The majority of those jobs will be people working in booths. There will be others, yes, but its just like when hotels ask for a varience to become super-mega-uber highrises and claim they'll create more jobs, most of which will be low paying service jobs.
So i just write a little Palm OS app that tells them i drive to and from the grocery store once a week. I might even include a feature that shows me going to work. I could then leave my Palm on in its cradle while i take a 2 month vacation across the US.
Of course, if the gov were to let the GPS sats track me, instead of my car tracking me, it would be a different story. But i don't believe the three satellites i use to find me communicate with each other, so my GPS system would have to tell them where i am.
"It's because of the many genres that you find all the time in anime but very VERY rarely in American cartoons. Sword-and-sorcery fantasies, superhero adventures, supernatural ghost stories, mecha space operas, cyberpunk thrillers, high school kung-fu comedies..."
While I'd be interested in some of those, I can't help but say that the frame rate of anime drives me up the fucking wall. At times it seems like it isn't really animation, just a slide show, or a scene with a cell "sliding" across some cracked-out background that has nothing to do with what's really going on.
I too have a Cat Eye, and it does everything i need. The one redeeming value of using this setup on a bike would be neat little graphs and transfering the data to your computer.
Of course, there's nothing saying you have to use this on a bike.
I think the reason you see slower speeds on the new P2P networks is that they include features to limit your upload speed. On Napster, your client/server would send the mp3s as fast as it could. I had no trouble taking full advantage of some college T3 lines using Napster, and whenever someone would download off of me, they always hit my cable cap - 12k/sec.
With KaZaA and Morpheus, you can limit the bandwidth used for uploads to as little as 3k/sec, and even lower if you use some hacks.
/me grabs the fishook sitting on the bridge
That's assuming the ship, let alone the passengers, could actually withstand the inertia from accelerating that fast.
Well, the way BLizz's anti-piracy system works is that it checks your CD-Key with ones that have been officially generated by Blizzard (and or include more checks than the one the installer/single player game uses). This check is done when connecting to the battle.net servers. What happens if you can get the full use out of the game without using Blizz's servers? You can use a generated CD-Key. You then have a fully-piratable game, not a semi-neutered one you can't play online with others.
The point is that MS forced the manufacts to ONLY sell Windows on the pre-built machines. That meant almost noone outside of the geek crowd would ever find out about it.
The OS that comes prepackaged on Joe Sixpack's new machine is likely the OS that will stay there. Nobody i know who isn't "technologicaly inclined" has ever reinstalled windows, let alone tried a new OS.
I think what the original poster was referring to with the DIY comment is that you can't build your own Mac from scratch. Sure, i can stick a G3 or G4 in my PowerTower Pro, or pop a Radeon in a PCI slot, but that only goes so far - the CPU is limited by my bus speed (50mhz, 60 if i clock), and the Radeon is old tech, especially on the PCI bus.
The point is that you can't go out and buy Mobo X, CPU Y, and Vid Card Z then stick them all in a case of your choice and build a modern system running the Mac OS. Sure, bottom of the barrel boxes like yours and mine work, but they aren't nearly as fast as a $3000 G4.
What you and I have done is upgraded old Machines - not built one from the ground up. I hate to say it, but no matter how you look at it, there is no way you can make a top of the line Mac from a stack of components of your choosing - you're stuck with what Apple says you can have, which are legacy pieces until you buy a brand new G4, which pretty much defeats the purpose of building one yourself.
I don't know about you, but i wasn't allowed to cross the street without an adult when i was in 1st grade. I don't think my parents would have let me explore the world.
All of the spam i get comes from either Hotmail or Yahoo accounts with names like 223408asdj@yahoo.com. Obviously meant for spam. When i unsubscribe, i always get a 404, but magically the ammount of spam i recieve goes up by 5 or 6 messages per day.
So i get to pay $50 for a piece of software, take it home, and then find out i don't like the EULA. But you've already gotten your money, and since i don't agree, I've gotten nothing. Ok, I'll return it. WAIT, we CAN'T. Not one store I can think of will accept a return on opened software. My local Software Etc. used to, but they killed that policy long ago.
The main part of these force feedback units is a very unbalaced electric motor. I have those in some of my model R/C cars. Does that mean I should be hearing from Immersion soon?
Because open source apps and OS's aren't nearly as user friendly. For the general population to want to use something, it has to be as turnkey as possible. I can't think of one secretary that knows what a command line is, let alone wants to use one to get things done.
IMHO, the whole open source community is too raw, too "low level" for Joe Sixpack. People want things to work right out of the box in a nice little window - they don't want to have to play around with XF86 configs to change their resolution.
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Don't tell me you haven't seen Tomb Raider, or DAO3. Hell, the chick's boobs in that one make up 1/3rd of her body mass.
The majority of those jobs will be people working in booths. There will be others, yes, but its just like when hotels ask for a varience to become super-mega-uber highrises and claim they'll create more jobs, most of which will be low paying service jobs.
So i just write a little Palm OS app that tells them i drive to and from the grocery store once a week. I might even include a feature that shows me going to work. I could then leave my Palm on in its cradle while i take a 2 month vacation across the US.
Of course, if the gov were to let the GPS sats track me, instead of my car tracking me, it would be a different story. But i don't believe the three satellites i use to find me communicate with each other, so my GPS system would have to tell them where i am.
"It's because of the many genres that you find all the time in anime but very VERY rarely in American cartoons. Sword-and-sorcery fantasies, superhero adventures, supernatural ghost stories, mecha space operas, cyberpunk thrillers, high school kung-fu comedies..."
While I'd be interested in some of those, I can't help but say that the frame rate of anime drives me up the fucking wall. At times it seems like it isn't really animation, just a slide show, or a scene with a cell "sliding" across some cracked-out background that has nothing to do with what's really going on.
It seems like always skiing to your left would get old after a while.
I too have a Cat Eye, and it does everything i need. The one redeeming value of using this setup on a bike would be neat little graphs and transfering the data to your computer.
Of course, there's nothing saying you have to use this on a bike.
I think the reason you see slower speeds on the new P2P networks is that they include features to limit your upload speed. On Napster, your client/server would send the mp3s as fast as it could. I had no trouble taking full advantage of some college T3 lines using Napster, and whenever someone would download off of me, they always hit my cable cap - 12k/sec. With KaZaA and Morpheus, you can limit the bandwidth used for uploads to as little as 3k/sec, and even lower if you use some hacks.
I believe that Alias Wavefront's Maya has already done this.
All the secretary has to do is click "OK" in the error box and everything is ok.
Heh, The Physics of Star Trek = good book. I should finish it sometime.
/me grabs the fishook sitting on the bridge That's assuming the ship, let alone the passengers, could actually withstand the inertia from accelerating that fast.
Well, the way BLizz's anti-piracy system works is that it checks your CD-Key with ones that have been officially generated by Blizzard (and or include more checks than the one the installer/single player game uses). This check is done when connecting to the battle.net servers. What happens if you can get the full use out of the game without using Blizz's servers? You can use a generated CD-Key. You then have a fully-piratable game, not a semi-neutered one you can't play online with others.
The point is that MS forced the manufacts to ONLY sell Windows on the pre-built machines. That meant almost noone outside of the geek crowd would ever find out about it.
The OS that comes prepackaged on Joe Sixpack's new machine is likely the OS that will stay there. Nobody i know who isn't "technologicaly inclined" has ever reinstalled windows, let alone tried a new OS.
And how much bandwidth are they using up hosting these gritty details?
I think what the original poster was referring to with the DIY comment is that you can't build your own Mac from scratch. Sure, i can stick a G3 or G4 in my PowerTower Pro, or pop a Radeon in a PCI slot, but that only goes so far - the CPU is limited by my bus speed (50mhz, 60 if i clock), and the Radeon is old tech, especially on the PCI bus.
The point is that you can't go out and buy Mobo X, CPU Y, and Vid Card Z then stick them all in a case of your choice and build a modern system running the Mac OS. Sure, bottom of the barrel boxes like yours and mine work, but they aren't nearly as fast as a $3000 G4.
What you and I have done is upgraded old Machines - not built one from the ground up. I hate to say it, but no matter how you look at it, there is no way you can make a top of the line Mac from a stack of components of your choosing - you're stuck with what Apple says you can have, which are legacy pieces until you buy a brand new G4, which pretty much defeats the purpose of building one yourself.
I get SciFi and Comedy Central. But i doubt i live near you.
I couldn't bring myself to watch all of that scene. I no longer enjoy that song.
I don't know about you, but i wasn't allowed to cross the street without an adult when i was in 1st grade. I don't think my parents would have let me explore the world.
All of the spam i get comes from either Hotmail or Yahoo accounts with names like 223408asdj@yahoo.com. Obviously meant for spam. When i unsubscribe, i always get a 404, but magically the ammount of spam i recieve goes up by 5 or 6 messages per day.
Well, that does you alot of good - you still can't get your money back if you don't like the product. That is what i was talking about.
THe force feedback in MS's joysticks uses servos. Nothing that Sony sells uses servos.
So i get to pay $50 for a piece of software, take it home, and then find out i don't like the EULA. But you've already gotten your money, and since i don't agree, I've gotten nothing. Ok, I'll return it. WAIT, we CAN'T. Not one store I can think of will accept a return on opened software. My local Software Etc. used to, but they killed that policy long ago.
The main part of these force feedback units is a very unbalaced electric motor. I have those in some of my model R/C cars. Does that mean I should be hearing from Immersion soon?
Because open source apps and OS's aren't nearly as user friendly. For the general population to want to use something, it has to be as turnkey as possible. I can't think of one secretary that knows what a command line is, let alone wants to use one to get things done. IMHO, the whole open source community is too raw, too "low level" for Joe Sixpack. People want things to work right out of the box in a nice little window - they don't want to have to play around with XF86 configs to change their resolution.
Define the slashdoter's definition of "open source." I had always thought that open source means the source is out there for you to play with.