That's one thing that I think could make this controller a major nuisance. Changing batteries is a pain. Having a Li+ battery would help, but it would then have to be proprietary and would probably cost a bundle to replace.
The prototypes use standard batteries, but I could see selling Li+ batteries being a cash-cow into the future for nintendo as controller batteries age, should this become popular .
If I could get around a speed of 100MB/s wireless, I'd be in heaven. Right now I have a 56MB/s connection, which tends to get pretty good reception and decent speeds for copying files SO LONG AS I TURB OFF ENCRYPTION. With encryption, the overhead seems to slow things down a fair bit. Now if I could get say 100+MB/s, I'll just run a permanent VPN connection to my primary server. Fully secure, 100% of the time, still with fast transfer... rather than just when I want to have some private and flick the VPN on.
Yes, WINE is a translation layer. For most it's easier to think of it as an emulator, but the name (despite its recursiveness) does specify that it isn't an emulator.
When you're running wine though, for many intents and purposes you are running portions of windows... with the functions that can be translated done so, or native DLL calls for those that can't. It's still not native linux support for linux applications, and to open that can of worms would include things like processor emulation and Bochs/Qemu/VMWare/etc
The implementation is a bit flawed though. Much as I hate popups, perhaps having an "email-a-friend" that pops up on the first X executions every Y runs would be more useful (one you actually use the program and see if it is good or not).
...but not necessarily one any more or less than any other companies. Certainly the arguement about movies and music being less pressed-upon is quite valid...
There's a big difference between this and selling drugs or booze to minors. First of all, street drugs are illegal to all... and both are something that despite any mental maturity, young people initially have little physical resiliance to.
Give them ratings, enforce, and inform... but don't hold the game companies accountable when parents buy their kids SlaughterGoreBloodbath 4.0
Indeed, I've been using Qemu a lot lately. While it's great for my needs, it emulates a lower-speed P2 CPU (on my P4 machine) and requires that any device hooks also be understood and passed-through/translated by the virtual machine.
In the end, you'll get better performance and compatability out of coding for a cluster, rather than having the overhead and redirection of the virtualization process.
...and look at the cost of a house... property... and a good many other things. How about the monentary values or wages?
Costs are not directly comparable between countries without factoring in such things... $3/L might actually seem reasonable in a country with where a happy meal costs $15, and the minimum wage is above that...
While I do love linux myself, making a full-on switch without experience could be seen as a form of professional hari-kari.
First thing would be to find out what your main server does, and see what alternative replacements there are. Some examples:
web: apache
firewall/NAT: iptables
proxy: squid
fileserver: samba
printing: cups
ftp: proftpd (or better, SSH-based services with winSCP clients, etc).
However, as per the parent's recommendation, setting up a home server would probably not test it well for a real-world scenario in the long run, though it might be a start. If you can, try setting up a home server... and another idea (or an additional one) would be to setup a small secondary server at work... start with the basics and just have it serve up network shares with samba or maybe webpages with apache. From there, try adding other features and transitioning them over as you get them to work. There's no reason you can't have the windows server as your primary and then mount network shares or have webpages on the secondary during the transition period, and it gives you a chance to test the waters.
Oh, and setup a backup plan early on... always a good idea when dipping into unknown waters.
Noise cancelling technology is already used in professional telephone headsets, and I am surprised that it is missing from iPods and the like
Amplifying non-noise signals VS cancelling noise? Hearing aids work often as in-ear amplifiers. So when you're 'cancelling' noise, what is probably happening is that you're just not amplifying the noisy stuff, and enhancing what you want to hear. This wouldn't quite work the same with an audio device, wherein the outside noise levels are independant of the music/etc being produced by the device
I love having power-rated items that come with a DC adaptor that can provide max-juice of like 50W, but claim to have power output in the hundreds of watts...
I actually got this a fair bit. Often users claim their Office version as their windows version, as it is all they run. Therefore I would be told "I'm running windows 97" for users running office 97 on win98.
Yes, but once you get into it, gnome generally looks pretty much the same between distros, as does KDE, etc. The apps are also the same, and so long as your libraries are up-to-date in any distribution, they all should run the same.
Windows apps do not run in OSX/Linux (without emulation), not do linux apps run in windows, nor OSX apps run in linux... with some leeway given to running BSD-compatible applications in OSX.
These are different distributions, and hence the reason why we call them distros and not operating systems. Ice-cream is still ice-cream, whether it's chocolate, strawberry, or chocolate-chip-mint. Sure it tastes different, but there are some important simularities in the base.
Doesn't anyone know the true reason for the Hulk's rage? It's because, while Bruce Banner groups to five times normal size when becoming the Hulk, his jockey cup definately does not...
Wait awhile until the price drops... because at first they're going to be horrifically expensive, and later there will probably be a drop as they release 1TB drives...
Buy two
Buy a RAID card... decent hardware-RAID is coming in at under the $100 mark (about $69). There's really no reason not to have one pricewise
Obviously, raid the two drives... and still back up the important stuff regularly for the event where you rm -rf something important, or the PSU explodes and backfeeds into the drives (I've had this happen, actually), or something equally nasty. At least with RAID though you'll be OK if a single drive bites it...
I note that a lot of people here mention how KDE has better eye-candy than gnome. While the eye-candy is cool, I'm not much for that. I was originally a big fan of icewm (lightweight, simple, functional), but what really got me into KDE were some of the great programs, applets, and especially the great integration of the various KDE components. Nothing quite like being able to fish:// to a server in a split-screen browser with document previews for multiple formats...
There are some Gnome apps that I definately love (gnomemeeting), but overall I think that KDE must be more friendly/enticing to developers as it just seems to have an edge.
Indeed. I understand this point. But the idea of the NDA in general seems odd. If anyone can view the source by asking (with an NDA) wouldn't that make the only ones who *couldn't* use the code be open-sourced projects?
Basically, a clause that serves only to detriment OSS...
If you're making $70k a year with a high cost-to-live index, but managing to save up $15k of that, it might mean something.
For example, let's say that in city X, a house costs $150,000, whereas in city Y, a similar house costs $300,000.
Obviously in city Y you will either have to save more or work longer to earn a house. So let's say at the rate above you save for 5 years at $15k/year... that's $75k... still a long way away from that $300,000 house.
But here's the kicker, if you are saving more towards the biggest cost (the $350,0000 house) and then move to city X, suddenly you doing very well by city X standards.
So now you move to city X and you're only making $52,000 per year. But you've already bought your house, and maybe you have a car and a few other of the major purchases. Say that the lesser expenses in city X are only $27,000/year... no mortgage, no other major costs. You're now accumulating $25,000/year as you aren't paying into higher expenses and/or a mortgage, etc.
The big picture not only counts how much you make at a given time, but more importantly how much you save and where you plan to spend your future. A small savings in one location can be quite a lot in another, after all... and lower cost-of-living doesn't mean a bad place to live (some nice places have low wages but low living costs as well).
In the case of more flights... the cost of a crash means you're exiting in a large ziplock bag, not a stretcher. That is if anyone finds enough of you to fill a ziplock bag.
If it was just an injury that was at risk, autopilot would probably be used. The random events that can cause a terrific crash combined with the risk of death make full-auto non-feasible.
So my understanding is that if somebody asks, MS must open the protocols and provide info. What's the point of an NDA if anyone else could get the disclosure from Microsoft? Who are you hiding it from?
Logs and email aren't the same thing... most mail servers will append the sender IP of an address to messages, so really all they would have to do is check his email, possibly some recipient emails (or the 'sent' box though I'm not sure it retains the info) and then snatch the IPs.
That's not as much an issue as you might think. Some of the tradeoffs in creating portable energy is that it uses fixed-sources in the process. In many cases, these sources may be either renewable (Hydroelectric, window, tidepool, etc) power, or long-term sustainable (nuclear, etc). Around here it wouldn't matter much if you used 600MW to create 200MW worth of pellets, as our power is Hydroelectric and 'refills' on its own.
The so-called movie ticket 'contract' basically gives them the right to kick me out (without refund) for misconduct and possibly ban me. Also, a movie ticket is a pass to an activity, not a physical item such as a game CD (including the data within).
If blizzard wanted to kick me off bnet for running bnetd, that would be within their rights. Telling me I can't make interoperability software is not, but courts favour the rich.
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That's one thing that I think could make this controller a major nuisance. Changing batteries is a pain. Having a Li+ battery would help, but it would then have to be proprietary and would probably cost a bundle to replace.
The prototypes use standard batteries, but I could see selling Li+ batteries being a cash-cow into the future for nintendo as controller batteries age, should this become popular .
apt-get install apache apache-ssl mysql php4
Go get coffee, come back later...
I suppose I'd run them on a windows server if I needed windows-centric components, but why else would you want to?
If I could get around a speed of 100MB/s wireless, I'd be in heaven. Right now I have a 56MB/s connection, which tends to get pretty good reception and decent speeds for copying files SO LONG AS I TURB OFF ENCRYPTION. With encryption, the overhead seems to slow things down a fair bit. Now if I could get say 100+MB/s, I'll just run a permanent VPN connection to my primary server. Fully secure, 100% of the time, still with fast transfer... rather than just when I want to have some private and flick the VPN on.
Yes, WINE is a translation layer. For most it's easier to think of it as an emulator, but the name (despite its recursiveness) does specify that it isn't an emulator.
When you're running wine though, for many intents and purposes you are running portions of windows... with the functions that can be translated done so, or native DLL calls for those that can't. It's still not native linux support for linux applications, and to open that can of worms would include things like processor emulation and Bochs/Qemu/VMWare/etc
The implementation is a bit flawed though. Much as I hate popups, perhaps having an "email-a-friend" that pops up on the first X executions every Y runs would be more useful (one you actually use the program and see if it is good or not).
...but not necessarily one any more or less than any other companies. Certainly the arguement about movies and music being less pressed-upon is quite valid...
There's a big difference between this and selling drugs or booze to minors. First of all, street drugs are illegal to all... and both are something that despite any mental maturity, young people initially have little physical resiliance to.
Give them ratings, enforce, and inform... but don't hold the game companies accountable when parents buy their kids SlaughterGoreBloodbath 4.0
Indeed, I've been using Qemu a lot lately. While it's great for my needs, it emulates a lower-speed P2 CPU (on my P4 machine) and requires that any device hooks also be understood and passed-through/translated by the virtual machine.
In the end, you'll get better performance and compatability out of coding for a cluster, rather than having the overhead and redirection of the virtualization process.
...and look at the cost of a house... property... and a good many other things. How about the monentary values or wages?
Costs are not directly comparable between countries without factoring in such things... $3/L might actually seem reasonable in a country with where a happy meal costs $15, and the minimum wage is above that...
While I do love linux myself, making a full-on switch without experience could be seen as a form of professional hari-kari.
First thing would be to find out what your main server does, and see what alternative replacements there are. Some examples:
web: apache
firewall/NAT: iptables
proxy: squid
fileserver: samba
printing: cups
ftp: proftpd (or better, SSH-based services with winSCP clients, etc).
However, as per the parent's recommendation, setting up a home server would probably not test it well for a real-world scenario in the long run, though it might be a start. If you can, try setting up a home server... and another idea (or an additional one) would be to setup a small secondary server at work... start with the basics and just have it serve up network shares with samba or maybe webpages with apache. From there, try adding other features and transitioning them over as you get them to work. There's no reason you can't have the windows server as your primary and then mount network shares or have webpages on the secondary during the transition period, and it gives you a chance to test the waters.
Oh, and setup a backup plan early on... always a good idea when dipping into unknown waters.
Noise cancelling technology is already used in professional telephone headsets, and I am surprised that it is missing from iPods and the like
Amplifying non-noise signals VS cancelling noise? Hearing aids work often as in-ear amplifiers. So when you're 'cancelling' noise, what is probably happening is that you're just not amplifying the noisy stuff, and enhancing what you want to hear. This wouldn't quite work the same with an audio device, wherein the outside noise levels are independant of the music/etc being produced by the device
I love having power-rated items that come with a DC adaptor that can provide max-juice of like 50W, but claim to have power output in the hundreds of watts...
Screw themselves
Because if Vista really comes out like the massively confusing, steaming POS it seems it will be... that will be the end result.
I actually got this a fair bit. Often users claim their Office version as their windows version, as it is all they run. Therefore I would be told "I'm running windows 97" for users running office 97 on win98.
Yes, but once you get into it, gnome generally looks pretty much the same between distros, as does KDE, etc. The apps are also the same, and so long as your libraries are up-to-date in any distribution, they all should run the same.
Windows apps do not run in OSX/Linux (without emulation), not do linux apps run in windows, nor OSX apps run in linux... with some leeway given to running BSD-compatible applications in OSX.
These are different distributions, and hence the reason why we call them distros and not operating systems. Ice-cream is still ice-cream, whether it's chocolate, strawberry, or chocolate-chip-mint. Sure it tastes different, but there are some important simularities in the base.
Doesn't anyone know the true reason for the Hulk's rage? It's because, while Bruce Banner groups to five times normal size when becoming the Hulk, his jockey cup definately does not...
Wait awhile until the price drops... because at first they're going to be horrifically expensive, and later there will probably be a drop as they release 1TB drives...
Buy two
Buy a RAID card... decent hardware-RAID is coming in at under the $100 mark (about $69). There's really no reason not to have one pricewise
Obviously, raid the two drives... and still back up the important stuff regularly for the event where you rm -rf something important, or the PSU explodes and backfeeds into the drives (I've had this happen, actually), or something equally nasty. At least with RAID though you'll be OK if a single drive bites it...
I note that a lot of people here mention how KDE has better eye-candy than gnome. While the eye-candy is cool, I'm not much for that. I was originally a big fan of icewm (lightweight, simple, functional), but what really got me into KDE were some of the great programs, applets, and especially the great integration of the various KDE components. Nothing quite like being able to fish:// to a server in a split-screen browser with document previews for multiple formats...
There are some Gnome apps that I definately love (gnomemeeting), but overall I think that KDE must be more friendly/enticing to developers as it just seems to have an edge.
Indeed. I understand this point. But the idea of the NDA in general seems odd. If anyone can view the source by asking (with an NDA) wouldn't that make the only ones who *couldn't* use the code be open-sourced projects?
Basically, a clause that serves only to detriment OSS...
If you're making $70k a year with a high cost-to-live index, but managing to save up $15k of that, it might mean something.
For example, let's say that in city X, a house costs $150,000, whereas in city Y, a similar house costs $300,000.
Obviously in city Y you will either have to save more or work longer to earn a house. So let's say at the rate above you save for 5 years at $15k/year... that's $75k... still a long way away from that $300,000 house.
But here's the kicker, if you are saving more towards the biggest cost (the $350,0000 house) and then move to city X, suddenly you doing very well by city X standards.
So now you move to city X and you're only making $52,000 per year. But you've already bought your house, and maybe you have a car and a few other of the major purchases. Say that the lesser expenses in city X are only $27,000/year... no mortgage, no other major costs. You're now accumulating $25,000/year as you aren't paying into higher expenses and/or a mortgage, etc.
The big picture not only counts how much you make at a given time, but more importantly how much you save and where you plan to spend your future. A small savings in one location can be quite a lot in another, after all... and lower cost-of-living doesn't mean a bad place to live (some nice places have low wages but low living costs as well).
In the case of more flights... the cost of a crash means you're exiting in a large ziplock bag, not a stretcher. That is if anyone finds enough of you to fill a ziplock bag.
If it was just an injury that was at risk, autopilot would probably be used. The random events that can cause a terrific crash combined with the risk of death make full-auto non-feasible.
So my understanding is that if somebody asks, MS must open the protocols and provide info. What's the point of an NDA if anyone else could get the disclosure from Microsoft? Who are you hiding it from?
Logs and email aren't the same thing... most mail servers will append the sender IP of an address to messages, so really all they would have to do is check his email, possibly some recipient emails (or the 'sent' box though I'm not sure it retains the info) and then snatch the IPs.
That's not as much an issue as you might think. Some of the tradeoffs in creating portable energy is that it uses fixed-sources in the process. In many cases, these sources may be either renewable (Hydroelectric, window, tidepool, etc) power, or long-term sustainable (nuclear, etc). Around here it wouldn't matter much if you used 600MW to create 200MW worth of pellets, as our power is Hydroelectric and 'refills' on its own.
The so-called movie ticket 'contract' basically gives them the right to kick me out (without refund) for misconduct and possibly ban me. Also, a movie ticket is a pass to an activity, not a physical item such as a game CD (including the data within).
If blizzard wanted to kick me off bnet for running bnetd, that would be within their rights. Telling me I can't make interoperability software is not, but courts favour the rich.
In linux, an application called "brightside" does something similar.