Oh, so if you have it your grocery store so must the rest of the world. Kinda self-centered of you, don't you think. In the silicon valley there are about three places you can buy dry ice from -- and it's *expensive*.
So there.
A few months ago I upgraded my Tivo to 184 hours (120Gb drive) (Details at http://www.boomzilla.com/Images/TiVo/tivo_expansio n_project.htm)
Problem is that with approx 60 hours of recorded material when clicking on the "Now Playing", the upgraded Tivo takes about 2 minutes (feels like 2 hours...)to update and display the list of recorded programs. I can only imagine how bad it will be when I max out all 184 hours (if I don't hit some magic limit in Tivo indexing by then).
Unless Tivo fixes its indexing mechanism -- expanding a Tivo much beyond 150 hours capacity is going to make for a very frustrating hack.
(BTW - thanks to the guys/gals at 9th Tee who sold me the mounting bracket for my Tivo upgrade -- their web site is invaluable when doing the hack. Now all I need to do is case mod my Tivo and I'm done)
I have a Linksys 802.11a WAP and three laptops with receivers. I also have a Siemens Gigaset -- no interference that I can detect between them -- and the Siemens base-station and the Linksys WAP sit about 3ft from each other.
Lucky perhaps?
Go to the John Deere home site http://www.deere.com/en_US/deerecom/johndeere_worl dwide/index.html - no mention of "PlusTech" at all.
If you look closely at the photo's of the machine and the video you'll notice they look 'artificial' -- a little too clean and crisp compared with the background. Also, if you're going to video your state-of-the-art vehicle wouldn't you get a better location for your camera than back behind a boat-load of trees and bushes?
Funny how the web site is unfinished (i.e. the boaring elements to fake up havn't been done -- but the fun graphics have).
Well executed mind-you, but someone should tell the guys (or gals) who did this that it's "April 1" they should have been shooting for, not "August 1"
$1,600 for monitor, keyboard and mouse?! Where are you shopping dude? For about $350 you can get a 15" Viewsonic flatscreen and for $50 more the mouse and keyboard (although these days used equipment -- albeit bulky -- somes in dirt cheap.
Nice machine but what's the target market? It's a laptop without the screen and keyboard. Why? Just cos' it's there?
Boomzilla
"It turns out that software is way more complicated than it used to be."
[Wow. That's the most blindingly obvious comment I've heard for a long time!]
I feel that poor software quality boils down to (a) inprecise specification (b) incomplete planning and (c) development environments that are to damm fast.
I recall in the good 'ol days of computing having to wait hours for a compilation run to complete. You can bet that the thought behind code changes was considerable and that every line was checked very carefully, dry-running and all that stuff.
Nowadays it's hack, compile, test, hack, compile, test etc etc until it works. Why it works and if it will hold up is a seperate, and largely ignored, issue. And don't point at QA and say it's their job to find the bugs in your crappy code. It isn't -- it's yours.
So, who's for going back to really s l o w compilers as a mechanism for improving software quality????
So I can see it now. The MI themed ride at DisneyLand/Magic Kingdom will be a suspension rollercoaster with a "door" motif. The corridors in which avid riders line up will be decorated as MI corridors (a la the Back to the future ride at Universal).
I for one am looking forward to it!
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Duh. Grocery Stores in N.Cal don't sell dry ice.
Oh, so if you have it your grocery store so must the rest of the world. Kinda self-centered of you, don't you think. In the silicon valley there are about three places you can buy dry ice from -- and it's *expensive*. So there.
Problem is that with approx 60 hours of recorded material when clicking on the "Now Playing", the upgraded Tivo takes about 2 minutes (feels like 2 hours...)to update and display the list of recorded programs. I can only imagine how bad it will be when I max out all 184 hours (if I don't hit some magic limit in Tivo indexing by then).
Unless Tivo fixes its indexing mechanism -- expanding a Tivo much beyond 150 hours capacity is going to make for a very frustrating hack. (BTW - thanks to the guys/gals at 9th Tee who sold me the mounting bracket for my Tivo upgrade -- their web site is invaluable when doing the hack. Now all I need to do is case mod my Tivo and I'm done)
You know it's a paid spot because the discussion does not include and A. Coward posts.
www.mslinux.org -- tells the whole story. Microsoft is ready to rumble! :-)
I have a Linksys 802.11a WAP and three laptops with receivers. I also have a Siemens Gigaset -- no interference that I can detect between them -- and the Siemens base-station and the Linksys WAP sit about 3ft from each other. Lucky perhaps?
Go to the John Deere home site http://www.deere.com/en_US/deerecom/johndeere_worl dwide/index.html - no mention of "PlusTech" at all.
If you look closely at the photo's of the machine and the video you'll notice they look 'artificial' -- a little too clean and crisp compared with the background. Also, if you're going to video your state-of-the-art vehicle wouldn't you get a better location for your camera than back behind a boat-load of trees and bushes?
Funny how the web site is unfinished (i.e. the boaring elements to fake up havn't been done -- but the fun graphics have).
Well executed mind-you, but someone should tell the guys (or gals) who did this that it's "April 1" they should have been shooting for, not "August 1"
$1,600 for monitor, keyboard and mouse?! Where are you shopping dude? For about $350 you can get a 15" Viewsonic flatscreen and for $50 more the mouse and keyboard (although these days used equipment -- albeit bulky -- somes in dirt cheap. Nice machine but what's the target market? It's a laptop without the screen and keyboard. Why? Just cos' it's there? Boomzilla
"It turns out that software is way more complicated than it used to be."
[Wow. That's the most blindingly obvious comment I've heard for a long time!]
I feel that poor software quality boils down to (a) inprecise specification (b) incomplete planning and (c) development environments that are to damm fast.
I recall in the good 'ol days of computing having to wait hours for a compilation run to complete. You can bet that the thought behind code changes was considerable and that every line was checked very carefully, dry-running and all that stuff.
Nowadays it's hack, compile, test, hack, compile, test etc etc until it works. Why it works and if it will hold up is a seperate, and largely ignored, issue. And don't point at QA and say it's their job to find the bugs in your crappy code. It isn't -- it's yours.
So, who's for going back to really s l o w compilers as a mechanism for improving software quality????
So I can see it now. The MI themed ride at DisneyLand/Magic Kingdom will be a suspension rollercoaster with a "door" motif. The corridors in which avid riders line up will be decorated as MI corridors (a la the Back to the future ride at Universal). I for one am looking forward to it!