The idea of levels is just stupid. People can have machines with a vast array of different equipment. I might have a P4 with 128 meg of RAM and a Geforce 2 MX. How would that compare with a P4 with 128 meg of RAM and a Radeon 9800? It's really hard to make that comparison because they are both limited by the RAM.
Since they are throttled by RAM and can barely run Windows, they'd both be level 1. What's so difficult about it? I mean, it's just taking each spec of the system, looking up what that spec "rates", and then averaging the numbers to get the level. The P4 might give you an 8, GeForce2 might be a 4, Radeon 9800 a 6, but because both systems only have 128MB RAM, that triggers a flag which automatically sets the Level to 1. Raise the memory to 1GB in each machine and the "flag" is removed, and you get a realistic system level of say 5 for the GeF2 and a 7 for the Radeon 9800.
Whatever happened to... doing one thing, and doing it well? [snip] One that will playback ALL major formats, has a good interface, and super long battery life. Although my iPod is great, it fails to meet 2 of these criteria...
And you still bought an iPod. Things don't have to do one thing "well" to sell; the iPod does things "not quite as well as you'd like but is kinda slick and people think it's cool" so it sells.
And as long as people compromise and buy iPods, we'll never see a do-it-all fantastic player made for us geeks, because marketing will force the engineers to put in useless, frilly features like a static graphic display in a vain attempt to take sales away from Apple.
When will you people get it through your heads that space elevators won't work?
The Earth is not flat. The Earth revolves around the sun. Heavier-than-air craft can fly. The atom is divisible. Humans can break the sound barrier without dying. 640K was not enough.
There are always people who say things can't be done. Thankfully, forward looking individuals don't listen to these nay-sayers and go on to make great discoveries and achievements.
I'd like to see some agreement from the car manufacturers and the soft drink industry to make some standardized cup sizes so that all drink cups are tapered to the same sizes, and 20oz bottles and 32oz bottles will all fit and not wobble.
We've got artificial hearts, artificial limbs and we're working on artificial eyes. What's it going to take to make artificial lungs? I'm talking from a technical standpoint here, not socially or legislatively.
AP: Do you pay much attention to fan reactions to your choices?
Lucas: Not really. The movies are what the movies are.... The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.
And I will not spend any more money to see Star Wars nor buy any merchandise... and that's MY choice.
Umm... didn't the engineers realize that they can just crack the case and remove the USB ports? They're usually mounted to the case with simple screws, and plugged into the motherboard with a standard female connector.
ATX motherboards have integrated USB ports, can't remove them w/o damaging the mobo. Laptops too have integrated USB ports, so the only thing you can do with these is fill them with epoxy.
Been there too; the first time, I pulled the drive out, used a 2.5" IDE adapter, and popped it into my desktop. Later on I got an external 2.5" USB case and used that. I'd use a 98 system disk and format the drive (bootable), copy in the DOS system files, copy the 98 installation files and most importantly the CD and NIC drivers. Pop the drive back in the laptop and boot, then run setup to install 98.
When your tamagochi is unhappy, you don't have to go to the virtual tamagochi website and buy a $200 bouquet of virtual roses and $500 virtual diamond earrings to make it happy.
And when you're pissed at your tamagochi, you can throw it agains the wall and crush it under your boot... don't want to do that with your cell phone.
Kinda... it's called the "Wego" in most other countries, but once it got to the US, they discovered that they could only fit one average sized American into the car. They wanted to call it the "Igo" but immediately got threatened by Apple, so ended up calling it the "Yugo".
Ok, so "i{blank}" didn't exist back then... sue me!
While I was in an ICU unit, the doc came by with some students. Since I have nice beefy arms and huge veins (the blood donation folks love me), the doc asked if I minded the students practicing on me.
Well, seeing that the trainees were young and cute, I said "sure" and let them stab me several times. Ok, they did pretty well, probably because their "patient" wasn't freaking out.
At least, not to me. Maybe for the well-to-do, they'll have the fancy alarm system that monitors your brainwaves... but people like me will refuse to spend $5000 for such a system and prefer to rely on a $10 alarm from Target no matter what it does to our REM cycle. Besides, the cure for getting up cranky has been around for years, we call it "coffee"...
Electric cars that drive themselves- yeah, sure that'll happen. I can see all those angry SUV owners just thrilled about driving along *with* traffic. What about those who can't afford such cars? It'll be at least 10 years after such cars are introduced before the less affluent can buy them 2nd hand.
The flatscreen in your office... reminds me of "Spaceballs" and the bathroom monitor. "Sorry you cant see me boss, my video feed's broken. Yes, again..."
A humaniod robot to cook and clean... what are they giving them away free? Sigh... maybe Bill Gates will live like this in 10 years... but not me.
With the screen list, they put several big S's on your boarding pass, and then you get shunted into the "extra-thorough" screening line going in. You'll recognize it next time you fly: it's extra long, extra slow, and it's where all the people with dark skin or funny clothes go.
How did you buy the tickets?
Last year, while travelling for business, I was sent through the special line 10 times out of 12. It was because
1. The tickets were booked at the last minute, some the day before the flight.
2. Since I was travelling to several cities in a row, they were all one way tickets.
3. The company (a big and powerful one) paid with frequent flier miles accumulated on the corporate account, for business class tickets. Now, you'd think that a ticket linked to a corporate account would breeze me through, but no. I think perhaps these tickets are marked as purchased by "cash"...
4. Even though I was travelling on business, I had brought along backpacking gear since I expected to get out into the backcountry at every possible moment I wasn't in the office. So I had a big rucksack and camping gear.
I was never denied entry to the plane, but they searched very well... most of the time. A couple of times the TSA agent began digging through my (well packed) backpack and gave up halway through.
If there's one thing that Apple as a company has managed to succeed with for a very, very long time, it is building a fiercely loyal customer base. Apple customers don't jump ship when the company is at its worst, let alone when it appears to be sailing relatively smoothly.
Well, most Apple customers did jump ship. If you ever owned a Performa, you would have too. Perhaps they've built up a loyal customer base again; but seriously, most of the people I know who own iPods aren't Mac users. It's one thing to be able to afford a $250 iPod (refurb) that, pricewise, is reasonably competative. It's another story when you talk about G4 which run 30% more than a comparable Dell.
Anyway, I'm sure that many iPod users, who aren't Mac users, have no Mac brand loyalty, and *would* welcome a 2nd source of songs... especially if the songs are cheaper.
Apple customers also of late really, really seem to want stuff that "just works" without any extra work on the part of the user.
Heh heh heh... no, it's been that way since 1986, it's the fundamental selling point of Macs; it "just works". No fiddling with.ini files, no regedits, it "just works".
Preventing them from saying what they are allowed to say by blasting them off the internet, rather than engaging in proper debate?
Unless it's SCO, then we're free to blast their website to oblivion... right? Right? I mean, since SCO has nothing useful to say it doesn't matter if we take down thier website.
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Remember, you can get *ROOT* access to linux by rebooting and adding 'single' to the boot line. Does this mean that it should be fixed in the next kernel/distro?
If you can do this on your system, it doesn't mean you can also do it on a properly administered publicly accessible system.
And in a properly administered publicly accessible Windows system you don't have access to the command prompt. So what's your point? If any system is properly administered, by default there's no vulnerabilities.
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The idea of levels is just stupid. People can have machines with a vast array of different equipment. I might have a P4 with 128 meg of RAM and a Geforce 2 MX. How would that compare with a P4 with 128 meg of RAM and a Radeon 9800? It's really hard to make that comparison because they are both limited by the RAM.
Since they are throttled by RAM and can barely run Windows, they'd both be level 1. What's so difficult about it? I mean, it's just taking each spec of the system, looking up what that spec "rates", and then averaging the numbers to get the level. The P4 might give you an 8, GeForce2 might be a 4, Radeon 9800 a 6, but because both systems only have 128MB RAM, that triggers a flag which automatically sets the Level to 1. Raise the memory to 1GB in each machine and the "flag" is removed, and you get a realistic system level of say 5 for the GeF2 and a 7 for the Radeon 9800.
So how long will the new FF summonings be, 10 minutes each? 30 minute cut scenes? I shudder at the thought.
Personally I'd rather they spend the time creating more "world" to explore rather than rendering hours and hours FMVs...
Whatever happened to... doing one thing, and doing it well? [snip] One that will playback ALL major formats, has a good interface, and super long battery life. Although my iPod is great, it fails to meet 2 of these criteria...
And you still bought an iPod. Things don't have to do one thing "well" to sell; the iPod does things "not quite as well as you'd like but is kinda slick and people think it's cool" so it sells.
And as long as people compromise and buy iPods, we'll never see a do-it-all fantastic player made for us geeks, because marketing will force the engineers to put in useless, frilly features like a static graphic display in a vain attempt to take sales away from Apple.
When will you people get it through your heads that space elevators won't work?
The Earth is not flat. The Earth revolves around the sun. Heavier-than-air craft can fly. The atom is divisible. Humans can break the sound barrier without dying. 640K was not enough.
There are always people who say things can't be done. Thankfully, forward looking individuals don't listen to these nay-sayers and go on to make great discoveries and achievements.
I'd like to see some agreement from the car manufacturers and the soft drink industry to make some standardized cup sizes so that all drink cups are tapered to the same sizes, and 20oz bottles and 32oz bottles will all fit and not wobble.
The power-switch on the iMac. How great it is and how you can find it.
With an indepth article regarding Apple's design process, and the exciting decision whether to make the power switch click or not.
We've got artificial hearts, artificial limbs and we're working on artificial eyes. What's it going to take to make artificial lungs? I'm talking from a technical standpoint here, not socially or legislatively.
BBC had some news a while back. Don't know the status of it now. Artificial lung breakthrough
AP: Do you pay much attention to fan reactions to your choices?
... The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.
Lucas: Not really. The movies are what the movies are.
And I will not spend any more money to see Star Wars nor buy any merchandise... and that's MY choice.
Umm... didn't the engineers realize that they can just crack the case and remove the USB ports? They're usually mounted to the case with simple screws, and plugged into the motherboard with a standard female connector.
ATX motherboards have integrated USB ports, can't remove them w/o damaging the mobo. Laptops too have integrated USB ports, so the only thing you can do with these is fill them with epoxy.
Been there too; the first time, I pulled the drive out, used a 2.5" IDE adapter, and popped it into my desktop. Later on I got an external 2.5" USB case and used that. I'd use a 98 system disk and format the drive (bootable), copy in the DOS system files, copy the 98 installation files and most importantly the CD and NIC drivers. Pop the drive back in the laptop and boot, then run setup to install 98.
most human beings are dangerous enough driving in a 2d environment. imagine how dangerous they'll be in a 3d environment!
I think most humans have a problem with 1D; they can't even stay in the middle of their own lane.
how is this different from a tamagotchi?
When your tamagochi is unhappy, you don't have to go to the virtual tamagochi website and buy a $200 bouquet of virtual roses and $500 virtual diamond earrings to make it happy.
And when you're pissed at your tamagochi, you can throw it agains the wall and crush it under your boot... don't want to do that with your cell phone.
..but each girl will behave differently - depending on how much money is spent on her.
Since you're not getting any sex, she's more like a therapist than a girlfriend.
Ford pried the nameplates off all of the cars and substituted them with "Corcel" which means horse.
Nah, the big mistake was that they didn't keep the nameplate and swap out the cars.
Was the "Yugo" a translation error? ;)
Kinda... it's called the "Wego" in most other countries, but once it got to the US, they discovered that they could only fit one average sized American into the car. They wanted to call it the "Igo" but immediately got threatened by Apple, so ended up calling it the "Yugo".
Ok, so "i{blank}" didn't exist back then... sue me!
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While I was in an ICU unit, the doc came by with some students. Since I have nice beefy arms and huge veins (the blood donation folks love me), the doc asked if I minded the students practicing on me.
Well, seeing that the trainees were young and cute, I said "sure" and let them stab me several times. Ok, they did pretty well, probably because their "patient" wasn't freaking out.
At least, not to me. Maybe for the well-to-do, they'll have the fancy alarm system that monitors your brainwaves... but people like me will refuse to spend $5000 for such a system and prefer to rely on a $10 alarm from Target no matter what it does to our REM cycle. Besides, the cure for getting up cranky has been around for years, we call it "coffee"...
Electric cars that drive themselves- yeah, sure that'll happen. I can see all those angry SUV owners just thrilled about driving along *with* traffic. What about those who can't afford such cars? It'll be at least 10 years after such cars are introduced before the less affluent can buy them 2nd hand.
The flatscreen in your office... reminds me of "Spaceballs" and the bathroom monitor. "Sorry you cant see me boss, my video feed's broken. Yes, again..."
A humaniod robot to cook and clean... what are they giving them away free? Sigh... maybe Bill Gates will live like this in 10 years... but not me.
With the screen list, they put several big S's on your boarding pass, and then you get shunted into the "extra-thorough" screening line going in. You'll recognize it next time you fly: it's extra long, extra slow, and it's where all the people with dark skin or funny clothes go.
How did you buy the tickets?
Last year, while travelling for business, I was sent through the special line 10 times out of 12. It was because
1. The tickets were booked at the last minute, some the day before the flight.
2. Since I was travelling to several cities in a row, they were all one way tickets.
3. The company (a big and powerful one) paid with frequent flier miles accumulated on the corporate account, for business class tickets. Now, you'd think that a ticket linked to a corporate account would breeze me through, but no. I think perhaps these tickets are marked as purchased by "cash"...
4. Even though I was travelling on business, I had brought along backpacking gear since I expected to get out into the backcountry at every possible moment I wasn't in the office. So I had a big rucksack and camping gear.
I was never denied entry to the plane, but they searched very well... most of the time. A couple of times the TSA agent began digging through my (well packed) backpack and gave up halway through.
Opportunity has found lumpy, odd rock unlike anything its seen to date.
I think they should name the next rover "Sheer Dumb Luck"
If there's one thing that Apple as a company has managed to succeed with for a very, very long time, it is building a fiercely loyal customer base. Apple customers don't jump ship when the company is at its worst, let alone when it appears to be sailing relatively smoothly.
.ini files, no regedits, it "just works".
Well, most Apple customers did jump ship. If you ever owned a Performa, you would have too. Perhaps they've built up a loyal customer base again; but seriously, most of the people I know who own iPods aren't Mac users. It's one thing to be able to afford a $250 iPod (refurb) that, pricewise, is reasonably competative. It's another story when you talk about G4 which run 30% more than a comparable Dell.
Anyway, I'm sure that many iPod users, who aren't Mac users, have no Mac brand loyalty, and *would* welcome a 2nd source of songs... especially if the songs are cheaper.
Apple customers also of late really, really seem to want stuff that "just works" without any extra work on the part of the user.
Heh heh heh... no, it's been that way since 1986, it's the fundamental selling point of Macs; it "just works". No fiddling with
Preventing them from saying what they are allowed to say by blasting them off the internet, rather than engaging in proper debate?
Unless it's SCO, then we're free to blast their website to oblivion... right? Right? I mean, since SCO has nothing useful to say it doesn't matter if we take down thier website.
Remember, you can get *ROOT* access to linux by rebooting and adding 'single' to the boot line. Does this mean that it should be fixed in the next kernel/distro? If you can do this on your system, it doesn't mean you can also do it on a properly administered publicly accessible system.
And in a properly administered publicly accessible Windows system you don't have access to the command prompt. So what's your point? If any system is properly administered, by default there's no vulnerabilities.
What are the envirnmental effects of this? Have they been considered?
Yeah, of course the environmental effects have been taken into consideration. It's Canada doing the pumping, not the US!
Yes, but can it go Plad!
I don't know anything that can go "plad". Maybe if you drop an iPod from the top of a building, it goes "iPlad" on the ground. You meant "Plaid"