I can't find the story now. But there's a story about the old Canadian wilderness. A guy took his 12 year old son over the mountains to setup a new homestead. They built a temporary house and before the winter the father left the son and returned back to the rest of the family.
The son was there in the spring when the dad brought the rest of the family. Granted 5th grade is only 10-11, but a 12 year old than managed to hunt, clean, and survive in the Canadian wilderness a hundred years ago.
Stop treating kids like precious little snow flakes. Yes they need some guidance but they're a hell of a lot more capable than people give them credit for. I was building Capsela since I could walk and my parents swear that's why I became an engineer. A very basic programming language would have rocked.
When I was in 5th grade our school had a Commodore 64 and an Mac LCII. I would flip through the manual and set different color schemes on the Commodore (First time I was accused of "Hacking" by a teacher too....) and I figured out quite a bit on the LCII. (Including the plain text file that it stored MathBlaster scores in;) ).
Geekbench 2 only measures processor and memory performance which is why models with the same processors but different video cards have roughly the same score.
I was under the impression that most of the upgrades were to the video cards. With Snow Leopard and OpenCL coming I'd like to see how the new machines compare.
Second, why use GeekBench? Yes it's Cross Platform but it's not free. XBench is free (beer/not speech) and does include video. My 9600 trounces my old ATI card. It even includes a Submitted DB like GeekBench.
I would have liked to see Sun's VirtualBoxthrown into the mix. I use Fusion and "love" it (as much as one can love having to use Windows), but a free alternative would be nice.
That being said, I also use Crossover (WINE) for quite a few things (IE6, RegexBuddy) so I don't have to launch a full VM image.
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Small cases aren't cheap. But the builder in me would rather build something out of a nice hardwood or plexi-glass. (Depending on the decor of the house).
I can't wait until XBMC supports full hardware decoding and HDMI Audio out.
Their costs may drop but are we going to see a reduction in price? If the Music industry is any indication we'll pay more for the 'ability' to use the Kindle.
Vinyl records were large, required manufacturing and shipping. MP3s only require bandwidth and a server. (Which isn't free, but much cheaper, and scales up much better). With the whole TTS issue I'm guessing that the Printing industry is going to copy the Music industry (and Video industry)...
Why is it that I feel the stuff I have setup at home is more robust than some "professional" shops? Is the world more like The Daily WTF than I've been lead to believe?
I'm not saying my system is perfect, but it's redundant in at least two locations.
Laptop<->Server<->Server HD 2<->Dreamhost.
My MySQL databases which just keep stuff like weather and temp (from my 1-Wire system) is dumped nightly and sent to my Gmail account. (It's also not a few TB server...) but seriously. How hard is it to toss in a few extra hard drives and do a rolling backup?
Don't forget the 'best' install out there: NetInstall. Unless you actually want to download 31 CDs or 5 DVDs worth of stuff. The best part about Debian is the mix and match of installing what I want. I honestly can't fathom trying to download 20Gigs of stuff just to make a desktop unless I plan on installing in middle of nowhere.
Because I'm ALREADY PAYING for those roads. I pay gasoline taxes, I pay income tax. Take a look at all the stupid earmarks on the last 2 bailout/stimulus plans. I bet that would fix plenty of roads.
These typically aren't ideas that 'ownership' matters. One of my old jobs had something like this. They could be as simple as changing some small work procedures to make it smoother on every one to adding a shower/locker room so that people who lived close enough could bike to work. (ROI being that employees were healthier).
One way of viewing problems is that they are a real life 'bug'. Set up something like Bugzilla and have people submit 'bug' reports. Every feature that is in modern bug tracking software should help you out. Who owns the content, how high the priority is, etc.
Find a cat from a Farm born of outdoor parents. We kept Cats around for this same reason. Second, don't over feed them, feed them just a bit less than you think they need.
We went on vacation once and apparently didn't leave enough food out. We came home to a few partially eaten rabbits in the front yard. These weren't small rodents either (and rabbits are damn fast compared to rats).
"Now that I have Gmail Paper, I understand the difference between labels and folders. I had one message with two labels, but when I tried to stick the paper version into two filing cabinets at the same time, it just wouldnâ(TM)t go."
"It's paper, plain and easy. I sometimes find myself wondering: what will Google think of next? Cardboard?"
Bill K., Armchair Futurist
But what about the environment?
Not a problem. Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment. For every Gmail Paper we produce, the environment gets incrementally healthier.
Topix is registered in Washington and hosted in California. What happens if they refuse? Is the judge going to 'ban' them from Texas? What if the posters are in Indiana or Europe?
How do they plan on identifying people that are more than likely pseudonyms? Most forums I'm on I have a random name generator give me a name and it goes to a generic gmail account.
Buy and old xbox. It's not going to do HD content, but Boxee is a fork of XBMC. Using XBMC+rtorrent+pytvshotws I have what can be assumed to be a near identical setup. The 'server' is in a different room and it has 2TB of space.
I'm quite happy with my unbranded Chinesium MP4 player that I bought from Chinavasion.. All I wanted was something that would let me watch TV shows or movies at the gym. I looked at the iPod Touch and Nokia N800 products but they were all over kill (and over priced). This fits the bill perfectly. The software is XP only and just a gui wrapper to mencoder, but the ini let me write a nice shell script to do it on Linux/OS X.
There are quite a few products on that website that seem pretty cool. I'm thinking of getting the toothbrush cam to see if it will make a cheap bore scope for engines, etc. This hard drive enclosure seems pretty cool (Although I'm sticking with my XBMC).
The BEST part about all of these products is that they can't afford a proprietary connector nor can they afford to lose market share to not being able to connect to everything. Everything is Mini-USB or USB.
The biggest problem they have right now is UI and translations. The "MP5 Player Manuals" is quite entertaining to read and full of Engrish.
Except when everything is tied to the same grid you can use one big 'battery' at the end of the line. Every time a vehicle brakes you can dump the energy back to the grid. A huge underground flywheel would be ideal. If every car tried to accelerate at once you could dump it out of the fly wheel and vice versa (just make sure you size your power lines to handle the load).
For aerodynamic efficiency you could easily pair one or two pods together to go a long distance. If I'm going across town and there's a personal pod coming up that is going to the similar location the system could sync our vehicles up for the longest portion of the drive.
They leave at the second you want to leave and can probably stop exactly where you want to stop.
Instead of trying to speed up and slow down an entire train every 1/2 mile you're only accelerating and stopping these once per passenger.
I didn't RTFA, but the systems I've seen in the past have little 'bypasses' at each stop. You get in and punch in a destination. If you're at your destination you get off. If you're not you keep on whizzing by. It's faster so people would be more apt to use it. (You're not going to waste 3/4 of the trip slowing down and speeding up to somewhere you're not going.)
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Well if you're not going to get cable, satellite then MythTV loses 90% of it's effectiveness.
And if you're going to go with just internet I would suggest XBMC+rtorrent+pytvshows.
IF you don't have a TV, then MythTV seems really useless.
I can't find the story now. But there's a story about the old Canadian wilderness. A guy took his 12 year old son over the mountains to setup a new homestead. They built a temporary house and before the winter the father left the son and returned back to the rest of the family.
The son was there in the spring when the dad brought the rest of the family. Granted 5th grade is only 10-11, but a 12 year old than managed to hunt, clean, and survive in the Canadian wilderness a hundred years ago.
Stop treating kids like precious little snow flakes. Yes they need some guidance but they're a hell of a lot more capable than people give them credit for. I was building Capsela since I could walk and my parents swear that's why I became an engineer. A very basic programming language would have rocked.
When I was in 5th grade our school had a Commodore 64 and an Mac LCII. I would flip through the manual and set different color schemes on the Commodore (First time I was accused of "Hacking" by a teacher too....) and I figured out quite a bit on the LCII. (Including the plain text file that it stored MathBlaster scores in ;) ).
Geekbench 2 only measures processor and memory performance which is why models with the same processors but different video cards have roughly the same score.
I was under the impression that most of the upgrades were to the video cards. With Snow Leopard and OpenCL coming I'd like to see how the new machines compare.
Second, why use GeekBench? Yes it's Cross Platform but it's not free. XBench is free (beer/not speech) and does include video. My 9600 trounces my old ATI card. It even includes a Submitted DB like GeekBench.
I would have liked to see Sun's VirtualBoxthrown into the mix. I use Fusion and "love" it (as much as one can love having to use Windows), but a free alternative would be nice.
That being said, I also use Crossover (WINE) for quite a few things (IE6, RegexBuddy) so I don't have to launch a full VM image.
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Actually, you don't need sudo. (Unless you run safari as root). It's a 'per user' setting.
Because no one will ever use the myspace angle. Cops / Meter Maids will get pretty good at making it look like you've done a hundred things illegal.
XBMC also supports VDPAU, however the motherboard uses ATI. By 'Full' I meant every and all cards that support hardware decoding, not just vdpau.
Mother board is $80
Processor is $50
4GB of ram is $50
Small cases aren't cheap. But the builder in me would rather build something out of a nice hardwood or plexi-glass. (Depending on the decor of the house).
I can't wait until XBMC supports full hardware decoding and HDMI Audio out.
I was talking Content.
Their costs may drop but are we going to see a reduction in price? If the Music industry is any indication we'll pay more for the 'ability' to use the Kindle.
Vinyl records were large, required manufacturing and shipping. MP3s only require bandwidth and a server. (Which isn't free, but much cheaper, and scales up much better). With the whole TTS issue I'm guessing that the Printing industry is going to copy the Music industry (and Video industry)...
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Which is why Privoxy Rocks.
Why is it that I feel the stuff I have setup at home is more robust than some "professional" shops? Is the world more like The Daily WTF than I've been lead to believe?
I'm not saying my system is perfect, but it's redundant in at least two locations.
Laptop<->Server<->Server HD 2<->Dreamhost.
My MySQL databases which just keep stuff like weather and temp (from my 1-Wire system) is dumped nightly and sent to my Gmail account. (It's also not a few TB server...) but seriously. How hard is it to toss in a few extra hard drives and do a rolling backup?
Boycotts aren't supposed to be easy. Neither is any other passive protest. Ghandi didn't go "oh well shit, this is hard, you win".
If you really want Facebook to pay attention, start letter writing campaigns to their advertisers. Start boycotting their advertisers
I'm going to protest Best Buy by going in and buying stuff! That'll show them!
When are people going to learn to 'protest' facebook by not using facebook?
Don't forget the 'best' install out there: NetInstall. Unless you actually want to download 31 CDs or 5 DVDs worth of stuff. The best part about Debian is the mix and match of installing what I want. I honestly can't fathom trying to download 20Gigs of stuff just to make a desktop unless I plan on installing in middle of nowhere.
Because I'm ALREADY PAYING for those roads. I pay gasoline taxes, I pay income tax. Take a look at all the stupid earmarks on the last 2 bailout/stimulus plans. I bet that would fix plenty of roads.
These typically aren't ideas that 'ownership' matters. One of my old jobs had something like this. They could be as simple as changing some small work procedures to make it smoother on every one to adding a shower/locker room so that people who lived close enough could bike to work. (ROI being that employees were healthier).
One way of viewing problems is that they are a real life 'bug'. Set up something like Bugzilla and have people submit 'bug' reports. Every feature that is in modern bug tracking software should help you out. Who owns the content, how high the priority is, etc.
Find a cat from a Farm born of outdoor parents. We kept Cats around for this same reason. Second, don't over feed them, feed them just a bit less than you think they need.
We went on vacation once and apparently didn't leave enough food out. We came home to a few partially eaten rabbits in the front yard. These weren't small rodents either (and rabbits are damn fast compared to rats).
Informative? This is Google's April 1st joke from 2007.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_hoaxes#Gmail_Paper
Read the personal quotes on the "More Info" page:
"Now that I have Gmail Paper, I understand the difference between labels and folders. I had one message with two labels, but when I tried to stick the paper version into two filing cabinets at the same time, it just wouldnâ(TM)t go."
"It's paper, plain and easy. I sometimes find myself wondering: what will Google think of next? Cardboard?"
Bill K., Armchair Futurist
But what about the environment?
Not a problem. Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment. For every Gmail Paper we produce, the environment gets incrementally healthier.
Topix is registered in Washington and hosted in California. What happens if they refuse? Is the judge going to 'ban' them from Texas? What if the posters are in Indiana or Europe?
How do they plan on identifying people that are more than likely pseudonyms? Most forums I'm on I have a random name generator give me a name and it goes to a generic gmail account.
Buy and old xbox. It's not going to do HD content, but Boxee is a fork of XBMC. Using XBMC+rtorrent+pytvshotws I have what can be assumed to be a near identical setup. The 'server' is in a different room and it has 2TB of space.
I'm quite happy with my unbranded Chinesium MP4 player that I bought from Chinavasion.. All I wanted was something that would let me watch TV shows or movies at the gym. I looked at the iPod Touch and Nokia N800 products but they were all over kill (and over priced). This fits the bill perfectly. The software is XP only and just a gui wrapper to mencoder, but the ini let me write a nice shell script to do it on Linux/OS X.
There are quite a few products on that website that seem pretty cool. I'm thinking of getting the toothbrush cam to see if it will make a cheap bore scope for engines, etc. This hard drive enclosure seems pretty cool (Although I'm sticking with my XBMC).
The BEST part about all of these products is that they can't afford a proprietary connector nor can they afford to lose market share to not being able to connect to everything. Everything is Mini-USB or USB.
The biggest problem they have right now is UI and translations. The "MP5 Player Manuals" is quite entertaining to read and full of Engrish.
Except when everything is tied to the same grid you can use one big 'battery' at the end of the line. Every time a vehicle brakes you can dump the energy back to the grid. A huge underground flywheel would be ideal. If every car tried to accelerate at once you could dump it out of the fly wheel and vice versa (just make sure you size your power lines to handle the load).
For aerodynamic efficiency you could easily pair one or two pods together to go a long distance. If I'm going across town and there's a personal pod coming up that is going to the similar location the system could sync our vehicles up for the longest portion of the drive.
They leave at the second you want to leave and can probably stop exactly where you want to stop.
Instead of trying to speed up and slow down an entire train every 1/2 mile you're only accelerating and stopping these once per passenger.
I didn't RTFA, but the systems I've seen in the past have little 'bypasses' at each stop. You get in and punch in a destination. If you're at your destination you get off. If you're not you keep on whizzing by. It's faster so people would be more apt to use it. (You're not going to waste 3/4 of the trip slowing down and speeding up to somewhere you're not going.)