.
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Note: this is NOT a flame.
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One, everyone knows that Macs specialize in graphical applications. The quality of that image should be better than that.
Two, they're a very large, prestigous company. The site looks very amature and slopped together. The penguin GIF is very poor quality, as stated before, and even the color is more lossy than is acceptable with GIFs. On even a cursory glance, one could tell that not much attention was paid to the site's HTML.
I also find it unprofessional that the link buttons are not the same as one ones on apple.com, which makes the site look somewhat like it is not an official part of Apple's site. (It's apparently sponsored by apple, but there's not a single link from their main site.) Not to label apple as bad - I actually now like Apple quite a bit, due to their spec releases, OS/X, and various other things. I just find that there is hardly any effort put forth in such a simple thing as a web site.
Then again, look at opensource.creative.com...
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Also, I believe Apple has the skill to make a very good athlon board. And, with the use of things such as firewire, Apple could really turn things around quick in the market. We'd have an x86 processor system with all the goodies that are normally reserved to motorolla processored systems. (theoretically) Probably would even be able to get the athlon up to the PC200 that it's capable of, I'd hope.
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