You obviously don't have a lot of experience using a version of office that is more than one behind. If you had, you would realize that this is a very common strategy for M$. OpenOffice is a lot more compatible opening office XP documents than Office 2000 is. I have no statistics to prove this, but I speak from experience as some one who frequently has to try and open Instructors documents that were made in Office XP.
-> Fritz
Ok, I'll be honest and say I haven't seen a lot of Kansas. I've only been in it for short bursts because Nebraska's main airport is right on the state borderline. However, if the "hills" in Nebraska are similar to the "hills" in Kansas, and I'll bet they are, they are very gradual. The average slope on the hills can't be more than 7 degrees, the real steep hills having a 10 degree slope.
Now this doesn't mean the hills or valleys don't have an impact on the landscape. On the contrary, they stand out because there are so few of them. However, they are only noticable because that slope continues for a quarter mile so while looking across the vast open spaces you see a break in the nothingness.
Back to my point, flatness is affected more by extreme changes in altitude than it is gradual ones, so these hills hardly affect the scale of flatness. Pancakes, have heavy drops at their edges which drastically reduce flatness and several deep (relatively) pits produced by bubbles popped near they end of their cooking. Each one of these pits probably effects flatness more than a Kansas hill.
This is an article on IGN. It can't be taken seriously. While I'll probably be trolled for saying this, IGN is the world's biggest fanboy site. They don't give bad reviews because they are so excited to be playing the new game or using the new system they can't help but shout with glee.
IGN's one redeeming quality, and it's failing, is that it covers everything. There is no other site out there that I'm aware of that covers as many games as IGN. There is a reason nobody else covers so many games, and that's because you cannot give quality coverage of that much material.
"..the judge's finding that games are a form of protected speech like music and movies"
I agree totally with this statement. What I don't understand is why this means the law is invalid. How is this law any different than laws regarding R-rated movies? Video games are being compared more and more to movies so it follows that they should be treated more like movies.
Several years ago I bought Java for Dummies, the first edition of the book. I don't believe I ever made it past the 3rd Chapter or so because only about half of the Code Examples were working correctly. It was so bad, I dropped Java and went back to C and have only recently tried another attempt at Java. I even tried the CD that came with the book and several (although not as many) of the examples on that did not even work. I ended up throwing it all away and I haven't bought a Dummies book since.
The problem with mirroring sites is the whole copyright issue. In order to mirror the site, slashdot would have to make sure they were not displaying any copyrighted information without permission. So they would have to not only obtain permission from the site author to copy his information, but to be safe, they would have to make sure they weren't displaying any copyrighted information themselves.
By the time the process was done it wouldn't be news anymore.
You didn't mention how powerful a PC you were trying to make. Mini-ITX (more here) exists for making a silent PC.
I'm assuming because you are running this at night it will be a server. If you're talking about a small load server you could even go with one of the Eden based EPIA boards. There isn't even a fan on the processor.
As for the power supply, the morex 55W at either of the aforementioned sites will power most EPIA systems. Rumour is there will be a more powerful Morex-like PSU coming out soon.
This might be TOO easy, but if I remember correctly, when you make an image in MSpaint that is too big, it automatically spans it across multiple pages. As long as you have your page margins set up correctly, this would do the tiling for you. Just convert whatever you need to print into a bmp and go for it.
So, they keep your IP address and every search you have made form that IP address on their site in a cache until 2038.
I was just wondering, is anybody actually expecting to have the same IP address on a non-server computer (I assume you don't do much googling on a webserver) by 2038. For that matter, do you expect to have the same IP address on a personal computer by 2010?
And as for the cookie staying around, give me a break. If there is a slashdot user who doesn't upgrade his computer every 2 years (at least) I haven't met him.
->Fritz
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At my first community college, there were several rules that you could not create new accounts, you could not shut down remote systems, you could not format hard drives, etc. ..
Now, these may seem like normal rules at first glance, and most people at the school didn't find them odd. However, I was working in the IT department at the time and I know that these rules were only added after it was pointed out to the lead Network Administrator that the Computer Management Console was openly available to all accounts.
Funny thing is, the Computer Management Console remained open for the next few months.
While I have no idea what about this post made it a troll. I will try to elaborate. I simply find it rediculous that everyone finds their own way to stay in touch after such a disaster. Many people simply aren't technically savy enough to know what will work and what won't. This is why I believe it must be the responsibility of some government agency to make sure that back-ups are in place to make sure that this doesn't happen.
I totally agree with 0x0d0a that people should know better than to call, but unfortunately I don't think people are smart enough to leave the lines open. Especially after an emergency when they are in a panic.
-> Fritz
Those of us in Washington state already know that California likes to screw up the electrical industry for the rest of us. They already messed it up a few years ago when the government stopped putting any control on their power stations. Now they have to drain a lot of their energy from stations still under government mandate in Washington which makes our rates go up.
-> Fritz
Personally I don't think it is the job of individuals to find a way to communicate post-tragedy. I think it is simply a matter of the ways out there being redesigned so that they don't all get clogged in such a way. Fiberoptic communication lines for the internet could allow many many people to communicate at once no matter what is going on.
And also, I just don't worry about it. What happens happens and no matter how prepared you are, if it's bad enough, you won't be fully prepared.
->Fritz
I really don't mean this to be sarcastic at all, but if he's turning 60 next week, why am I reading this story today?
I mean it seems logical to me that we talk about him turning 60 when he turns 60. I just don't know why this story made it in today when it wasn't a slow news day at all.
I totally agree with EF here, your university has people who work close to full time obtaining various grants. My only other suggestion is to also talk to teachers. Lots of tech teacher seem to have good relations with medium/large computer companies who give them their older computers. They need these computers for dissection by their students. Being that these companies already have a relationship with education they may be willing to talk to you about grants.
I was actually going to recommend Nehe's tutorials as well. While admittedly (/. needs spell check) it is the only 3D API that I know, I found it easier than it first appeared when I used those tutorials. Of course, as with any tutorial you will find it doesn't cover everything, but it does cover most of the things your going to need.
As for whether or not OpenGL is the language for you, that really depends on your ultimate goals. You may at some point find it doesn't have enough raw power for you. Personally I think that before you ever get to that level, you will have benefitted tremendously from the practice of using ANY 3D API because it takes repetition to be get your brain into the right mode. Besides, just as most programming languages have similar (if not flat out the same) basic structures, so do many 3D APIs.
Oh, and if you have a really successfull cool game later in life, can I have a free copy?
Did anybody else notice that this is wide ruled paper? I wish I could use wide ruled paper in college. It makes it so much easier to fill up a page when you have to write out an essay or something, but alas, my college (and my high school for that matter) insists on college ruled paper.
Hmm, maybe it requires IE to look at his webpage and have it make sense. Oh, nope, that didn't help. I guess having it look cool (I assume he THINKS it looks cool) is more important than having it useful.
-> Fritz
"They map this stupid shaped window with no titlebar (oh, sorry, your choice of a dozen stupidly-shaped windows without titlebars) all of which use fonts that are way too small to read."
Slashdot Mirror
You obviously don't have a lot of experience using a version of office that is more than one behind. If you had, you would realize that this is a very common strategy for M$. OpenOffice is a lot more compatible opening office XP documents than Office 2000 is. I have no statistics to prove this, but I speak from experience as some one who frequently has to try and open Instructors documents that were made in Office XP. -> Fritz
Ok, I'll be honest and say I haven't seen a lot of Kansas. I've only been in it for short bursts because Nebraska's main airport is right on the state borderline. However, if the "hills" in Nebraska are similar to the "hills" in Kansas, and I'll bet they are, they are very gradual. The average slope on the hills can't be more than 7 degrees, the real steep hills having a 10 degree slope.
Now this doesn't mean the hills or valleys don't have an impact on the landscape. On the contrary, they stand out because there are so few of them. However, they are only noticable because that slope continues for a quarter mile so while looking across the vast open spaces you see a break in the nothingness.
Back to my point, flatness is affected more by extreme changes in altitude than it is gradual ones, so these hills hardly affect the scale of flatness. Pancakes, have heavy drops at their edges which drastically reduce flatness and several deep (relatively) pits produced by bubbles popped near they end of their cooking. Each one of these pits probably effects flatness more than a Kansas hill.
I spent way too much time on this post.
->Fritz
This is an article on IGN. It can't be taken seriously. While I'll probably be trolled for saying this, IGN is the world's biggest fanboy site. They don't give bad reviews because they are so excited to be playing the new game or using the new system they can't help but shout with glee.
IGN's one redeeming quality, and it's failing, is that it covers everything. There is no other site out there that I'm aware of that covers as many games as IGN. There is a reason nobody else covers so many games, and that's because you cannot give quality coverage of that much material.
-> Fritz
Ok, for all of you complaining pretend this was my original post. . .
Yeah bring back the Commodore64, Athlon64 is gonna need some competition.
-> Fritz
Of course you're right, that will be asked sooner or later. However at the moment, I think we're concerned with "Will it run?"
-> Fritz
Hmm, in some form. . .
Maybe that means they will try and start competing, after all, 64 bit processors are IN!
-> Fritz
Actually, I didn't know that. I assumed the fact that they were so closely followed meant they were laws.
-> Fritz
"..the judge's finding that games are a form of protected speech like music and movies"
I agree totally with this statement. What I don't understand is why this means the law is invalid. How is this law any different than laws regarding R-rated movies? Video games are being compared more and more to movies so it follows that they should be treated more like movies.
-> Fritz
Several years ago I bought Java for Dummies, the first edition of the book. I don't believe I ever made it past the 3rd Chapter or so because only about half of the Code Examples were working correctly. It was so bad, I dropped Java and went back to C and have only recently tried another attempt at Java. I even tried the CD that came with the book and several (although not as many) of the examples on that did not even work. I ended up throwing it all away and I haven't bought a Dummies book since.
-> Fritz
The problem with mirroring sites is the whole copyright issue. In order to mirror the site, slashdot would have to make sure they were not displaying any copyrighted information without permission. So they would have to not only obtain permission from the site author to copy his information, but to be safe, they would have to make sure they weren't displaying any copyrighted information themselves.
By the time the process was done it wouldn't be news anymore.
-> Fritz
Umm, you're welcome...
-> Fritz
You didn't mention how powerful a PC you were trying to make. Mini-ITX (more here) exists for making a silent PC.
I'm assuming because you are running this at night it will be a server. If you're talking about a small load server you could even go with one of the Eden based EPIA boards. There isn't even a fan on the processor.
As for the power supply, the morex 55W at either of the aforementioned sites will power most EPIA systems. Rumour is there will be a more powerful Morex-like PSU coming out soon.
-> Fritz
Well I like the idea of keeping some of your most commonly used CDs handy in those extra bays with one of these CD holders.
-> Fritz
My ActsOfGord book will be coming anytime now. :-) I'm so excited!!!
-> Fritz
This might be TOO easy, but if I remember correctly, when you make an image in MSpaint that is too big, it automatically spans it across multiple pages. As long as you have your page margins set up correctly, this would do the tiling for you. Just convert whatever you need to print into a bmp and go for it.
->Fritz
So, they keep your IP address and every search you have made form that IP address on their site in a cache until 2038.
I was just wondering, is anybody actually expecting to have the same IP address on a non-server computer (I assume you don't do much googling on a webserver) by 2038. For that matter, do you expect to have the same IP address on a personal computer by 2010?
And as for the cookie staying around, give me a break. If there is a slashdot user who doesn't upgrade his computer every 2 years (at least) I haven't met him.
->Fritz
At my first community college, there were several rules that you could not create new accounts, you could not shut down remote systems, you could not format hard drives, etc. . .
Now, these may seem like normal rules at first glance, and most people at the school didn't find them odd. However, I was working in the IT department at the time and I know that these rules were only added after it was pointed out to the lead Network Administrator that the Computer Management Console was openly available to all accounts.
Funny thing is, the Computer Management Console remained open for the next few months.
->Fritz
While I have no idea what about this post made it a troll. I will try to elaborate. I simply find it rediculous that everyone finds their own way to stay in touch after such a disaster. Many people simply aren't technically savy enough to know what will work and what won't. This is why I believe it must be the responsibility of some government agency to make sure that back-ups are in place to make sure that this doesn't happen.
I totally agree with 0x0d0a that people should know better than to call, but unfortunately I don't think people are smart enough to leave the lines open. Especially after an emergency when they are in a panic.
-> Fritz
Those of us in Washington state already know that California likes to screw up the electrical industry for the rest of us. They already messed it up a few years ago when the government stopped putting any control on their power stations. Now they have to drain a lot of their energy from stations still under government mandate in Washington which makes our rates go up.
-> Fritz
Personally I don't think it is the job of individuals to find a way to communicate post-tragedy. I think it is simply a matter of the ways out there being redesigned so that they don't all get clogged in such a way. Fiberoptic communication lines for the internet could allow many many people to communicate at once no matter what is going on.
And also, I just don't worry about it. What happens happens and no matter how prepared you are, if it's bad enough, you won't be fully prepared.
->Fritz
I really don't mean this to be sarcastic at all, but if he's turning 60 next week, why am I reading this story today?
I mean it seems logical to me that we talk about him turning 60 when he turns 60. I just don't know why this story made it in today when it wasn't a slow news day at all.
-> Fritz
I totally agree with EF here, your university has people who work close to full time obtaining various grants. My only other suggestion is to also talk to teachers. Lots of tech teacher seem to have good relations with medium/large computer companies who give them their older computers. They need these computers for dissection by their students. Being that these companies already have a relationship with education they may be willing to talk to you about grants.
Good Luck,
-> Fritz
I was actually going to recommend Nehe's tutorials as well. While admittedly (/. needs spell check) it is the only 3D API that I know, I found it easier than it first appeared when I used those tutorials. Of course, as with any tutorial you will find it doesn't cover everything, but it does cover most of the things your going to need.
As for whether or not OpenGL is the language for you, that really depends on your ultimate goals. You may at some point find it doesn't have enough raw power for you. Personally I think that before you ever get to that level, you will have benefitted tremendously from the practice of using ANY 3D API because it takes repetition to be get your brain into the right mode. Besides, just as most programming languages have similar (if not flat out the same) basic structures, so do many 3D APIs.
Oh, and if you have a really successfull cool game later in life, can I have a free copy?
-> Fritz
Did anybody else notice that this is wide ruled paper? I wish I could use wide ruled paper in college. It makes it so much easier to fill up a page when you have to write out an essay or something, but alas, my college (and my high school for that matter) insists on college ruled paper.
-> Fritz
Hmm, maybe it requires IE to look at his webpage and have it make sense. Oh, nope, that didn't help. I guess having it look cool (I assume he THINKS it looks cool) is more important than having it useful.
-> Fritz
"They map this stupid shaped window with no titlebar (oh, sorry, your choice of a dozen stupidly-shaped windows without titlebars) all of which use fonts that are way too small to read."