I tend to be a rather cyclical thinker. I might cogitate an idea or concept over and over again. I also have a (perhaps) odd attention span where environmental distractions can siphon off my focus. Someone opening a door might knock me off track for fifteen seconds while I'm reading a PICmicro assembly book. A flickering light is often a constant distraction when it occurs. Banner ads like 'spank the money' or 'shoot the fish in the barrel' have motion and sometimes sound, which I can't stand. They're less static than the text. Some sites have a third of the screen at any given time taken up by ads. Some even have ads that stand on top of the text, and I won't even bother reading that site if I have to do so much as click 'close' to see the text.
It goes on further than that. If a person is exposed to ads repeatedly, he has been 'familiarized' with that product. I know this as it has worked on me. It takes too many of my brain's "CPU cycles" when I am distracted and think about the ad. I am annoyed by it, and I remember it. I don't want to be familiarized to a product whose markerters have already annoyed me with obnoxious flashy text!
It's these kinds of nuisances that really get me. Not only do I use the firefox adblock plugin, but I don't even watch television anymore because of the ads (and general stupidity/obscenity).
They may use their domain name for other services such as mail, DNS, Jabber, IRC, FTP, and so on.
Exactly. This is extremely important with a BNC service, I'll tell ya. You know, because it's really important for your whois to come up like, for instance...
*** parasonic is n=para@ i.own.natalie.portman.and.am.cooler.than.cmdrtaco. net (*Unknown*)
*** on irc via server brown.freenode.net (Madison, WI, US)
*** parasonic has been idle 4 seconds
I couldn't find it on there whether it takes a DC input, though it says that it has an AC/DC adaptor. This might prove to be a little interesting in what it can be applied to. It looks like a good size to be a car computer, and the casing appears to be rugged enough for that. At work, we have a Geode machine that's about the size of a 5 1/4" drive, and it actually operates off a 5VDC digital camera power supply including the 2.5" HDD. If no inverter to ~18VDC is required and only a voltage regulator is needed, this might just be the carputer enthusiast's dream.
Perhaps when an OEM orders 10000 of these units without an OS. Volume purchasing = customization power. Money talks. The flip side of that is that Microsoft might have made AMD sign a contract that *all* units sold must run this "Windows-powered OS."
Chances are that it has already been hacked, though.
After looking at the page, chip designer AMD calls their appliance a PIC. I wonder what Microchip is going to think about with their existing and very popular PIC line (priority interrupt controller). Two totally different products/concepts but two big chip manufacturers running the similarly named products.
It's "important" because this is a pioneering game to be geared towards AMD64. Sure, there is the 64-bit Linux binary for UT2004, for which I am very impressed with Atari to be supporting and the developers to be watching bugzilla so frequently, but this isn't a Linux-64 game. I personally wasn't expecting any Windows-64 games to be out for at least another year or two, Windows, of course being the "standard" gaming OS. Either this game is going to be a little before its time, or it's going to put pressure on other developers to get their games out with AMD64 support because there's now competition at some level out there. For those savvy or rich enough to have AMD64 boxes but don't want to put up with having to hand-edit UT2004.ini in vim to change resolutions, we have a newgame that is kind of paving the way.
I work in IT of a company of about five hundred. I see that most of the issues with laptops have been addressed already, but I'm going to have to point out the obvious.
Cracked LCD's
We don't use laptops for several reasons, and the damageability of notebooks has a huge amount to do with it. Of the five "dead" laptops that we have here, three or four screens are cracked. Maybe a dozen employees or a very few more actually have them. Backlights also go out, and when they do, you're looking at a 30% to 200% cost of the notebook to replace. Ouch.
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More importantly, does the keygen come with cool music?
No, Doc, it's called a repost.
It's been done with school yearbooks for years.
I tend to be a rather cyclical thinker. I might cogitate an idea or concept over and over again. I also have a (perhaps) odd attention span where environmental distractions can siphon off my focus. Someone opening a door might knock me off track for fifteen seconds while I'm reading a PICmicro assembly book. A flickering light is often a constant distraction when it occurs. Banner ads like 'spank the money' or 'shoot the fish in the barrel' have motion and sometimes sound, which I can't stand. They're less static than the text. Some sites have a third of the screen at any given time taken up by ads. Some even have ads that stand on top of the text, and I won't even bother reading that site if I have to do so much as click 'close' to see the text.
It goes on further than that. If a person is exposed to ads repeatedly, he has been 'familiarized' with that product. I know this as it has worked on me. It takes too many of my brain's "CPU cycles" when I am distracted and think about the ad. I am annoyed by it, and I remember it. I don't want to be familiarized to a product whose markerters have already annoyed me with obnoxious flashy text!
It's these kinds of nuisances that really get me. Not only do I use the firefox adblock plugin, but I don't even watch television anymore because of the ads (and general stupidity/obscenity).
Woot! Congratulations! But the real recognition has yet to come.
...but it's now just facebook.com
By the time he's done with Halo, it should be just about time to start filming Duke Nukem Forever.
...with the sequel Duke Nukem Begins and prequels Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem Returns.
They may use their domain name for other services such as mail, DNS, Jabber, IRC, FTP, and so on.
. net (*Unknown*)
Exactly. This is extremely important with a BNC service, I'll tell ya. You know, because it's really important for your whois to come up like, for instance...
*** parasonic is n=para@ i.own.natalie.portman.and.am.cooler.than.cmdrtaco
*** on irc via server brown.freenode.net (Madison, WI, US)
*** parasonic has been idle 4 seconds
A totally legitimate claim to cmdrtaco.net
Definitely not, but look at the bright side...you'll begin to admire FLAC once you're forced to use it :)
I couldn't find it on there whether it takes a DC input, though it says that it has an AC/DC adaptor. This might prove to be a little interesting in what it can be applied to. It looks like a good size to be a car computer, and the casing appears to be rugged enough for that. At work, we have a Geode machine that's about the size of a 5 1/4" drive, and it actually operates off a 5VDC digital camera power supply including the 2.5" HDD. If no inverter to ~18VDC is required and only a voltage regulator is needed, this might just be the carputer enthusiast's dream.
Perhaps when an OEM orders 10000 of these units without an OS. Volume purchasing = customization power. Money talks. The flip side of that is that Microsoft might have made AMD sign a contract that *all* units sold must run this "Windows-powered OS."
Chances are that it has already been hacked, though.
After looking at the page, chip designer AMD calls their appliance a PIC. I wonder what Microchip is going to think about with their existing and very popular PIC line (priority interrupt controller). Two totally different products/concepts but two big chip manufacturers running the similarly named products.
what other reason would we have to continue to build faster computers?
Windows Vista
It's "important" because this is a pioneering game to be geared towards AMD64. Sure, there is the 64-bit Linux binary for UT2004, for which I am very impressed with Atari to be supporting and the developers to be watching bugzilla so frequently, but this isn't a Linux-64 game. I personally wasn't expecting any Windows-64 games to be out for at least another year or two, Windows, of course being the "standard" gaming OS. Either this game is going to be a little before its time, or it's going to put pressure on other developers to get their games out with AMD64 support because there's now competition at some level out there. For those savvy or rich enough to have AMD64 boxes but don't want to put up with having to hand-edit UT2004.ini in vim to change resolutions, we have a newgame that is kind of paving the way.
Important enough to be Slashdot-worthy, anyway.
...it's a weirdly eroded space station.
Even when your connection(s) fail?
...I work in IT in an Atlanta company, and we have even had a T1 (momentarily) go down. Always have a backup for a backup.
So, does Yoda actually build his own house out of mud, or does he hire a contractor to do it?
And JUST when Linux was going to be ready for the desktop!
You realize that you are posting this on Slashdot!?
I work in IT of a company of about five hundred. I see that most of the issues with laptops have been addressed already, but I'm going to have to point out the obvious.
Cracked LCD's
We don't use laptops for several reasons, and the damageability of notebooks has a huge amount to do with it. Of the five "dead" laptops that we have here, three or four screens are cracked. Maybe a dozen employees or a very few more actually have them. Backlights also go out, and when they do, you're looking at a 30% to 200% cost of the notebook to replace. Ouch.
I'd probably get a bad case of the spins in that thing.
I put the hamsters to work. Still enough to power an embedded Linux device.
...that we are too far away to send a probe into this black hole.
Titanium spraypaint?! I could make myself BULLETPROOF.
Titanium--The LCD may still not be drop-proof, but it's sure as heck Michelan-proof.
One quarter the time that it takes to download a YTMND.
I hate my life.