I opened up a CPS2 machine once, and the guy who had it before me had parallel wired up about 3 of those 3.6v batteries to the ramboard. there was a brittle sticky note on the inside of the plastic cover that said "Don't touch this battery solder in a new one"
I admire the guy's genius of a hack, not sure if it actually worked, but that shitty Capcom trick removed any residual guilt I may have had about MAME.
I run a very simple (tomcat hosted) jsp based web page which reads my disk structure and renders a hideous html page which allows you to: 1) Play the movie in the browser (for the kids' iPads mostly, or 2) send a REST call to the Roku to play it on the roku (using a custom "channel" I wrote, which consists of about 5 lines of Roku's proprietary Brightscript.
The Roku channel I wrote can also parse an xml file that my hideous jsp can generate, which will build picture based menus on-screen on the roku. This was so my 4 year-old could find and play whatever the hell they wanted to play. My one design requirement "4 year old can use it"
For the grown-ups, we just have an amazon fire stick (17 dollars on sale) plugged in to the TV. Side-loaded XBMC (now Kodi or something) and pointed it to the same network fileshare that the tomcat server serves up.
My setup is a patchwork, but it works on Android, FireTV, Roku, iPad, and desktop, and it was free, and I have made barely any changes to it beyond adding content for the past 2 years. The biggest downside to all of it is when less techie people come over they always ask "can you set this up at my house?" and my answer is "um, uh, not really." If it were more portable and "standard" it would be better... but it works for me and my family.
Penicillin and antibiotics in the last hundred years basically changed the entire civilized world from "you live until you die of an infection" to "you live until you die of cancer or heart failure." Which is pretty significant.
Although it is pretty hard to argue with the refrigerator, it just gives me the cold shoulder.
This already exists and I am not talking about "lambo" scissors style doors, I am talking about gulwing style doors, which is what this is typically called.
If you pay someone 7 dollars an hour to sweep popcorn, and that someone owns a tripod.. that someone has uniquely private access to a theater... private enough that they can run a sound cable from the projection booth to said tripod.
Give that same employee access to night vision goggles, and you will prevent no piracy at all.
I mean, how bullet-proof is any plan that involves compelling a bunch of minimum wage employees to ensure that 1 billion in profits isn't whittled down to 999 million in profits? (not that there is any proof piracy actually costs studios money)
Watch this crazy man speak about this very problem
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We need to dare to dream. We need to do hard things. If not, then what the hell are we fighting for? What are we doing? Every society worth remembering, every great nation in history did things that were impossible. We can't stop doing that. We can't stop dreaming, or we will die. We will deserve to die.
It takes longer in the west because you have to pay your workers, pay attention to environmental impact, and provide for at least minimal worker safety. Yeah, but I am sure co-location is a huge win, way bigger than free-ish labor, and no accountability.
You are falling victim to a classic problem. You don't want to do the actual work, so instead you focus on instrumentation and environment. The fact that you are asking these questions is proof that the "virtual desktop" mania you have embarked on is more of a hindrance than a help.
I mean, procrastination is half the fun, but don't fool yourself.
not their commute path, they deserve good roads, it is all the freeloading "other" people who don't. it is always "other" people who want to take their money and pour it into public works. How many retired republicans refuse medicare/social security? How many vote to actively stop entitlements to everyone but themselves?
there is no logic. there is only "we need smaller government for everyone else"
It doesn't take 7 billion people to feed, clothe, shelter, and even communicate with 7 billion people.
So what do we do? We are TOO efficient for everyone to earn a living. So do we just murder the people who are not "needed?" Do we let them starve? Do we have massive unnecessary works to employ the unemployable? I am all for suggestions, but when society doesn't really need as many workers as it has, you have to either change the idea of work, or kill off some of the workers.
What do you propose? The death penalty for neck tattoos?
No matter how you cut it we will ALWAYS pay for those who won't work. Either we will pay as crime victims, or as supporters of their children who are in foster care/receive nutrition programs, need section 8 housing, etc etc. Or we will pay to dispose of their dead body when they die of neglect. Somehow those who will not work will cost you money no matter how you vote.
I, for one, would love to prevent desperation, crime, and abuse by paying losers to sit at home playing xbox and smoking weed staying out of my way and off of the streets..
I like the idea of a basic income, removing artificial scarcity that creates both billionaires and kids who go to bed hungry is generally a reasonable thing to do. But lets be serious, we are 200 years away from that kind of thinking.
As Americans we can't even get past the idea that it is the compassionate and responsible thing to do to give free insulin to a child or pull a rotted tooth from a homeless person's mouth before it kills them.
I am all for progressive thinking, but we need to start with providing for the common defense (against the common cold). Like every other industrialized nation in the world.
Here is the test: Does the software do anything that I want it to do? Did I install it or did I have a choice in installing it (a real choice, not a tricky dialog box). And finally, the true test... if someone UNINSTALLED or stopped this software from functioning, would I actively try to re-enable it.
If it doesn't meet these criteria, then it is spyware, crapware, malware, or junk, and should be classified as malicious. This includes almost all programs and web pages. This is Sturgeon's law, 90% of everything is crap. But in computer science you can take it one step farther. 90% of everything is crap, and 90% of the stuff that is worthwhile is designed to keep away the crap.
At my home currently, there are 6 wireless providers that offer various crappy speeds. There are zero fiber providers. There are 3 copper providers that offer decent speeds.
Therefore in a wireless vs fiber challenge at my home, wireless wins hands down, but copper is better than either.
Does anybody really give a shit what their phone looks like? I think everyone I know bought their phone based on what it could do, not how it looks. Further, fully half of people I see put their phone in some sort of clunky rubber or plastic case anyway.
What would you do with a gigabit connection to a company that sells out pirates every chance they get? I mean what in the world do you do that is not piracy that is better on a gigabit connection than a 100mbit connection? And don't say "counterstrike ping" because that will not be any better.
So far every candidate who put a Github profile on their resume when they applied to our department has been hired by me (team lead). The amount that you can learn by scanning someone's code, and then asking them about it trumps all other information you can get in an interview, trumps everything you can learn from a test, trumps education credentials.
Those who don't put that on their resume, the first question I ask is "what was the last program you wrote for yourself, why did you write it, etc"
If you aren't writing code for some stupid thing at home, you are either not that in to programming, or you are burned out.
I hate the fallacy that if you just give people $20,000 a year they will never ever work again. Tell me, if you could live like a McDonald's fry cook without working would you do it? Of course not.
Are there some people who would? OF COURSE, but those people would make shit employees anyway. You are doing the rest of the workforce a favor by eliminating the worst performing, non-motivated chaff from the wheat.
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I opened up a CPS2 machine once, and the guy who had it before me had parallel wired up about 3 of those 3.6v batteries to the ramboard. there was a brittle sticky note on the inside of the plastic cover that said "Don't touch this battery solder in a new one"
I admire the guy's genius of a hack, not sure if it actually worked, but that shitty Capcom trick removed any residual guilt I may have had about MAME.
I run a very simple (tomcat hosted) jsp based web page which reads my disk structure and renders a hideous html page which allows you to: 1) Play the movie in the browser (for the kids' iPads mostly, or 2) send a REST call to the Roku to play it on the roku (using a custom "channel" I wrote, which consists of about 5 lines of Roku's proprietary Brightscript.
The Roku channel I wrote can also parse an xml file that my hideous jsp can generate, which will build picture based menus on-screen on the roku. This was so my 4 year-old could find and play whatever the hell they wanted to play. My one design requirement "4 year old can use it"
For the grown-ups, we just have an amazon fire stick (17 dollars on sale) plugged in to the TV. Side-loaded XBMC (now Kodi or something) and pointed it to the same network fileshare that the tomcat server serves up.
My setup is a patchwork, but it works on Android, FireTV, Roku, iPad, and desktop, and it was free, and I have made barely any changes to it beyond adding content for the past 2 years. The biggest downside to all of it is when less techie people come over they always ask "can you set this up at my house?" and my answer is "um, uh, not really." If it were more portable and "standard" it would be better... but it works for me and my family.
Penicillin and antibiotics in the last hundred years basically changed the entire civilized world from "you live until you die of an infection" to "you live until you die of cancer or heart failure." Which is pretty significant.
Although it is pretty hard to argue with the refrigerator, it just gives me the cold shoulder.
This already exists and I am not talking about "lambo" scissors style doors, I am talking about gulwing style doors, which is what this is typically called.
If you pay someone 7 dollars an hour to sweep popcorn, and that someone owns a tripod.. that someone has uniquely private access to a theater... private enough that they can run a sound cable from the projection booth to said tripod.
Give that same employee access to night vision goggles, and you will prevent no piracy at all.
I mean, how bullet-proof is any plan that involves compelling a bunch of minimum wage employees to ensure that 1 billion in profits isn't whittled down to 999 million in profits? (not that there is any proof piracy actually costs studios money)
John F Kennedy perfectly told the world WHY we should do hard things.
We do them not because they are easy, but because they are hard
We need to dare to dream. We need to do hard things. If not, then what the hell are we fighting for? What are we doing? Every society worth remembering, every great nation in history did things that were impossible. We can't stop doing that. We can't stop dreaming, or we will die. We will deserve to die.
It takes longer in the west because you have to pay your workers, pay attention to environmental impact, and provide for at least minimal worker safety. Yeah, but I am sure co-location is a huge win, way bigger than free-ish labor, and no accountability.
You are falling victim to a classic problem. You don't want to do the actual work, so instead you focus on instrumentation and environment. The fact that you are asking these questions is proof that the "virtual desktop" mania you have embarked on is more of a hindrance than a help.
I mean, procrastination is half the fun, but don't fool yourself.
Eclipse is the worst. The only thing worse than eclipse is paying a license fee.
I use Intellij at work and it is excellent, but man I can't see paying for it myself, I hate complicated licensing.
not their commute path, they deserve good roads, it is all the freeloading "other" people who don't. it is always "other" people who want to take their money and pour it into public works. How many retired republicans refuse medicare/social security? How many vote to actively stop entitlements to everyone but themselves?
there is no logic. there is only "we need smaller government for everyone else"
I totally agree... but investing in infrastructure is liberal commie talk, just ask Fox news and the owners of congress.
It doesn't take 7 billion people to feed, clothe, shelter, and even communicate with 7 billion people.
So what do we do? We are TOO efficient for everyone to earn a living. So do we just murder the people who are not "needed?" Do we let them starve? Do we have massive unnecessary works to employ the unemployable? I am all for suggestions, but when society doesn't really need as many workers as it has, you have to either change the idea of work, or kill off some of the workers.
What do you propose? The death penalty for neck tattoos?
No matter how you cut it we will ALWAYS pay for those who won't work. Either we will pay as crime victims, or as supporters of their children who are in foster care/receive nutrition programs, need section 8 housing, etc etc. Or we will pay to dispose of their dead body when they die of neglect. Somehow those who will not work will cost you money no matter how you vote.
I, for one, would love to prevent desperation, crime, and abuse by paying losers to sit at home playing xbox and smoking weed staying out of my way and off of the streets..
desperate people do desperate things.
I like the idea of a basic income, removing artificial scarcity that creates both billionaires and kids who go to bed hungry is generally a reasonable thing to do. But lets be serious, we are 200 years away from that kind of thinking.
As Americans we can't even get past the idea that it is the compassionate and responsible thing to do to give free insulin to a child or pull a rotted tooth from a homeless person's mouth before it kills them.
I am all for progressive thinking, but we need to start with providing for the common defense (against the common cold). Like every other industrialized nation in the world.
Here is the test: Does the software do anything that I want it to do? Did I install it or did I have a choice in installing it (a real choice, not a tricky dialog box). And finally, the true test... if someone UNINSTALLED or stopped this software from functioning, would I actively try to re-enable it.
If it doesn't meet these criteria, then it is spyware, crapware, malware, or junk, and should be classified as malicious. This includes almost all programs and web pages. This is Sturgeon's law, 90% of everything is crap. But in computer science you can take it one step farther. 90% of everything is crap, and 90% of the stuff that is worthwhile is designed to keep away the crap.
I am so tired of those commie bastards. the entire planet is RED and is deserving of our nuclear wrath
because role models matter
Earth is still #1 in trees!
It is called being a grown-up. I don't recommend it. I actually tend to like my tech job, but make no mistake... it is still a job.
At my home currently, there are 6 wireless providers that offer various crappy speeds. There are zero fiber providers. There are 3 copper providers that offer decent speeds.
Therefore in a wireless vs fiber challenge at my home, wireless wins hands down, but copper is better than either.
Does anybody really give a shit what their phone looks like? I think everyone I know bought their phone based on what it could do, not how it looks. Further, fully half of people I see put their phone in some sort of clunky rubber or plastic case anyway.
What would you do with a gigabit connection to a company that sells out pirates every chance they get? I mean what in the world do you do that is not piracy that is better on a gigabit connection than a 100mbit connection? And don't say "counterstrike ping" because that will not be any better.
just Fyi, saying "well I wrote a skyrim mod a few months ago" totally counts.
So far every candidate who put a Github profile on their resume when they applied to our department has been hired by me (team lead). The amount that you can learn by scanning someone's code, and then asking them about it trumps all other information you can get in an interview, trumps everything you can learn from a test, trumps education credentials.
Those who don't put that on their resume, the first question I ask is "what was the last program you wrote for yourself, why did you write it, etc"
If you aren't writing code for some stupid thing at home, you are either not that in to programming, or you are burned out.
I hate the fallacy that if you just give people $20,000 a year they will never ever work again. Tell me, if you could live like a McDonald's fry cook without working would you do it? Of course not.
Are there some people who would? OF COURSE, but those people would make shit employees anyway. You are doing the rest of the workforce a favor by eliminating the worst performing, non-motivated chaff from the wheat.