I think that most people would side with the fact that as a whole consumers have picked what size disc they want. We want media with the same diameter as a CD/DVD from here on out whenever possible. Why? They're easy to keep track of... unlike the little Dataplay cartridges that we've all seen stories about. I personally wonder why would you want something that small when you could have something of a more manageable size that uses the same technology... Discs maintaining the same size also ensures future drives will play old media. My DVD deck will play CDs etc... Which a very good point was made that record labels don't mind a format change to provide extra income once in a while. Collectively they've just got to learn to get over it and produce more new product worth buying... you know... good music. On the other hand you could also look at it this way. This data storage format will initially not be needed by your average consumer. Producing a propreitary system would cut initial costs to bring the technology to market. Then money could be made of the product and directed to adapting the technology to a consumer audience. It might cost much more for them to cram all the work into a 5.25 drive... or it might not be possible. Speaking of which... that is the weirdest drive enclosure I think I've ever seen... looks like a PS2 on crack.
It uses physical forms actually cut into a vinyl disk to reproduce sound. Rather than a traditional 5 1/4 disk bay it will be a USB 2.0 periperal and look something like these devices. Analog audiophiles rejoice! I play guitar and I do have to say I enjoy the sound of a classic tube amp. I wonder how odd and expensive will it be to say... Uh yeah I need a vacuum tube replacement for my computer.
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I'd REALLY like to see a distributed effort to host games like every other good title in the PC world... In addition to a subscription... which yes has its merits... I want something like Tribes III on XBox where the XBoxer's can join in on servers maintained by the gaming faithful... I think this is practical to sell games and is already being done... by these folks. They have a little gateway program based on Linux. What's your dream for XBox Connectivity? what PC games would you like to see in a networked console?
ALL my Windows development tools are either OSS or designed to interact with OSS in the case that the client app is closed source... and even then its still a free closed source app. I heard it expressed in an earlier discussion on OpenOffice that making a Swiss Army Knife of a suite isn't always the best way to fight Commercial Apps. Smaller, faster tools that get the job done are very compelling. Compare MS Access to using MySQLFront (not OSS but free and the server is OSS...) Access has got a lot of wizards and tools to make tasks easier for a novice. However, when you outgrow that those features don't mean much.
Also would like to say donating time and spare cashflow to the development of these tools is critical to making these apps "polished". So practice what you preach and really support the coders creating these cool tools.
To think about what kind of a paradox would be arise when complex licenses overlap. I think a valid point was brought up in why not make alternate documentation that wouldn't refer to the original license... I would think it would put all the liability on the head of someone who wrote the new docs... Personally I wish they could sort it down to plane English and short sentences. Kinda like the ten commandments for users. But someone has to feed all the starving lawyers I guess... lol. Sadly it does come down to how much political pressure and money you can throw at enforcing a license that makes it stand up...
The Gamecube Europe article mentions that they tried, and then threw their weight into trying to by Nintendo next. Seems a little out of order. I think that MS is doing an OK job with the XBox personally. A merger with either would have serious potential to have turned the tables on Sony. Did anyone think about what influence the Sony empire has on market penetration due to the fact that every retailer wants to carry Sony TV's Audio... etc. That's how they make their console a success... They have the power to make every VAR buy them. MS of course does too... but the less physcial products you ship to retailers the less sway you have.
I'd be anxious to sweep under the rug any characters featured in a show depicting a near collision with the Twin Towers and a commercial jet. That plot was creepy even when I first saw the show, and thought that could NEVER happen. Interesting to think that's now going to be one of those shows (that episode at least) locked away forever never to see the light again. As far as the actors, those guys were funny, I liked what little I did see of them.
Like any good car nut a car thief knows where OnStar boxes are all located. They also know common locations of LoJack units. This black box will be easy to find too. Bring a screwdriver, wire clippers (or the less delicate hammer), and you've got the car you want.
Also in understanding car thieves there are generally two types in every metro area. Parts scavengers who want parts of your car to sell and addicts who want a quick fix and sell the cars for a couple hundred bucks to a chop shop. The best way to hurt these folks is maintaining good security outside the car. For instance, a car locked in a closed garage is not going to be a primary target. There are much easier targets out there.
As for accident forensics, that is well enough developed a science to not need a device like this.
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When you look at pricewatch there's no question the AMD chips offer lower prices for comparable chips. Now it looks like they're going to dip to even lower prices. When they dedicate the Duron production lines to producing Athlons its going to make an impact on their prices. As for public perception let me ask this... Didn't it always seem that AMD Athlons got better exposure than Durons? Duron budget systems were always rare in big name systems when compared to Celerons. Which is a shame. I'd love to see AMD develop a healthy market demand across the board from econobox to server. Given the choice though I'd like better cheaper server processors though than a cheaper low end PC. The community's thoughts?
Excellent info... if I could I'd mod you up for the good info! Nice example they set isn't it? It really makes me mad that I hear some christian denominations don't consider them christian.
As a member of another southern engineering school I can also confirm what little females study engineering aren't exactly supermodels either. Call me superficial... but I have maybe half a dozen women in my year and major... and I wouldn't date any of em...
As for the cheating thing... people are really getting ridiculous about enforcing cheating policies... Maybe the solution is to bring the students closer to a professor and TA who can really evalutate their understanding... There is a sick tendency to automate EVERYTHING in CS courses... Dare I say that as well as code someone should submit an essay about their coding experience and/or talk with a TA about the problem.
Seeing as I got in early I may be one of the few people not subjected to a Google cache of the site... I'm fascinated by little projects like this. Useful? Yes and no... Its not production quality servers being built so lighten up... Its one heck of a learning experience though. Working with simple hardware and doing something simple with it to expand your big picture knowledge of compsci... very cool, wish I could do it.
As for anyone who's seeing a contest evolving on weird hardware you can run an http server on... Declare an all time winner when someone gets apache running on something with vacuum tubes... It would fill a couple large rooms and like the C64 with the load from a beating like/. it would be dead by morning. There's a brand new crisp dollar you can buy a 20 minute phone call with as a reward from me.
You know who is sealous about record keeping? The Church of Latter Day Saints otherwise known as Mormons. They have a belief about proving lineage that I don't understand fully even though I have a cousin who is a member of the church. They have a massive genealogical library that is protected in the style of a fallout bunker.
Scientologists simply rely on the SQL server Hubbard built into all of their heads at one of their OT levels... lol... and hey... if that's what works for ya more power to you... but any philosophy that condones the mistreatment or suppression of humans is wrong... Which is the most valid argument against their organization.
Eccentric... and he looks like a James Bond villain... You suppose he has some secret submarine in the carribean loaded with hundreds of rackmounted servers running this database? I'm scared... eccentric pinhead...
You know what bugs me about Oracle though... nothing philosophical... its all the little SQL "enhancements" they provide that I find when looking at someone else's SQL query. I thought languages were supposed to be standardized. There are a few other DB's that do it too... Nothing big but it bugs me when I run into it.
Fine... Someone's going to step up and write drivers for Linux... and that's not going to be the issue... Just like I'm really annoyed by flying icons sending rubish to the trash can eating up system resources... Sure very little but still... Having to crunch radio input is just sending more good hardware to the scrap sooner by making our processors do ALL the work. I'd hate to have a winmodem, winsoundcard, winwifi all plugged in at once... This is also isolating the hardware that does it inclusively into a higher price bracket as well... which would get a lot cheaper if we just leave the standard alone! Look at what you can get a good 10/100 card for these days.
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The titanium structure I was trying to poorly illustrate was a massive center section of the fuselage that surrounded the engine and joined the whole plane together at the center... I saw the info on the History Channel... mostly in the Grumman factory and in the crash footage...
Novelty do it because we can is not for mission critical stuff... we all know it... and until the board is proven in combat that's what I'm taking this as... For instance the BP6 was rock solid for some people... mine never worked... but I now own two KT7A boards and you can't beat them up unless you threw them out the window. I for one hope this turns out to be one of their better boards... They've taken huge risks to please the geek population and as a result run my favorite machines... As for 12 IDE devices anyone know of a case that can cram that much into it?!
Exactly! It sure rocks in aerospace though!
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The core of the structure of an F-14 is Ti, and many other modern jets, but the F-14 being one of the earliest. This box of titanium in the center of the plane is just about the only thing that will survive a catastrophic crash. It also does so with very little damage (relatively) to it. Which brings up the whole... why not make the plane out of the black box question... and the answer is economy... and I'm sure defense secrets... I'd love to hear about some more aerospace uses... Engineers feel free to reply. I just got elected to the student president of AIAA... being a former SAE member focused on cars I need to play catch up on my knowledge of things that fly...
When I first read the headlines in the article I thought the RIAA was going after Internet Information Server with the help of the BSA... Boy Scouts of America... What an evil plan!
That aside, I concur with an opinion earlier stated that at least they're going after users in this case. Frankly its very easy for me or any other one of us to remain fairly anonymous and out of sight. The RIAA can't possibly track people. If you're so obvious about doing something illegal you deserve to be caught. Odd note: I know the owner of an indie label who asked when Napster was going down for someone to snag as much music for him as they could. Incidently one of the first to jump on a lawsuit against Napster. What the RIAA has an easier time doing, little basis for, and a lot of success in inspiring has been the building of more trivial protection schemes into consumer electronics we can easily circumvent. Which of course only serhrefto drive up electronics prices in the end...
My bill used to be $65 a month and my bill has gone up to $80, and I just got a notice in the mail of cable TV rate hikes. I'm not high and mighty in the least. I am angry that 3 very important days of work in the past 4 weeks, I'm a student, have been complicated by their not maintaining their network properly. I'm entitled to what they promise, fast, always on internet connection... and if they can't deliver what they promise at minimum than I will not abide their capping my bandwidth. Comcast hasn't done it yet, but they shouldn't enact it until they can deliver on their minimum promises. I don't believe capping will improve service unless they can prove otherwise. The DNS servers are screwed up at present... not a traffic issue, I can tell... I am not confused by their billing statements... I happen to think $40 is too high for very bad service.
I think its acceptable to draw a line if someone is abusing bandwidth. For instance the warez server example should result in outright termination of an account. However, this is like the mysterious reason why candy bars and large sodas at the movies are getting smaller. The service is getting worse at least in my corner of the world... Comcast's DNS servers are screwed up and its making life hard... This happens once a month with other odd problems here and there. Until I'm convinced they're doing everything they can do to offer the best service possible... I'm going to take back what I'm entitled to in downloading ISO's late at night and responsibly consuming the most of my fast, if not reliable broadband. Entitled, you bet I am... My cable and internet is $80 this month... Its not like I'm on their network for free...
For 78 Million I want Sean Connery to present me the keys in the uniform he wore for Hunt for Red October... He IS the captain of a russian submarine right? Or come to think of it... this is something a James Bond villain should own... wonder if I'd get someone named Pussy Galore to hang around me if I owned one. You know what would be almost as cool... a miniature pirate ship that shoots water balloons... I'm in Friday mode now...
I had to move my head back an extra half a foot and cross my eyes to see the Slashdot logo correctly. I felt for a minute it might be one of those stereographs and a 3D picture of a CowboyNeal was going to appear.
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I think that most people would side with the fact that as a whole consumers have picked what size disc they want. We want media with the same diameter as a CD/DVD from here on out whenever possible. Why? They're easy to keep track of... unlike the little Dataplay cartridges that we've all seen stories about. I personally wonder why would you want something that small when you could have something of a more manageable size that uses the same technology... Discs maintaining the same size also ensures future drives will play old media. My DVD deck will play CDs etc... Which a very good point was made that record labels don't mind a format change to provide extra income once in a while. Collectively they've just got to learn to get over it and produce more new product worth buying... you know... good music. On the other hand you could also look at it this way. This data storage format will initially not be needed by your average consumer. Producing a propreitary system would cut initial costs to bring the technology to market. Then money could be made of the product and directed to adapting the technology to a consumer audience. It might cost much more for them to cram all the work into a 5.25 drive... or it might not be possible. Speaking of which... that is the weirdest drive enclosure I think I've ever seen... looks like a PS2 on crack.
Dude, I was thinking the exact same thing! Check out my post. Now will it be USB 2.0 or 1394 connected...
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It uses physical forms actually cut into a vinyl disk to reproduce sound. Rather than a traditional 5 1/4 disk bay it will be a USB 2.0 periperal and look something like these devices. Analog audiophiles rejoice! I play guitar and I do have to say I enjoy the sound of a classic tube amp. I wonder how odd and expensive will it be to say... Uh yeah I need a vacuum tube replacement for my computer.
Still, could be interesting for your HTPC
I'd REALLY like to see a distributed effort to host games like every other good title in the PC world... In addition to a subscription... which yes has its merits... I want something like Tribes III on XBox where the XBoxer's can join in on servers maintained by the gaming faithful... I think this is practical to sell games and is already being done... by these folks. They have a little gateway program based on Linux. What's your dream for XBox Connectivity? what PC games would you like to see in a networked console?
ALL my Windows development tools are either OSS or designed to interact with OSS in the case that the client app is closed source... and even then its still a free closed source app. I heard it expressed in an earlier discussion on OpenOffice that making a Swiss Army Knife of a suite isn't always the best way to fight Commercial Apps. Smaller, faster tools that get the job done are very compelling. Compare MS Access to using MySQLFront (not OSS but free and the server is OSS...) Access has got a lot of wizards and tools to make tasks easier for a novice. However, when you outgrow that those features don't mean much.
Also would like to say donating time and spare cashflow to the development of these tools is critical to making these apps "polished". So practice what you preach and really support the coders creating these cool tools.
To think about what kind of a paradox would be arise when complex licenses overlap. I think a valid point was brought up in why not make alternate documentation that wouldn't refer to the original license... I would think it would put all the liability on the head of someone who wrote the new docs... Personally I wish they could sort it down to plane English and short sentences. Kinda like the ten commandments for users. But someone has to feed all the starving lawyers I guess... lol. Sadly it does come down to how much political pressure and money you can throw at enforcing a license that makes it stand up...
The Gamecube Europe article mentions that they tried, and then threw their weight into trying to by Nintendo next. Seems a little out of order. I think that MS is doing an OK job with the XBox personally. A merger with either would have serious potential to have turned the tables on Sony. Did anyone think about what influence the Sony empire has on market penetration due to the fact that every retailer wants to carry Sony TV's Audio... etc. That's how they make their console a success... They have the power to make every VAR buy them. MS of course does too... but the less physcial products you ship to retailers the less sway you have.
I'd be anxious to sweep under the rug any characters featured in a show depicting a near collision with the Twin Towers and a commercial jet. That plot was creepy even when I first saw the show, and thought that could NEVER happen. Interesting to think that's now going to be one of those shows (that episode at least) locked away forever never to see the light again. As far as the actors, those guys were funny, I liked what little I did see of them.
Like any good car nut a car thief knows where OnStar boxes are all located. They also know common locations of LoJack units. This black box will be easy to find too. Bring a screwdriver, wire clippers (or the less delicate hammer), and you've got the car you want.
Also in understanding car thieves there are generally two types in every metro area. Parts scavengers who want parts of your car to sell and addicts who want a quick fix and sell the cars for a couple hundred bucks to a chop shop. The best way to hurt these folks is maintaining good security outside the car. For instance, a car locked in a closed garage is not going to be a primary target. There are much easier targets out there.
As for accident forensics, that is well enough developed a science to not need a device like this.
When you look at pricewatch there's no question the AMD chips offer lower prices for comparable chips. Now it looks like they're going to dip to even lower prices. When they dedicate the Duron production lines to producing Athlons its going to make an impact on their prices. As for public perception let me ask this... Didn't it always seem that AMD Athlons got better exposure than Durons? Duron budget systems were always rare in big name systems when compared to Celerons. Which is a shame. I'd love to see AMD develop a healthy market demand across the board from econobox to server. Given the choice though I'd like better cheaper server processors though than a cheaper low end PC. The community's thoughts?
Excellent info... if I could I'd mod you up for the good info! Nice example they set isn't it? It really makes me mad that I hear some christian denominations don't consider them christian.
As a member of another southern engineering school I can also confirm what little females study engineering aren't exactly supermodels either. Call me superficial... but I have maybe half a dozen women in my year and major... and I wouldn't date any of em...
As for the cheating thing... people are really getting ridiculous about enforcing cheating policies... Maybe the solution is to bring the students closer to a professor and TA who can really evalutate their understanding... There is a sick tendency to automate EVERYTHING in CS courses... Dare I say that as well as code someone should submit an essay about their coding experience and/or talk with a TA about the problem.
Seeing as I got in early I may be one of the few people not subjected to a Google cache of the site... I'm fascinated by little projects like this. Useful? Yes and no... Its not production quality servers being built so lighten up... Its one heck of a learning experience though. Working with simple hardware and doing something simple with it to expand your big picture knowledge of compsci... very cool, wish I could do it.
/. it would be dead by morning. There's a brand new crisp dollar you can buy a 20 minute phone call with as a reward from me.
As for anyone who's seeing a contest evolving on weird hardware you can run an http server on... Declare an all time winner when someone gets apache running on something with vacuum tubes... It would fill a couple large rooms and like the C64 with the load from a beating like
You know who is sealous about record keeping? The Church of Latter Day Saints otherwise known as Mormons. They have a belief about proving lineage that I don't understand fully even though I have a cousin who is a member of the church. They have a massive genealogical library that is protected in the style of a fallout bunker.
Scientologists simply rely on the SQL server Hubbard built into all of their heads at one of their OT levels... lol... and hey... if that's what works for ya more power to you... but any philosophy that condones the mistreatment or suppression of humans is wrong... Which is the most valid argument against their organization.
Eccentric... and he looks like a James Bond villain... You suppose he has some secret submarine in the carribean loaded with hundreds of rackmounted servers running this database? I'm scared... eccentric pinhead...
You know what bugs me about Oracle though... nothing philosophical... its all the little SQL "enhancements" they provide that I find when looking at someone else's SQL query. I thought languages were supposed to be standardized. There are a few other DB's that do it too... Nothing big but it bugs me when I run into it.
Fine... Someone's going to step up and write drivers for Linux... and that's not going to be the issue... Just like I'm really annoyed by flying icons sending rubish to the trash can eating up system resources... Sure very little but still... Having to crunch radio input is just sending more good hardware to the scrap sooner by making our processors do ALL the work. I'd hate to have a winmodem, winsoundcard, winwifi all plugged in at once... This is also isolating the hardware that does it inclusively into a higher price bracket as well... which would get a lot cheaper if we just leave the standard alone! Look at what you can get a good 10/100 card for these days.
The titanium structure I was trying to poorly illustrate was a massive center section of the fuselage that surrounded the engine and joined the whole plane together at the center... I saw the info on the History Channel... mostly in the Grumman factory and in the crash footage...
Novelty do it because we can is not for mission critical stuff... we all know it... and until the board is proven in combat that's what I'm taking this as... For instance the BP6 was rock solid for some people... mine never worked... but I now own two KT7A boards and you can't beat them up unless you threw them out the window. I for one hope this turns out to be one of their better boards... They've taken huge risks to please the geek population and as a result run my favorite machines... As for 12 IDE devices anyone know of a case that can cram that much into it?!
The core of the structure of an F-14 is Ti, and many other modern jets, but the F-14 being one of the earliest. This box of titanium in the center of the plane is just about the only thing that will survive a catastrophic crash. It also does so with very little damage (relatively) to it. Which brings up the whole... why not make the plane out of the black box question... and the answer is economy... and I'm sure defense secrets... I'd love to hear about some more aerospace uses... Engineers feel free to reply. I just got elected to the student president of AIAA... being a former SAE member focused on cars I need to play catch up on my knowledge of things that fly...
When I first read the headlines in the article I thought the RIAA was going after Internet Information Server with the help of the BSA... Boy Scouts of America... What an evil plan!
That aside, I concur with an opinion earlier stated that at least they're going after users in this case. Frankly its very easy for me or any other one of us to remain fairly anonymous and out of sight. The RIAA can't possibly track people. If you're so obvious about doing something illegal you deserve to be caught.
Odd note: I know the owner of an indie label who asked when Napster was going down for someone to snag as much music for him as they could. Incidently one of the first to jump on a lawsuit against Napster.
What the RIAA has an easier time doing, little basis for, and a lot of success in inspiring has been the building of more trivial protection schemes into consumer electronics we can easily circumvent. Which of course only serhrefto drive up electronics prices in the end...
My bill used to be $65 a month and my bill has gone up to $80, and I just got a notice in the mail of cable TV rate hikes. I'm not high and mighty in the least. I am angry that 3 very important days of work in the past 4 weeks, I'm a student, have been complicated by their not maintaining their network properly. I'm entitled to what they promise, fast, always on internet connection... and if they can't deliver what they promise at minimum than I will not abide their capping my bandwidth. Comcast hasn't done it yet, but they shouldn't enact it until they can deliver on their minimum promises. I don't believe capping will improve service unless they can prove otherwise. The DNS servers are screwed up at present... not a traffic issue, I can tell... I am not confused by their billing statements... I happen to think $40 is too high for very bad service.
I think its acceptable to draw a line if someone is abusing bandwidth. For instance the warez server example should result in outright termination of an account. However, this is like the mysterious reason why candy bars and large sodas at the movies are getting smaller. The service is getting worse at least in my corner of the world... Comcast's DNS servers are screwed up and its making life hard... This happens once a month with other odd problems here and there. Until I'm convinced they're doing everything they can do to offer the best service possible... I'm going to take back what I'm entitled to in downloading ISO's late at night and responsibly consuming the most of my fast, if not reliable broadband. Entitled, you bet I am... My cable and internet is $80 this month... Its not like I'm on their network for free...
For 78 Million I want Sean Connery to present me the keys in the uniform he wore for Hunt for Red October... He IS the captain of a russian submarine right? Or come to think of it... this is something a James Bond villain should own... wonder if I'd get someone named Pussy Galore to hang around me if I owned one. You know what would be almost as cool... a miniature pirate ship that shoots water balloons... I'm in Friday mode now...
I had to move my head back an extra half a foot and cross my eyes to see the Slashdot logo correctly. I felt for a minute it might be one of those stereographs and a 3D picture of a CowboyNeal was going to appear.
These people apparently give me lots of cookies... and cookies are sweet delicious things right? mmm... cookies...