Word. And Edison improved upon the incandescent lightbulb originally (maybe not the first either) developed by Thomson (iirc), but who could not get a long lifespan out of each bulb.
Marconi did not invent radio transmission either. There were several other who used it long before he did, including Nikola Tesla (amazing guy, got screwed over by lots of people. Go read "The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century-Robert Lomas, Headline" ISBN#0-7472-7588-2 ). Marconi simply had the best press conference.
How do you survive Living in your parents' house
Dreaming of mainframes
Ick.. browser-dependant pages. Reminds me of all the "Designed for Netscape" and "Best Viewed with Internet Explorer" buttons on web pages circa 1997. They should all have been relegated to WORM media and archived for our descendants as a warning.
Not everyone gets handed $40,000 and packed off to school. Even if you do get financial aid, it covers about 1/3 of the actual costs.
Amen brother/sister. I won't give my own sob story, but I think employers' recent love of degree PLUS MCSE/other expensive certification exacerbates the problem. By the time you are finished the schooling required to get a position in which you can afford to pay back student loans, the market has changed completely.
OK, here comes my own experience (Ya ya I know. Stop rolling your eyes.) I have always loved working with computers. I have been programming since I was 7, twenty years ago now. I enjoyed the elite status of computing, not for the sake of being deified, but because you could be fairly sure others in the field shared your passion. Then came the "Internet Revolution." Kids heard the counsellors preaching the endless well of jobs in computing, and saw the ads for Microsoft's certification programs (The Krusty's Clown College of computing). Employers bought into the hype. It would have been more aptly called the Me Too Revolution.
I enjoyed using my skills helping people learn, but after a while I realized they weren't learning very much. Still, many had the money, if not the skills, to get certified. In this watered down the talent pool, it was harder to find like-minded people in the community to challenge and feed my own mind.
(These editing text boxes need to be wider!)
Then the Dot Com, WorldCom and Enron messes spewed forth another glut of cubizens into the job market. A glut of people with credentials for, but less than love for, computing.
I guess what I am trying to say is that I lost my own desire for a life working with computers professionally, and it would take a large shift in the community and the employment market to change my feelings.
That said, NOTHING will keep me from grabbing Half-Life 2 when it comes out and huddling around my computer, growling when anyone comes near, until I finish it several times.:D
OMG I still have a boxed copy of Mindwalker. I could never get it to work when I had WB2.04, and I never tried it on my A4000/040. I remember just watching the pulsating brain, trying to figure out why the controls were not working...
I almost cried when Floyd died saving you from the mutants in Planetfall. There. It's out in the open now. Happy?
IIRC, this is how deisel locomotives operate. Big f-off electric motors driven by deisel engines.
The engines are allowed to run at their most efficient, and economical, RPM. The motors have great torque at low RPMs, on a logarithmic scale as I recall. Great for getting heavy loads moving.
Anyone here work on these? I'd love to hear some specs from the field.
It is strange that they announced this at a time when the price of gasoline at the pump is so high. Why wouldn't they have kept their mouths shut for a while longer?
Many vehicles, including the EV1, currently use the Inductive charging system, which utilizes no electrical contact (for safety reasons) between the charger and the vehicle, but rather a inductive magnetic coupling.
Heh heh.. I wonder how you would siphon juice out of these things. At least it would taste better than siphoning out of a gasoline-powered car.:D
I doubt it would have been THAT hard to create a dynamo to convert between the two power types, but it probably would have been tough to retrofit the existing EV1's. Still, such an adapter would be a handy thing in an EV1 road-trouble kit.
"Anyone got booster cables? Or an extension cord? How about a hand crank?"
Maybe this is already going on? Did anyone notice a large Microsoft logo on the side of the spaceshuttle Columbia? That would explain a few things. Say, did anyone notice a large BSOD on the shuttle monitors during that videotape they recovered?
Next they'll be flying Columbia XP and telling us it's more reliable and easier to use.
First, to keep on topic: I can't wait for Fragapalooza. I am SO THERE... unless I don't remember to point my car in the right direction overnight on the TransCanada through Saskatchewan.
> Any person with a room temperature IQ will tell you if you travel to another country, try to hide the fact you are a tourist.
Remember the conversion factor. An american IQ of 70 is 20 here.:D
>Tourists get ripped off and tourists get jacked.
We call that going through Customs and paying Duty.
Yeah, you are correct about showing the Canadian flag in the US. Everywhere else it is akin to +5 Body Armour of Common Sense, but Americans seem to view it as a "Commie Patch."
Heck, I don't care if this has been brought up before. I am just pissed that my ECS K7S5A died on me Dec 22, 2002, just two days after the 1-year warranty ended. Then the bastard grinches where I bought it would not honour the warranty.
The six capacitors by the ATX power connector and near the CPU socket were blown, and the rectifiers had their solder turn BLUE.
THe damned board had been kinda flaky ever since I bought it, but I was in a rush when I did. Never again.
HSHS
True, the Voodoo5 was a good workaround of the AGP limitation of only 1 AGP device on the bus. It had to do the SLI thing internally and show only 1 device to the bus. IIRC, this is why they could not make the card take advantage of the AGP sideband addressing et al.
AGP 8X, with (most importantly) the device limitation removed, could allow many VSA-100-ish devices to both cooperate as a rendering chip farm and use advanced AGP functions.
Geez.. more spontaneous erections and libido?? Just what I didn't need. It's like being 15 years old again;)
Now if it would enlarge breasts too, we could call it the XXX pill.
HSHS
Slashdot Mirror
But what is the latency??
:D
My Team Fortress Classic only uses small packets, but I want them back in 20ms!
HSHS
Seriously, though - is there a better latency?
(Damn, where's the edit button? Figures - the one time I didn't preview before posting.)
That should have been
*cough!* SCO *cough!*
SCO
I should really get this looked at..
Yes, it seems like giving users a disclaimer has replaced good coding style for a lot of web developers.
:D
Bring back the whip, project managers!
Word. And Edison improved upon the incandescent lightbulb originally (maybe not the first either) developed by Thomson (iirc), but who could not get a long lifespan out of each bulb.
Marconi did not invent radio transmission either. There were several other who used it long before he did, including Nikola Tesla (amazing guy, got screwed over by lots of people. Go read "The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century-Robert Lomas, Headline" ISBN#0-7472-7588-2 ). Marconi simply had the best press conference.
Hey, that was almost an Haiku!
How do you survive
Living in your parents' house
Dreaming of mainframes
Ick.. browser-dependant pages. Reminds me of all the "Designed for Netscape" and "Best Viewed with Internet Explorer" buttons on web pages circa 1997. They should all have been relegated to WORM media and archived for our descendants as a warning.
Heh heh.. yeah. Logowriter was a b|tch. ;)
pen down
do 4 times
forward 5
right
loop
pen up
Or, as I saw it,
pen down
do 65535 times
right
loop
(I called it the sit & spin algorythm)
Amen brother/sister. I won't give my own sob story, but I think employers' recent love of degree PLUS MCSE/other expensive certification exacerbates the problem. By the time you are finished the schooling required to get a position in which you can afford to pay back student loans, the market has changed completely.
OK, here comes my own experience (Ya ya I know. Stop rolling your eyes.) I have always loved working with computers. I have been programming since I was 7, twenty years ago now. I enjoyed the elite status of computing, not for the sake of being deified, but because you could be fairly sure others in the field shared your passion. Then came the "Internet Revolution." Kids heard the counsellors preaching the endless well of jobs in computing, and saw the ads for Microsoft's certification programs (The Krusty's Clown College of computing). Employers bought into the hype. It would have been more aptly called the Me Too Revolution.
I enjoyed using my skills helping people learn, but after a while I realized they weren't learning very much. Still, many had the money, if not the skills, to get certified. In this watered down the talent pool, it was harder to find like-minded people in the community to challenge and feed my own mind.
(These editing text boxes need to be wider!)
Then the Dot Com, WorldCom and Enron messes spewed forth another glut of cubizens into the job market. A glut of people with credentials for, but less than love for, computing.
I guess what I am trying to say is that I lost my own desire for a life working with computers professionally, and it would take a large shift in the community and the employment market to change my feelings.
That said, NOTHING will keep me from grabbing Half-Life 2 when it comes out and huddling around my computer, growling when anyone comes near, until I finish it several times. :D
Slashdot's Love is like Slashdot's Law - Hard and Fast!
I am still pulling up the page.. it's responding, but SLOWLY.
Back to topic: I wonder how my old Amiga 3.5" high-density drive would fare. It had two speeds - one for DD and another for HD diskettes.
I miss my Amiga FFS. 1.86MB HD floppies rocked. And much nicer FS than FAT for hard drives.
OMG I still have a boxed copy of Mindwalker. I could never get it to work when I had WB2.04, and
I never tried it on my A4000/040. I remember just watching the pulsating brain, trying to figure out why the controls were not working...
I almost cried when Floyd died saving you from the mutants in Planetfall. There. It's out in the open now. Happy?
IIRC, this is how deisel locomotives operate. Big f-off electric motors driven by deisel engines.
The engines are allowed to run at their most efficient, and economical, RPM. The motors have great torque at low RPMs, on a logarithmic scale as I recall. Great for getting heavy loads moving.
Anyone here work on these? I'd love to hear some specs from the field.
It is strange that they announced this at a time when the price of gasoline at the pump is so high. Why wouldn't they have kept their mouths shut for a while longer?
I doubt it would have been THAT hard to create a dynamo to convert between the two power types, but it probably would have been tough to retrofit the existing EV1's. Still, such an adapter would be a handy thing in an EV1 road-trouble kit.
"Anyone got booster cables? Or an extension cord? How about a hand crank?"
WARNING: This reply will be in poor taste!!
Maybe this is already going on? Did anyone notice a large Microsoft logo on the side of the spaceshuttle Columbia? That would explain a few things. Say, did anyone notice a large BSOD on the shuttle monitors during that videotape they recovered?
Next they'll be flying Columbia XP and telling us it's more reliable and easier to use.
I am so going to hell...
I wouldn't go that far. Space is BIG. Heck, I can walk to the corner store without having to know the placement of every stone on the way there.
LMAO
OMG I just read that DX9.NET part and chortled so hard I gave a loogie escape velocity via my nose.
Yes, it is a sad when hardware vendors pay homage to a specific iteration of one OS.
I still chuckle to myself when I see a "ready for Windows 95" sticker on software boxes.
First, to keep on topic: I can't wait for Fragapalooza. I am SO THERE... unless I don't remember to point my car in the right direction overnight on the TransCanada through Saskatchewan.
:D
> Any person with a room temperature IQ will tell you if you travel to another country, try to hide the fact you are a tourist.
Remember the conversion factor. An american IQ of 70 is 20 here.
>Tourists get ripped off and tourists get jacked.
We call that going through Customs and paying Duty.
Yeah, you are correct about showing the Canadian flag in the US. Everywhere else it is akin to +5 Body Armour of Common Sense, but Americans seem to view it as a "Commie Patch."
JMO
HSHS
Heck, I don't care if this has been brought up before. I am just pissed that my ECS K7S5A died on me Dec 22, 2002, just two days after the 1-year warranty ended. Then the bastard grinches where I bought it would not honour the warranty. The six capacitors by the ATX power connector and near the CPU socket were blown, and the rectifiers had their solder turn BLUE. THe damned board had been kinda flaky ever since I bought it, but I was in a rush when I did. Never again. HSHS
True, the Voodoo5 was a good workaround of the AGP limitation of only 1 AGP device on the bus. It had to do the SLI thing internally and show only 1 device to the bus. IIRC, this is why they could not make the card take advantage of the AGP sideband addressing et al. AGP 8X, with (most importantly) the device limitation removed, could allow many VSA-100-ish devices to both cooperate as a rendering chip farm and use advanced AGP functions.
Geez.. more spontaneous erections and libido?? Just what I didn't need. It's like being 15 years old again ;)
Now if it would enlarge breasts too, we could call it the XXX pill.
HSHS