I'm waiting for the posts asking when the emulator will be availible and how the Linux port is coming along. They are always posted to every article involving the XBox.
Everyone, and I mean absolutely every person I talked to told me to go into programming. I think people who don't understand the market to well see people like Bill Gates and think that there must be tons of money for geeks to fork in. The problem is that adults indiscriminately influence students to become 'computer professionals'. The reason I decided to take a different route is that I'm afraid that as more and more of these programmers flood the market place salaries are going to go way down as job opportunities become less prevalent. Besides that, computers are my hobby and I would like to keep it that way. If had to look at a computer screen all day I would hate the thing. It took me a long time to send this post between other tasks I hope its not become redundant already, but I will sent my apologies now just in case
Thats what I do now... well actually I don't call my girl friend with it, whe would never figure it out. I'm in the process of figuring out how to set up two way audio / video feeds. I hope to get all my friends set up so that we can video phone each other.
I believe the reason the software was labled as "Closed Source" was to make the point that it couldn't be changed to allow the use of a free service, and that it would require seperate software do so.
I need liquid crack to get me in the Zone... BTW Liquid Crack is Diet Coke. I gave it that name when I tried to quit. When you first try to quit its easy, but an hour later, the beast is on your back and you give in, weeker then befor. Now I just feed the beast and try to keep it from growing...
Actully I beleive it was his Father in Law who was helping him. I think I remember he was worried that his nosy neighbor would call the police as well... He had his house ultra secured, I wonder what he was tring to hide?--- I'm only 21 so I didn't get to read Steve's origenal articles, but do have a book that is basicly a " best of" collection. While it is slightly off topic, I found a circuit he made that mounted a camera on a couple of electic moters. The camera's image was analized by the computer which would align the camera with any movement. I would think these kind of applications were the first steps into this recognition field. Besides that it was pretty cool.... Now that I think of it, I bet that project would be alot easier to build now that we have digital cameras and there is no need to build that video Analog to Digital board. I'm gonna go whip out my soldering iron...
I go to Ga State which is literally across the street from Tech... We hear about this kind of crap from over there all the time. I just wanted everyone to know that all Georgia schools are not that F'ed up. Only close...
Awsome... great Idea. It so simple that I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it myself. It will keep working untill everyone does it and spam bot writers figure it out. Ironicly, I'm changeing all my websites' mailto tags to the java format... sorry
I was looking for a skinable Email Client not to long ago, and this is why. After looking though what was availible,by way of Email Clients,I desided that it was fairly obvious that everyones idea for a perfect inferface is different, so the only way I was going to get things just the way I wanted was to design the interface myself, unfortunantly I am still unable to find a skinable Email Client that is stable enough to use everyday. I may work on a ducttape rigged client myself.
Back in 99 as a contingincy for the y2k bug my company had me work out a system for keeping the company comunications running should anything happen to the internet. We set up generators to keep the computers running (We had them y2k certified) with generators and I hired several temps to hang around on new years eve, If the internet would have black, they would have imediatly began reading IP packets from terminal screen and transcribing (in hex) to little pieces of paper that were attached to pigions which would then fly to our other locations, the same process would have been in full swing. The IP information was then reentered into the system. Ping times where hella long in tests, but comunications were still active...
two years and one month after the first class graduates a new consulting firm will be organized because these programers will realize that they can make 100 times as much by getting hired as outside consultants doing the same job. I don't think that in two years the government is going to get their moneys worth. Are they tring to make life time employees of the state? It won't work. On the plus side their will be a few happy students with scholarships
I never ment to imply that such a system was workable... just that there are many resonable people who believe that one could be. I however believe strongly in a free market economy.
"Reasonable people agree that the creator of a work should compensated for his efforts, hence copyright" Being a Poli Sci fanatic I can think of several political theories in which a perfectly legitimate argument could be made that a person does not own his works nor is compensation required. For the greater good and all that... of course I'm a libertarian (I dare you to try telling anyone that here a Georgia State... liberal bastards) so I agree with your view that artist should be compensated. Capitalism rules.
I know this companies a sham... (I acctually read the article) but I would still like them to work every thing out and produce this phone. I wouldn't actually use it but I would love to take it apart and play with its insides. I can see a real cuecat/audry/iopener hacker community building up around this.
I liked it alot, but I had some trouble running it at first. I fiddled with everything to get it to work, finaly I just gave up and started to read slashdot, after a few mins I went down to the taskbar to check the status on a POV render and low and behold there was a button on the taskbar for open office so I checked it out and the damn thing started up. I havn't had a problem sense.
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The article says ". Altogether, the company has 128 mainframe mips. It's using between 7 percent and 10 percent of those to run Linux and the e-mail system." They use the other 90 someodd % for other applications...
I love the idea of recycling old high-end machines. I think this could be a big thing in the future... Buying a cheap old mainframe could be cheaper and more reliable then using a PC workstation with server software. Besides it sounds like fun hehe.
You mean MS wants us to think Unix isn't as good as it's OS? What do you expect? I run 2000 when it's appropriate and I run Linux when it's appropriate why doesn't everyone else? Don't get up on your soapbox and start yelling about how one is better then the other. There is a different focus for these operating systems. The only thing I have to complain about is that MS finds it necessary to push its product into markets that it is not really prepped for. If it wants to get into the high end server business it needs to do some more work before pushing it on consumers, but as far as desktops and low to low-middle road servers, its more then adequate and simple to use on top of that.
I think we should forget all laws designed to protect the children or make better parents. Children whose parents were unable, too stupid, or too uncaring to care for them would die off, leaving the human herd genetically stronger. Remove the bad uncaring and stupid genes from the pool and eventually the problem will go away. This may actually be quicker and better then letting politicians legislate away the problem... Please before you tear me up over this, understand that I'm not actually suggesting that we leave the children to their own means, but simply making the point that politicians can't fix this.
Actually that's a very good point. At some point it does become more economical to buy off a person on the 'inside' of what ever organization you want to get secrets from... Hell I'd sell my personal secrets for a $1.50. Of course I don't have anything worth mentioning except my infatuation with girls with southern accents... oops well there's a freebie.
You are absolutely right. This is diffidently already happening. I should have been more clear. (As a side note... I wrote a quick and dirty VB hack to spell check all my slashdot posts with MS Word and Word it suggested I change the last word 'clear' to 'clearer'. I think I was correct)
You are looking at the future of manufacturing. This business model is growing incredibly fast. To see why look at the XBox process. MS decided they wanted a piece of the console pie, so they got together with a firm that specializes in high tech manufacturing. MS is a company designed around producing software, that is what they do most efficiently. They know that they will not be able to build and run physical factories with the efficiency of a manufacturing company. These specialized manufacturers are amazing. I read in Wired about how the company doing the XBox was in on the design process and they were cutting costs and production times left and right from MS's original design. I understand that the Mexican plant they are using has trucks coming with parts and leaving with product every five mins. and planes taking off and landing at an airport (which they negotiated to be build) every 15 to 20 mins. That's a degree of efficiency MS could never reach. Simply businesses are specializing more to reach peak economic efficacy. BTW Sorry for the terrible structure of this paragraph, I'm at work.. Not much time.
That was awsome... I almost wet my pants when I read that... I just wrote a script to change the size/res on all my Digital Photos to smaller sizes, and you are right... You can get away with much lower res then you would think. For some reason everyone wants the pictures I take, and I was starting to think I was going to need one of those terrabit connections to send them all... How many pitures at 400x300 could you send in a minuet at that speed?... note my lame attempt to bring this post back on topic...
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I'm waiting for the posts asking when the emulator will be availible and how the Linux port is coming along. They are always posted to every article involving the XBox.
Everyone, and I mean absolutely every person I talked to told me to go into programming. I think people who don't understand the market to well see people like Bill Gates and think that there must be tons of money for geeks to fork in. The problem is that adults indiscriminately influence students to become 'computer professionals'. The reason I decided to take a different route is that I'm afraid that as more and more of these programmers flood the market place salaries are going to go way down as job opportunities become less prevalent. Besides that, computers are my hobby and I would like to keep it that way. If had to look at a computer screen all day I would hate the thing. It took me a long time to send this post between other tasks I hope its not become redundant already, but I will sent my apologies now just in case
Thats what I do now... well actually I don't call my girl friend with it, whe would never figure it out. I'm in the process of figuring out how to set up two way audio / video feeds. I hope to get all my friends set up so that we can video phone each other.
I believe the reason the software was labled as "Closed Source" was to make the point that it couldn't be changed to allow the use of a free service, and that it would require seperate software do so.
I need liquid crack to get me in the Zone... BTW Liquid Crack is Diet Coke. I gave it that name when I tried to quit. When you first try to quit its easy, but an hour later, the beast is on your back and you give in, weeker then befor. Now I just feed the beast and try to keep it from growing...
Actully I beleive it was his Father in Law who was helping him. I think I remember he was worried that his nosy neighbor would call the police as well... He had his house ultra secured, I wonder what he was tring to hide?--- I'm only 21 so I didn't get to read Steve's origenal articles, but do have a book that is basicly a " best of" collection. While it is slightly off topic, I found a circuit he made that mounted a camera on a couple of electic moters. The camera's image was analized by the computer which would align the camera with any movement. I would think these kind of applications were the first steps into this recognition field. Besides that it was pretty cool.... Now that I think of it, I bet that project would be alot easier to build now that we have digital cameras and there is no need to build that video Analog to Digital board. I'm gonna go whip out my soldering iron...
I go to Ga State which is literally across the street from Tech... We hear about this kind of crap from over there all the time. I just wanted everyone to know that all Georgia schools are not that F'ed up. Only close...
Awsome... great Idea. It so simple that I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it myself. It will keep working untill everyone does it and spam bot writers figure it out. Ironicly, I'm changeing all my websites' mailto tags to the java format... sorry
I was looking for a skinable Email Client not to long ago, and this is why. After looking though what was availible ,by way of Email Clients,I desided that it was fairly obvious that everyones idea for a perfect inferface is different, so the only way I was going to get things just the way I wanted was to design the interface myself, unfortunantly I am still unable to find a skinable Email Client that is stable enough to use everyday. I may work on a ducttape rigged client myself.
You can tell the editors are having a ball! This is one of my favorite days of the you too.
Back in 99 as a contingincy for the y2k bug my company had me work out a system for keeping the company comunications running should anything happen to the internet. We set up generators to keep the computers running (We had them y2k certified) with generators and I hired several temps to hang around on new years eve, If the internet would have black, they would have imediatly began reading IP packets from terminal screen and transcribing (in hex) to little pieces of paper that were attached to pigions which would then fly to our other locations, the same process would have been in full swing. The IP information was then reentered into the system. Ping times where hella long in tests, but comunications were still active...
two years and one month after the first class graduates a new consulting firm will be organized because these programers will realize that they can make 100 times as much by getting hired as outside consultants doing the same job. I don't think that in two years the government is going to get their moneys worth. Are they tring to make life time employees of the state? It won't work. On the plus side their will be a few happy students with scholarships
I never ment to imply that such a system was workable... just that there are many resonable people who believe that one could be. I however believe strongly in a free market economy.
"Reasonable people agree that the creator of a work should compensated for his efforts, hence copyright" Being a Poli Sci fanatic I can think of several political theories in which a perfectly legitimate argument could be made that a person does not own his works nor is compensation required. For the greater good and all that... of course I'm a libertarian (I dare you to try telling anyone that here a Georgia State... liberal bastards) so I agree with your view that artist should be compensated. Capitalism rules.
I know this companies a sham... (I acctually read the article) but I would still like them to work every thing out and produce this phone. I wouldn't actually use it but I would love to take it apart and play with its insides. I can see a real cuecat/audry/iopener hacker community building up around this.
I liked it alot, but I had some trouble running it at first. I fiddled with everything to get it to work, finaly I just gave up and started to read slashdot, after a few mins I went down to the taskbar to check the status on a POV render and low and behold there was a button on the taskbar for open office so I checked it out and the damn thing started up. I havn't had a problem sense.
The article says ". Altogether, the company has 128 mainframe mips. It's using between 7 percent and 10 percent of those to run Linux and the e-mail system." They use the other 90 someodd % for other applications...
I love the idea of recycling old high-end machines. I think this could be a big thing in the future... Buying a cheap old mainframe could be cheaper and more reliable then using a PC workstation with server software. Besides it sounds like fun hehe.
You mean MS wants us to think Unix isn't as good as it's OS? What do you expect? I run 2000 when it's appropriate and I run Linux when it's appropriate why doesn't everyone else? Don't get up on your soapbox and start yelling about how one is better then the other. There is a different focus for these operating systems. The only thing I have to complain about is that MS finds it necessary to push its product into markets that it is not really prepped for. If it wants to get into the high end server business it needs to do some more work before pushing it on consumers, but as far as desktops and low to low-middle road servers, its more then adequate and simple to use on top of that.
I'm glad to see that at least some courts havn't sold out yet...
I think we should forget all laws designed to protect the children or make better parents. Children whose parents were unable, too stupid, or too uncaring to care for them would die off, leaving the human herd genetically stronger. Remove the bad uncaring and stupid genes from the pool and eventually the problem will go away. This may actually be quicker and better then letting politicians legislate away the problem... Please before you tear me up over this, understand that I'm not actually suggesting that we leave the children to their own means, but simply making the point that politicians can't fix this.
Actually that's a very good point. At some point it does become more economical to buy off a person on the 'inside' of what ever organization you want to get secrets from... Hell I'd sell my personal secrets for a $1.50. Of course I don't have anything worth mentioning except my infatuation with girls with southern accents... oops well there's a freebie.
You are absolutely right. This is diffidently already happening. I should have been more clear. (As a side note... I wrote a quick and dirty VB hack to spell check all my slashdot posts with MS Word and Word it suggested I change the last word 'clear' to 'clearer'. I think I was correct)
You are looking at the future of manufacturing. This business model is growing incredibly fast. To see why look at the XBox process. MS decided they wanted a piece of the console pie, so they got together with a firm that specializes in high tech manufacturing. MS is a company designed around producing software, that is what they do most efficiently. They know that they will not be able to build and run physical factories with the efficiency of a manufacturing company. These specialized manufacturers are amazing. I read in Wired about how the company doing the XBox was in on the design process and they were cutting costs and production times left and right from MS's original design. I understand that the Mexican plant they are using has trucks coming with parts and leaving with product every five mins. and planes taking off and landing at an airport (which they negotiated to be build) every 15 to 20 mins. That's a degree of efficiency MS could never reach. Simply businesses are specializing more to reach peak economic efficacy. BTW Sorry for the terrible structure of this paragraph, I'm at work.. Not much time.
That was awsome... I almost wet my pants when I read that... I just wrote a script to change the size/res on all my Digital Photos to smaller sizes, and you are right... You can get away with much lower res then you would think. For some reason everyone wants the pictures I take, and I was starting to think I was going to need one of those terrabit connections to send them all... How many pitures at 400x300 could you send in a minuet at that speed?... note my lame attempt to bring this post back on topic...