(and by bringing this up 'how to be modded as troll'.) Take every possible chance to slam the Xbox, even if the article isn't specifically Xbox related:
1. tell everybody how it loses money on every unit sold. 2. Evil Empire microsoft bad, evil empire Sony good. 3. fail to realise that they ALL have their good and bad points, and there are still people futzing around with the Atari 2600, dreamcast, et. al. And when (if?) one of the three players fails, hey CHEAP GAMES!
BTW, The judges are docking you points because you fail to mention the URL for that Game shop owner (who's name escapes me at the moment, you know the one.) and that comic making fun of the Xbox controller's size.
Sheesh folks, MOVE ON! At $200 or less for Any of these things, buy one of each or don't. (And try not to think your allowance is going to several multi-billion dollar conglomerates that LOVE you either way you go.)
It's worse than that. Currently, only a Corvette Left Door Control Module can be used as a Corvette Left Door Control Module...
What we need is a standardised spec with standardised connectors. That way you take your Napa Gold System controller, tell it it's a Corvette Left Door Control Module and go to town.
(The aforementioned LDCM has a sensor to tell door state, relays to control door lock solenoid actuation, and relays to handle the power window. Concievably you'd buy a Napa Gold 4 port controller as it'd have enough relays to control what a LDCM would deal with. Or even better, it's a three part unit. You attach an X channel input, a Brain of a certain power, and a Y channel output controller.)
Ever heard of SEMA? (Specialty Equipment Manufacturer's Association) They're a HUGE lobbying group for aftermarket suppliers of parts.
Microsoft perrenial upgrades? When your car is running okay, what do you put in it? Gas? Tires? What else? It won't automatically stop running if you don't pay your EA license.
Comparing the Auto industry to the Computer industry is just flat stupid and a non-starter.
Things have been going in this direction for quite awhile. The Corvette in 97
went to a serial communications protocol, talking to 14 different control units.
It also had a throttle by wire system that eliminated a LOT of complexity in the
traction control, cruse control and throttle applications. Active handling, a SIGNIFICANT feature, required a software change and two sensors.
The next step is to get sensors to talk this protocol. Rather than having a
dumb sensor that goes to a control unit that interprets the message, you have a
temp. sensor that the manufacturer doesn't have to worry about. They just need to
look for a temperature unit reporting water temp, or another unit reporting
vehicle speed on the wire.
Then the cruise control, the radio, the speedometer, etc all just have to
listen for that packet that says 'wheel speed is 60 mph'.
the Cool thing is, the vendor that makes the Vehicle Speed Sensor might do it
today for $50. Next year it may be $42, the year after, they might redesign it
to have zero moving parts (optical) and with custom asics, make it a $12 part.
Will that translate to a cheaper vehicle for you? probably not...but it'll make
your car last longer, and will be easier to troubleshoot.
Actually USING Redhat is what made me sort around for another distro.
-Two major versions in a very short period of time that were largely incompatible when using third party software
-Internally inconsistent administration tools that aren't available in text-mode only linux. (Why install X11 on an IDS sensor?) That say they do someing then don't. (Wireless network configuration.)
-really borked package management. Yeah, you can _add_ apt-get to Redhat, but you get some oddities case it's added on.
I'm really glad you made your decision for you and the people you support. I don't have access to you and have found that I got a heck of a lot further on my own with Suse.
The other thing that REALLY bugs me is: resier isn't available on BSD. So I either have to learn two different distros (linux and bsd based) for internal and external use, or use something externally that has a much worse track record (NetBSD is nice and safe in the wild/ linux is very popular and 'more hackable')
More to the point, the OS would be on a CDROM (Live Linux distribution), read only so it can't be permanently messed with. A centralized fileserver with virus scanning because as much as I'd like to think it'd be immune to virii, I'm also a realist.
Just because an NFS server can't _get_ infected by the SoBig.Z virus, doesn't mean the computers connected to it can't propagate the virus that way.
If violent videogames leads to violence, where aren't there MILLIONS of Columbines? There are MILLIONS of Doom, Quake, Postal, Unreal, etc. games. If there were a causal relationship, there'd be more news on it.
Test your backups by restoring them to a VMware virutal server. That way you not only have assurance your backups work, but you can apply patches to a near production environemtn for testing.
On the other hand, users don't need all those options (at least, for the average user). Users want a hammer, not a combination forge-lathe-grinder with optional fiberglass extruder.
It depends on whether the end user is making Toast, or a grandfather clock. I know _I_ want a forge-lathe-grinder-extruder.
No one will see this, but the Stirling engine he's working on has nothying to do with the Segway...it's a standalone power generator that also produces drinkable water. It's a SMALL unit, about 1m x 1m x 1.5m and runs on just about anything that can be burned.
So, it may CHARGE your Segway, but it's not an integral part of one.
That they were writing to the 96.7% of the rest of the browser market? Or that they were spending more time working on cars than working on the website?
It's not like they lost a sale to you.
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The nasty code to write zeros to a box's drive is about 12 lines of assembly. Why hasn't it been done yet?
Because a DEAD box cannot be used to attack OTHER boxes.
This is just about where we were with NeXT and Display Postscript. :)
(and by bringing this up 'how to be modded as troll'.)
Take every possible chance to slam the Xbox, even if the article isn't specifically Xbox related:
1. tell everybody how it loses money on every unit sold.
2. Evil Empire microsoft bad, evil empire Sony good.
3. fail to realise that they ALL have their good and bad points, and there are still people futzing around with the Atari 2600, dreamcast, et. al. And when (if?) one of the three players fails, hey CHEAP GAMES!
BTW, The judges are docking you points because you fail to mention the URL for that Game shop owner (who's name escapes me at the moment, you know the one.) and that comic making fun of the Xbox controller's size.
Sheesh folks, MOVE ON! At $200 or less for Any of these things, buy one of each or don't. (And try not to think your allowance is going to several multi-billion dollar conglomerates that LOVE you either way you go.)
It's worse than that. Currently, only a Corvette Left Door Control Module can be used as a Corvette Left Door Control Module...
What we need is a standardised spec with standardised connectors. That way you take your Napa Gold System controller, tell it it's a Corvette Left Door Control Module and go to town.
(The aforementioned LDCM has a sensor to tell door state, relays to control door lock solenoid actuation, and relays to handle the power window. Concievably you'd buy a Napa Gold 4 port controller as it'd have enough relays to control what a LDCM would deal with. Or even better, it's a three part unit. You attach an X channel input, a Brain of a certain power, and a Y channel output controller.)
Man, too much thinking for a Friday afternoon.
You don't know much about cars. Do you?
Ever heard of SEMA? (Specialty Equipment Manufacturer's Association) They're a HUGE lobbying group for aftermarket suppliers of parts.
Microsoft perrenial upgrades? When your car is running okay, what do you put in it? Gas? Tires? What else? It won't automatically stop running if you don't pay your EA license.
Comparing the Auto industry to the Computer industry is just flat stupid and a non-starter.
Things have been going in this direction for quite awhile. The Corvette in 97 went to a serial communications protocol, talking to 14 different control units. It also had a throttle by wire system that eliminated a LOT of complexity in the traction control, cruse control and throttle applications. Active handling, a SIGNIFICANT feature, required a software change and two sensors.
The next step is to get sensors to talk this protocol. Rather than having a dumb sensor that goes to a control unit that interprets the message, you have a temp. sensor that the manufacturer doesn't have to worry about. They just need to look for a temperature unit reporting water temp, or another unit reporting vehicle speed on the wire.
Then the cruise control, the radio, the speedometer, etc all just have to listen for that packet that says 'wheel speed is 60 mph'.
the Cool thing is, the vendor that makes the Vehicle Speed Sensor might do it today for $50. Next year it may be $42, the year after, they might redesign it to have zero moving parts (optical) and with custom asics, make it a $12 part. Will that translate to a cheaper vehicle for you? probably not...but it'll make your car last longer, and will be easier to troubleshoot.
Actually USING Redhat is what made me sort around for another distro. -Two major versions in a very short period of time that were largely incompatible when using third party software -Internally inconsistent administration tools that aren't available in text-mode only linux. (Why install X11 on an IDS sensor?) That say they do someing then don't. (Wireless network configuration.) -really borked package management. Yeah, you can _add_ apt-get to Redhat, but you get some oddities case it's added on. I'm really glad you made your decision for you and the people you support. I don't have access to you and have found that I got a heck of a lot further on my own with Suse. The other thing that REALLY bugs me is: resier isn't available on BSD. So I either have to learn two different distros (linux and bsd based) for internal and external use, or use something externally that has a much worse track record (NetBSD is nice and safe in the wild/ linux is very popular and 'more hackable')
Yes, but then the funny correlation would never have been made if I stuck to absolutes now, would it?
ALL of my old pdas go in the Desk drawer of Doooooom!
(dusty screen and 20 minute battery life was what did it in.)
I still have a Newton 110 in there...and a Palm 7...
I'm talking to a cubiclemate about it and said "Do ya wanna see the computational horsepower of the server we just turned off?"
And held up my old iPaq and new iPaq. (The server was a dual PPro 200.)
More to the point, the OS would be on a CDROM (Live Linux distribution), read only so it can't be permanently messed with. A centralized fileserver with virus scanning because as much as I'd like to think it'd be immune to virii, I'm also a realist.
Just because an NFS server can't _get_ infected by the SoBig.Z virus, doesn't mean the computers connected to it can't propagate the virus that way.
a Live Linux distribution storing the data on a central fileserver with robust virus scanning.
If violent videogames leads to violence, where aren't there MILLIONS of Columbines? There are MILLIONS of Doom, Quake, Postal, Unreal, etc. games. If there were a causal relationship, there'd be more news on it.
Test your backups by restoring them to a VMware virutal server. That way you not only have assurance your backups work, but you can apply patches to a near production environemtn for testing.
Well, _I_ thought it was a nifty idea.
What, is that Free trade with California?
Those BASTARDS!
No one will see this, but the Stirling engine he's working on has nothying to do with the Segway...it's a standalone power generator that also produces drinkable water. It's a SMALL unit, about 1m x 1m x 1.5m and runs on just about anything that can be burned.
So, it may CHARGE your Segway, but it's not an integral part of one.
And Gore invented the Internet(tm)...and he now works for Apple.
Distributed, hidden, can't tell who registerd the file...freenet could fulfill the 'DDOS tolerant' needs here.
write direct to .eps
"What do people do with all this money? This isn't a rhetorical question; I'd really like to know what these people intend to do with such fortunes."
Really mees up thier children's world view.
Cooking the books is bad, m'kay?
It is with the gas thrifty 2.73 stock rearend. The new 383 really wants a 3.07 rearend, but that's not financially tenable at the moment.
Cool. 2nd at redline in my Vette is 94mph.
That they were writing to the 96.7% of the rest of the browser market? Or that they were spending more time working on cars than working on the website? It's not like they lost a sale to you.