Best way would be wireless for the extra advantages it gives to users to work anywhere in their condos without the hassle of cables and plugs proximity.
With the whole Condo on the same WiFi network, you're likely to have bandwidth and security issues. Personally, I would recommend going with the ehternet approach all going into a shared T-1.
If people want Wireless connectivity, that's fine! Let them provide it themselves by suggesting they run out and buy a Linksys (or somesuch) at their local BestBuy or Fry's. Or perhaps, hook up a few pringles cans and provide it as an option in addition to the wired network. But having WiFi as the only solution would likely be more trouble than it's worth (IMO). Of the two options I present here, I'd prefer the former.
Dude, even in Apple's darkest days (pre-reentrance of Steve Jobs) under the stewardship of John Scully and Gil Amelio when all the sign painters in Cuppertino were all geared to start posting "Out Of Business" signs all over Infinite Loop...even in their DARKEST hours...they were still worth over 30 Billion dollars. Only a mega-corp of their size could've weathered the 30 Megaton business blunders they themselves created. 6 Billion? Especially! now that Apple is profitable again is chump-money!
I love TiVo and I love Sony for their industrial design sensibilites. Everything in my entertainment center has a Sony logo on it. Including the TiVo. I wonder how this news bodes for the Sony TiVo...
I assure you. Anyways, I am currently writing a paper on Language Maintenance in Navajo and believe that the preservation of languages is important historically as well as culturally.
Navajo? Dine? Very cool. Navajo is one of the languages I studied before I got into computers (and then languages in a different sense;).
Language skills, like muscles, atrophy if you don't use them. However, I do remember some Navajo:
Na'Nizhozhe di shi dizhchi do aadi shiya hazli. Ashdla shi-nahaida aana hazli. Shizhe eh tonteel wonanigo naya. Hasta shinahaida ilta. Shashbitodi ilta.
I think I remember the translation, but if I'm wrong about that I hope I haven't just insulted your mother! [snare drum]Thank ya folks! I'm here every Tuesday Night!
Sanskrit you ignorant maggot:-)
And yes, it is spoken and in active use. Every Hindu religious ceremony is in Sanskrit, and every priest and read/write and speak it. Given that there are 800 millions plus Hindus, that's a lot of Sanskrit out there.
Sanskrit is still in active use, indeed. But to my knowledge it is regarded as a purely scholarly language. I have known a few Brahmin (pl?) and have discussed this with them, as learning Sanskrit was at one time a hobby of mine.
Sankrit was the ancestor of modern Hindi, but there is about as much similarity between the two languages as there is between modern Amer'can English and the Olde.
Also, to be a little nit-picky, there is no "Sanskrit Alphabet". Not unless what you're referring to is Devanagari which is still in use to represent modern Hindi.
Speaking now to the issue of preserving dead languages, the uninitiated may see no use for the scholarly preservation of the spoken word of a dead people. Think of this as someone disinterested in computers saying "Who the fuck cares about C++, C# or Java"? Granted the analogy isn't perfect, because the reasons for speaking Tlingit (for example) are a bit more subtle than wanting to learn a language that helps drive technology. But there is little doubt in Linguistic research that language helps us not only to represent the world, these tools that our cultures give us also help to SHAPE our perceptions of our envirnoment, even ourselves. Language is the gateway to a culture's psychology.
The sociological influences of one people upon another may not be apparent or seem important until pieces of our puzzles are discovered and others fall into place and still different puzzles are found. In short, in some sense you can't dismiss the importance or relavance of a datum until new relavancies emerge. If that makes me a packrat of ideas, all I can say is SQUEAK.;)
I hope by "improving in nearly every respect" they mean that it will actually work! We got no less then 5 of these phones into our tech dept for testing purposes and not one of them worked correctly! It's very lustful technology, but again only if it actually WORKS!:)
Another technique for expanding the memory capacity of current 32-bit chips is through physical memory addressing, said Dean McCarron, principal analyst of Mercury Research. This involves altering the chipset so that 32-bit chips could handle longer memory addresses. Intel has in fact already done preliminary work that would let its PC chips handle 40-bit addressing, which would let PCs hold more than 512GB of memory, according to papers published by the company.
Apple did the same thing when they wanted to have the Mac address more than the standard 8MB of memory. They allowed the option of installing a motorola 68851 PMMU (or Paged Memory Management Unity) chip that would allow an 020 equipped Mac II address a (then) whopping 32MB of memory! The 030 had a PMMU already built in. That truly seemed mammoth at the time!
I also remember when the Mac Plus came out a good friend of mine exclaimed what would ANYBODY do with 4 MEGS of memory??? Today we say what would ANYBODY to with 4GIGs of memory? However, 4GB truly is mammoth in my own and I'm sure nearly anyone's estimation. But I wonder how long it'll be before we look back and laugh at this transition...
Hey Bud,
I don't really have anything against you personally except that at one point I think you might've made a ridiculous and ignorant comment about the garden state. Sorry if I am mistaken about that. Of couse, if I'm not your not only on mine, but on Bruce Sprinsteen's, Joe Pesci's and Tony Soprano's shit lists.;)
I agree that there's no point in telling folk about a doom they can't prevent. Supposing some Dr. said that in a year or so some anyurism would take my life and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it.* I'd rather keel over into my bowl of rice crispies than spend a year worrying about into what/whom/ or where I might keel over.
Though I bear no malice to humanity at large, if we are all to be extinguished in a shared fate I could find a silver lining. That silver lining (if vocalized) would say something to the effect of '...at least this thing is getting those motherfucking tR011z on/. as well.' Either that or something like 'Goatse THIS buddy!';)
I've signed up for betas for the last 4 products Blizzard has put out. I actually want to know how many people get into beta tests. So,/.'ers have you beta tested for Blizzard?
Back in '96/97 I remember my friends and I (who were Mac/*nix only at the time)were stimied by the inCREDIBLE delay times in Blizzard shipping Mac versions of their products. We were salivating over their then unreleased Starcraft.
So, we got our hands on the Mac Beta of Starcraft and played it for over a year while waiting for the Mac version to come out. When the final product shipped, we all (eagerly) bought a copy and started playing that. But, oddly enough, we noticed very little difference (if anything at all)between the shipped product and the beta (if memory serves). We all sort of figured that most of the changes were done under the hood.
Off all of the games that went in and out of fashion on my apartment building's LAN at the time (ca 94-98), only *craft games had any kind of staying power. We played WCII and Starcraft for YEARS (as have many) after they went out of style. Blizzard games were alwyas the most fun to kill brain cells to. Now that my friends and I live all across the country, Blizzard games are actually the main way we socialize
It's good to note however that Blizzard has improved considerably in shipping their Mac products. WCIII shipped with Mac/Windows on the same CD.
Actually, I think I know what the "???" may be in this case. That would be: build your SUN chops with a copy of said on one of these nice ch33p b0x0rz and grab hold of some dead trees and with some perserverance and love of knowledge you will get to 3.
Gene Roddenberry is over-hyped as the creator of Star Trek. He gets the credit for coming up with the basic idea, don't get me wrong. The idea of having a futuristic livingroom as a metaphor for a space dwelling futuristic civilization was new at the time. And he definitely in my book gets credit for expanding the role of NON WASPS on the tube. He had a pretty serious battle on his hands to get an Asian and a Black Woman onto his imaginary crew. He also cast a strong female into a leadership role in the original incarnation of the show. The FIRST "Number One" was soon to be wife and ex-mistress Majel Barret who was later cast into the role of Nurse Chapel. But he had to relent on something, and let that one go.
But the real reason good trek was produced was Bob Justman who was the one who found all of the good writers that made Trek what it was. He also had a LOT of creative input. One of the best of those writers was Gene Coon who perhaps did more to shape what we now know as Trek than Gene R. or Bob! Coon did write the WORST of all TOS eps "Spock's Brain" - BRAIN BRAIN!!! WHAT IS BRAIN!!! - (sorry, couldn't help myself there) under a nomme de plume but let's not forget that he was the man who invented the Klingons (the non brussel-srpout headed kind) in addition to penning some of the best eps while helping to stave of declining ratings (in what is now known as the flawed system for ratings they were using at the time).
But the episodes that Roddenberry wrote were usually pretty bad to downright AWFUL. Turnabout Intruder is basically an hour of enduring Shatner playing - no - NOT the role of Captain Kirk but that of AN HYSTERICAL FEMALE. Woops! Did I say that Spock's Brain was the worst episode? My bad! What a truly inauspicious way to end that fine series! And "Charlie X"? C'mon! The episodes that he wrote were usually pondeous morality plays or worse.
And Gene Roddenberry certainly wasn't the reason that any of the movies were any good. After TMP, the studio basically rested control from him and placed stewardship of the franchise in the hands of Harve Bennet. And if you ask me Nicholas Meyer is actually the wunderkind of the movie franchise!
Roddenberry's involvement in the movies (after TMP) was minimal and mainly consisted of him firing angry memos at Meyer, Bennet and the studio brass about how they were murdering his creative lovechild! His solution? The movie he proposed for Star Treks II THROUGH VI (and I swear I am NOT making this up) consisted of the Enterprise crew travelling back in time to save JFK from being assasinated! He proposed it EVERY...SINGLE...TIME the issue of a new Trek movie came up.
So Star Trek does have moments of greatness, but I don't really think they had much to do with Roddenberry. Star Trek at its BEST was a co-creation between Roddenberry-Justman-Coon.
And I would agree that TNG actually picked up for a while after Berman grabbed the reigns from G.R. But his performance over time is dodgy at best. I really think that if you want to save the future of Trek, you either have to
Find someone new - or -
Bring back the creative team of Meyer and Benet
As the creative team of Berman and Braga clearly isn't cutting the mustard at this late date.
Dude, seriously what the hell is wrong with you? Yes some sites have seriously retartded concatenations bt homestarruner is NOT one of them. Here's a dime, dumbass, go buy yourself a new new goddamn brain.
To the moderators, please don't feel to0 bad about modding this one down.(I'm waiting..tap tap tap).I've got the karma to burn and frankly I'd rather waste a little here and there than put up with the occacasional retarded slashdotter. Oh yeah, the Anonymous Coward checkox? Nah. Fuck it.
I've noticed in watching the show "Lain" that it has an odd mix of huge eyed characters, and more realistically represented human forms. The title character seems to get "the big eye treatment" as you call it, but it seems that the overall storyline has not much to offer children. As it deals frankly with tragedies such as pre-teens commiting suicide and terrorism and such. So,it seems like there may be a line as you suggest but it also seems a bit fuzzier than you portray it here.
Sorry for the lag in posting this. I was going to post this last night. You'll have to excuse this because I was in too much pain and my fingers are only now starting to work enough to type. But if I could have posted to slashdot during the game, it might've gone something like this:
HELP!!!! I'M BEING BEATEN UP BY A COUPLE OF PATRIOTIC AMERICANS BECAUSE I CALLED THE SUPERBOWL "THE MILIONAIRE BOY'S CLUB ANNUAL RACE WAR!!!"
Today the term is "geeks", which encompasses a much broader group including poser programmers, web stoolies, misfit girls, overclocking machomen, obsessive-compulsive gamers, "IT" grunts, and even the fratboy network administrator. Ironically, many of these are the same people who pummeled the real nerds back in the old days.
I've got a better t3rm for you than "geek" or "nerd". Here it is: elitist.
Can I ask the really obvoius question (at the risk of being modded down by some hyper-sensitve moderator who lives in his parent's basement and collects star wars toys and has never kissed a girl despite being 38 years old...but I digress)
Again, I am not being even slighly sarcastic here...why do most anime characters have disrpoportianely large eyes, muscular (for males) and wildly sexual appeareances and child-like facial features? I'm sure that NYU will address these issues. But I am already paying those NYU fuggs $1000 a credit (not even exaggerating!) for my comp sci curriculum and can't afford to take such courses just because they strike my whimsy.
There HAS to be some reason for this trend, but I just can't figure it out. Any clues?
By the way...not all moderators are bad. I myself moderate from time to time. The vitriol I expressed in the first passage was a catharsis directed at a moderator who modded down an honest joke as a Troll when that was far from the case. Oh well, you gotta have SOMETHING to talk to your therapist about, right?;P
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Best way would be wireless for the extra advantages it gives to users to work anywhere in their condos without the hassle of cables and plugs proximity.
With the whole Condo on the same WiFi network, you're likely to have bandwidth and security issues. Personally, I would recommend going with the ehternet approach all going into a shared T-1.
If people want Wireless connectivity, that's fine! Let them provide it themselves by suggesting they run out and buy a Linksys (or somesuch) at their local BestBuy or Fry's. Or perhaps, hook up a few pringles cans and provide it as an option in addition to the wired network. But having WiFi as the only solution would likely be more trouble than it's worth (IMO). Of the two options I present here, I'd prefer the former.
...because I can't see what the heck's going on in in Minas Morgul these days. My connection to Orthanc seems to be down too...
Is there any much diff worth noting between The Unix System Administration Handbook and the The Linux Administration Handbook both by Nemeth and Snyder? I notice that the latter is a bit cheaper. Of course Gnu's Not Unix, but they are so similar couldn't one sub for the other?
Who knew Apple even had that kind of cash?
Dude, even in Apple's darkest days (pre-reentrance of Steve Jobs) under the stewardship of John Scully and Gil Amelio when all the sign painters in Cuppertino were all geared to start posting "Out Of Business" signs all over Infinite Loop...even in their DARKEST hours...they were still worth over 30 Billion dollars. Only a mega-corp of their size could've weathered the 30 Megaton business blunders they themselves created. 6 Billion? Especially! now that Apple is profitable again is chump-money!
I love TiVo and I love Sony for their industrial design sensibilites. Everything in my entertainment center has a Sony logo on it. Including the TiVo. I wonder how this news bodes for the Sony TiVo...
I assure you. Anyways, I am currently writing a paper on Language Maintenance in Navajo and believe that the preservation of languages is important historically as well as culturally.
;).
Navajo? Dine? Very cool. Navajo is one of the languages I studied before I got into computers (and then languages in a different sense
Language skills, like muscles, atrophy if you don't use them. However, I do remember some Navajo:
Na'Nizhozhe di shi dizhchi do aadi shiya hazli. Ashdla shi-nahaida aana hazli. Shizhe eh tonteel wonanigo naya. Hasta shinahaida ilta. Shashbitodi ilta.
I think I remember the translation, but if I'm wrong about that I hope I haven't just insulted your mother! [snare drum]Thank ya folks! I'm here every Tuesday Night!
Sanskrit you ignorant maggot :-)
And yes, it is spoken and in active use. Every Hindu religious ceremony is in Sanskrit, and every priest and read/write and speak it. Given that there are 800 millions plus Hindus, that's a lot of Sanskrit out there.
;)
Sanskrit is still in active use, indeed. But to my knowledge it is regarded as a purely scholarly language. I have known a few Brahmin (pl?) and have discussed this with them, as learning Sanskrit was at one time a hobby of mine.
Sankrit was the ancestor of modern Hindi, but there is about as much similarity between the two languages as there is between modern Amer'can English and the Olde.
Also, to be a little nit-picky, there is no "Sanskrit Alphabet". Not unless what you're referring to is Devanagari which is still in use to represent modern Hindi.
Speaking now to the issue of preserving dead languages, the uninitiated may see no use for the scholarly preservation of the spoken word of a dead people. Think of this as someone disinterested in computers saying "Who the fuck cares about C++, C# or Java"? Granted the analogy isn't perfect, because the reasons for speaking Tlingit (for example) are a bit more subtle than wanting to learn a language that helps drive technology. But there is little doubt in Linguistic research that language helps us not only to represent the world, these tools that our cultures give us also help to SHAPE our perceptions of our envirnoment, even ourselves. Language is the gateway to a culture's psychology.
The sociological influences of one people upon another may not be apparent or seem important until pieces of our puzzles are discovered and others fall into place and still different puzzles are found. In short, in some sense you can't dismiss the importance or relavance of a datum until new relavancies emerge. If that makes me a packrat of ideas, all I can say is SQUEAK.
I hope by "improving in nearly every respect" they mean that it will actually work! We got no less then 5 of these phones into our tech dept for testing purposes and not one of them worked correctly! It's very lustful technology, but again only if it actually WORKS! :)
Another technique for expanding the memory capacity of current 32-bit chips is through physical memory addressing, said Dean McCarron, principal analyst of Mercury Research. This involves altering the chipset so that 32-bit chips could handle longer memory addresses. Intel has in fact already done preliminary work that would let its PC chips handle 40-bit addressing, which would let PCs hold more than 512GB of memory, according to papers published by the company.
Apple did the same thing when they wanted to have the Mac address more than the standard 8MB of memory. They allowed the option of installing a motorola 68851 PMMU (or Paged Memory Management Unity) chip that would allow an 020 equipped Mac II address a (then) whopping 32MB of memory! The 030 had a PMMU already built in. That truly seemed mammoth at the time!
I also remember when the Mac Plus came out a good friend of mine exclaimed what would ANYBODY do with 4 MEGS of memory??? Today we say what would ANYBODY to with 4GIGs of memory? However, 4GB truly is mammoth in my own and I'm sure nearly anyone's estimation. But I wonder how long it'll be before we look back and laugh at this transition...
Hey Bud, I don't really have anything against you personally except that at one point I think you might've made a ridiculous and ignorant comment about the garden state. Sorry if I am mistaken about that. Of couse, if I'm not your not only on mine, but on Bruce Sprinsteen's, Joe Pesci's and Tony Soprano's shit lists. ;)
This is new? I thought I already had one called Tivo.
I agree that there's no point in telling folk about a doom they can't prevent. Supposing some Dr. said that in a year or so some anyurism would take my life and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it.* I'd rather keel over into my bowl of rice crispies than spend a year worrying about into what/whom/ or where I might keel over.
/. as well.' Either that or something like 'Goatse THIS buddy!' ;)
Though I bear no malice to humanity at large, if we are all to be extinguished in a shared fate I could find a silver lining. That silver lining (if vocalized) would say something to the effect of '...at least this thing is getting those motherfucking tR011z on
At any rate, as Stephin Merrit of the Magnetic Fields once wrote:
It would be swell
To see some folk burn in hell
But when they go
It's just as pleasant to know
that the dead only quickly decay
--
--
* please don't overanalize here, this is just a hypothetical
I've signed up for betas for the last 4 products Blizzard has put out. I actually want to know how many people get into beta tests. So, /.'ers have you beta tested for Blizzard?
Back in '96/97 I remember my friends and I (who were Mac/*nix only at the time)were stimied by the inCREDIBLE delay times in Blizzard shipping Mac versions of their products. We were salivating over their then unreleased Starcraft.
So, we got our hands on the Mac Beta of Starcraft and played it for over a year while waiting for the Mac version to come out. When the final product shipped, we all (eagerly) bought a copy and started playing that. But, oddly enough, we noticed very little difference (if anything at all)between the shipped product and the beta (if memory serves). We all sort of figured that most of the changes were done under the hood.
Off all of the games that went in and out of fashion on my apartment building's LAN at the time (ca 94-98), only *craft games had any kind of staying power. We played WCII and Starcraft for YEARS (as have many) after they went out of style. Blizzard games were alwyas the most fun to kill brain cells to. Now that my friends and I live all across the country, Blizzard games are actually the main way we socialize
It's good to note however that Blizzard has improved considerably in shipping their Mac products. WCIII shipped with Mac/Windows on the same CD.
- Install Sunx86
- ???
- Profit!
Actually, I think I know what the "???" may be in this case. That would be: build your SUN chops with a copy of said on one of these nice ch33p b0x0rz and grab hold of some dead trees and with some perserverance and love of knowledge you will get to 3....did we as a whole ever evolve out of the swamps???
I really do need to step up my efforts vis a vis setathome so I can finally get off this goshforsakenrock!
But the real reason good trek was produced was Bob Justman who was the one who found all of the good writers that made Trek what it was. He also had a LOT of creative input. One of the best of those writers was Gene Coon who perhaps did more to shape what we now know as Trek than Gene R. or Bob! Coon did write the WORST of all TOS eps "Spock's Brain" - BRAIN BRAIN!!! WHAT IS BRAIN!!! - (sorry, couldn't help myself there) under a nomme de plume but let's not forget that he was the man who invented the Klingons (the non brussel-srpout headed kind) in addition to penning some of the best eps while helping to stave of declining ratings (in what is now known as the flawed system for ratings they were using at the time).
But the episodes that Roddenberry wrote were usually pretty bad to downright AWFUL. Turnabout Intruder is basically an hour of enduring Shatner playing - no - NOT the role of Captain Kirk but that of AN HYSTERICAL FEMALE. Woops! Did I say that Spock's Brain was the worst episode? My bad! What a truly inauspicious way to end that fine series! And "Charlie X"? C'mon! The episodes that he wrote were usually pondeous morality plays or worse.
And Gene Roddenberry certainly wasn't the reason that any of the movies were any good. After TMP, the studio basically rested control from him and placed stewardship of the franchise in the hands of Harve Bennet. And if you ask me Nicholas Meyer is actually the wunderkind of the movie franchise!
Roddenberry's involvement in the movies (after TMP) was minimal and mainly consisted of him firing angry memos at Meyer, Bennet and the studio brass about how they were murdering his creative lovechild! His solution? The movie he proposed for Star Treks II THROUGH VI (and I swear I am NOT making this up) consisted of the Enterprise crew travelling back in time to save JFK from being assasinated! He proposed it EVERY...SINGLE...TIME the issue of a new Trek movie came up.
So Star Trek does have moments of greatness, but I don't really think they had much to do with Roddenberry. Star Trek at its BEST was a co-creation between Roddenberry-Justman-Coon.
And I would agree that TNG actually picked up for a while after Berman grabbed the reigns from G.R. But his performance over time is dodgy at best. I really think that if you want to save the future of Trek, you either have to
- Find someone new - or -
- Bring back the creative team of Meyer and Benet
As the creative team of Berman and Braga clearly isn't cutting the mustard at this late date.Dude, seriously what the hell is wrong with you? Yes some sites have seriously retartded concatenations bt homestarruner is NOT one of them. Here's a dime, dumbass, go buy yourself a new new goddamn brain.
To the moderators, please don't feel to0 bad about modding this one down.(I'm waiting..tap tap tap).I've got the karma to burn and frankly I'd rather waste a little here and there than put up with the occacasional retarded slashdotter. Oh yeah, the Anonymous Coward checkox? Nah. Fuck it.
I've noticed in watching the show "Lain" that it has an odd mix of huge eyed characters, and more realistically represented human forms. The title character seems to get "the big eye treatment" as you call it, but it seems that the overall storyline has not much to offer children. As it deals frankly with tragedies such as pre-teens commiting suicide and terrorism and such. So ,it seems like there may be a line as you suggest but it also seems a bit fuzzier than you portray it here.
Sorry for the lag in posting this. I was going to post this last night. You'll have to excuse this because I was in too much pain and my fingers are only now starting to work enough to type. But if I could have posted to slashdot during the game, it might've gone something like this:
HELP!!!! I'M BEING BEATEN UP BY A COUPLE OF PATRIOTIC AMERICANS BECAUSE I CALLED THE SUPERBOWL "THE MILIONAIRE BOY'S CLUB ANNUAL RACE WAR!!!"
Today the term is "geeks", which encompasses a much broader group including poser programmers, web stoolies, misfit girls, overclocking machomen, obsessive-compulsive gamers, "IT" grunts, and even the fratboy network administrator. Ironically, many of these are the same people who pummeled the real nerds back in the old days.
I've got a better t3rm for you than "geek" or "nerd". Here it is: elitist.
Just my 2c.
Think North Korea will register kimjongil.mil just to piss off the Pentagon?
- deadkennedys.mil
- jellobiafra.mil
- klausflouride.mil
- eastbayray.mil
- dhpelligro.mil
???flour.mil ?
bushwearsdiapers.mil ?
Can I ask the really obvoius question (at the risk of being modded down by some hyper-sensitve moderator who lives in his parent's basement and collects star wars toys and has never kissed a girl despite being 38 years old...but I digress)
;P
Again, I am not being even slighly sarcastic here...why do most anime characters have disrpoportianely large eyes, muscular (for males) and wildly sexual appeareances and child-like facial features? I'm sure that NYU will address these issues. But I am already paying those NYU fuggs $1000 a credit (not even exaggerating!) for my comp sci curriculum and can't afford to take such courses just because they strike my whimsy.
There HAS to be some reason for this trend, but I just can't figure it out. Any clues?
By the way...not all moderators are bad. I myself moderate from time to time. The vitriol I expressed in the first passage was a catharsis directed at a moderator who modded down an honest joke as a Troll when that was far from the case. Oh well, you gotta have SOMETHING to talk to your therapist about, right?