Except for the gluttonous militarism, countless deaths for little benefit other than engorging the pocket books of the few, sovereingty violation, and continued financial rape of the American taxpayer by elitist, self justifying, know-nothing symptoms of centralisation. The only benefit of repeated distruction is efficient destruction. cat `which military_industrial_complex` >/dev/null and die.
Input, output and processing... that's what they do. Much more reasonable to harness the power of word of mouth, foster a community and spread awareness of value of time and effort than to stand against the tide... telling people to not do something that their hardware was designed to do. Assuming the worst and punishing everybody doesn't really work. Find a better model... WOW isn't hurting, consoles have reasonable specs... sure it's not a business model that's an easy sell to business backers used to and expecting harsh systems, but it is one that actually works. Personally, I'll download a game and a crack, play it, if it's any good I'll buy it... I don't game much but I do see the effort required for such ventures and that effort should be rewarded. That is how it should be, imo. Raise awareness of effort, encourage self assesment of enjoyment and be thankful for reward. Much more progressive.
I guess that's the best they can do. Beurocracy requires increasing beurocracy to survive... perhaps the antithesis of semi-chaotic self evolving networks emerging from gaming. It's hard to represent the people when you're so out of touch (and even moreso, by the time you get to the position of representing the people you've given up most real-world associations with the public as a whole). Beware centralized authoritarianism, it does not reflect the goings-on and never can. Mod down talking heads.
I did something similar a while back by running a ps2 ddr pad through a pc joystick converter. Set up joy2mouse joystick to mouse mapping with X then could use up/down/left/right to move the mouse. I mapped the bottom right and left corners to right and left click, so could move to select then double stamp. It worked well, with the only problem being that the chair legs got in the way. With a fixed mount chair and a slit in the pad, it would be another quite natural input method. Could be really useful in games or other vr immersion applications.
Bummer. Thanks for the reply. I just bought a panel/controller off him, mainly for 1920x1200 eclipse on a wall, but it works fine for 1080i with non hdcp dvi out from my Starchoice satellite receiver. I guess an hdcp solution will have to wait.
minoten has made a working HDCP addon for dvi projectors, I believe... perhaps you should contact him, may be cheaper than from germany.... not that you should need it in the first place.
If one wanted, it would be easy enough to get an hdtv monitor, hdtv camera and record at 1920x1200. They seem intent on killing that which made the current system so successful. At some point you've gotta let those who insist on self vestigilization do so.
Better yet, stick solar water heaters on the roof... black panels with tubes of water or glycol pumped by solar powered pump to heat exchange system.. can be used for space heating at night and hot water at any time. Raising the temp of water is one of the most energy consuming things to do, so bumping up the base temp with solar can reduce a power bill by quite a bit.
If you dive into a respray booth when in high persuit, they'll be sufficiently confused and stop the persuit...
Ahhh, grand theft auto... obviously realistic enough to get some politicians and parents panties in a knot... or maybe it just challenges the 'work or starve' mentality.
How can greed be the motivation when stifling distribution has provenly negative affect on sales. Greed is too convenient... threatened is more appropriate. Could mean suits will have to get real jobs.
Yeah, fuse is nifty. I whipped up a little db backed browser for offline media... intend to tie it to jukeboxes for autoload, cache and stream of files on optical media. With the db backend, the data can be represented in many hierarchies (album/artist/label/etc), and as there are fuse java bindings, coding, expansion and integration with db/web systems is easier. It is still tree based, and it is a bit slower than in kernel fs, but many uses for it, certainly.
A buddy and I were talking of similar. We were looking for expandable large scale storage with good performance and cost and a high level facilitation of data management tasks (metadata management, media shuffling, accomodating technology advancements, etc). Decided on single nodes each controlling data storage to fit data use case. Each node presenting a span over ram, jbod, optical and tape in increasing size. RAM fs for that which is always in use, a couple TBs of jbod/ide raid holding more frequently used, everything in optical jukebox and safety backups to tape jukebox. Ideally the entire tower could be modular and auto-discovering, so when more long term storage is required a jukebox module could be added and the system could autodiscover capacities, alignment, etc. Data presentation done via a cascading hsm aware of each of the components and with optimized usecases (ie burning to blank optical when sufficient new data arrives on raid, maintaining indexing for each of the modules, etc). On top of the cascading storage would be a metadata vfs/presentation layer, to allow data navigation at a high level (cd/video/nature/banff/) via nfs or http web app over gig eth. A deligation/peering layer could allow for grouping such towers to grow in size. Tho quite theorhetical and the software being somewhat tricky, it could scale to the tens of TB/node size easily. We'd originally thought of an open hardware design with modules being added by the community and open hsm software supporting it. Neither of us has yet had the time to do much more than basic dev, but it's planned.
There is more to open software than open code. By opening the dev process, there is more feedback by users, more testing in place, more rounded features, and less company-sposored db admin whoring. There were not alot of open source programs around when postgres and interbase were built.
They've had their time encouraging mass deforestation, supressing viable options and making money hand over fist while giving authors a pittance. Let them rot along with the RIAA/MPAA.
Walked into a college bookstore today. CDN$114 was the going rate for a new compsci textbook. That's $500/semester on books alone. Why? It's a fucking racket, that's why. Sure, nobody takes responsability for higher tuition costs, only gloating about the pittance reductions when they come. Managers don't want to pay for the skills, despite the obvious advantages. High school graduates opt out of uni due to high cost, low motivation to have their work underapreciated and other reasons, and don't continue to learn of learning... if there's hope, it's that the improved communication channels can be used to facilitate the majority of learning done by oneself and encourages the learning of self teaching, but (currently) does little for lab work, inter-personal or vocation training... and no piece of paper at the end of it all. So, in lieu of anyone who seems to care about distributed education, let us bring it about ourselves. Work together to improve the state of distributed learning. Surely a trust based distributed certification system can't be beyond reach.
I recently coded a somewhat complex multithreaded telephony message delivery/communications system. Using abstraction, I was able to code up a cental simulation plugin, which simulated underlying hardware, triggering multi variable states according to use case, but in faster than real time. This allowed me to simulate several months worth of use thru the system and have the problems highlighted. End result is a system that is guarenteed to be stable and no knowledge rampup to fix obscure bugs when they are triggered 6 months down the road. Caveats are that the problem must be well understood to implement the abstraction and simulation and that there is a bit more initial dev time (but much less in the long run). So, if a test framework could be put into place which includes stress simulation alongside unit testing, bugs can be dramatically reduced. Having such a system which must be used before submission to AM or other maintainers would lessen the load and increase stability and performance. Thoughts?
Yeah, thier site is quite lame, but the product is not. Best keyboard I've used, and I've used a few. Datahand tech support is also quite good. Polish costs.. ergo keyboards are a niche market (too much work or not enough use to warrant for the majority). and that's the only thing they do. If the product were shite I'd have not recommended it.
datahand proII split keyboard/mouse - nice ergo keyboard, no arm strain moving to mouse and back. mouse fine for programming use, but for extended image work/CAD, would not be sensitive enough. They take a while to learn. Personal has most of the required features, and costs less. Pricing is very good right now. A bit sensitive to dust, nobody can operate your computer.
chair arm mounts for datahands - split keyboard mounted on arms is very nice. Always in fine ergo position, even with feet up on desk.
dual opteron 246HE, 3G RAM, tyan k8we, with newer nvidia vidcard. nice board after the week of configuration.
gentoo gnu/linux - excellent footing, great pkg mgmt, fine community.. requires a bit of initial configuration
eclipse - best IDE there is, with plugins, even better. Need a beast of a box to run it well.
video
current - nv twinview (2560x1024) over 17"crt and 19" lcd. LCD is Samsung 191T+. Nice, but low resolution (1280x1024)
future - 19" LCD with WUXGA (1920x1200) LCD based homebrew projector on good screen in dimmed room. Should be fine for coding and good for movies/sdtv/hdtv.
All the above are no substitute for hard work, research and forethought, of course. But you'll go better for longer.
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ariel atom, Honda vtec engine, faster than an Enzo and $60k. More bugs in teeth, however.
Except for the gluttonous militarism, countless deaths for little benefit other than engorging the pocket books of the few, sovereingty violation, and continued financial rape of the American taxpayer by elitist, self justifying, know-nothing symptoms of centralisation. The only benefit of repeated distruction is efficient destruction. cat `which military_industrial_complex` > /dev/null and die.
Input, output and processing... that's what they do. Much more reasonable to harness the power of word of mouth, foster a community and spread awareness of value of time and effort than to stand against the tide... telling people to not do something that their hardware was designed to do. Assuming the worst and punishing everybody doesn't really work. Find a better model... WOW isn't hurting, consoles have reasonable specs... sure it's not a business model that's an easy sell to business backers used to and expecting harsh systems, but it is one that actually works. Personally, I'll download a game and a crack, play it, if it's any good I'll buy it... I don't game much but I do see the effort required for such ventures and that effort should be rewarded. That is how it should be, imo. Raise awareness of effort, encourage self assesment of enjoyment and be thankful for reward. Much more progressive.
I guess that's the best they can do. Beurocracy requires increasing beurocracy to survive... perhaps the antithesis of semi-chaotic self evolving networks emerging from gaming. It's hard to represent the people when you're so out of touch (and even moreso, by the time you get to the position of representing the people you've given up most real-world associations with the public as a whole). Beware centralized authoritarianism, it does not reflect the goings-on and never can. Mod down talking heads.
I did something similar a while back by running a ps2 ddr pad through a pc joystick converter. Set up joy2mouse joystick to mouse mapping with X then could use up/down/left/right to move the mouse. I mapped the bottom right and left corners to right and left click, so could move to select then double stamp. It worked well, with the only problem being that the chair legs got in the way. With a fixed mount chair and a slit in the pad, it would be another quite natural input method. Could be really useful in games or other vr immersion applications.
Bummer. Thanks for the reply. I just bought a panel/controller off him, mainly for 1920x1200 eclipse on a wall, but it works fine for 1080i with non hdcp dvi out from my Starchoice satellite receiver. I guess an hdcp solution will have to wait.
minoten has made a working HDCP addon for dvi projectors, I believe... perhaps you should contact him, may be cheaper than from germany. ... not that you should need it in the first place.
If one wanted, it would be easy enough to get an hdtv monitor, hdtv camera and record at 1920x1200. They seem intent on killing that which made the current system so successful. At some point you've gotta let those who insist on self vestigilization do so.
Better yet, stick solar water heaters on the roof... black panels with tubes of water or glycol pumped by solar powered pump to heat exchange system.. can be used for space heating at night and hot water at any time. Raising the temp of water is one of the most energy consuming things to do, so bumping up the base temp with solar can reduce a power bill by quite a bit.
If you dive into a respray booth when in high persuit, they'll be sufficiently confused and stop the persuit...
Ahhh, grand theft auto... obviously realistic enough to get some politicians and parents panties in a knot... or maybe it just challenges the 'work or starve' mentality.
heheheheh, rofl. That's perhaps polar opposite to what was intended. A stone is rounded by the current of the stream wether it is wanted or not.
It's a bit more money, but there is atleast one custom lcd panel/controller which'll do WUXGA (1920x1200) with DVI input for native 1080p HDTV.
How can greed be the motivation when stifling distribution has provenly negative affect on sales. Greed is too convenient... threatened is more appropriate. Could mean suits will have to get real jobs.
Yeah, fuse is nifty. I whipped up a little db backed browser for offline media... intend to tie it to jukeboxes for autoload, cache and stream of files on optical media. With the db backend, the data can be represented in many hierarchies (album/artist/label/etc), and as there are fuse java bindings, coding, expansion and integration with db/web systems is easier. It is still tree based, and it is a bit slower than in kernel fs, but many uses for it, certainly.
A buddy and I were talking of similar. We were looking for expandable large scale storage with good performance and cost and a high level facilitation of data management tasks (metadata management, media shuffling, accomodating technology advancements, etc). Decided on single nodes each controlling data storage to fit data use case. Each node presenting a span over ram, jbod, optical and tape in increasing size. RAM fs for that which is always in use, a couple TBs of jbod/ide raid holding more frequently used, everything in optical jukebox and safety backups to tape jukebox. Ideally the entire tower could be modular and auto-discovering, so when more long term storage is required a jukebox module could be added and the system could autodiscover capacities, alignment, etc. Data presentation done via a cascading hsm aware of each of the components and with optimized usecases (ie burning to blank optical when sufficient new data arrives on raid, maintaining indexing for each of the modules, etc). On top of the cascading storage would be a metadata vfs/presentation layer, to allow data navigation at a high level (cd /video/nature/banff/) via nfs or http web app over gig eth. A deligation/peering layer could allow for grouping such towers to grow in size. Tho quite theorhetical and the software being somewhat tricky, it could scale to the tens of TB/node size easily. We'd originally thought of an open hardware design with modules being added by the community and open hsm software supporting it. Neither of us has yet had the time to do much more than basic dev, but it's planned.
That's a ton of work. Congrats!
There is more to open software than open code. By opening the dev process, there is more feedback by users, more testing in place, more rounded features, and less company-sposored db admin whoring. There were not alot of open source programs around when postgres and interbase were built.
It would take longer to find and download than trim the commercials.
They've had their time encouraging mass deforestation, supressing viable options and making money hand over fist while giving authors a pittance. Let them rot along with the RIAA/MPAA.
Walked into a college bookstore today. CDN$114 was the going rate for a new compsci textbook. That's $500/semester on books alone. Why? It's a fucking racket, that's why. Sure, nobody takes responsability for higher tuition costs, only gloating about the pittance reductions when they come. Managers don't want to pay for the skills, despite the obvious advantages. High school graduates opt out of uni due to high cost, low motivation to have their work underapreciated and other reasons, and don't continue to learn of learning... if there's hope, it's that the improved communication channels can be used to facilitate the majority of learning done by oneself and encourages the learning of self teaching, but (currently) does little for lab work, inter-personal or vocation training... and no piece of paper at the end of it all. So, in lieu of anyone who seems to care about distributed education, let us bring it about ourselves. Work together to improve the state of distributed learning. Surely a trust based distributed certification system can't be beyond reach.
I recently coded a somewhat complex multithreaded telephony message delivery/communications system. Using abstraction, I was able to code up a cental simulation plugin, which simulated underlying hardware, triggering multi variable states according to use case, but in faster than real time. This allowed me to simulate several months worth of use thru the system and have the problems highlighted. End result is a system that is guarenteed to be stable and no knowledge rampup to fix obscure bugs when they are triggered 6 months down the road. Caveats are that the problem must be well understood to implement the abstraction and simulation and that there is a bit more initial dev time (but much less in the long run). So, if a test framework could be put into place which includes stress simulation alongside unit testing, bugs can be dramatically reduced. Having such a system which must be used before submission to AM or other maintainers would lessen the load and increase stability and performance. Thoughts?
The thing would willingly short circuit in my apartment.
Yeah, thier site is quite lame, but the product is not. Best keyboard I've used, and I've used a few. Datahand tech support is also quite good. Polish costs.. ergo keyboards are a niche market (too much work or not enough use to warrant for the majority). and that's the only thing they do. If the product were shite I'd have not recommended it.
All the above are no substitute for hard work, research and forethought, of course. But you'll go better for longer.
Yeah, ncqhas to be supported on controller, ie nForce4. Unsure about 300MB/s.. same thing, I'd imagine.