I wonder if the warranties are going to become proportional to the amount they get onto a disk platter... I'll be getting worried when you're drive is expected to bugger up sooner than you think (warranty of a few weeks).;-)
I can remember in the film Demolition Man, one of the SAPD officers answered the phone saying comething like:
Welcome to the SAPD, if you would like to be put through to an automatic computer answering service, please say so now...
Although I bet both the officer and the answering service would pick up any swearing - should the caller be on the toilet and the sea shells aren't working.
Oh well, I just came off a transatlantic flight to London on the weekend and it looks like they give laptop power cords for anyone who needs them (even in economy - I may be wrong though)... so I guess they'd be plugging those up (so to speak), at least in British airspace.
With solid state memory, seek time is virtually eliminated because the drive is physically mapped out and non-moving, wheras on a magnetic disk or CD/DVD the 'disc' spins - hence you get the seek time because the drive head(s) have to locate the physical point on the media where the data resides.
Just been to the site, your shameless self-promotion is what should feature more in this LucasArts thread...
I like the site a lot, and it sure as hell beats waiting for LucasArts and sequels, and is harmless fun (i.e. Please don't sue me.) to boot.
Lets just hope it doesn't become too popular, the/. effect alone would be enough to knock off any fake barf off the side of the computer case (if there was one).
Yeah, but what is the current progress on the solid state memory devices? I know that there is a Cambridge university team who have got their own division working on this.
If I remember rightly (this info I read about 3 years ago) they said that they had some HDD manufacturers (probably IBM at the time) were very interested in the tech, and their initial projections were about 2.2TB for a credit card sized module. Although they were still early in research/development, I wonder how they (or any others) are doing now?
Red Bull would be a good power boost (especially if you need 'wings' for flight during a frag session), but they charge quite a lot over here in the US (compared with England and Europwe).
P P P pick up a Penguin, how I don't miss those adverts over here (although that isn't saying much I suppose, considering US ads).
I suppose those two items could become a new caffeine derivative infused Linux distro (with added chocolate and biscuit)... Red Bull Linux?
I remember when the first talk of web-based shops were on the cards. They were saying it was the 'High Street' stores that would lose profits and business... and some chose to do the 'ostrich effect', while others went for the full madness effect (i.e. anyone remember EggHead stores - DUH!).
But it is those stores that have an existing infrastructure who then expand into using the web to generate extra revenue are the ones who will thrive. Just because web shopping came along doesn't mean people will all of a sudden stop going to the mall.
A lot of the porn industry has thrived because of the anonimity, as well as the breaking down of borders... hence laws governing porn.
"We will lose the Internet if we don't save it." and "civil society" has broken down online... probably not, it's just that people know that they can currently get away with doing stuff, and the net still being in its relavtive infancy, people know that they'll be able to do whatever they want until push comes to shove and the governments themselves catch up with technology.
After watching the mid-season finale on Sci-Fi last night, with all the time travel, paradoxes, unrealized realities, and wormholes... it gave me a bit of a headache:-(
I got an XCard a few weeks ago courtesy of CDW (NewEgg didn't/don't sell them).
I stuck it in a crappy Compaq K6-2/500, and it works OK. The system is attached to the TV, and will play Media mapped of our house file server.
Opinion, the Media player software itself is complete shite... and you really ought to look at the kind of formats it cannot play. Plus I had some self encoded TV episodes using DivX 5, and they had a VBR MP3 audio stream, the XCard plays the audio, and the video is completely out of sync (speeding up, slowing down - as though it is using the VBR timings)... and the player crashes after 5 mins.
I am now in the process of getting a fast computer that can sit behind the TV, with a standard (well I'll use one recommended with TVTool - an excellent program for video out) TV out video card, and a wireless keyboard/trackball combo (Globalink) that I got for the current setup.
It would be preferable if the XCard can just output everything to the TV (i.e. windows display itself), because I have to have a monitor to control everything. So no the XCard doesn't fit my needs at all. And with all this legal shit, I wouldn't bother with it at all (due to the lack of formats it can't play), unless it addresses some of these fundamental concerns.
The thing about the Athlon line of processors is the FPU, which blows the P4 away.
The P4 is better with the memory throughput, considering it was designed for using RAMBUS in mind, hence the more memory bandwidth you throw at it, it utilizes it (SD/DDR RAM is like using a handbrake on it).
The new Thoroughbred Athlons make AMD regain the performance crown, and the Athlon has the Barton revision to go yet before Hammer.
AMD maybe considered a value chip company, but that doesn't mean they cannot produce excellent CPU's.
Before the days people tryed to change the entire net into one giant advert/money spinner/spam sender (insert whatever else here).
It's too late, in that the non-geeks have become too entrenched with their internet supplemented lives. Loving the sound coming from their computer speakers saying "You've got mail!" (AOL voice)
access to information and an evergrowing supply of places to visit. and Free speech, free information
...How long before the usual suspects (RIAA, MPAA, FCC - or anyone else for that matter) start taking an interest.
The good old days are gone, as the saying goes 'ignorance is bliss', pleople can't go back to that. Plus in the old days, people didn't have to experience things like Denial of Service, or the Slashdot effect.
A surge in sunlight (solar flare, whatever else)...
Doctor: Oh shit!
Nurse: Doctor, it looks like you've gone through the patient, and through the operating desk, and floor. And the blood is pouring down into the coffee vending machine on the next floor! (sorry about the morbidness of that last bit)
Patient: (not very well at the moment, and not saying anything)
Nope, you're not cynical... this is BT we're talking about here.
A company that is universally shafting most of the UK, especially concerning DSL (or lack of). And with a overseeing body called OFTEL (should now be OFCOM, not sure) who are supposed to make sure BT doesn't engage in monopolistic practices (just image what would have happened if they were granted the hyperlink patent!!). But OFTEL don't even have teeth, just gums covered in sponge, and a hand that lighty slaps BT's wrist and says "Bad boy, don't do it again" (for the n'th time).
I believe so, but I'm not sure if it was crosslicense per se. AMD had to go through the courts (if my memory serves me correctly) to allow them to use 80x86 technology, hence the codename 'Barton' for one of the upcoming Athlon cores... Barton was the name of the presiding Judge who granted them the license.
Either way, It would be funny if Intel ended up having to license AMD's x86-64 technology. Even though I don't think that would happen, I suspect Intel would rather fork the 64bit platform with their Itanic (part 2) than license from AMD... but you never know!
Slightly offtopic I know, but BT and Woldcom are in the "Sustaining-Gold Members" section, I wonder how long that sustaining will last.. considering the nice sized debt that BT have (as with most communications companies at the moment), and the missing billions that WorldCom have (or should have had).
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder if the warranties are going to become proportional to the amount they get onto a disk platter... I'll be getting worried when you're drive is expected to bugger up sooner than you think (warranty of a few weeks). ;-)
Just think of it, how many pictures will say GOTO picture xxx, yyy, zzz... spaghetti pictures indeed.
The movie would be like an Arnold Rimmer holiday slideshow, hours of boring useless crap!
I can remember in the film Demolition Man, one of the SAPD officers answered the phone saying comething like:
Welcome to the SAPD, if you would like to be put through to an automatic computer answering service, please say so now...
Although I bet both the officer and the answering service would pick up any swearing - should the caller be on the toilet and the sea shells aren't working.
Oh well, I just came off a transatlantic flight to London on the weekend and it looks like they give laptop power cords for anyone who needs them (even in economy - I may be wrong though)... so I guess they'd be plugging those up (so to speak), at least in British airspace.
With solid state memory, seek time is virtually eliminated because the drive is physically mapped out and non-moving, wheras on a magnetic disk or CD/DVD the 'disc' spins - hence you get the seek time because the drive head(s) have to locate the physical point on the media where the data resides.
Or will it be gagged as being in violation of the DMCA?
Just been to the site, your shameless self-promotion is what should feature more in this LucasArts thread...
I like the site a lot, and it sure as hell beats waiting for LucasArts and sequels, and is harmless fun (i.e. Please don't sue me.) to boot.
Lets just hope it doesn't become too popular, the /. effect alone would be enough to knock off any fake barf off the side of the computer case (if there was one).
Yeah, but what is the current progress on the solid state memory devices? I know that there is a Cambridge university team who have got their own division working on this.
If I remember rightly (this info I read about 3 years ago) they said that they had some HDD manufacturers (probably IBM at the time) were very interested in the tech, and their initial projections were about 2.2TB for a credit card sized module. Although they were still early in research/development, I wonder how they (or any others) are doing now?
So a sequel to Sam and Max is good news, but I'll be much happier if they can do a sequel to Day Of The Tentacle...
Berrrnaaard... float over here soo I can puunch yoouuu.
Just be careful what wine you buy, 'cos you'll never know how long it'll take to turn to vinegar.
Ping of death...
Red Bull would be a good power boost (especially if you need 'wings' for flight during a frag session), but they charge quite a lot over here in the US (compared with England and Europwe).
P P P pick up a Penguin, how I don't miss those adverts over here (although that isn't saying much I suppose, considering US ads).
I suppose those two items could become a new caffeine derivative infused Linux distro (with added chocolate and biscuit)... Red Bull Linux?
'Our commitment to open source remains absolute, no matter what our competitors are saying.'
And M$ might say:
'Our commitment to proprietary code remains absolute, no matter what our competitors are saying.'
Anyhow, if people see Red Hat as becoming like M$, then I must be in unhappy camp since I use both M$ software (or crashware), and Red Hat Linux.
I guess there is no satisfying some people...
Reminds me of Babylon 5 when G'Kar has his bionic eye, especially when he can take it out and still see from it.
(Sheriden and Delenn - honeymoon night)
Londo: (something along the lines of) It almost makes you wish you could peek in and see what they are doing.
(G'Kar looks distracted)
Londo: G'Kar, where is the prosthetic eye that Dr. Franklin made for you?
(G'kar is smiling)
(Scene changes to show the eye on a table looking towards the honeymoon bed)
I remember when the first talk of web-based shops were on the cards. They were saying it was the 'High Street' stores that would lose profits and business... and some chose to do the 'ostrich effect', while others went for the full madness effect (i.e. anyone remember EggHead stores - DUH!).
But it is those stores that have an existing infrastructure who then expand into using the web to generate extra revenue are the ones who will thrive. Just because web shopping came along doesn't mean people will all of a sudden stop going to the mall.
A lot of the porn industry has thrived because of the anonimity, as well as the breaking down of borders... hence laws governing porn.
"We will lose the Internet if we don't save it." and "civil society" has broken down online... probably not, it's just that people know that they can currently get away with doing stuff, and the net still being in its relavtive infancy, people know that they'll be able to do whatever they want until push comes to shove and the governments themselves catch up with technology.
No word yet on the rumored love-child between Smentowski and BB host, Carmen Electra.
Hmm, I wonder what Dave Navarro would have to say about that.
After watching the mid-season finale on Sci-Fi last night, with all the time travel, paradoxes, unrealized realities, and wormholes... it gave me a bit of a headache :-(
I got an XCard a few weeks ago courtesy of CDW (NewEgg didn't/don't sell them).
I stuck it in a crappy Compaq K6-2/500, and it works OK. The system is attached to the TV, and will play Media mapped of our house file server.
Opinion, the Media player software itself is complete shite... and you really ought to look at the kind of formats it cannot play. Plus I had some self encoded TV episodes using DivX 5, and they had a VBR MP3 audio stream, the XCard plays the audio, and the video is completely out of sync (speeding up, slowing down - as though it is using the VBR timings)... and the player crashes after 5 mins.
I am now in the process of getting a fast computer that can sit behind the TV, with a standard (well I'll use one recommended with TVTool - an excellent program for video out) TV out video card, and a wireless keyboard/trackball combo (Globalink) that I got for the current setup.
It would be preferable if the XCard can just output everything to the TV (i.e. windows display itself), because I have to have a monitor to control everything. So no the XCard doesn't fit my needs at all. And with all this legal shit, I wouldn't bother with it at all (due to the lack of formats it can't play), unless it addresses some of these fundamental concerns.
The thing about the Athlon line of processors is the FPU, which blows the P4 away.
The P4 is better with the memory throughput, considering it was designed for using RAMBUS in mind, hence the more memory bandwidth you throw at it, it utilizes it (SD/DDR RAM is like using a handbrake on it).
The new Thoroughbred Athlons make AMD regain the performance crown, and the Athlon has the Barton revision to go yet before Hammer.
AMD maybe considered a value chip company, but that doesn't mean they cannot produce excellent CPU's.
Before the days people tryed to change the entire net into one giant advert/money spinner/spam sender (insert whatever else here).
It's too late, in that the non-geeks have become too entrenched with their internet supplemented lives. Loving the sound coming from their computer speakers saying "You've got mail!" (AOL voice)
access to information and an evergrowing supply of places to visit. and Free speech, free information
...How long before the usual suspects (RIAA, MPAA, FCC - or anyone else for that matter) start taking an interest.
The good old days are gone, as the saying goes 'ignorance is bliss', pleople can't go back to that. Plus in the old days, people didn't have to experience things like Denial of Service, or the Slashdot effect.
What about the opposite?
A surge in sunlight (solar flare, whatever else)...
Doctor: Oh shit!
Nurse: Doctor, it looks like you've gone through the patient, and through the operating desk, and floor. And the blood is pouring down into the coffee vending machine on the next floor! (sorry about the morbidness of that last bit)
Patient: (not very well at the moment, and not saying anything)
Select one from the following (thinking of the Sims, but we'll call GeekSims(TM)
- Order Pizza
- Fall asleep at computer desk
- /. another site into oblivion.
- Get the geek community to ping -f M$
Any other options are welcome.
Nope, you're not cynical... this is BT we're talking about here.
A company that is universally shafting most of the UK, especially concerning DSL (or lack of). And with a overseeing body called OFTEL (should now be OFCOM, not sure) who are supposed to make sure BT doesn't engage in monopolistic practices (just image what would have happened if they were granted the hyperlink patent!!). But OFTEL don't even have teeth, just gums covered in sponge, and a hand that lighty slaps BT's wrist and says "Bad boy, don't do it again" (for the n'th time).
I believe so, but I'm not sure if it was crosslicense per se. AMD had to go through the courts (if my memory serves me correctly) to allow them to use 80x86 technology, hence the codename 'Barton' for one of the upcoming Athlon cores... Barton was the name of the presiding Judge who granted them the license.
Either way, It would be funny if Intel ended up having to license AMD's x86-64 technology. Even though I don't think that would happen, I suspect Intel would rather fork the 64bit platform with their Itanic (part 2) than license from AMD... but you never know!
Slightly offtopic I know, but BT and Woldcom are in the "Sustaining-Gold Members" section, I wonder how long that sustaining will last.. considering the nice sized debt that BT have (as with most communications companies at the moment), and the missing billions that WorldCom have (or should have had).