I looked at their website and the conveniently posted text of the article, but I still can't figure out how exactly these work. Do they require special drivers? And if so, is there any possibility I could get these things running in Linux (with standard Nvidia linux drivers)? UT2k3's Ion Cannon Sattelite gun thingy would be pretty nice in full 3d vision:).
There's quite a difference between games and office software. For example, companies dont rely on games being cross-compatible to be able to communicate with each other, unless they have a very ineffecient method involving quake 3 chat for all their business memos.
The one problem you might have is if you die and your SO needs to get at the backups for some reason.
Technically, that's really not your problem anymore.;)
I back up my data by burning it to CD-R's and then using magnets to put them up on the refrigerator so I'll always know where it is! I haven't had to recover yet, but I'm satisfied knowing that if I ever loose my countless valuable configuration files and documents they will be right there to avert a catastrophe that otherwise would have cost me easily 100 hours of work!
I think it's hilarious. No other software company in the world could get away with breaking their standard file format's compatibility with older versions of their software with every other version. And BTW, what makes a big XML document with lots of crazy headers better then, say, rtf? (my format of choice). Can someone explain why the universally available and compatible rtf format is not adopted as the document standard? (And I'm not talking about microsoft's cash hunger, I'm talking about other apps that are free i.e. OpenOffice. It supports rtf, but whats up with the "Open Office document format"?)
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Excuse me for having faith in humanity.
Yeah, I understand what you are saying, people will naturally cling to cash if they can get free stuff. But I believe it is indeed workable. If it isn't, say goodbye to the OSS community as we know it.
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I'm sorry if I am taken as trolling here, but the last part of your comment irritated me immeasurably. Yes, I believe that free beer things are good. Very good. Back when I used Windows, I pirated things that I was never going to use just to have them. I'll admit I was horrible. However, projects like WineX and Codeweaver need your support. Buy subscriptions and let these people know how much you appreciate their hard work. It's only going to go so far if you just take advantage of it without helping them fund some of the development.
Read the documentation. They do, in fact, have a simple tag that you can add at the end of emerge (I forget the exact thing) so that the sources will only be downloaded, not compiled. So you go somewhere with broadband for a half-hour, dl everything you need, and then bring it home for a compile. And for anyone who is thinking about trying gentoo, I offer this: It's for slackware or debian users with free time. If you can't successfully use slack, debian, or *BSD, don't go near gentoo. However, as an ex slacker, I love it a lot.
Funny this should come up, but just the other day my friend and I were discussing how we could trick the average person into believing we had a supercomputer. It went like this:
1) Take 4 server cases.
2) Weld together.
3) Liberally apply blinking lights, external
fans, and colored cabling.
4) Set up a 286 in one of the cases.
5) Write a Basic program to display random 1's and 0's.
The sad thing is, if I invited almost anyone I know over and said "I'm calculating Pi on my supercomputer here", they would all believe it.
8 processors and Fritz still lost. This just goes to point out that its not the hardware that matters as much as the program thats running. They should have been using OSS...then they could have lost with only 4 processors:P.
I don't really see how a band can lose money going to places and playing music, unless they're really overspending. I mean, Pink Floyd lost money on The Wall tour, but that was because they had probably the most impressive stage act to date, what with building and exploding a giant wall and everything. How many bands touring today have the musical skills to warrant something half as impressive? IMHO, if they lost money on the deal they have to blame their ego as well as the RIAA.
And why was is this post still at 0!?!? That was the exact thought I had when I saw this story. It's a terrible thing when someone dies, but we can still take away lessons from things like this. Mod parent up!
P2p networks are already infused with a poison so deadly that they can never hope to recover from it. This poison consists of the bulk of their users. All of my friends don't even know that their filesharing program has an option to *share* files, they thought it was just for downloading. Even on more refined networkes, like Direct Connect, there are (many) users who will share their entire C:/ drives just so they can get into hubs. I mean, lets face it...the majority of people on these networks don't give a flying fuck about how the network operates. They just want their song/movie/game. These things are being torn down from the inside.
And if the **AA's are going to start hacking the major file distributors on the networks, I give it about a week before these networks are entirely devoid of life.The reality of these situations is that it's an inverted pyramid. A few (relatively) honest people carry an entire community. I got sick of this stuff 3 months ago and left filesharing forever. I'm sick of providing free bandwith so the kids can get their copy of Warcraft 3.
Of course, arguing ethics in filesharing is probably something I shouldn't be doing...
It's got about as much bite as my 12 year old brother trying to Win Nuke my *nix server because someone in the Yahoo hackers lounge told him it would "totally be pwned".
That is the coolest thing since sliced bread. And I mean, that stuffs pretty cool. Because, you know, at first you're like "Oh I have to slice my own bread." Then you're like "Holy shit! No I don't!" Then some Ninjas jump out.
However, I digress. Kudos to UNSW for taking steps to put environmentally sound cars on the market. Granted, this technology won't be applicable everywhere. For the forseeable future, people are still going to need gas-powered cars. Though, if these are cheap enough (once mass produced), it might be very economical to have one around for daily use and only bring out the gas-powered ones on long hauls/cloudy days. Anyone know how long (on a full charge) this car can go without a significant amount of light? That's going to be a make or break factor.
It's about time that pants tried to regain their market share. I am all for crazy digital pants. Maybe then, they'll have a chance to compete with the Homeworld engine.
One of the many beauties of OSS is choice. You don't have to use Red Hat if you don't like it. This is really a non-issue. Besides, it's good to have actual, profit-making companies to lend Linux some legitimacy. But that still doesn't mean you can't go with a non-profit distro, or roll your own. Leave Red Hat with their business model, and get on with your life.
Are they allowed to go suicidal and have the bots detonate an EMP bomb in the middle of the ring? That would be pretty hilarious. What would Carmen Electra do then?
"Ok....they're sitting there. It doesn't look like...OH WAIT!!.... No, no, nothings moving. False alarm. Our ratings are plummeting and...(listens into headset...No! I will not do that! (listens some more) Oh, fine. (loudly) My shirt! I believe that my shirt is falling off! Oh no!"
*Prepares for REAL ULTIMATE offtopic moderation;)*
Well, ya know...I said series because I just went all crazy and assumed that the "to be continued" on the bottom meant it was going to be continued. Am I getting to technical here? Please let me know.:P
....Yeah, you're right. I was just pimping mac hall.:)
Rolling Stones suck, eh? Do you honestly think people will be listening to Linkin Park in 25 years? Or the latest "fresh beats" by Generic Rapper? Face it dude, the classics are forever.
*Goes back to broadcasting Zeppelin on his shoutcast station while ripping his friend's new Pink Floyd CD* Sony must love me:).
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I looked at their website and the conveniently posted text of the article, but I still can't figure out how exactly these work. Do they require special drivers? And if so, is there any possibility I could get these things running in Linux (with standard Nvidia linux drivers)? UT2k3's Ion Cannon Sattelite gun thingy would be pretty nice in full 3d vision :).
There's quite a difference between games and office software. For example, companies dont rely on games being cross-compatible to be able to communicate with each other, unless they have a very ineffecient method involving quake 3 chat for all their business memos.
The one problem you might have is if you die and your SO needs to get at the backups for some reason. Technically, that's really not your problem anymore. ;)
I back up my data by burning it to CD-R's and then using magnets to put them up on the refrigerator so I'll always know where it is! I haven't had to recover yet, but I'm satisfied knowing that if I ever loose my countless valuable configuration files and documents they will be right there to avert a catastrophe that otherwise would have cost me easily 100 hours of work!
I think it's hilarious. No other software company in the world could get away with breaking their standard file format's compatibility with older versions of their software with every other version. And BTW, what makes a big XML document with lots of crazy headers better then, say, rtf? (my format of choice). Can someone explain why the universally available and compatible rtf format is not adopted as the document standard? (And I'm not talking about microsoft's cash hunger, I'm talking about other apps that are free i.e. OpenOffice. It supports rtf, but whats up with the "Open Office document format"?)
Excuse me for having faith in humanity. Yeah, I understand what you are saying, people will naturally cling to cash if they can get free stuff. But I believe it is indeed workable. If it isn't, say goodbye to the OSS community as we know it.
I'm sorry if I am taken as trolling here, but the last part of your comment irritated me immeasurably. Yes, I believe that free beer things are good. Very good. Back when I used Windows, I pirated things that I was never going to use just to have them. I'll admit I was horrible. However, projects like WineX and Codeweaver need your support. Buy subscriptions and let these people know how much you appreciate their hard work. It's only going to go so far if you just take advantage of it without helping them fund some of the development.
...And how much with the even looser requirements of the second?
Read the documentation. They do, in fact, have a simple tag that you can add at the end of emerge (I forget the exact thing) so that the sources will only be downloaded, not compiled. So you go somewhere with broadband for a half-hour, dl everything you need, and then bring it home for a compile. And for anyone who is thinking about trying gentoo, I offer this: It's for slackware or debian users with free time. If you can't successfully use slack, debian, or *BSD, don't go near gentoo. However, as an ex slacker, I love it a lot.
Funny this should come up, but just the other day my friend and I were discussing how we could trick the average person into believing we had a supercomputer. It went like this:
1) Take 4 server cases.
2) Weld together.
3) Liberally apply blinking lights, external fans, and colored cabling.
4) Set up a 286 in one of the cases.
5) Write a Basic program to display random 1's and 0's.
The sad thing is, if I invited almost anyone I know over and said "I'm calculating Pi on my supercomputer here", they would all believe it.
8 processors and Fritz still lost. This just goes to point out that its not the hardware that matters as much as the program thats running. They should have been using OSS...then they could have lost with only 4 processors :P.
I don't really see how a band can lose money going to places and playing music, unless they're really overspending. I mean, Pink Floyd lost money on The Wall tour, but that was because they had probably the most impressive stage act to date, what with building and exploding a giant wall and everything. How many bands touring today have the musical skills to warrant something half as impressive? IMHO, if they lost money on the deal they have to blame their ego as well as the RIAA.
I'm going to sue you now.
And why was is this post still at 0!?!? That was the exact thought I had when I saw this story. It's a terrible thing when someone dies, but we can still take away lessons from things like this. Mod parent up!
And if the **AA's are going to start hacking the major file distributors on the networks, I give it about a week before these networks are entirely devoid of life.The reality of these situations is that it's an inverted pyramid. A few (relatively) honest people carry an entire community. I got sick of this stuff 3 months ago and left filesharing forever. I'm sick of providing free bandwith so the kids can get their copy of Warcraft 3.
Of course, arguing ethics in filesharing is probably something I shouldn't be doing...
It's got about as much bite as my 12 year old brother trying to Win Nuke my *nix server because someone in the Yahoo hackers lounge told him it would "totally be pwned".
However, I digress. Kudos to UNSW for taking steps to put environmentally sound cars on the market. Granted, this technology won't be applicable everywhere. For the forseeable future, people are still going to need gas-powered cars. Though, if these are cheap enough (once mass produced), it might be very economical to have one around for daily use and only bring out the gas-powered ones on long hauls/cloudy days. Anyone know how long (on a full charge) this car can go without a significant amount of light? That's going to be a make or break factor.
It's about time that pants tried to regain their market share. I am all for crazy digital pants. Maybe then, they'll have a chance to compete with the Homeworld engine.
One of the many beauties of OSS is choice. You don't have to use Red Hat if you don't like it. This is really a non-issue. Besides, it's good to have actual, profit-making companies to lend Linux some legitimacy. But that still doesn't mean you can't go with a non-profit distro, or roll your own. Leave Red Hat with their business model, and get on with your life.
"Ok....they're sitting there. It doesn't look like...OH WAIT!!.... No, no, nothings moving. False alarm. Our ratings are plummeting and...(listens into headset...No! I will not do that! (listens some more) Oh, fine. (loudly) My shirt! I believe that my shirt is falling off! Oh no!"
*Prepares for REAL ULTIMATE offtopic moderation ;)*
I know, I've got my own pill. It's called the "Stab them in the face with a knife...until THEY DIE!!!" pill.
Some call it "alternative medicine."
....the the Nintendo Power Glove. Or else this is just doomed from the get go.
Rolling Stones suck, eh? Do you honestly think people will be listening to Linkin Park in 25 years? Or the latest "fresh beats" by Generic Rapper? Face it dude, the classics are forever. *Goes back to broadcasting Zeppelin on his shoutcast station while ripping his friend's new Pink Floyd CD* Sony must love me :).
Is this better or worse then strip mining? :P