I remember hearing of a Dell tech support request, where an old woman could not figure out why her computer was not working. She had it plugged in, the monitor was attached, but no matter how hard she pushed on the foot pedal, it wouldn't come on. She was expecting it to work like a sewing machine, and was stepping on the mouse to make it go.
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Several years ago I was interested to see how feet could be used for coding. I got a ps2 DDR pad and ps2 to USB adaptor. It showed up as a joystick. With joy2mouse in X I could control the mouse with a foot... left, right, up, down, left stamp, right stamp, double stamp, etc. It worked, but wasn't too useful. The center of the pad was in the wrong place due to the chair, and moving the chair caused a misalignment with the buttons.
It might have also been possible to map from joystick to keyboard events too. The pressure sensitivity of the posted device probably makes it more useful.
This is a required, and worthy, step on the road to driver-less (or driver-assisted, perhaps) auto navigation for heavy traffic and interstates. As demo'd on mythbusters, fuel economy goes way up (70% saving) if the cars can drive close enough to each other. As this tech evolves, intercommunication will allow for close car travel and hands-free interstate cruising. With distance sensors, infra-red far distance detectors, traffic line sensors, traffic sign readers, gps and mapping, it's almost there already. Bring it on.
There are many other incidentals: excluding devs due to high hardware and software entry fee, relying on external enforcement of own practice, the hypocritical practice of denying copying while themselves doing, the built-in adversion to fully networked and colaborative environments, and the fallback to physical distribution over a network solution, to name a few. I think people don't like to be told what to do, especially when it coincides with what they rightly want to do. Repression is not a long term solution. They must help to develop a positive environment for gamers, developers and themselves. Right now, it's not as beneficial as it might be.
There are many uses for the mod outside of purchase circumvention. This would make the PS3 (which I already own) more interesting as it could be used as an entry level development platform... more developers is certainly going to benefit the platform. I (and others) would still purchase games to support the studios and out of convenience, and the smaller homebrew market might push studios to become even better.
Yup, early opterons were very fast in comparison to what else was out at the time. The on-die memory controller. I have a dual opteron rig which has been upgraded over the years, and is still going strong.
all those who can change the law raise your hand. If there was enough attention given to this issue, if people demanded change from congresspeople, if congresspeople heard and acted, if lobbying/payola was not enough to shut up congress people, if public negative campaings were not enough to sway opinion, and if it were not veto'd out as it approached law, it might get changed... in 10 years time. It's ridiculous... the 'idiocy' is tame in comparison.
Awesome. The new 3.5.0 release is excellent. Fast, full featured, excellent. If I had a question, it'd be: What are the most important practices used in the Eclipse project which make it such a success?
The 'significantly less' is often a state economy play, ie they need less to get by therefore they can be paid less. This only works until economies adjust and it becomes more expensive to live, then wages need to be higher, then it's not cost effective for exploiters, then they move elsewhere. Leaving a trail of unwanted trained people and to further doom others to doing menial work that they wont do themselves (or pay locals fairly for). The is often the justification for the low wages (while ignoring the usually poor quality work). Sh*t stinks, and polishing it doesn't help.
Nice comment. There is a place for quick and dirty... at the core of an enterprise application is not it. I've worked with some Philipino devs... they were very nice, but lazy. I involved them as much as I could in the project and decision making, and the code improved, tho it still needed alot of work when it was done. A large project with quick and dirty devs would be painful.
Yes, the speedup is dramatic. The random access and multi-threaded speedup play a large role, and are left out of many comparisons. MLC and a good interface make a difference, certainly, but the major speedup is from random access.
I recently went for a trayless hotswap solution, and it's worked out well. NVidia SATA hotswap doesn't seem supported in linux, but it works fine with a promise sata pci card. The trayless enclosure means there are no trays lying around or keys to get lost. I brewed up a tool to auto-mount on insert, and unmount after removal and big drives now work like floppies. The only downside is that the enclosure fans are low quality and start making noise after a couple weeks. I ripped the fans out and placed a slow quiet big fan behind the unit. Drives are cool enough and little fan noise. When unused, I stash the drives in a cupboard. Another idea would be to do a find of the removable drive to an online text file, so as to make finding stuff easier.
> Also, MS isn't pushing developers to use C or C++ any more, they're pushing them to use C# and.NET, which are MS inventions.
... done by lured Borland architects. Despite this, derivatives and even duplication can be good. Eventually the good is derived and improved, the excess is stripped.
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You just described my computer. I've been doing heaving lifting, and very happy with it for the last few years...
... and has a good folder based management GUI. That makes the Sennheisers sing and puts a smile on my face.
I remember hearing of a Dell tech support request, where an old woman could not figure out why her computer was not working. She had it plugged in, the monitor was attached, but no matter how hard she pushed on the foot pedal, it wouldn't come on. She was expecting it to work like a sewing machine, and was stepping on the mouse to make it go.
It might have also been possible to map from joystick to keyboard events too. The pressure sensitivity of the posted device probably makes it more useful.
Optical is still in the spec, but probably only to be used for long spans.
This is a required, and worthy, step on the road to driver-less (or driver-assisted, perhaps) auto navigation for heavy traffic and interstates. As demo'd on mythbusters, fuel economy goes way up (70% saving) if the cars can drive close enough to each other. As this tech evolves, intercommunication will allow for close car travel and hands-free interstate cruising. With distance sensors, infra-red far distance detectors, traffic line sensors, traffic sign readers, gps and mapping, it's almost there already. Bring it on.
There are many other incidentals: excluding devs due to high hardware and software entry fee, relying on external enforcement of own practice, the hypocritical practice of denying copying while themselves doing, the built-in adversion to fully networked and colaborative environments, and the fallback to physical distribution over a network solution, to name a few. I think people don't like to be told what to do, especially when it coincides with what they rightly want to do. Repression is not a long term solution. They must help to develop a positive environment for gamers, developers and themselves. Right now, it's not as beneficial as it might be. There are many uses for the mod outside of purchase circumvention. This would make the PS3 (which I already own) more interesting as it could be used as an entry level development platform... more developers is certainly going to benefit the platform. I (and others) would still purchase games to support the studios and out of convenience, and the smaller homebrew market might push studios to become even better.
Any image that stimulates brain activity not close to the surface is unclassifiable?
Yup, early opterons were very fast in comparison to what else was out at the time. The on-die memory controller. I have a dual opteron rig which has been upgraded over the years, and is still going strong.
there's a script for that.
Who has the time to do a clean - professional-looking - edit of every episode of Law & Order?
comdel video.mpeg; mencoder -edl comdel.edl -o trim.mpeg video.mpeg does.
all those who can change the law raise your hand. If there was enough attention given to this issue, if people demanded change from congresspeople, if congresspeople heard and acted, if lobbying/payola was not enough to shut up congress people, if public negative campaings were not enough to sway opinion, and if it were not veto'd out as it approached law, it might get changed... in 10 years time. It's ridiculous... the 'idiocy' is tame in comparison.
Somehow, forcing people to participate in an unresponsive system out of their control is the answer. Such nonsense. The useless will atrophy.
... works great for tobacco. Especially pipe tobacco, nutty, vanilla, etc.
Bullshit legalized extortion. Ridiculous judgment, loaded juries and complicit judges. Money talks, rationals suffer. Quite the greeting for nascent technology. Greet rationality and vestigilize the RIAA.
I wonder who owns the patent for suppressing vomit at learning of the notion of ads in books.
Awesome. The new 3.5.0 release is excellent. Fast, full featured, excellent. If I had a question, it'd be: What are the most important practices used in the Eclipse project which make it such a success?
It'd be much cheaper to blanket 100 km2 of the desert with solar cells. Store excess power in flywheels or similar for night use.
... think of the children?! Where am I going to go for my 3rd party battery explosion lottery kicks now?
The 'significantly less' is often a state economy play, ie they need less to get by therefore they can be paid less. This only works until economies adjust and it becomes more expensive to live, then wages need to be higher, then it's not cost effective for exploiters, then they move elsewhere. Leaving a trail of unwanted trained people and to further doom others to doing menial work that they wont do themselves (or pay locals fairly for). The is often the justification for the low wages (while ignoring the usually poor quality work). Sh*t stinks, and polishing it doesn't help.
Nice comment. There is a place for quick and dirty... at the core of an enterprise application is not it. I've worked with some Philipino devs... they were very nice, but lazy. I involved them as much as I could in the project and decision making, and the code improved, tho it still needed alot of work when it was done. A large project with quick and dirty devs would be painful.
Lots of RAM and an SSD will make a box fly.
Documentum, docushare, livelink, sharepoint. I've heard of documentum installs with 100m+ docs. It's quite good, but expensive.
I recently went for a trayless hotswap solution, and it's worked out well. NVidia SATA hotswap doesn't seem supported in linux, but it works fine with a promise sata pci card. The trayless enclosure means there are no trays lying around or keys to get lost. I brewed up a tool to auto-mount on insert, and unmount after removal and big drives now work like floppies. The only downside is that the enclosure fans are low quality and start making noise after a couple weeks. I ripped the fans out and placed a slow quiet big fan behind the unit. Drives are cool enough and little fan noise. When unused, I stash the drives in a cupboard. Another idea would be to do a find of the removable drive to an online text file, so as to make finding stuff easier.