Instant GBA Messenger? Over 50-100m? Blegh.
GBA/Net? Blegher.
One non-blegh is if you could buy "game sets" with 30 or so lo-tech games to Bluetooth to your phone and store a game on the phone... A phone is much more portable than a GBA.
ThinkGeek
Linus Torvalds: Just For Fun It kicks ass!
WTF T-Shirt
Linux Kernel TS
Linuxfront/LinusPenguinQuote onback TS
Linux World Domination TS
Slashdot:Anonymous Coward TS:)
Perl Camel TS
WTF Hoodie
GEEK Hoodie
Other Stuff:
PHP Book I forgot the title!!
Do Androids Dream of Sheep? Book
3 pairs of Socks Oh yeah. I run in 170fps in them.
4 Awesome CDs
Candle I love the fire effects. I think Erik De Neve did them.
15 Bux0rz Enough for me to get a prezzie for my grandparents who are coming on Sat
New PC:
Athlon XP 1600
Asus Mommy
512MB SD-RAM DDR is xpensive here
GeForce2Ti Its not a GF3, but it still rules K?
Creative Vib128 I dont give a crap bout sound
M$ WinXP Pro I also have a RedHat 7.2 CD ready to install.
All I want for Noel:
Intel P4 1.9GHz [2GHz costs an extra 100 bucks]
Asus P4B i845 478p
3x 512MB RAM [4 Me, RAM is always more important cause most of my problems on my 32MB box come from insufficient RAM]
60GB/7200RPM Quantum HDD
19" Philips 109B Flat
Asus V8200 Deluxe GeForce3 64MB TV Out[Ti500 is not worth the money]
USRobotics 56K Ext. Modem [56K is the only option where I live:(]
Asus ATX T10 Case
M$ Internet Multimedia Keyb
M$ Intelli Mouse
16x Pioneer DVD-ROM
Yamaha 20x10x40 CD-RW
M$ WinXP Pro
RedHat Professional Distro [the BIG one]
The above is a PERHAPS from my dad. I also ordered some tschit from ThinkGeek like tshirts and caffeine...
+ Sony has a portable CD-RW as you probably know. It also has Discman features besides that. So could it play them? Perhaps. If it could, that means it can copy them as well!
WTH does the RIAA think it's going to get by stopping play on computers and ripping??
1. Companies WILL make RIAA-enabled drive models.
2. Clever people will find ways. A quick way I figured is to hook up a discman or another cd player to the Line In on your sound card, and Rec away! What, is the RIAA gonna disable headphone communication and make people stick their fingers into the headphone output and feel the tiny shocklets??
I wonder if you can save as different formats, allowing it to become a gigantic portable hard drive.
Cause as well as MP3's, I'd like to store other things like maybe MPG's, JPG's, and other files. I doubt I'd fill up the space, but its a relaxing thing when your computer hdd is only 2 gigs. Plus, since its hardware decoding, the sound won't jitter like when I play MP3's and work on graphics on my computer.
yeah, it looks fine.
i wonder, can it run gcc? coded in linux must mean apps written for linux, so i hope. imagine writing that new app of yours on the subway!
even if it does not, i wonder if some crazy dude will happen to create a c-scripting language in java!!
I hate it whenever a new OS comes out. Cause then I know all the software will run on only that, and nothing else. Programmers used to (some still do), design their programs to be extremely efficient and run from 368's to Pentium Pro's. On slower machines, they were cut off some of the bells and whistles, and on the faster ones they had better features but they still did more or less the same things.
I waste hours of time trying to get a Photoshop effect in Paint Shop Pro, cause that's all that will run on my box.
WinXP takes up a tremendous amount of space too. Estimate about 1.5 gigs for the OS, that leaves me 600mb of space on my 2.1gb hd.
I am a fan of Linux, and it does run faster that Win98, but it still bloats down. Most people here do not realize that Linux is nearly as slow as Win on a bad machine. I used Red Hat 6 for a while to see the difference, and gave up the 5% performance for a bit more software compatability. I'm an amateur developer, and I give useful software that I created (notably Euclid2K, a math program) to my friends at school. There are a total of 5 people at my school who ever even heard of Linux, so I am actually chained to Windows because of that.
I try to optimize my code as much as I can. Ditch the Visual x stuff, DOS is fine for my purposes and the purposes of most programmers: Input and Output.
I recently took a C course given by an old M$-hater geezer from NZ called Mr Dewsnip, and all he taught the class was how to make rectangles and draw cars on iMacs with CodeWarrior. Nothing else. Not even "Hello World!". Just an endless stream of PaintRects. I never wanted to draw a car on the screen. Why would I need to? Thats not the point of programming. Its all I/0 in my opinion.
Microsoft needs better coders. Could you imagine how good WinXP would be if the team consisted of Linus Torvalds and other gurus? It would be amazing.
Life is sure not easy with a Pentium MMX 200MHz processor, 32 megs of RAM and a 8MB Cirrus Logic PCI graphics card. Thats why I love linear programming instead of Visual.
I think that the general idea of Legos are open-source and GNU, they let you create and not limit you to the space station design on the front. They should move this over to the Mindstorm's processors as well and give out source for free with the product.
Slashdot Mirror
Instant GBA Messenger? Over 50-100m? Blegh. GBA/Net? Blegher. One non-blegh is if you could buy "game sets" with 30 or so lo-tech games to Bluetooth to your phone and store a game on the phone... A phone is much more portable than a GBA.
tis weird... just at 3:00 in the morning i was thinking of a 3-4 boxed p2/128mb ram beowulf cluster instead of a pentium4/640mbram...
hey, what if your hand gets really sweaty and the sweat drips in and covers the circuits with dripping salty water? baaaaaddd..... stick to cloth.
ThinkGeek :)
Linus Torvalds: Just For Fun It kicks ass!
WTF T-Shirt
Linux Kernel TS
Linuxfront/LinusPenguinQuote onback TS
Linux World Domination TS
Slashdot:Anonymous Coward TS
Perl Camel TS
WTF Hoodie
GEEK Hoodie
Other Stuff:
PHP Book I forgot the title!!
Do Androids Dream of Sheep? Book
3 pairs of Socks Oh yeah. I run in 170fps in them.
4 Awesome CDs
Candle I love the fire effects. I think Erik De Neve did them.
15 Bux0rz Enough for me to get a prezzie for my grandparents who are coming on Sat
New PC:
Athlon XP 1600
Asus Mommy
512MB SD-RAM DDR is xpensive here
GeForce2Ti Its not a GF3, but it still rules K?
Creative Vib128 I dont give a crap bout sound
M$ WinXP Pro
I also have a RedHat 7.2 CD ready to install.
Have a Merry-Rest-Of-X-Mas!!!!!
6 t-shirts, 2 sweatshirts + caffeine cany from ThinkGeek
New PC next week!
I hope you all got something as great as i did...
merry xmas
All I want for Noel: :(]
Intel P4 1.9GHz [2GHz costs an extra 100 bucks]
Asus P4B i845 478p
3x 512MB RAM [4 Me, RAM is always more important cause most of my problems on my 32MB box come from insufficient RAM]
60GB/7200RPM Quantum HDD
19" Philips 109B Flat
Asus V8200 Deluxe GeForce3 64MB TV Out[Ti500 is not worth the money]
USRobotics 56K Ext. Modem [56K is the only option where I live
Asus ATX T10 Case
M$ Internet Multimedia Keyb
M$ Intelli Mouse
16x Pioneer DVD-ROM
Yamaha 20x10x40 CD-RW
M$ WinXP Pro
RedHat Professional Distro [the BIG one]
The above is a PERHAPS from my dad. I also ordered some tschit from ThinkGeek like tshirts and caffeine...
+ Sony has a portable CD-RW as you probably know. It also has Discman features besides that. So could it play them? Perhaps. If it could, that means it can copy them as well!
WTH does the RIAA think it's going to get by stopping play on computers and ripping??
1. Companies WILL make RIAA-enabled drive models.
2. Clever people will find ways. A quick way I figured is to hook up a discman or another cd player to the Line In on your sound card, and Rec away! What, is the RIAA gonna disable headphone communication and make people stick their fingers into the headphone output and feel the tiny shocklets??
I wonder if you can save as different formats, allowing it to become a gigantic portable hard drive.
Cause as well as MP3's, I'd like to store other things like maybe MPG's, JPG's, and other files. I doubt I'd fill up the space, but its a relaxing thing when your computer hdd is only 2 gigs. Plus, since its hardware decoding, the sound won't jitter like when I play MP3's and work on graphics on my computer.
yeah, it looks fine.
i wonder, can it run gcc? coded in linux must mean apps written for linux, so i hope. imagine writing that new app of yours on the subway!
even if it does not, i wonder if some crazy dude will happen to create a c-scripting language in java!!
I hate it whenever a new OS comes out. Cause then I know all the software will run on only that, and nothing else. Programmers used to (some still do), design their programs to be extremely efficient and run from 368's to Pentium Pro's. On slower machines, they were cut off some of the bells and whistles, and on the faster ones they had better features but they still did more or less the same things. I waste hours of time trying to get a Photoshop effect in Paint Shop Pro, cause that's all that will run on my box. WinXP takes up a tremendous amount of space too. Estimate about 1.5 gigs for the OS, that leaves me 600mb of space on my 2.1gb hd. I am a fan of Linux, and it does run faster that Win98, but it still bloats down. Most people here do not realize that Linux is nearly as slow as Win on a bad machine. I used Red Hat 6 for a while to see the difference, and gave up the 5% performance for a bit more software compatability. I'm an amateur developer, and I give useful software that I created (notably Euclid2K, a math program) to my friends at school. There are a total of 5 people at my school who ever even heard of Linux, so I am actually chained to Windows because of that. I try to optimize my code as much as I can. Ditch the Visual x stuff, DOS is fine for my purposes and the purposes of most programmers: Input and Output. I recently took a C course given by an old M$-hater geezer from NZ called Mr Dewsnip, and all he taught the class was how to make rectangles and draw cars on iMacs with CodeWarrior. Nothing else. Not even "Hello World!". Just an endless stream of PaintRects. I never wanted to draw a car on the screen. Why would I need to? Thats not the point of programming. Its all I/0 in my opinion. Microsoft needs better coders. Could you imagine how good WinXP would be if the team consisted of Linus Torvalds and other gurus? It would be amazing. Life is sure not easy with a Pentium MMX 200MHz processor, 32 megs of RAM and a 8MB Cirrus Logic PCI graphics card. Thats why I love linear programming instead of Visual.
I think that the general idea of Legos are open-source and GNU, they let you create and not limit you to the space station design on the front. They should move this over to the Mindstorm's processors as well and give out source for free with the product.