Have you been to the store recently? I can't really say that the AMD chips are the cheaper of the two anymore from my price comparisons. It seems that AMD has decided that they are good enough not to take the second tier on pricing anymore. While this is probably good for AMD, I wish they hadn't done this, because I was always happy to stay a bit behind on speed and get a chip for half the cost allowing me to upgrade more often and have a herd of old computers to play around with. That way I never had the fastest chip in the herd on my game machine or development box, but I always had something in the top percentile.
I won't get into who makes the better chip because I honestly don't know =). I have AMD on my windows laptop, windows game machine, and linux developer workstation. I also have a linux server running on a broken scren laptop using an Intel, and my M10000 for a linux multimedia center in the living room. I find them all to get the job done nicely.
My two passions are literature and IT. I also live in Amarillo, TX. I know it is fun to bash on midwest/southern people for being ignorant, but I feel it is that the south has always been more agriculture based than the North due to the longer growing season etc. When I was growing up I worked on a ranch throwing hay, mucking stalls, branding cattle, and doctoring animals. This obviously put me at a bit of a disadvantage skill wise from kids that worked at their dads office, but I believe I have a better work ethic than most of those folks because I know what I could be doing instead.
I challenge anyone in the country to call Amarillo people and not be able to understand what they are saying. In fact the most annoying thing I have heard about our accents in Texas is that we talk slower. Our tech support department where I work is one of the finest I have ever seen because of this. If you are trying to describe something then speaking slowly (no matter how annoying it is) is better than rattling off something so fast the person on the other end of the phone can't jot it down.
their 100m would have been better spent to stop the bleeding they are about to recieve at the hands of Mozilla before folks realize they can add specialized search engines in the search toolbar instead of just google. Once folks find out how wonderful this ability is I think it will even slap Google upside the head a bit. For real research I have found this an invaluable as using google tends to give me search results that are too broad, often from sources that are more difficult to document.
From your post it seems as if they make you be a tradeskiller just to fly a spaceship too. You know, I saw Han do repairs on the Falcon, but I don't remember him building it himself out of crap he ran around killing. I don't like tradeskills, and I never have. I tried playing SWG, but I didn't want to do any tradeskills, none, nada, zilch. The game is the absolute worst piece of garbage that has ever graced the earth minus the pretty graphics if you don't like grinding away at tradeskills to be a useful character.
It's not a matter of "level of thinking." I enjoy ed DAOC where I had to use team tactics and coordination vs another team of high end players. I also enjoyed Everquest where we consistently tried to take down a bigger and badder mob with fewer people and interesting strategies. Heck I even enjoyed Shadowbane because it had the best balance of any game I've ever played, and building a community that could survive wars was a neat trick of learning the fine art of diplomacy vs aggression.
Trying to equate not liking SWG with not being at a high level of thinking is kind of like saying "If you don't like hitting yourself in the ear with a ball ping hammer your not smart." I mean really, SWG is the first game I've ever seen that actually put true automatic macroing in their game because it was so damn boring to actually be in front of the keyboard, and it took so little skill that a macro could do it. Sorry, but in my opinion if your game can be automated through a macro in any way, it needs to be improved.
p.s. Yes I know if you are bright you can macro a ton of games, but I stand by my comments in that those games do need improving where you can macro them:).
I leave my WAP unsecured and firewalled away from the rest of my network. I live in a depressed tract of land where it's very difficult to use cellular modems etc so hopefully it will be handy to someone someday, and think maybe sometime I'll find someone wardriving me and maybe be able to strike up a conversation:).
I would do what I'm doing now at work, SSH'ing home, and proxying VNC/mozilla/irc/games through the SSH tunnel. Unless you lock down any external device reading, and downloading so I can't get to any ssh client or vnc client. Or I could just take the easy route and boot to knoppix if your network uses an open dhcp server.
If all else fails I could use my laptop to connect via ppp to the internet via my Treo600 phone, thus flipping your lab the bird because it's likely so useless after all that locking down that the computers are only good for night lights.
I've encountered bullshit like this in college, and it is nothing but a hinderance to me getting my work done. If I need a C++ compiler, better editor, schoolwork from home, or to get on IRC to ask a question from a likely more informed audience than in-class then I will, and you won't stop me. Really why would you want to stop me? If I wasn't getting the job done or I was disrupting your class then just grow a pair and kick me out of the class rather than punish the students who are paying for a resource.
The best classes never offered time for me to goof off because they challenged me enough that I was exited to be learning what was in the room rather than messing with stuff outside of it.
Sorry if this post was too flamish, but I think if you were serious about students not doing that sort of stuff you would just put the rules in your syllabus, and install vncserver on each of the windows boxes and tell the students you would be monitoring their desktops with it for unauthorized surfing/use.
Do any of you think that google could with financial reason build a chat program using Jabber? It would be kind of cool to have a google chat program, and gmail client integrated into plugins in Mozilla. I just don't know if Google would want to be another blip on the chat program landscape. How would they make money? I don't know if I would want them scanning my chat for text adds. Although I have a gmail account and I guess I don't mind it for that, so why not:).
Just because you don't like rap, country, theatre, opera, or galleries doesn't mean the people that do fit into whatever typecast you want them to be in. I personally love to go to the theatre here in town, especially the small ones. Some of the best gut splitting humor is in plays, and it's a great way to support your local economy, and meet interesting people in other walks of life.
Typecasting people that enjoy certain arts is the same bs as people that typecast me as antisocial because I like technology. I assure you that most folks at plays aren't snooty, and like a raunchy bit of humor as much or more than the next. Most of the folks I've met at plays are pretty open minded, educated, and highly interested in freedom of speech issues.
At one comment posted the server was already toast. If anyone has an alternative link it would be great if you would post it. I would like to know what this "28 day capacity" means. If they limit your ability to access data to 28 days then it's a joke no matter how much data you can store on it.
Although I know you are joking, I'd be pretty pissed if I couldn't run a red light if like last week I had a tornado coming down a mile behind me and closing fast. Other drivers around here who haven't seen the damage potential from a tornado were just driving around like nothing was wrong. Me, I was hauling ass through red lights like mad to make it home to the cellar. Thank god it only briefly touched down. I still got home in my garage before the baseball sized hail knocked out my car windows.
Oh, here's the storm. Turns out, that the hail was more likely to kill you than the tornado =/.
Car to driver: Dear driver, you are an incompetant moron, shutting down now. 3 seconds later, WHAM run over by an 18 wheeler with the brakes out.
unless they can provide a clear money trail that the defendant knew was going to a terrorist organization. The supreme court would throw out anything less. Heck, I've even seen people stupid enough to threaten bodily harm to the president through an AC comment here on slashdot, and =even if cmdrtaco moves to a montana militia retreat, he's under no legal penalty for another person's comments on a public talkspace.
So what. My Treo 600 with Eudora (free) does an absolutely beautiful job of handling email. Heck, my treo 600 will even be a wireless modem for my laptop where I can access webmail or whatever in a full browser from anywhere I can get a signal. I can also synch up my Evolution to it and carry my 500 person contact list with me everywhere with a very intuitive search function. I just wish the Treo 600 wasn't so expensive so more folks could get them and see how awesome they are.
My treo 600 is like a lifeline for me. I have it loaded with about 50 mb of applications now, and quite a few pictures. Also I use it to store files and transfer them from computer to computer. I don't even have enough room on a 128 mb stick for more than a few mp3's when I'm done with all the other junk on there.
The customer is always right. And right now they are tired of mmorpg's in general.
I personally loved everquest, however I logged out for the last time a year and a half ago, played daoc for a year intermittently, and now don't play any mmorpg's.
I honestly think everyone in EQ is going through the same boredom/withdrawal that I did. MMORPG's as they stand are dying. It won't be until we have a paradigm shift in their design that they are reborn. This may take an even greater technological leap though.
Star wars galaxies had the best chance to implement a new paradigm, but instead chose to create a similar game, with less content. (randomly generated fields of monsters doesn't count). Nobody wants to be a slimeworm killing grunt in the star wars universe. For me SWG was great for about 10 minutes of looking around and going wow, I'm in the star wars universe, and I'm a slug.
Perhaps world of warcraft or guildwars can reinvigorate burned out mmorpg'ers, but lets face it, mmorpg's had a good run, comparable to the run of RTS games, and it's time for something new.
Personally, I've taken up golf again.. no not virtual golf, real golf. The sun is a lot warmer than I remember, and I'm a lot weaker and fatter after a few years glued to mmorpg's. I highly recommend getting up and doing something fun outside again:).
Is the ultimate phone. Other than it's lack of a good free word processor it's fantastic for several reasons.
1. Use it as a wireless modem (linux/windows). Careful about charges mind you, but sprint is flat rate, and cheaper than buying a pcmcia setup
2. Synchs to outlook and evolution.
3. There is a great eudora client for it, so you can get your pop mail anywhere.
4. Set up a new user on your linux box via ssh!
5. Strip Dice!;)
6. Camera with third party software can be a soso video camera, but make sure to download qset.
7. Support for SD memory sticks.
8. ptunes lets you listen to shoutcast streams wherever.
9. I just love the way the contacts browser works.
10. You always have a good flashlight. I know this sounds stupid but I use mine as a flashlight all the damn time.
11. Stupid phone limitations can be overcome by annoyed/enterprising developers.
I don't think anyone here disagrees with Universities saving money. What I think most folks dislike is university secrecy. The small college I started at for instance had an entire lab full of brand new dells with Windows XP on them. All of those machines had 1 purpose, and that was to connect to the as400 system so students could learn COBOL. I asked the department head what those systems cost the school and he told me that the information was part of a secret deal with dell.
I am of the thinking that they could have done better with old hardware and new monitors/keyboards/mice with any network connected OS, but I'll never know, and never be able to send a note to the administration about it or do (gasp), a school project on it because I was cock blocked by a back room deal.
Maybe I'm just daft and naive but I feel the secret use of public funds is bad 99.9 percent of the time unless it deals with safety matters.
As far as I know almost all colleges enter into secret backroom deals with software and operating system companies. This has two good effects for the colleges.
A: They don't have to explain to alumni why they spent a million rupees on frivolous software.
B: The people making the purchases don't get lynched for all the stupid mistakes they make.
What really stinks is that most colleges are at least partially state funded, and they protect these records from public scrutiny. It's a sucky deal, but no more sucky than the books that won't even be used that students are told to buy.
On an off topic note, does it make anyone else sick seeing the amount of IT classes that are taught through power point presentations rather than proffessor insight. If I never see a piece of crap programming book with by Thompson again it will be too soon!
Yea, everything looks great, fits well with other sony stuff, and is pretty cool all around. Till a few months after it's warranty wears out and it falls apart as my 2 vaio's that are running server duty with dead monitors will attest to.
I use joe under every brand of unix I run. It's a great little editor. I know how to use VI ok, but I always seem to switch back to joe whenever it's available on a system. I just like the wordstar bindings I guess, and doing a quick macro easy in joe.
I'm very happy to see joe still working on this editor, and would one day love to see it under X natively.
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But this game lets you gun down monsterous millionaires!
/duck.
Ok mod me down, I deserve it after that.
Have you been to the store recently? I can't really say that the AMD chips are the cheaper of the two anymore from my price comparisons. It seems that AMD has decided that they are good enough not to take the second tier on pricing anymore. While this is probably good for AMD, I wish they hadn't done this, because I was always happy to stay a bit behind on speed and get a chip for half the cost allowing me to upgrade more often and have a herd of old computers to play around with. That way I never had the fastest chip in the herd on my game machine or development box, but I always had something in the top percentile.
I won't get into who makes the better chip because I honestly don't know =). I have AMD on my windows laptop, windows game machine, and linux developer workstation. I also have a linux server running on a broken scren laptop using an Intel, and my M10000 for a linux multimedia center in the living room. I find them all to get the job done nicely.
My two passions are literature and IT. I also live in Amarillo, TX. I know it is fun to bash on midwest/southern people for being ignorant, but I feel it is that the south has always been more agriculture based than the North due to the longer growing season etc. When I was growing up I worked on a ranch throwing hay, mucking stalls, branding cattle, and doctoring animals. This obviously put me at a bit of a disadvantage skill wise from kids that worked at their dads office, but I believe I have a better work ethic than most of those folks because I know what I could be doing instead.
I challenge anyone in the country to call Amarillo people and not be able to understand what they are saying. In fact the most annoying thing I have heard about our accents in Texas is that we talk slower. Our tech support department where I work is one of the finest I have ever seen because of this. If you are trying to describe something then speaking slowly (no matter how annoying it is) is better than rattling off something so fast the person on the other end of the phone can't jot it down.
their 100m would have been better spent to stop the bleeding they are about to recieve at the hands of Mozilla before folks realize they can add specialized search engines in the search toolbar instead of just google. Once folks find out how wonderful this ability is I think it will even slap Google upside the head a bit. For real research I have found this an invaluable as using google tends to give me search results that are too broad, often from sources that are more difficult to document.
From your post it seems as if they make you be a tradeskiller just to fly a spaceship too. You know, I saw Han do repairs on the Falcon, but I don't remember him building it himself out of crap he ran around killing. I don't like tradeskills, and I never have. I tried playing SWG, but I didn't want to do any tradeskills, none, nada, zilch. The game is the absolute worst piece of garbage that has ever graced the earth minus the pretty graphics if you don't like grinding away at tradeskills to be a useful character.
:).
It's not a matter of "level of thinking." I enjoy ed DAOC where I had to use team tactics and coordination vs another team of high end players. I also enjoyed Everquest where we consistently tried to take down a bigger and badder mob with fewer people and interesting strategies. Heck I even enjoyed Shadowbane because it had the best balance of any game I've ever played, and building a community that could survive wars was a neat trick of learning the fine art of diplomacy vs aggression.
Trying to equate not liking SWG with not being at a high level of thinking is kind of like saying "If you don't like hitting yourself in the ear with a ball ping hammer your not smart." I mean really, SWG is the first game I've ever seen that actually put true automatic macroing in their game because it was so damn boring to actually be in front of the keyboard, and it took so little skill that a macro could do it. Sorry, but in my opinion if your game can be automated through a macro in any way, it needs to be improved.
p.s. Yes I know if you are bright you can macro a ton of games, but I stand by my comments in that those games do need improving where you can macro them
I leave my WAP unsecured and firewalled away from the rest of my network. I live in a depressed tract of land where it's very difficult to use cellular modems etc so hopefully it will be handy to someone someday, and think maybe sometime I'll find someone wardriving me and maybe be able to strike up a conversation :).
I would do what I'm doing now at work, SSH'ing home, and proxying VNC/mozilla/irc/games through the SSH tunnel. Unless you lock down any external device reading, and downloading so I can't get to any ssh client or vnc client. Or I could just take the easy route and boot to knoppix if your network uses an open dhcp server.
If all else fails I could use my laptop to connect via ppp to the internet via my Treo600 phone, thus flipping your lab the bird because it's likely so useless after all that locking down that the computers are only good for night lights.
I've encountered bullshit like this in college, and it is nothing but a hinderance to me getting my work done. If I need a C++ compiler, better editor, schoolwork from home, or to get on IRC to ask a question from a likely more informed audience than in-class then I will, and you won't stop me. Really why would you want to stop me? If I wasn't getting the job done or I was disrupting your class then just grow a pair and kick me out of the class rather than punish the students who are paying for a resource.
The best classes never offered time for me to goof off because they challenged me enough that I was exited to be learning what was in the room rather than messing with stuff outside of it.
Sorry if this post was too flamish, but I think if you were serious about students not doing that sort of stuff you would just put the rules in your syllabus, and install vncserver on each of the windows boxes and tell the students you would be monitoring their desktops with it for unauthorized surfing/use.
Do any of you think that google could with financial reason build a chat program using Jabber? It would be kind of cool to have a google chat program, and gmail client integrated into plugins in Mozilla. I just don't know if Google would want to be another blip on the chat program landscape. How would they make money? I don't know if I would want them scanning my chat for text adds. Although I have a gmail account and I guess I don't mind it for that, so why not :).
Just because you don't like rap, country, theatre, opera, or galleries doesn't mean the people that do fit into whatever typecast you want them to be in. I personally love to go to the theatre here in town, especially the small ones. Some of the best gut splitting humor is in plays, and it's a great way to support your local economy, and meet interesting people in other walks of life.
Typecasting people that enjoy certain arts is the same bs as people that typecast me as antisocial because I like technology. I assure you that most folks at plays aren't snooty, and like a raunchy bit of humor as much or more than the next. Most of the folks I've met at plays are pretty open minded, educated, and highly interested in freedom of speech issues.
At one comment posted the server was already toast. If anyone has an alternative link it would be great if you would post it. I would like to know what this "28 day capacity" means. If they limit your ability to access data to 28 days then it's a joke no matter how much data you can store on it.
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Although I know you are joking, I'd be pretty pissed if I couldn't run a red light if like last week I had a tornado coming down a mile behind me and closing fast. Other drivers around here who haven't seen the damage potential from a tornado were just driving around like nothing was wrong. Me, I was hauling ass through red lights like mad to make it home to the cellar. Thank god it only briefly touched down. I still got home in my garage before the baseball sized hail knocked out my car windows.
Oh, here's the storm.
Turns out, that the hail was more likely to kill you than the tornado =/.
Car to driver: Dear driver, you are an incompetant moron, shutting down now. 3 seconds later, WHAM run over by an 18 wheeler with the brakes out.
unless they can provide a clear money trail that the defendant knew was going to a terrorist organization. The supreme court would throw out anything less. Heck, I've even seen people stupid enough to threaten bodily harm to the president through an AC comment here on slashdot, and =even if cmdrtaco moves to a montana militia retreat, he's under no legal penalty for another person's comments on a public talkspace.
So what. My Treo 600 with Eudora (free) does an absolutely beautiful job of handling email. Heck, my treo 600 will even be a wireless modem for my laptop where I can access webmail or whatever in a full browser from anywhere I can get a signal. I can also synch up my Evolution to it and carry my 500 person contact list with me everywhere with a very intuitive search function. I just wish the Treo 600 wasn't so expensive so more folks could get them and see how awesome they are.
My treo 600 is like a lifeline for me. I have it loaded with about 50 mb of applications now, and quite a few pictures. Also I use it to store files and transfer them from computer to computer. I don't even have enough room on a 128 mb stick for more than a few mp3's when I'm done with all the other junk on there.
The customer is always right. And right now they are tired of mmorpg's in general.
:).
I personally loved everquest, however I logged out for the last time a year and a half ago, played daoc for a year intermittently, and now don't play any mmorpg's.
I honestly think everyone in EQ is going through the same boredom/withdrawal that I did. MMORPG's as they stand are dying. It won't be until we have a paradigm shift in their design that they are reborn. This may take an even greater technological leap though.
Star wars galaxies had the best chance to implement a new paradigm, but instead chose to create a similar game, with less content. (randomly generated fields of monsters doesn't count). Nobody wants to be a slimeworm killing grunt in the star wars universe. For me SWG was great for about 10 minutes of looking around and going wow, I'm in the star wars universe, and I'm a slug.
Perhaps world of warcraft or guildwars can reinvigorate burned out mmorpg'ers, but lets face it, mmorpg's had a good run, comparable to the run of RTS games, and it's time for something new.
Personally, I've taken up golf again.. no not virtual golf, real golf. The sun is a lot warmer than I remember, and I'm a lot weaker and fatter after a few years glued to mmorpg's. I highly recommend getting up and doing something fun outside again
before pumping.. I hate being interrupted..
High Tech DVD Perforator, now in candy apple red for the office space fans out there!
Is the ultimate phone. Other than it's lack of a good free word processor it's fantastic for several reasons.
;)
1. Use it as a wireless modem (linux/windows). Careful about charges mind you, but sprint is flat rate, and cheaper than buying a pcmcia setup
2. Synchs to outlook and evolution.
3. There is a great eudora client for it, so you can get your pop mail anywhere.
4. Set up a new user on your linux box via ssh!
5. Strip Dice!
6. Camera with third party software can be a soso video camera, but make sure to download qset.
7. Support for SD memory sticks.
8. ptunes lets you listen to shoutcast streams wherever.
9. I just love the way the contacts browser works.
10. You always have a good flashlight. I know this sounds stupid but I use mine as a flashlight all the damn time.
11. Stupid phone limitations can be overcome by annoyed/enterprising developers.
I don't think anyone here disagrees with Universities saving money. What I think most folks dislike is university secrecy. The small college I started at for instance had an entire lab full of brand new dells with Windows XP on them. All of those machines had 1 purpose, and that was to connect to the as400 system so students could learn COBOL. I asked the department head what those systems cost the school and he told me that the information was part of a secret deal with dell.
I am of the thinking that they could have done better with old hardware and new monitors/keyboards/mice with any network connected OS, but I'll never know, and never be able to send a note to the administration about it or do (gasp), a school project on it because I was cock blocked by a back room deal.
Maybe I'm just daft and naive but I feel the secret use of public funds is bad 99.9 percent of the time unless it deals with safety matters.
As far as I know almost all colleges enter into secret backroom deals with software and operating system companies. This has two good effects for the colleges.
A: They don't have to explain to alumni why they spent a million rupees on frivolous software.
B: The people making the purchases don't get lynched for all the stupid mistakes they make.
What really stinks is that most colleges are at least partially state funded, and they protect these records from public scrutiny. It's a sucky deal, but no more sucky than the books that won't even be used that students are told to buy.
On an off topic note, does it make anyone else sick seeing the amount of IT classes that are taught through power point presentations rather than proffessor insight. If I never see a piece of crap programming book with by Thompson again it will be too soon!
Yea, everything looks great, fits well with other sony stuff, and is pretty cool all around. Till a few months after it's warranty wears out and it falls apart as my 2 vaio's that are running server duty with dead monitors will attest to.
That's a friend of mine who just came in bragging about his accomplishment, and I just modded him down.. I feel a bit dirty.
It's just another washed out search engine.bomb.bomb.bomb.bomb
I use joe under every brand of unix I run. It's a great little editor. I know how to use VI ok, but I always seem to switch back to joe whenever it's available on a system. I just like the wordstar bindings I guess, and doing a quick macro easy in joe. I'm very happy to see joe still working on this editor, and would one day love to see it under X natively.