Listening to it right now. It took a whole 1 minute and 30 seconds to arrive on my hard drive. I don't know where I'd categorize this. Nu-Soul? Glitch Soul? Oh wow. I'm halfway through now and it starts getting all rocking with Iggy Pop doing a number with what sounds like Bauhaus or the Cure backing him. It is certainly interesting. I gotta give props to Danger Mouse. He took a crappy Jay Z album and made it into one of the most interesting mash ups that I've ever heard that really worked for the most part. (It does kind of unravel at the end) Now I'm hearing shades of Mouse on Mars and other stuff. This album is really all over the map in terms of sound. I think it might require a few repeated listens before I could ever hope to reach a verdict and that should be an endorsement itself.
Not only the issue with potentially infected user documents but you have the issue of installed software and system updates. While it is nice to have a good solid state to go back to, you may over time want to install new applications and somehow system updates need to be worked into your plan because that static image is going to become far more insecure with each passing day. I really don't see why a virus scanner is such a bad thing. I mean, ideally a well designed, secure OS shouldn't allow escalated privileges to user processes, but nothing is totally secure. Even if something is nailed down tight you can always pry up the nails. The anti malware stuff is getting pretty bloated though and is becoming more intrusive than the malware itself. I like the idea of just having everything in a hardware controlled virtual machine (it would solve some issues for sure), but if all you want is a non changing bootable environment why not look at Ubuntu or Windows on a thumb drive with write blocking or, you know, run a virtual machine on a linux host or something.... I mean wtf? Seriously. There are like a million options out there for what you describe. The only thing this bios basically doing is taking the hypervisor and moving it to the hardware. If they manage to give the guest operating system full unrestricted hardware access, then kudos to them because that is one of the real downsides of running a virtual OS....
4 years ago. I wonder if all those boxes are still running right now? I wonder what google does when it retires servers.....it would be kind of cool to have a couple of bonafide google racks doing something cool at my house.
I got to play pacific air war for the first time in years recently. I miss the old sims. I still regularly play tornado in DOS box and outside of being unable to fast forward through missions it is still probably my favorite sim ever. I so wish they would make another great ground pounding sim like that. Strike Eagle III was pretty great too. I miss good dynamic campaigns. Mission generators start to get pretty boring. Oh well. Sorry for the ramble. Dosbox is awesome though.
Feature complete it should emulate x86 hardware to the point of being able to boot up windows 98. When that happens there would be no point to even running a VM for just dos. Games were some of the most challenging things to get to run in DOS. Most DOS applications would easily run on any 386. I wouldn't be all that surprised if it booted windows 3.11 by now.
Second that. I'm dying to have MT-32 sound again. I've thought about buying another one...who knows...maybe I will one day. Man was I mad when my EX-gf threw that away.:P
Those games don't sound nearly as good with FM synthesis and a lot of those soundtracks were designed for the MT-32 originally and then ported to SB. A lot of them used the MT-32 for sound fx. The Sierra games come to mind as well as Ultima VII. (Thanks exult team!!!) Windows soft-MIDI is supposed to be a Roland GS soundfont, but it sounds pretty crappy to me, but maybe the GS/SC sounded that bad to begin with?:)
Couple of things. Try dynamic cpu. Also try to increase the cycles till the point where the sound starts stuttering and then back off a bit to keep your sound smooth. Wash, rinse, repeat. Also sometimes ddraw works better than surface as a render method, but YMMV. Filters will kill your FPS as well. Also try disabling any unused sound emulation options as well as setting the sample rates down to 22khz. You can force high priority as well. My ancient Athlon64 3000 will get 486DX2-66 speeds or so with some tweaking. D-fend is a great front end that makes configuration easy.....
Don't worry. The SCO execs still made their money and are most likely very comfortable. Shame they never got investigated for insider trading when they started dumping their own stock, while filing waves of lawsuits, or is that legal? IP was the last leg their company had to stand on, and that was a shaky one at best. It is kind of sad that it took them this long to finally burn through all their cash on lawyers. Couldn't they have just called it a day and given the money to charity or something or maybe tried to reinvest in a new venture? Clearly they didn't see any sort of long term future for SCO. Does any still even actively license their craptacular "Unix" from them?
I like the gun sight idea, but I think live view really trumps everything now. Just hold the camera up and compose.:)
I still prefer the viewfinder though, but then I'm not usually trying to take pictures of fast moving action. You are right though. I see all these people with Mark IIs and D90s and it makes me really sad to see them using them like P&S cameras. I mean, they could have saved $1000 and bought a coolpix or something and probably gotten about the same results. I'm no expert, but I always strive to make my shots better and I pretty much shoot in M or at the very most Av all the time. The art of photography you knew is now dying and being replaced by photoshop and dslrs. Everyone is trying to recreate the effects of film digitally and yet all the techniques for getting good shots in the first place without alteration are seemingly left by the wayside because exposure can be so dramatically altered without a great deal of loss. I think the prevalence of HDR is making even the look of classic well exposed photography a dying form. Without the WTF moments that film can provide Lumography sure won't be the same anymore....
What new frontiers are there for photography? It seems like anything "new" anymore is just a rehash of older ideas. Maybe more digital art convergence and more digital painting with photographs, which is my favorite thing actually, but I don't know. I'm just rambling at this point and I do apologize. You just kind of struck a chord there. Thanks.
I mean at least space wars at least had real graphics and not a bunch of ASCII characters. I guess this qualifies for some minor footnote in history, somewhere, somehow, but I'm really at a loss as to where. While we are at it do we know who A) wrote the first 8-bit PC game? B) Wrote the first 32-bit PC game? and C) Wrote the first 64-bit PC game? Ok...now how about the first C64 game? What about the first PC game? What about the first Apple II game? I could probably think of a million "firsts."
Let me guess. You must be one of those people who nitpick every good idea to death with a million reasons as to why something is a bad idea. Yeah. Hey Mr. "It will never work" how is using less herbicide as well as somewhat fertilizing the ground a possibly bad idea? Because of bugs?? Have you ever been in a garden? Its usually crawling with them. For the record, body lice feed off of your blood when they bite you, they do not eat hair. Clothes moths are certainly something else though, but why would some extra moths in the garden be a bad thing? Same thing with some more beetles. Also field crickets seem to have no problems burrowing under the soil and there is usually enough plant cover for them to hide regardless, adding a bunch of hair is not likely to suddenly make them appear or increase in numbers. Since cockroaches exist naturally in the soil, I doubt that adding some hair will do much to attract them when there is plenty of better things for them to eat outside. I'm only responding that since you felt a need to be such a damned naysayer that most of your points are pretty damned moot on the whole discussion. The GP was making an observation about the acceptance of different materials, not making a direct suggestion to use sheep's wool as ground cover. For home gardening, human hair is actually not a bad idea, though I think that mulching the ground with a good layer of treated (or even untreated, but they don't last as long) wood chips would probably be a lot more effective to be honest.
Theoretically they could just pass USB to the guest. I mean I've done this many times because for a while my XP install wouldn't see my digital camera, but ubuntu would. So I see no reason why this wouldn't work. You are probably out of luck on the firewire though. Even apple finally gave up firewire.
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I think that may be louder than a dust devil. That's unbelievable.
If there is no data, there is no recording. You can't infringe with just media alone. :)
Listening to it right now. It took a whole 1 minute and 30 seconds to arrive on my hard drive. I don't know where I'd categorize this. Nu-Soul? Glitch Soul? Oh wow. I'm halfway through now and it starts getting all rocking with Iggy Pop doing a number with what sounds like Bauhaus or the Cure backing him. It is certainly interesting. I gotta give props to Danger Mouse. He took a crappy Jay Z album and made it into one of the most interesting mash ups that I've ever heard that really worked for the most part. (It does kind of unravel at the end) Now I'm hearing shades of Mouse on Mars and other stuff. This album is really all over the map in terms of sound. I think it might require a few repeated listens before I could ever hope to reach a verdict and that should be an endorsement itself.
Not only the issue with potentially infected user documents but you have the issue of installed software and system updates. While it is nice to have a good solid state to go back to, you may over time want to install new applications and somehow system updates need to be worked into your plan because that static image is going to become far more insecure with each passing day. I really don't see why a virus scanner is such a bad thing. I mean, ideally a well designed, secure OS shouldn't allow escalated privileges to user processes, but nothing is totally secure. Even if something is nailed down tight you can always pry up the nails. The anti malware stuff is getting pretty bloated though and is becoming more intrusive than the malware itself. I like the idea of just having everything in a hardware controlled virtual machine (it would solve some issues for sure), but if all you want is a non changing bootable environment why not look at Ubuntu or Windows on a thumb drive with write blocking or, you know, run a virtual machine on a linux host or something.... I mean wtf? Seriously. There are like a million options out there for what you describe. The only thing this bios basically doing is taking the hypervisor and moving it to the hardware. If they manage to give the guest operating system full unrestricted hardware access, then kudos to them because that is one of the real downsides of running a virtual OS....
4 years ago. I wonder if all those boxes are still running right now? I wonder what google does when it retires servers.....it would be kind of cool to have a couple of bonafide google racks doing something cool at my house.
The Phantom. A highly appropriate name if there ever was one.
uhhh....wikipedia?
Specifications
* Chipset: MagicEyes Pollux System-on-a-Chip
* CPU: 533MHz ARM9 3D Accelerator
* NAND Flash Memory: 1 GB
* RAM: SDRAM 64 MB
* Operating System: GNU/Linux-based OS
A Permanent State of War (tm)
Perpetual war....
"War is peace."
There aren't any wars left worth fighting.
Last I check it is open source. FORK! FORK! FORK!
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I got to play pacific air war for the first time in years recently. I miss the old sims. I still regularly play tornado in DOS box and outside of being unable to fast forward through missions it is still probably my favorite sim ever. I so wish they would make another great ground pounding sim like that. Strike Eagle III was pretty great too. I miss good dynamic campaigns. Mission generators start to get pretty boring. Oh well. Sorry for the ramble. Dosbox is awesome though.
Feature complete it should emulate x86 hardware to the point of being able to boot up windows 98. When that happens there would be no point to even running a VM for just dos. Games were some of the most challenging things to get to run in DOS. Most DOS applications would easily run on any 386. I wouldn't be all that surprised if it booted windows 3.11 by now.
Second that. I'm dying to have MT-32 sound again. I've thought about buying another one...who knows...maybe I will one day. Man was I mad when my EX-gf threw that away. :P
Those games don't sound nearly as good with FM synthesis and a lot of those soundtracks were designed for the MT-32 originally and then ported to SB. A lot of them used the MT-32 for sound fx. The Sierra games come to mind as well as Ultima VII. (Thanks exult team!!!) Windows soft-MIDI is supposed to be a Roland GS soundfont, but it sounds pretty crappy to me, but maybe the GS/SC sounded that bad to begin with? :)
Couple of things. Try dynamic cpu. Also try to increase the cycles till the point where the sound starts stuttering and then back off a bit to keep your sound smooth. Wash, rinse, repeat. Also sometimes ddraw works better than surface as a render method, but YMMV. Filters will kill your FPS as well. Also try disabling any unused sound emulation options as well as setting the sample rates down to 22khz. You can force high priority as well. My ancient Athlon64 3000 will get 486DX2-66 speeds or so with some tweaking. D-fend is a great front end that makes configuration easy.....
Fuck you.
does any company i meant to say, falling asleep at the keyboard, time to sleep peeps. :)
Don't worry. The SCO execs still made their money and are most likely very comfortable. Shame they never got investigated for insider trading when they started dumping their own stock, while filing waves of lawsuits, or is that legal? IP was the last leg their company had to stand on, and that was a shaky one at best. It is kind of sad that it took them this long to finally burn through all their cash on lawyers. Couldn't they have just called it a day and given the money to charity or something or maybe tried to reinvest in a new venture? Clearly they didn't see any sort of long term future for SCO. Does any still even actively license their craptacular "Unix" from them?
I like the gun sight idea, but I think live view really trumps everything now. Just hold the camera up and compose. :)
I still prefer the viewfinder though, but then I'm not usually trying to take pictures of fast moving action. You are right though. I see all these people with Mark IIs and D90s and it makes me really sad to see them using them like P&S cameras. I mean, they could have saved $1000 and bought a coolpix or something and probably gotten about the same results. I'm no expert, but I always strive to make my shots better and I pretty much shoot in M or at the very most Av all the time. The art of photography you knew is now dying and being replaced by photoshop and dslrs. Everyone is trying to recreate the effects of film digitally and yet all the techniques for getting good shots in the first place without alteration are seemingly left by the wayside because exposure can be so dramatically altered without a great deal of loss. I think the prevalence of HDR is making even the look of classic well exposed photography a dying form. Without the WTF moments that film can provide Lumography sure won't be the same anymore....
What new frontiers are there for photography? It seems like anything "new" anymore is just a rehash of older ideas. Maybe more digital art convergence and more digital painting with photographs, which is my favorite thing actually, but I don't know. I'm just rambling at this point and I do apologize. You just kind of struck a chord there. Thanks.
thanks. that made me laugh.
I mean at least space wars at least had real graphics and not a bunch of ASCII characters. I guess this qualifies for some minor footnote in history, somewhere, somehow, but I'm really at a loss as to where. While we are at it do we know who A) wrote the first 8-bit PC game? B) Wrote the first 32-bit PC game? and C) Wrote the first 64-bit PC game? Ok...now how about the first C64 game? What about the first PC game? What about the first Apple II game? I could probably think of a million "firsts."
Any takers? :P
Its fascinating how windows dominates that list.
Let me guess. You must be one of those people who nitpick every good idea to death with a million reasons as to why something is a bad idea. Yeah. Hey Mr. "It will never work" how is using less herbicide as well as somewhat fertilizing the ground a possibly bad idea? Because of bugs?? Have you ever been in a garden? Its usually crawling with them. For the record, body lice feed off of your blood when they bite you, they do not eat hair. Clothes moths are certainly something else though, but why would some extra moths in the garden be a bad thing? Same thing with some more beetles. Also field crickets seem to have no problems burrowing under the soil and there is usually enough plant cover for them to hide regardless, adding a bunch of hair is not likely to suddenly make them appear or increase in numbers. Since cockroaches exist naturally in the soil, I doubt that adding some hair will do much to attract them when there is plenty of better things for them to eat outside. I'm only responding that since you felt a need to be such a damned naysayer that most of your points are pretty damned moot on the whole discussion. The GP was making an observation about the acceptance of different materials, not making a direct suggestion to use sheep's wool as ground cover. For home gardening, human hair is actually not a bad idea, though I think that mulching the ground with a good layer of treated (or even untreated, but they don't last as long) wood chips would probably be a lot more effective to be honest.
Just saying.....
Theoretically they could just pass USB to the guest. I mean I've done this many times because for a while my XP install wouldn't see my digital camera, but ubuntu would. So I see no reason why this wouldn't work. You are probably out of luck on the firewire though. Even apple finally gave up firewire.
All the good stuff gets modded down. The trolls on slashdot are the greatest.
Is admantanium magnetic?
your sig says it all. :)