Your #2 idea is exactly what I think I'm gonna do. I always always wanted to make games, but looking at the money grubbing and backstabbing that goes on in the industry... fuck it.
I run an IceCast + Ices2 streaming server for myself, and designed a small php+C website to control the stream (queueing and fast forwarding for now, I'll add more later when I feel like it). It works really well for me, as I can listen to it on both internal and external connections, plus my wireless, plus I made a dialup friendly stream, just in case I end up without a good connection.
IceCast and Ices are really rock solid. If it weren't for the outlet powering that and my router going pear-shaped every so often, it would be really stable (I did have it run for over 45 days at one point, until the GFCI on the fucking outlet went bad and kept tripping, I smashed that thing with a sledge hammer, it felt SOOOO good).
They are also open source, so you could, if you were so inclined, add massive functionality to the program. I like the control I have through the little web-front-end I made, it's lightweight (sub 2K pages) and can be viewed on a PDA easily. If you set up a nice speaker system in your house to a computer receiving the stream, plus a wireless PDA "remote control", then you have a nearly seamless integration.
Industrial/Corporate Espionage happens all the time. To think otherwise is nieve and foolish. Everybody wants your data because there is a chance there it contains something worth a ton of money/market share to someone else.
That's kinda vague. The 386 was a 32 bit processor with a 16bit data bus. It still could perform 32-bit arithmetic natively, but the bus was strangled.
Just to clarify, I didn't say 'all' anywhere in my paragraph, and therefore, I wasn't generalizing. I perhaps should have qualified my statement with the word 'many', but I didn't; ces't la vie. Regardless, a 350Z is not a status symbol car. An Audi TT, which costs almost 20,000USD more than that 350Z, however, is. Yeah, it's a bit sporty, but it ain't a Lamborghini (I think they're mid 14's stock?? Maybe low 15's. That's quick, but not fast). And SUV's CAN be used for perfectly fine purposes, such as what your dad does, but I will bet you that > 50% are used to cart one lone person to and from work and then possibly to pick up the one kid they have from school which is 4 blocks away from their home. *sigh*
Are you kidding me? People buy shit all the time for the 'look' or the 'status' of it. The guy sitting not 30 feet from me bought an Audi TT just because of the 'look'. Why do you think SUVs are so prevalent? People buy Starbucks because it's 'in' or 'cool'. If you can't see how blatantly obvious this is, I think you need to wkae the hell up.
Basically, denying negative numbers denies that there is a solution to any problem x+y=0. Perhaps negative numbers don't 'exist' per se, but more as an inverse magnitude of a positive number. Similar to the notion that all acceleration is positive to the object being accelerated, but from a different frame of reference, it could appear negative.
A 250W peltier is massive. 50W is more reasonable for high end cooling. Remember, the chip does not turn all the power it recieves into heat, so 250W would cool it to beyond where you'd realistically need.
I heard a story (I know I know, anecdotal evidence, blah blah) from a cardiologist that was a friend of the family until he moved, that when he visited Belgium, he witnessed the remains of a man being carted off because he had to wait too long for an appendectomy. True or not, that's pretty fucked up.
IBM has been feeding AMD some great tech with in the last 2 years. I think enough to say that Intel, despite the monetary lead, has not out-innovated IBM + AMD.
An ethernet (RJ-45, UTP technically, no BNC here:p) jack would be excellent. If you do any sort of network testing, a good tap and ethereal would be a godsend.
To me, a Zaurus would be a dream. At work doing network audits and physical network mapping, and in the future as well, since I'm gonna be part of installing the entire new wireless infrastructure, programs like kismet will be invaluable. There is no phone that can do what I want it to do.
This news makes me sorta sad, because I would have really liked one, I just can't afford it yet. Not that I can't find used, but I don't have a hell of a lot of luck buying used.
That's the point I would make. Here at work, I have duals (wouldn't go any other way) and when I write code or monitor network traffic, I NEED them. Someone saying that two monitors is excessive or unproductive just doesn't do as much as someone like myself, or yourself, or the countless other computer operators whose needs aren't met by one monitor.
You know, I've found the opposite to be true (although the joke is very well timed and very funny:) )
Most people I know that play D&D (not a great sample size, but I think I meet the requisite 34) are sexual maniacs. But then again, it may be countered by the prudes.
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Maybe they are taking the position that both Kerry and Bush sucked and you're silly for getting all up-in-arms about "your horse"?
Your #2 idea is exactly what I think I'm gonna do. I always always wanted to make games, but looking at the money grubbing and backstabbing that goes on in the industry... fuck it.
I run an IceCast + Ices2 streaming server for myself, and designed a small php+C website to control the stream (queueing and fast forwarding for now, I'll add more later when I feel like it). It works really well for me, as I can listen to it on both internal and external connections, plus my wireless, plus I made a dialup friendly stream, just in case I end up without a good connection.
IceCast and Ices are really rock solid. If it weren't for the outlet powering that and my router going pear-shaped every so often, it would be really stable (I did have it run for over 45 days at one point, until the GFCI on the fucking outlet went bad and kept tripping, I smashed that thing with a sledge hammer, it felt SOOOO good).
They are also open source, so you could, if you were so inclined, add massive functionality to the program. I like the control I have through the little web-front-end I made, it's lightweight (sub 2K pages) and can be viewed on a PDA easily. If you set up a nice speaker system in your house to a computer receiving the stream, plus a wireless PDA "remote control", then you have a nearly seamless integration.
I really loved that game. Too bad it doesn't play nice with XP.
Industrial/Corporate Espionage happens all the time. To think otherwise is nieve and foolish. Everybody wants your data because there is a chance there it contains something worth a ton of money/market share to someone else.
Thank you for that, truly informative.
Yeah, I guess I'm guilty of being vague too... I'm at work though, so I have an excuse :)
That's kinda vague. The 386 was a 32 bit processor with a 16bit data bus. It still could perform 32-bit arithmetic natively, but the bus was strangled.
Just to clarify, I didn't say 'all' anywhere in my paragraph, and therefore, I wasn't generalizing. I perhaps should have qualified my statement with the word 'many', but I didn't; ces't la vie. Regardless, a 350Z is not a status symbol car. An Audi TT, which costs almost 20,000USD more than that 350Z, however, is. Yeah, it's a bit sporty, but it ain't a Lamborghini (I think they're mid 14's stock?? Maybe low 15's. That's quick, but not fast). And SUV's CAN be used for perfectly fine purposes, such as what your dad does, but I will bet you that > 50% are used to cart one lone person to and from work and then possibly to pick up the one kid they have from school which is 4 blocks away from their home. *sigh*
Are you kidding me? People buy shit all the time for the 'look' or the 'status' of it. The guy sitting not 30 feet from me bought an Audi TT just because of the 'look'. Why do you think SUVs are so prevalent? People buy Starbucks because it's 'in' or 'cool'. If you can't see how blatantly obvious this is, I think you need to wkae the hell up.
Maybe they should hook themselves up first?
Basically, denying negative numbers denies that there is a solution to any problem x+y=0. Perhaps negative numbers don't 'exist' per se, but more as an inverse magnitude of a positive number. Similar to the notion that all acceleration is positive to the object being accelerated, but from a different frame of reference, it could appear negative.
A 250W peltier is massive. 50W is more reasonable for high end cooling. Remember, the chip does not turn all the power it recieves into heat, so 250W would cool it to beyond where you'd realistically need.
I heard a story (I know I know, anecdotal evidence, blah blah) from a cardiologist that was a friend of the family until he moved, that when he visited Belgium, he witnessed the remains of a man being carted off because he had to wait too long for an appendectomy. True or not, that's pretty fucked up.
Won't buy one until they support Ogg Vorbis. Be it by hack or by Apple, I care not.
Indeed it is :) Nice sig BTW.
At least newspapers publish retractions.
That last sentence was sort of ambiguous. Do you mean that dualcore is abysmal compared to HT or the opposite or something else?
IBM has been feeding AMD some great tech with in the last 2 years. I think enough to say that Intel, despite the monetary lead, has not out-innovated IBM + AMD.
Saturn? Saturn is GM, buddy :)
An ethernet (RJ-45, UTP technically, no BNC here :p) jack would be excellent. If you do any sort of network testing, a good tap and ethereal would be a godsend.
To me, a Zaurus would be a dream. At work doing network audits and physical network mapping, and in the future as well, since I'm gonna be part of installing the entire new wireless infrastructure, programs like kismet will be invaluable. There is no phone that can do what I want it to do.
This news makes me sorta sad, because I would have really liked one, I just can't afford it yet. Not that I can't find used, but I don't have a hell of a lot of luck buying used.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, that was Golden. I don't usually just bust out laughing while staring at my computer screens.
That's the point I would make. Here at work, I have duals (wouldn't go any other way) and when I write code or monitor network traffic, I NEED them. Someone saying that two monitors is excessive or unproductive just doesn't do as much as someone like myself, or yourself, or the countless other computer operators whose needs aren't met by one monitor.
You know, I've found the opposite to be true (although the joke is very well timed and very funny :) )
Most people I know that play D&D (not a great sample size, but I think I meet the requisite 34) are sexual maniacs. But then again, it may be countered by the prudes.