With the exception of The Wall and Billy Joel's greatest hits, all 200+ of my CDs fit on one CD. Most only take up 45-50 minutes. What is 2.7GB of storage going to get me? It'll just make it easier for the RIAA to gouge me for even mor emoney.
Sue the families of the children who were killed. If they (the children) didn't get in the way of his bullets, he wouldn't be in so much trouble now. Sheesh.
I'm rather suprised (or not) the parents didn't express their concern about these games earlier, or prevented him (through any of the many programs available) from going to porn sites.
Oh, and someone already sued God and won (He didn't show).
This gets into my idea of home schooling vs public/private schooling:
There's more to school than just an education. Social interaction with others is one thing. Some of this interaction (SOs, drinking buddies, etc) is good and can last for many years. Other interaction is bad, but you learn how to deal with that interaction. If I didn't go to college, I would not have many of the experiences Ihave now, and I would be less prepared for what the world has to offer. There's also things like internet connections, access to hardware and software you may not be aware of (we used AIX for a while), dealing with deadlines and timetables, and the general well-rouding of education that you can't get anywhere else. As an example, I've taken a bit of interest in the Civil War due to an elective I took. It's now a bit of a hobby for me.
Where I went cost a lot of money and I'll be paying it off at about $500/mo for the next 5 years, but no matter how much my checking account scrapes bottom to pay it, I do not regret it for a minute.
Rumor has it that at least Win 3.1 (maybe other versions too) had a routine called icantbelieveiusedagoto, and of course it had a goto statement in it.
Each appliance will be built with the assumption that you don't have any of the other appliances around. Here's an example:
I've been in the market for a 27" TV for about two months. I really want to get a Sony that has S-Video. However, the lowest-cost one that fits that is $499. Now what do I get for $499?: Super surround sound (already handled by receiver) smart sound (already in receiver) dual tuner picture in picture (have cable box) Super menu functions (in VCR/cable box)
Now, I can understand why I might want that functionality. But...why should I be paying $100 for functionality I don't use?
There's your example for the "appliances". No assumption that you have other appliances to handle other functions for you.
Now take a look at a TV that is just a TV. No audio out, no extra idiot functionality, no other crap in it. But it does the job well. But you need to have a VCR to change channels, and a receiver to handle the audio. Each item in the entertainment center is specialized to do one thing (audio/video/CPU/storage), and do it well.
There's an example of the current state of PC affairs. I'd rather have a plain 'ol TV that just had a good picture.
The problem (to me) isn't that Blockbuster has my movie preferences. This actually includes movie preferences of my wife and whenever my siblings show up. The problem is that is I choose, I can go from Blockbuster to Hollywood video to the local rental store. No one company has all my viewing preferences. With DIVX, one company has all the information on what DIVX movies are viewed. If more companies took up on this idea, it'd be a bit better. For example, the way VISA and Mastercard work. Each bank has its own way of offering and handling customers, but no matter where I go, I can make a payment with a VISA card. The involvement of VISA is handling the payment between the customer and the vendor.
Windows assumes that you want to use the entire drive as a Windows 95 partition. Believe me, I spent most of my weekend rebuilding my parent's Win95 box. If RedHat (blindly) assumed that you wanted to use the entire hard drive as a Linux root partition, installation would be just as easy as the Win95 one. Instead, RedHat assumes (correctly) that you may want to have other OSes installed. Yes it causes some trouble, and that's why RedHat offers customer support and install manuals to help. I have yet to see a manual on how to actually install Win95.
I see people posting as ACs who mention they are moderators. How is this done? Does a moderator log out, post their comment and log back in? Or are all moderator comments automatically ACs?
UNIX needs CLI and CLI only. That's the gist of this message. Oh, and forget the stupid people.
That's an attitude that will really get you a lot of support. How about this as plans for world domaination(tm):
Get people started on RedHat. I've been running Linux for almost 7 years now, starting with the MCC interim and TAMU releases on 6 diskettes.
I consider myself advanced enough to talk for a long time on the subject of system administration. There comes a time when you are able to sit back and say "I don't want to look up the commands to ifconfig anymore". I'm at that phase. I can just as easily (and sometimes do) hard-code in my network settings in an rc.local file as using netcfg.
Users should start with RedHat to get themselves accustomed to the way UNIX works. Everything's in shell script, so it's pretty easy to see what's going on. SYSV init scripts make it even easier to see. Once used to the way UNIX works, then can move on to other distros (Slackware, Debian, etc) and really get their hands dirty.
If you never read Snow Crash, go get it. The ending was a bit lame, but he writes circles around William Gibson. His other cyber-book, The Diamond Age, was not as great. Also of note is Zodiac, which is best described as an eco-thriller .
Take a picture of Linus. Nice clean cut boy. Short hair, no beard, no pocket protector. Wife and kids. Soft spoken, very modest.
Take a picture of RMS. Lived in his office for years. Typical "MIT nerd". Outspoken in his dislike of commercial (proprietary) softwate. Known (in our circles anyway) to incite people to the verge of riot (take the Tcl/Tk flamewars).
Now, if you were an editor of a major publication, who would you put on the front?
Let's be honest here. RMS has the right idea, but he's going about it wrong. To go around changing the name is just whining. Somehow, I don't think the press likes to be corrected that much.
My issue is that I like the term Hacker as in "person who finds a creative solution to the problem". Talking to the general public and saying I hack on computers would probably make them call the FBI.
To everyone out there: I am not Kevin Mitnick. I will not steal your credit cards or turn off your phone or charge up $15,000 in cell phone bills to Paraguay. I just like tinkering with my legally acquired machines.
This is the guy who was on WBUR's "The Connection" show as a Linux expert. Some expert: Didn't know the URL for freshmeat "freshmeat.com?".
Kept plugging the *BSD line "Well, I actually like *BSD, but if I used Linux..".
Didn't know that WP8 has been released for months now "Corel is going to port their word perfect..". Argh. Probably good that I didn't get on the line or else I'd give him a verbal lashing.
Okay, so MS says they can make a server that is 1/100 the speed of Oracle and Spitfire (or solar flare, or whatever Sun calls that beefy box) for 1/16 the price ($600,000 instead of $10mil).
Okay, so let's say that they can do that. Let's also be *real* generous and say that MS only need to increase the cost of their system by a factor of 50 to match the Oracle performance.
This means that MS has to spend $600,000*50=$30,000,000 to match what Oracle could do for 1/3 the price. And that's being generous!
Seriously, I never owned an Amiga, but was impressed with the way it had separate processors for everything that went on. Back then, the CPU on an x86 machine did all the work. Now we have sound cards, 3D cards, and the idea is to offload everything from the CPU to some other processor. The Amiga did have an influence on today's technology.
This is what emachines says about the integrated sound. I think that the 4235 is pretty standard, and is 16 bit:
Crystal 3D Sound Chip (CS4235)--The CS4235 is a single chip multimedia audio system. The CS4235 includes an integrated FM synthesizer and a Plug-and-Play interface. In addition, the CS4235 includes hardware master volume control pins as well as extensive power management and 3D sound technology. The CS4235 is compatible with the Microsoft Windows Sound System standard and will run software written to the Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster Pro interfaces. The CS4235 is fully compliant with Microsoft PC97 and PC98 audio requirements.
My sister in law has had a wind up radio for almost 3 years now. This technology isn't new, unless they boosted the power. Something like this probably wouldn't drive an x86 chip anyway. Probably only the PPC and StrongARM.
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With the exception of The Wall and Billy Joel's greatest hits, all 200+ of my CDs fit on one CD. Most only take up 45-50 minutes. What is 2.7GB of storage going to get me? It'll just make it easier for the RIAA to gouge me for even mor emoney.
Sue the families of the children who were killed. If they (the children) didn't get in the way of his bullets, he wouldn't be in so much trouble now. Sheesh.
I'm rather suprised (or not) the parents didn't express their concern about these games earlier, or prevented him (through any of the many programs available) from going to porn sites.
Oh, and someone already sued God and won (He didn't show).
This gets into my idea of home schooling vs public/private schooling:
There's more to school than just an education.
Social interaction with others is one thing. Some of this interaction (SOs, drinking buddies, etc) is good and can last for many years. Other interaction is bad, but you learn how to deal with that interaction. If I didn't go to college, I would not have many of the experiences Ihave now, and I would be less prepared for what the world has to offer.
There's also things like internet connections, access to hardware and software you may not be aware of (we used AIX for a while), dealing with deadlines and timetables, and the general well-rouding of education that you can't get anywhere else. As an example, I've taken a bit of interest in the Civil War due to an elective I took. It's now a bit of a hobby for me.
Where I went cost a lot of money and I'll be paying it off at about $500/mo for the next 5 years, but no matter how much my checking account scrapes bottom to pay it, I do not regret it for a minute.
Go actually read it. The author makes a few points:
1) The Rio doesn't have enough storage
2) "Near CD-Quality" isn't good enough
3) Bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth - need more of it
He does, however, make a few bad points:
1) He complains about the poor quality, then complains the file size is too large. Bad bad.
2) Tries to separate a file format from an application.
Rumor has it that at least Win 3.1 (maybe other versions too) had a routine called icantbelieveiusedagoto, and of course it had a goto statement in it.
Each appliance will be built with the assumption that you don't have any of the other appliances around. Here's an example:
I've been in the market for a 27" TV for about two months. I really want to get a Sony that has S-Video. However, the lowest-cost one that fits that is $499. Now what do I get for $499?:
Super surround sound (already handled by receiver)
smart sound (already in receiver)
dual tuner picture in picture (have cable box)
Super menu functions (in VCR/cable box)
Now, I can understand why I might want that functionality. But...why should I be paying $100 for functionality I don't use?
There's your example for the "appliances". No assumption that you have other appliances to handle other functions for you.
Now take a look at a TV that is just a TV. No audio out, no extra idiot functionality, no other crap in it. But it does the job well. But you need to have a VCR to change channels, and a receiver to handle the audio. Each item in the entertainment center is specialized to do one thing (audio/video/CPU/storage), and do it well.
There's an example of the current state of PC affairs. I'd rather have a plain 'ol TV that just had a good picture.
The problem (to me) isn't that Blockbuster has my movie preferences. This actually includes movie preferences of my wife and whenever my siblings show up. The problem is that is I choose, I can go from Blockbuster to Hollywood video to the local rental store. No one company has all my viewing preferences.
With DIVX, one company has all the information on what DIVX movies are viewed. If more companies took up on this idea, it'd be a bit better. For example, the way VISA and Mastercard work. Each bank has its own way of offering and handling customers, but no matter where I go, I can make a payment with a VISA card. The involvement of VISA is handling the payment between the customer and the vendor.
Ooh. I aughta get a patent on this idea.....
Windows assumes that you want to use the entire drive as a Windows 95 partition. Believe me, I spent most of my weekend rebuilding my parent's Win95 box. If RedHat (blindly) assumed that you wanted to use the entire hard drive as a Linux root partition, installation would be just as easy as the Win95 one.
Instead, RedHat assumes (correctly) that you may
want to have other OSes installed. Yes it causes some trouble, and that's why RedHat offers customer support and install manuals to help. I have yet to see a manual on how to actually install Win95.
I see people posting as ACs who mention they are moderators. How is this done? Does a moderator log out, post their comment and log back in? Or are all moderator comments automatically ACs?
-Enry
#630, but not a moderator. So there.
UNIX needs CLI and CLI only. That's the gist of this message. Oh, and forget the stupid people.
That's an attitude that will really get you a lot of support. How about this as plans for world domaination(tm):
Get people started on RedHat. I've been running Linux for almost 7 years now, starting with the MCC interim and TAMU releases on 6 diskettes.
I consider myself advanced enough to talk for a long time on the subject of system administration. There comes a time when you are able to sit back and say "I don't want to look up the commands to ifconfig anymore". I'm at that phase. I can just as easily (and sometimes do) hard-code in my network settings in an rc.local file as using netcfg.
Users should start with RedHat to get themselves accustomed to the way UNIX works. Everything's in shell script, so it's pretty easy to see what's going on. SYSV init scripts make it even easier to see. Once used to the way UNIX works, then can move on to other distros (Slackware, Debian, etc) and really get their hands dirty.
If you never read Snow Crash, go get it. The ending was a bit lame, but he writes circles around William Gibson. His other cyber-book, The Diamond Age, was not as great. Also of note is Zodiac, which is best described as an eco-thriller .
Good job Rob.
Take a picture of Linus. Nice clean cut boy. Short hair, no beard, no pocket protector. Wife and kids. Soft spoken, very modest.
Take a picture of RMS. Lived in his office for years. Typical "MIT nerd". Outspoken in his dislike of commercial (proprietary) softwate. Known (in our circles anyway) to incite people to the verge of riot (take the Tcl/Tk flamewars).
Now, if you were an editor of a major publication, who would you put on the front?
Let's be honest here. RMS has the right idea, but he's going about it wrong. To go around changing the name is just whining. Somehow, I don't think the press likes to be corrected that much.
Who listens to radio for music anymore? I listen to NPR, Howard Stern, and the CD player in my trunk.
'course, most of the music out today is crap anyway - never thought I'd hear myself saying that....
My issue is that I like the term Hacker as in "person who finds a creative solution to the problem". Talking to the general public and saying I hack on computers would probably make them call the FBI.
To everyone out there: I am not Kevin Mitnick. I will not steal your credit cards or turn off your phone or charge up $15,000 in cell phone bills to Paraguay. I just like tinkering with my legally acquired machines.
Ya, but you need Der Communist Crappy Cable Box to get said channels. (And yes, you pay extra for 'em).
I'm sure if I advertised my phone number to people as "1-800-mcdonalds" I'd get a call from a rather large fast-food chain.
This is the guy who was on WBUR's "The Connection" show as a Linux expert. Some expert:
Didn't know the URL for freshmeat "freshmeat.com?".
Kept plugging the *BSD line "Well, I actually like *BSD, but if I used Linux..".
Didn't know that WP8 has been released for months now "Corel is going to port their word perfect..".
Argh. Probably good that I didn't get on the line or else I'd give him a verbal lashing.
Okay, so MS says they can make a server that is 1/100 the speed of Oracle and Spitfire (or solar flare, or whatever Sun calls that beefy box) for 1/16 the price ($600,000 instead of $10mil).
Okay, so let's say that they can do that. Let's also be *real* generous and say that MS only need to increase the cost of their system by a factor of 50 to match the Oracle performance.
This means that MS has to spend $600,000*50=$30,000,000 to match what Oracle could do for 1/3 the price. And that's being generous!
MS: 1/100 the performance for 1/16 the price.
Great...so 10,000 years from now, "Ishtar" and "Speed 2" survive, but TPM doesn't. Glad I won't be around then...
Anyone remember the Arthur C. Clarke story about aliens rescuing one thing from Earth being destroyed - a film reel of "Steamboat Willie".
Nice article. I hope the ones that follow are this good.
Obv. this proves that MS can't have a monopoly.
Seriously, I never owned an Amiga, but was impressed with the way it had separate processors for everything that went on. Back then, the CPU on an x86 machine did all the work. Now we have sound cards, 3D cards, and the idea is to offload everything from the CPU to some other processor. The Amiga did have an influence on today's technology.
It's weekly only, and political in nature, but at least he picks on everyone.
http://www.salon1999.com/comics/comics 1.html
This is what emachines says about the integrated sound. I think that the 4235 is pretty standard, and is 16 bit:
Crystal 3D Sound Chip (CS4235)--The CS4235 is a single chip multimedia audio system. The CS4235 includes an integrated FM synthesizer and a Plug-and-Play interface. In addition, the CS4235 includes hardware master volume control pins as well as extensive power management and 3D sound technology. The CS4235 is compatible with the Microsoft Windows Sound System standard and will run software written to the Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster Pro interfaces. The CS4235 is fully compliant with Microsoft PC97 and PC98 audio requirements.
My sister in law has had a wind up radio for almost 3 years now. This technology isn't new, unless they boosted the power. Something like this probably wouldn't drive an x86 chip anyway. Probably only the PPC and StrongARM.