Bah, I used to do this back in my old development job. If you're 6'7", like to slouch, and have to cram your legs under the desk, sooner or later you're going to give the powerboard a boot ( sometimes while tapping your foot along to the Doors ).
The worst bit was that the server that I kept kicking out was a SCO development box that I didn't actually work on. So I wouldn't know anything was wrong until I heard the screams of rage from the next office. In answer to the obvious question, "Why didn't you stop kicking it out?" I pose one in return - "Why was the power for a dev server coming from under some random coders desk?"
Mmm, some good points, except that again, the answer to "Where did you get it?" will probably result in a file transfer of the aforementioned avatar graphic. Perhaps a private IM network for fans of a particular band might be more viable. The ring tone point is also interesting, except for ( well, down under at least ), mobile ringtones are widely sold for any given popular song of the minute through automated services, and usually include all the latest "young person" tunes.
I wonder when the music companies are going to start cracking down on these guys.
I saw you mention "CD Enhanced" - just so you know, I'm pretty sure this isn't a reference to some kind of DRM. I have some CDE disks in my library, and they are just audio cd's with ISO9660 content on them ( again, usually concert clips, etc ). Example.
At the risk of drifting offtopic, what was the CD?
How do they do this, you ask? Here's a few suggestions:
The only problem is that this stuff has already been tried, and I can only conclude that the fact it's not all over the joint is an indication that it didn't help matters greatly.
I particularly remember the cheesy multimedia from the Christmas/Special Edition of Aquas Aquarium ( Jesus, there goes my credibility ), and including concert footage on CD's is likewise not incredibly uncommon ( I think Dreamtheater did this on the Live Scenes from New York disk ). Garbage also included a flash based "remixer" for Androdgyny on the special edition of 2.0
The biggest problem that your proposal ( which is cool, but I suspect unlikely to work ) is that the forms of value-add which are both attractive and cost efficient to provide are also generally susceptible to the electronic duplication that is the rationale for their existance in the first place.
I buy CD's because I want Mark Oliver Everett to keep making them. I don't buy them to shore up the RIAA or Dreamworks. But that's just the way it goes. I certainly would not feel more inclined to buy a CD instead of downloading it just on the grounds of some poster or cereal box trinket. I think a substantial proportion of music buyers might feel the same way too, because whenever I go to a HMV, Virgin or a local store like Spot or Rockinghorse, most of the people doing the buying are 20-50. What kind of a give-away are you going to package with Brahms or The Doors?
Yeah, until some PHB decides that, if 2 monitors = productivity gain, 4 monitors = 2x productivity gain
For four monitors, that's a risk I'm willing to take. I use two here at the office, and because of poor virtual desktop support when combined with multiple monitors [1] two desktops is what I'm stuck with. I feel I could use more, even if I did have managers circling over me afterwards like vultures.
(Or VR goggles and gloves that can simulate a wall-sized display and the keyboard to drive it....:-)
A long time dream of mine also - the win here would not even be so much the huge virtual screen, but the isolation and lack of external disturbances in the office. That said, Libermann make a nice 92" LCD that would also occlude disturbances by sheer virtue of its size.
-- YLFI
[1] I have tried a few different virtual desktop solutions for Windows, but have yet to find one which handles edge flipping properly when configured with multiple physical displays ( i.e. attempting to warp the pointer from the right ( primary ) display to the leftmost one triggers a virtual desktop flipping event, instead of at the edge fo the left desktop as you would hope. Anyone have any successes in this area?
I doubt its millions made ( NET $$ ) off some stupid game as well..
The "buzz" is that these days the Gaming Industry is a big money place to be. However, good games are also expensive to make, and you've got publishers and so on to worry about.
Unfortunately, Valve won't disclose sales figures or financials to the general public ( and as a privately held company, they have no reason to do so ), so it's hard to tell. I do recall a rumour a while back they were filing for Chapter 11 because of a royalties dispute - I think it ended up being an April Fools joke.
id like to see proof of that.
Yes, well, I'm sure idhas seen proof of that. id's Technology Licensing page claims that just by themselves, Quake I, II & III have shifted four million copies, and I'd hope they're making more than a dollar net profit on each. This doesn't even include licensing revenue, arguably more important, and there are 22 licensed titles listed on the same page.
Frankly, I think they're going to beat out NAN on this one.
Part of the beauty of ROM images is that they don't wear out like our favorite cartidges and consoles do.
Parent hits the nail right on the head. I have several old systems, and when friends are around, and we're waiting to go and do something more interesting, we sometimes fire up one of them and play some games.
It worries me that at some point, these great games we like to play might no longer be available because of hardware failure / cartridge or cd decay, etc. Some of them were a real troll to find / buy in the first place ( Australia has never been an import gamers wonderland. ) and the chances of finding replacements are scarce to nil.
We've moved to emulation where we can, one of my friends built a MAME cabinet, etc etc, but there are several systems for which no real, playable emulators yet exist ( to my knowledge ), but the spare parts for which and the knowledge to repair them grows more and more scarce every year.
It wouldn't be the end of the world if it never happened, but I'd really like to see a good Dreamcast or Saturn emulator so I could rest assured that I'll be able to play Sonic-R, NiGHTS and Dreamcast Soulcalibur as long as I want to.
The Book of the Subgenius teaches that in the face of impending emergency, the only things that need to be stockpiled are firearms, ammunition and cocaine. With this, you can build a loyal army of followers who will provide ( one way or another ) the other necessities of life. This is black-box abstraction at its best.
Anyway, I'm not concerned. All these power outages seem like a distinctly northern hemisphere prob
There's no reason that it shouldn't co-exist with KDE quite happily. Its quite a small set of binaries when compiled, and you can just shut down X and invoke "startxfce4" to start it, XScreensaver and XWindows all in one fell swoop.
For comparison, I run it ( and Kahakai until this morning ) on a Celeron 300 laptop with 96Mb of ram, and it has never slowed down enough for me to notice it. I would consider the performance comparable to Kahakai.
Interestingly, I misread the C initially as an E, and so the missplaced letter parsing faculty this article is discussing kicked in and tried to turn it into "emails".
I think the gains in fields researching something like senile dementia will be slight. I suspect the brain just isn't built for the long haul. Working in the healthcare industry I've seen that living long is not necessarily the same as living well.
However, something like Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria definitely would benefit from this research. This syndrome doesn't get a lot of publicity ( I was first exposed to it while watching The X-Files of all things ), but it causes its victims to age at greatly accelerated rates ( ~7x ). Victims will often pass away as children or teens - from old age.
There are only about 30 to 40 known cases worldwide according to the above link, so I'm not surprised nobody has mentioned it yet in this thread, but I think it would be the real A1 gold-star candidate for this kind of life extension research.
A little birdy once told me that the large IM services cost 10 cents per user per year to run.
It doesn't matter if its 10 cents, 10,000 cents or 0.1 cent. Yahoo is not in the business of giving away their money for no return, no matter how little it is.
The Dreamcast had a mouse and keyboard attachment. As they're kind of hard to find these days, you can buy an adapter from Skillz ( hee hee ) that will let you use PS/2 equipment with them. It was also two button if I recall correctly.
I believe the SNES/Super Famicon also had a short lived mouse attachment by way of Mario Paint.
Some of us keep odd hours. I do something even more absurd than you're describing - I buy televisionshows on DVD. It is convenient to be able to watch such things when it suits me, such as waiting for a compile job to finish *drums fingers*.
I'm not even sure how easy it is to rip music from a DVD.
This is something I've thought about as well, because I own quite a few music video DVDs ( The Cure, Run DMC etc ) and would like to be able to listen to them on the bus, etc, without lugging a laptop around. I'm not sure whether I should feel obligated to buy another copy of the albums in question...
To answer your technical query, if you have access to a supported platform, mplayer has a ao ( audio out ) driver for dumping wave data to a file. Team this up with playing selected chapters from the command line, and It's quite easy to use if not absolutely painless. As far as I know this is the only way to get the original theme from Buckaroo Banzai on CD. >:-(
I should get off my ass and craft a GUI for this: ( cue people to post their already existing GUI's below... ).
"Breach". However, your post could be categorised as "SCREECH OF COMMENT". There's no need to get worked up and start calling people dumbasses over a suit that neither of you are named in. Take a Xanax and chill out, it's Friday.
You are right however, that this is a contract violation suit. I think Apple should be looking into possible options for dissolution of contract, even if it involves a larger settlement.
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Of course, legal recognition of a right to existance and voting rights do not automatically connote each other. See also felony disenfranchisement.
I'd be more worried about whether or not software upkeep costs started to include salaries for the resident AI's.
YLFIBecause putting an answer in the faq makes the problem magically go away. Geez.
YLFIBah, give me Houdini or give me death.
YLFIBah, I used to do this back in my old development job. If you're 6'7", like to slouch, and have to cram your legs under the desk, sooner or later you're going to give the powerboard a boot ( sometimes while tapping your foot along to the Doors ).
The worst bit was that the server that I kept kicking out was a SCO development box that I didn't actually work on. So I wouldn't know anything was wrong until I heard the screams of rage from the next office. In answer to the obvious question, "Why didn't you stop kicking it out?" I pose one in return - "Why was the power for a dev server coming from under some random coders desk?"
YLFI"Billing Fee", perhaps? This formed the plot of a Judge Dredd story in an issue of the venerable 2000 A.D. many moons ago.
-- YLFIMmm, some good points, except that again, the answer to "Where did you get it?" will probably result in a file transfer of the aforementioned avatar graphic. Perhaps a private IM network for fans of a particular band might be more viable. The ring tone point is also interesting, except for ( well, down under at least ), mobile ringtones are widely sold for any given popular song of the minute through automated services, and usually include all the latest "young person" tunes.
I wonder when the music companies are going to start cracking down on these guys.
I saw you mention "CD Enhanced" - just so you know, I'm pretty sure this isn't a reference to some kind of DRM. I have some CDE disks in my library, and they are just audio cd's with ISO9660 content on them ( again, usually concert clips, etc ). Example.
At the risk of drifting offtopic, what was the CD?
The only problem is that this stuff has already been tried, and I can only conclude that the fact it's not all over the joint is an indication that it didn't help matters greatly.
I particularly remember the cheesy multimedia from the Christmas/Special Edition of Aquas Aquarium ( Jesus, there goes my credibility ), and including concert footage on CD's is likewise not incredibly uncommon ( I think Dreamtheater did this on the Live Scenes from New York disk ). Garbage also included a flash based "remixer" for Androdgyny on the special edition of 2.0
The biggest problem that your proposal ( which is cool, but I suspect unlikely to work ) is that the forms of value-add which are both attractive and cost efficient to provide are also generally susceptible to the electronic duplication that is the rationale for their existance in the first place.
I buy CD's because I want Mark Oliver Everett to keep making them. I don't buy them to shore up the RIAA or Dreamworks. But that's just the way it goes. I certainly would not feel more inclined to buy a CD instead of downloading it just on the grounds of some poster or cereal box trinket. I think a substantial proportion of music buyers might feel the same way too, because whenever I go to a HMV, Virgin or a local store like Spot or Rockinghorse, most of the people doing the buying are 20-50. What kind of a give-away are you going to package with Brahms or The Doors?
Sorry, where?
--YLFIFor four monitors, that's a risk I'm willing to take. I use two here at the office, and because of poor virtual desktop support when combined with multiple monitors [1] two desktops is what I'm stuck with. I feel I could use more, even if I did have managers circling over me afterwards like vultures.
(Or VR goggles and gloves that can simulate a wall-sized display and the keyboard to drive it....A long time dream of mine also - the win here would not even be so much the huge virtual screen, but the isolation and lack of external disturbances in the office. That said, Libermann make a nice 92" LCD that would also occlude disturbances by sheer virtue of its size.
-- YLFI
[1] I have tried a few different virtual desktop solutions for Windows, but have yet to find one which handles edge flipping properly when configured with multiple physical displays ( i.e. attempting to warp the pointer from the right ( primary ) display to the leftmost one triggers a virtual desktop flipping event, instead of at the edge fo the left desktop as you would hope. Anyone have any successes in this area?
Yeah, they must have put put "kibo" in the ALT tag or something, I guess.
--YLFI
The "buzz" is that these days the Gaming Industry is a big money place to be. However, good games are also expensive to make, and you've got publishers and so on to worry about.
Unfortunately, Valve won't disclose sales figures or financials to the general public ( and as a privately held company, they have no reason to do so ), so it's hard to tell. I do recall a rumour a while back they were filing for Chapter 11 because of a royalties dispute - I think it ended up being an April Fools joke.
id like to see proof of that.Yes, well, I'm sure id has seen proof of that. id's Technology Licensing page claims that just by themselves, Quake I, II & III have shifted four million copies, and I'd hope they're making more than a dollar net profit on each. This doesn't even include licensing revenue, arguably more important, and there are 22 licensed titles listed on the same page.
Frankly, I think they're going to beat out NAN on this one.
-- YLFI
Parent hits the nail right on the head. I have several old systems, and when friends are around, and we're waiting to go and do something more interesting, we sometimes fire up one of them and play some games.
It worries me that at some point, these great games we like to play might no longer be available because of hardware failure / cartridge or cd decay, etc. Some of them were a real troll to find / buy in the first place ( Australia has never been an import gamers wonderland. ) and the chances of finding replacements are scarce to nil.
We've moved to emulation where we can, one of my friends built a MAME cabinet, etc etc, but there are several systems for which no real, playable emulators yet exist ( to my knowledge ), but the spare parts for which and the knowledge to repair them grows more and more scarce every year.
It wouldn't be the end of the world if it never happened, but I'd really like to see a good Dreamcast or Saturn emulator so I could rest assured that I'll be able to play Sonic-R, NiGHTS and Dreamcast Soulcalibur as long as I want to.
-- YLFIThe Book of the Subgenius teaches that in the face of impending emergency, the only things that need to be stockpiled are firearms, ammunition and cocaine. With this, you can build a loyal army of followers who will provide ( one way or another ) the other necessities of life. This is black-box abstraction at its best.
Anyway, I'm not concerned. All these power outages seem like a distinctly northern hemisphere prob
%% NO CARRIERThere's no reason that it shouldn't co-exist with KDE quite happily. Its quite a small set of binaries when compiled, and you can just shut down X and invoke "startxfce4" to start it, XScreensaver and XWindows all in one fell swoop.
For comparison, I run it ( and Kahakai until this morning ) on a Celeron 300 laptop with 96Mb of ram, and it has never slowed down enough for me to notice it. I would consider the performance comparable to Kahakai.
YLFI
It's been in the tree ( or at least the ~x86 tree ) since at least thismorning.
;-)
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curious@clyde x11-wm$ emerge -s xfce4-base
Searching...
[ Results for search key : xfce4-base ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* xfce-base/xfce4-base
Latest version available: 4.0.0
Latest version installed: 3.99.4
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I'll probably be excommunicated from the Gentoo community now for being 0.00.6 of a release behind.
Interestingly, I misread the C initially as an E, and so the missplaced letter parsing faculty this article is discussing kicked in and tried to turn it into "emails".
Ok, well, I thought it was interesting.
I think the gains in fields researching something like senile dementia will be slight. I suspect the brain just isn't built for the long haul. Working in the healthcare industry I've seen that living long is not necessarily the same as living well.
However, something like Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria definitely would benefit from this research. This syndrome doesn't get a lot of publicity ( I was first exposed to it while watching The X-Files of all things ), but it causes its victims to age at greatly accelerated rates ( ~7x ). Victims will often pass away as children or teens - from old age.
There are only about 30 to 40 known cases worldwide according to the above link, so I'm not surprised nobody has mentioned it yet in this thread, but I think it would be the real A1 gold-star candidate for this kind of life extension research.
YLFI
Leads? There's a word for the actual cracking and fracturing process "calving", but I think that only applies to glaciers and icebergs.
YLFI
He asked about Amiga OS4. It is irrelevant as to whether A1's have been shipping because the A1's can only publicly run PPC Linux at the moment.
your a bit lateYou're, as in, "you are". Stay in school, kids.
YLFI
It doesn't matter if its 10 cents, 10,000 cents or 0.1 cent. Yahoo is not in the business of giving away their money for no return, no matter how little it is.
-- YLFI
The Dreamcast had a mouse and keyboard attachment. As they're kind of hard to find these days, you can buy an adapter from Skillz ( hee hee ) that will let you use PS/2 equipment with them. It was also two button if I recall correctly.
I believe the SNES/Super Famicon also had a short lived mouse attachment by way of Mario Paint.
YLFI
Some of us keep odd hours. I do something even more absurd than you're describing - I buy television shows on DVD. It is convenient to be able to watch such things when it suits me, such as waiting for a compile job to finish *drums fingers*.
Still waiting for a seaQuest DSV box set though.
YLFI
This is something I've thought about as well, because I own quite a few music video DVDs ( The Cure, Run DMC etc ) and would like to be able to listen to them on the bus, etc, without lugging a laptop around. I'm not sure whether I should feel obligated to buy another copy of the albums in question...
To answer your technical query, if you have access to a supported platform, mplayer has a ao ( audio out ) driver for dumping wave data to a file. Team this up with playing selected chapters from the command line, and It's quite easy to use if not absolutely painless. As far as I know this is the only way to get the original theme from Buckaroo Banzai on CD. >:-(
I should get off my ass and craft a GUI for this: ( cue people to post their already existing GUI's below... ).
YLFI
I don't suppose anyone out there could persuade the Canadian government to annex Australia, could they?
-- YLFI
"Breach". However, your post could be categorised as "SCREECH OF COMMENT". There's no need to get worked up and start calling people dumbasses over a suit that neither of you are named in. Take a Xanax and chill out, it's Friday.
You are right however, that this is a contract violation suit. I think Apple should be looking into possible options for dissolution of contract, even if it involves a larger settlement.
YLFI