I remember playing HHGTTG on my old Commodore 64. The box came with a bunch of extras (including Peril sensitive sunglasses--they were just black cardboard, a miniature invasion fleet in a baggie, some lint, and a few other things). It was one of those annoying "adventure" games where you have to try 6000 different bizarre things before you stumble across the one that lets you advance the story, because the programmers never bothered to account for the obvious solutions.
For instance, instead of just cupping your robe in front of the Babel Fish vending machine (because they are too slippery to catch and the vending machine shoots them out at high speed for no particular reason), you have to hang your robe on a hook, put a towel over a drain, move a bag over a door, and pile mail on the bag to get the fish and advance the storyline. Garrgh!
Wow, $500 a month? That's dirt cheap. The crappy college apartments back in Blacksburg often went for more than that. Up in the DC area you're lucky to find anything under $1000US/month that doesn't have an income limit, even if you go way out into the suburbs.
You've missed the point. After learning the fundamentals, the author discovered that there are no underlying truths (like you would find when you study Calculus), rather it was just a clever word game. Working with Calculus will help you to understand some of the basic fundamentals of the universe. Working with Deconstructionism will just get you the accolads of like minded peers for any particularly cute or clever thing you can make up.
1. In the less-features-but-easier-to-use department, cable companies (such as mine) are offering a service they're calling "TV On Demand." With my digital cable remote (and no phone connection, and no extra service charge) I can play many shows from the recent lineup at will. And pause them, rewind them, fast forward, etc. And of course my digital cable comes with a much faster, cleaner program guide user interface. Now the downside is that the guide is somewhat lacking in features, as compared to TiVo's offering. I can't search it and it doesn't have any intelligence for making suggestions or auto-scheduling.
Wow, I don't think I've ever seen a digital cable guide interface that I'd consider "faster" and "cleaner" than anything. My old Comcast digital cable box had this horrendous dog slow interface and some decidedly bizarre HCI choices. Worse, you actually had to know what time and what channel a show was going to be on, there was no facility to search for shows. For me, the Tivo is a giant leap forward in the interface department.
Even more important, at least with the Digital Cable around here, is that there is nothing in the digital realm that is interesting to watch anyway. All of the interesting channels are down in the analog bands where you don't need the cable box.
Indeed, at the beginning of the article he even explains how he read the basic fundamentals of the field to determine weather or not there was any merit to the whole process. In doing so, he discovered that the whole exercise was not as difficult as first appeared and proceeded to explain in laymens terms how the whole thing works. That's why its a great article.
You know, building spacecraft and extracting and refining (and burning) the fuel to get there isn't exactly friendly to the environment either. I have a tough time buying the "save the environment by doing your R&D on the moon" argument.
I thought it was because young people in Japan have absolutely no hope of affording their own place due to the outrageously inflated housing prices. It doesn't help that the perpetually depressed economy leads to a scarcity of good paying jobs for those fresh college graduates.
I'm getting ~1350/~690 out of my 1500/750 Speakeasy DSL connection (through Covad). It's way faster than the old Comcast cablemodem (~1270/~90) I had before I moved, especially because the puny upload cap on the cablemodem was far too easy to saturate which would kill your download speed. Apparently Comcast doubled their caps recently, but the upload contention is still a problem.
For a point of comparison: Downloading a Redhat 8 ISO on Comcast shortly after it was released (bittorrent): 4-5 hours, downloading a Redhat 9 ISO with Speakeasy (bittorrent): about an hour, despite the fact that the download caps are the same.
If he could get DSL in the first place why did he even bother with Adelpha? At least with DSL you have competition and and shop around for an ISP that doesn't screw you. The problem with Cable Modems is that you have to deal with the cable company, who think the internet is some new form of cable for their "consumers". Having their customers contribute (produce content) is a completely foreign idea, they treat it as some sort of horrible problem that needs to be fixed.
Have you looked through Cox's AUP? There is one section where they explain how it is OK to have P2P sharing applications, but _only_ if you disable the upload. They then explain how to turn off uploading in most popular clients. The cynic in me thinks this is a ploy to try to kill off the P2P networks with leeches, but somehow I think it's more the result of their "consumers are mindless media sponges" mentality.
I'm not sure I'd be asking the Russians for advice on Mars landings. They've not had the best luck with their Mars landers. NASA's airbags may look dicey, but they do appear to work in practice.
The problem is a tough one. You've got to launch a fragile probe at thousands of kilometers per hour, then manage to slow them down for a soft landing on a virtually unknown surface without operator intervention (due to the horrible communication delay).
Huh? On the -85 you don't have to stick them in parenthesis because it's a single number. It works fine for above-freezing conversions too, but the calculation is just wrong for below-freezing calculations. I think it's a rom bug (although it's been so long that I forget which rom version I have).
I still love my venerable TI-85. I've still got my homemade link cable (although I havn't used it in ages) and the old DOS program you need to use it. I've got zTetris and Arkanoid through Zshell (a old exploit of a hardware bug that allowed you to run assembly). I still remember when the 32k of built in memory was considered large. My favorite feature is how the calculator just _sips_ power. A set of 4 AAAs last many months in this calculator. The only thing I don't like is the Fahrenheit->Celcius (and Celcius->Fahrenheit) conversion is buggy (it gets any temperature conversion below 0C completely wrong).
Pshaw. The whole "Hydrogen Economy" thing is basically just another way of saying "Look over there! I mean it this time! There's something really intersting happening, far more interesting than these other 'environmental' initaitives! Hurry up or you'll miss it!"
Except that during he.com fiasco nobody (that is very few) people thought the buble would burst. Believe it or not, some people actually justified the high valuations of such firms as CMGI.
No offense, but you need to start hanging out with a smarter crowd. Investors and analyists were sayind for years that the.com bubble would eventually burst, even if they were content with riding the wave to make a quick buck. Even most personal investers knew that the.com stuff couldn't last forever, but that didn't stop them from trying to make a buck along the way.
In some ways, a bubble market is like a big game of chicken. If you cash out too early you don't get much return on your money, but if you wait too long you can loose it all, because once the selloff starts the market drops like a rock.
IMHO, the new iPod should be $199. A $100 price difference is enough that people won't just say "why bother, I'll get the bigger one" but it should still maintain a semi-respectable profit margin. Small form factor or no, the $50 price difference is just too small for the tremendous capacity difference, especially when compared to the other (larger) iPods.
There were some early reliability concerns with turbocharging because people forgot that americans are stupid and do things like not change their oil or keep running the car even though its obviously over heating. this would often lead to oil coking in the turbine and eventual bearing failure, causing turbos to wear out.
I think the real killer was the need to let the car sit idle for a minute or two every time you wanted to turn the thing off to let the oil drain out of the turbo. Nobody wants to shave a minute off of their trip to the store only to have to waste it waiting for their car. The additional wear and tear on the engine sealed the deal.
Deisals are a different story, and people have been more willing to use turbos on deisels in general because the performance boost is more noticable (and necessary as car sized deisals tend to accelerate like a dog without a turbo). It's a good technology with a few drawbacks that prevent it from being really practical.
That was Intel's official stance on the issue. They don't want to use OpenFirmware because it doesn't support ACPI. It seems wierd to me because ACPI support is 95% in the OS, it's not like the Firmware needs to do much to support it.
The Parhelia isn't a gamers card though. It's optimized for professional 3D uses (whatever those are). That's what Matrox claims at least.
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Man, where was this? I was in Canada when I was 16 and I scoured the tube looking for any nudity. The only stuff I ever found was some late night (scrambled) movies. From what I could tell, they were even more conservative than the US. Maybe it was the region I was in (Calgary--Canada's version of Houston, TX) or something. The only really notable thing was that some really odd stuff got on TV just because it was made in Canada since the Canadian equivelent of the FCC requires some percentage of the TV air time to be filled with Canadian stuff (to avoid becoming Americans I guess).
Are you sure about this? From what I can tell, most third party case designers do little more than follow the ATX spec and maybe stick a couple of extra fan ports wherever they have room. It's virtually impossible for them to do airflow analysis because they don't know exactly where the fan (or any other components beyond the cards) will be on the motherboard. OEMs, especially the ones that make small or fancy cases, can do this kind of testing but most Slashdotters don't buy OEM equipment (at least for PCs). I know I've had some cases with absolutely atrocious airflow characteristsics over the years. My old PII-400's average operating temperature dropped by nearly 5C when I drilled a few exaust holes in the back of the case. It seems the case designer had convienently created a region of stagnant air around the processor though clever positioning of the power supply and a metal case support.
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I remember playing HHGTTG on my old Commodore 64. The box came with a bunch of extras (including Peril sensitive sunglasses--they were just black cardboard, a miniature invasion fleet in a baggie, some lint, and a few other things). It was one of those annoying "adventure" games where you have to try 6000 different bizarre things before you stumble across the one that lets you advance the story, because the programmers never bothered to account for the obvious solutions.
For instance, instead of just cupping your robe in front of the Babel Fish vending machine (because they are too slippery to catch and the vending machine shoots them out at high speed for no particular reason), you have to hang your robe on a hook, put a towel over a drain, move a bag over a door, and pile mail on the bag to get the fish and advance the storyline. Garrgh!
I doubt they built their own chips in Switzerland. It's far more likely that they just bought them wholesale from Taiwan or someplace like that.
Wow, $500 a month? That's dirt cheap. The crappy college apartments back in Blacksburg often went for more than that. Up in the DC area you're lucky to find anything under $1000US/month that doesn't have an income limit, even if you go way out into the suburbs.
You've missed the point. After learning the fundamentals, the author discovered that there are no underlying truths (like you would find when you study Calculus), rather it was just a clever word game. Working with Calculus will help you to understand some of the basic fundamentals of the universe. Working with Deconstructionism will just get you the accolads of like minded peers for any particularly cute or clever thing you can make up.
Even more important, at least with the Digital Cable around here, is that there is nothing in the digital realm that is interesting to watch anyway. All of the interesting channels are down in the analog bands where you don't need the cable box.
Indeed, at the beginning of the article he even explains how he read the basic fundamentals of the field to determine weather or not there was any merit to the whole process. In doing so, he discovered that the whole exercise was not as difficult as first appeared and proceeded to explain in laymens terms how the whole thing works. That's why its a great article.
You know, building spacecraft and extracting and refining (and burning) the fuel to get there isn't exactly friendly to the environment either. I have a tough time buying the "save the environment by doing your R&D on the moon" argument.
I thought it was because young people in Japan have absolutely no hope of affording their own place due to the outrageously inflated housing prices. It doesn't help that the perpetually depressed economy leads to a scarcity of good paying jobs for those fresh college graduates.
What? 1GB a month? That's barely using a broadband connection. Why are you shelling out the big bucks for broadband if you're using it like a modem?
I'm getting ~1350/~690 out of my 1500/750 Speakeasy DSL connection (through Covad). It's way faster than the old Comcast cablemodem (~1270/~90) I had before I moved, especially because the puny upload cap on the cablemodem was far too easy to saturate which would kill your download speed. Apparently Comcast doubled their caps recently, but the upload contention is still a problem.
For a point of comparison: Downloading a Redhat 8 ISO on Comcast shortly after it was released (bittorrent): 4-5 hours, downloading a Redhat 9 ISO with Speakeasy (bittorrent): about an hour, despite the fact that the download caps are the same.
If he could get DSL in the first place why did he even bother with Adelpha? At least with DSL you have competition and and shop around for an ISP that doesn't screw you. The problem with Cable Modems is that you have to deal with the cable company, who think the internet is some new form of cable for their "consumers". Having their customers contribute (produce content) is a completely foreign idea, they treat it as some sort of horrible problem that needs to be fixed.
Have you looked through Cox's AUP? There is one section where they explain how it is OK to have P2P sharing applications, but _only_ if you disable the upload. They then explain how to turn off uploading in most popular clients. The cynic in me thinks this is a ploy to try to kill off the P2P networks with leeches, but somehow I think it's more the result of their "consumers are mindless media sponges" mentality.
I'm not sure I'd be asking the Russians for advice on Mars landings. They've not had the best luck with their Mars landers. NASA's airbags may look dicey, but they do appear to work in practice.
The problem is a tough one. You've got to launch a fragile probe at thousands of kilometers per hour, then manage to slow them down for a soft landing on a virtually unknown surface without operator intervention (due to the horrible communication delay).
Huh? On the -85 you don't have to stick them in parenthesis because it's a single number. It works fine for above-freezing conversions too, but the calculation is just wrong for below-freezing calculations. I think it's a rom bug (although it's been so long that I forget which rom version I have).
I still love my venerable TI-85. I've still got my homemade link cable (although I havn't used it in ages) and the old DOS program you need to use it. I've got zTetris and Arkanoid through Zshell (a old exploit of a hardware bug that allowed you to run assembly). I still remember when the 32k of built in memory was considered large. My favorite feature is how the calculator just _sips_ power. A set of 4 AAAs last many months in this calculator. The only thing I don't like is the Fahrenheit->Celcius (and Celcius->Fahrenheit) conversion is buggy (it gets any temperature conversion below 0C completely wrong).
Pshaw. The whole "Hydrogen Economy" thing is basically just another way of saying "Look over there! I mean it this time! There's something really intersting happening, far more interesting than these other 'environmental' initaitives! Hurry up or you'll miss it!"
In some ways, a bubble market is like a big game of chicken. If you cash out too early you don't get much return on your money, but if you wait too long you can loose it all, because once the selloff starts the market drops like a rock.
IMHO, the new iPod should be $199. A $100 price difference is enough that people won't just say "why bother, I'll get the bigger one" but it should still maintain a semi-respectable profit margin. Small form factor or no, the $50 price difference is just too small for the tremendous capacity difference, especially when compared to the other (larger) iPods.
Yes, I do much despise these Telex missives regarding buggy whips and whale oil refills.
That was Intel's official stance on the issue. They don't want to use OpenFirmware because it doesn't support ACPI. It seems wierd to me because ACPI support is 95% in the OS, it's not like the Firmware needs to do much to support it.
Unfortunatly, OpenFirmware doesn't support ACPI, so Intel will never go for it.
The Parhelia isn't a gamers card though. It's optimized for professional 3D uses (whatever those are). That's what Matrox claims at least.
Man, where was this? I was in Canada when I was 16 and I scoured the tube looking for any nudity. The only stuff I ever found was some late night (scrambled) movies. From what I could tell, they were even more conservative than the US. Maybe it was the region I was in (Calgary--Canada's version of Houston, TX) or something. The only really notable thing was that some really odd stuff got on TV just because it was made in Canada since the Canadian equivelent of the FCC requires some percentage of the TV air time to be filled with Canadian stuff (to avoid becoming Americans I guess).
Are you sure about this? From what I can tell, most third party case designers do little more than follow the ATX spec and maybe stick a couple of extra fan ports wherever they have room. It's virtually impossible for them to do airflow analysis because they don't know exactly where the fan (or any other components beyond the cards) will be on the motherboard. OEMs, especially the ones that make small or fancy cases, can do this kind of testing but most Slashdotters don't buy OEM equipment (at least for PCs). I know I've had some cases with absolutely atrocious airflow characteristsics over the years. My old PII-400's average operating temperature dropped by nearly 5C when I drilled a few exaust holes in the back of the case. It seems the case designer had convienently created a region of stagnant air around the processor though clever positioning of the power supply and a metal case support.