This a setup that will play games decent but it falls short of being anything great. It isn't a silent as it could be.
Hard drive. Obviously he didn't do much research into quiet hard drives. First, a quick scan of hard drive reviews at Tom's Hardware suggests that Fujitsu drives are usually the most silent. However that is not the glaring mistake: missing the Seagate Barracuda IV is.Besides being faster than any 5,400 rpm drive it is also the quietest drive ever. You literally have to press your ear against it to hear it.
Holy Case. Sure some people might think it looks cool (I think it looks about as cool as cutting a big hole in the hood of a car). But it can't be quiet. If this really was a "quiet" machine then wouldn't he have chosen a quiet case? Perhaps something with extra thick sides and few rattling parts (thumbscrews?).
And of course he if he really did care about silence then he could have gotten a mac. But arguably that would have hindered the, "gaming" part.
This is just a kid who wants to brag about his new half-assed machine. And, to no one's surprise, slashdot it up for that.
Either way I use Aqua everyday at work, and now even at home and it is obvious that there is lots of room to have an interface treatment only vaquely aquaesque yet still very, very good. Progress bars for example are quite ugly. The corner widget and scrollbar top are akward. And just as in Liquid as in Aqua the buttons don't scale well to large sizes or look very good in big groups. On OS X you'll notice that buttons tend to get more space around them and bigger buttons become flatter.
I think with a little work there could be a better interface than Aqua, and that it could be open source and copyright free.
eAndroid
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ok ok ok ok.
In the movie prot says, "your light-year" (emphasis mine). There, now you two can quit because it doesn't matter.
As long as they aren't getting a day of Front Page and then let loose, it's a good idea.
Here we have a few private colleges that charge $12,000/year and basically teach students nothing useful. We've had a few in as interns. One thought it was a good idea to put Back Orifice on all the workstations. One couldn't figure out how to change the color of links in HTML.
Even now anyone with real skills can get employed with ease.
Users don't get or accept the concept that there are multiple ways of doing things - they get locked into the first technique they learn, such as going to the file menu and clicking exit rather than hitting the big x.
This is the single most important aspect of user interface design. And this is what Mac OS and, I propose, Python do so very well.
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Our company runs the site SlowSoftware.com. Come by - we're always looking for leading-edge programs in lack of speed.
Apple introduces iPod, a digital audio player (MP3, MP2, more) with a 5GB hard drive (1000 songs). 20 minute skip protection. FireWire-equipped, first such music player. 10 hour battery, lithium-polymar ("most advanced battery; more advanced than laptop batteries"), takes 1 hour to charge.
I can honestly see how this might be plausible: a great number of people are affected, money is lost and potential property is damaged or stolen. These are the sorts of things that constitute terrorism. They even share a goal of terrorism: fear and confusion. However I think that it is not actually terrorism.
It is significant that Microsoft has invented the term, "industrial terrorism". There is a reason that terrorism hasn't been refered to in the context of industry: it can't be, that's not what it is.
That doesn't mean that computer viruses aren't crime of course. But considering what existing laws are doing to virus writers and even suspect virus writers there isn't a need for stronger punishment.
We can't bomb the RIAA et al so we'll have to resort to other methods of getting attention to have the DMCA reviewed. We could write letters until we are blue in the face but that isn't working.
I'm not sure if Alan's actions will get the attention it needs but it is certainly a step in the right direction.
150lpi? This is an odd way of specifying what a person can see. I mean, at what distance? Many billboards have FAR less lines per inch. if you used 640 x 480 on a billboard most people probably wouldn't notice, and here is the experiment to prove it:
1) find a billboard. bring along something you can measure with, even very approximately, like a business card (the narrow end is 2 inches wide).
2) stand as far away from the billboard as you would normally be to find it comfortable to read.
3) raise your measuring device up to your eye about as far from your face as you would normally view a photo.
4) take that width and imagine filling it with 640 pixels. For me, to the billboard out my window, that's about 500 dpi which is far more pixels than needed for not just a smooth photo, but to be able to read it.
So 640 x 480 does have practical uses. And I haven't even touched on web sites, business cards or even Ebay auctions.
My friend Henry Morgan at ElectroCon has been working on such optics for more than a year. I'm not sure exactly what he's doing but he has told me that they have normal hard drives connected over fiber.
It seems to be just proof-of-concept, as I expect the IDE (or SCSI?) protocol and existing controller would be a bottleneck to increased performance. He also hasn't mentioned if anyone has been interested in buying the technology - that is for sure the kind of thing he couldn't tell me.
I use a Mac and a PC. It would be only a PC if it weren't for one special piece of software: Cool Edit. Cool Edit is destructive editing, but besides that, it has some excellent features! In particular its source cleaner (noise/hiss reduction et al) is second to none. Not even multi-thousand dollar systems can compare to the ease, speed and most of all quality of cleanup Cool Edit can do.
If you've heard my stuff you know the quality if already poor. But considering most of the worst of those songs were recorded single-channel with a radioshack mic and SB16 it is surprising they turned out at all.
Isn't ION Storm the game company that released Daikatana? That was based on the Quake 2 engine? The company that already annouced that the sequel to Daikatana would use the Unreal engine?
Why would anyone join this company? Certainly money is the only answer. And that is how Romero got himself into this mess. I have to be skeptical of anything ION Storm says. The corruption will continue.
Fahrenheit 451 is, of course, another great book. If we get stuck in endless "war" then perhaps a few people will use these older books to say that the worst we had imagined has come true. Then perhaps the leaders will ban all books.
Then perhaps most people would care. But probably, they would just buy their full-wall TVs and watch Survivor XXI.
Don't forget that one of the major tools that the government of 1984 used to control its population was constant war. I'm not accusing the US government of staging the WTC attack, however they do seem to be taking advantage of it in a similar manner.
I was at a talk by Naomi Klein a few weeks ago and she mentioned that she had heard a US Military official mention that they are expecting 20 years of war. Even if that is totally uncredible it still makes you think, "what if?"
How acceptable do imperial unites get? They've been rejected by the British already and they invented the units. I don't mean to beat a dead dog but dammit if the US is so advanced and whatnot why do they hold on so fiercely to something so outdated?
It's probably all part of a large conspiracy by the British back at the Boston Tea Party.
Well I'm also a source, please quote me as saying 88 is, "not quite half" of their employees. There. Now it is cast as fact and not even the trolls can dispute it.
Oh, what a common mistake! Your skill and precision is justly reflected by your demonstration. Therefor I humbly propose this comment should no be modded up.
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You missed my point. If he had chosen the Barracuda IV then it wouldn't need to be placed in a silencer at all. It is that quiet.
- Hard drive. Obviously he didn't do much research into quiet hard drives. First, a quick scan of hard drive reviews at Tom's Hardware suggests that Fujitsu drives are usually the most silent. However that is not the glaring mistake: missing the Seagate Barracuda IV is.Besides being faster than any 5,400 rpm drive it is also the quietest drive ever. You literally have to press your ear against it to hear it.
- Holy Case. Sure some people might think it looks cool (I think it looks about as cool as cutting a big hole in the hood of a car). But it can't be quiet. If this really was a "quiet" machine then wouldn't he have chosen a quiet case? Perhaps something with extra thick sides and few rattling parts (thumbscrews?).
And of course he if he really did care about silence then he could have gotten a mac. But arguably that would have hindered the, "gaming" part.This is just a kid who wants to brag about his new half-assed machine. And, to no one's surprise, slashdot it up for that.
Either way I use Aqua everyday at work, and now even at home and it is obvious that there is lots of room to have an interface treatment only vaquely aquaesque yet still very, very good. Progress bars for example are quite ugly. The corner widget and scrollbar top are akward. And just as in Liquid as in Aqua the buttons don't scale well to large sizes or look very good in big groups. On OS X you'll notice that buttons tend to get more space around them and bigger buttons become flatter.
I think with a little work there could be a better interface than Aqua, and that it could be open source and copyright free.
eAndroid
(the guy who made the Enlightenment theme ApplePlatinum)
ok ok ok ok.
In the movie prot says, "your light-year" (emphasis mine). There, now you two can quit because it doesn't matter.
Don't use big words you don't understand.
As long as they aren't getting a day of Front Page and then let loose, it's a good idea.
Here we have a few private colleges that charge $12,000/year and basically teach students nothing useful. We've had a few in as interns. One thought it was a good idea to put Back Orifice on all the workstations. One couldn't figure out how to change the color of links in HTML.
Even now anyone with real skills can get employed with ease.
This is the single most important aspect of user interface design. And this is what Mac OS and, I propose, Python do so very well.
Our company runs the site SlowSoftware.com. Come by - we're always looking for leading-edge programs in lack of speed.
That's only because I drive it like a crazed maniac.
I can honestly see how this might be plausible: a great number of people are affected, money is lost and potential property is damaged or stolen. These are the sorts of things that constitute terrorism. They even share a goal of terrorism: fear and confusion. However I think that it is not actually terrorism.
It is significant that Microsoft has invented the term, "industrial terrorism". There is a reason that terrorism hasn't been refered to in the context of industry: it can't be, that's not what it is.
That doesn't mean that computer viruses aren't crime of course. But considering what existing laws are doing to virus writers and even suspect virus writers there isn't a need for stronger punishment.
We can't bomb the RIAA et al so we'll have to resort to other methods of getting attention to have the DMCA reviewed. We could write letters until we are blue in the face but that isn't working.
I'm not sure if Alan's actions will get the attention it needs but it is certainly a step in the right direction.
But just like most of life's injustices it isn't likely to get better any time soon.
150lpi? This is an odd way of specifying what a person can see. I mean, at what distance? Many billboards have FAR less lines per inch. if you used 640 x 480 on a billboard most people probably wouldn't notice, and here is the experiment to prove it:
1) find a billboard. bring along something you can measure with, even very approximately, like a business card (the narrow end is 2 inches wide).
2) stand as far away from the billboard as you would normally be to find it comfortable to read.
3) raise your measuring device up to your eye about as far from your face as you would normally view a photo.
4) take that width and imagine filling it with 640 pixels. For me, to the billboard out my window, that's about 500 dpi which is far more pixels than needed for not just a smooth photo, but to be able to read it.
So 640 x 480 does have practical uses. And I haven't even touched on web sites, business cards or even Ebay auctions.
My friend Henry Morgan at ElectroCon has been working on such optics for more than a year. I'm not sure exactly what he's doing but he has told me that they have normal hard drives connected over fiber.
It seems to be just proof-of-concept, as I expect the IDE (or SCSI?) protocol and existing controller would be a bottleneck to increased performance. He also hasn't mentioned if anyone has been interested in buying the technology - that is for sure the kind of thing he couldn't tell me.
I use a Mac and a PC. It would be only a PC if it weren't for one special piece of software: Cool Edit. Cool Edit is destructive editing, but besides that, it has some excellent features! In particular its source cleaner (noise/hiss reduction et al) is second to none. Not even multi-thousand dollar systems can compare to the ease, speed and most of all quality of cleanup Cool Edit can do.
If you've heard my stuff you know the quality if already poor. But considering most of the worst of those songs were recorded single-channel with a radioshack mic and SB16 it is surprising they turned out at all.
Isn't ION Storm the game company that released Daikatana? That was based on the Quake 2 engine? The company that already annouced that the sequel to Daikatana would use the Unreal engine?
Why would anyone join this company? Certainly money is the only answer. And that is how Romero got himself into this mess. I have to be skeptical of anything ION Storm says. The corruption will continue.
Fahrenheit 451 is, of course, another great book. If we get stuck in endless "war" then perhaps a few people will use these older books to say that the worst we had imagined has come true. Then perhaps the leaders will ban all books.
Then perhaps most people would care. But probably, they would just buy their full-wall TVs and watch Survivor XXI.
Don't forget that one of the major tools that the government of 1984 used to control its population was constant war. I'm not accusing the US government of staging the WTC attack, however they do seem to be taking advantage of it in a similar manner.
I was at a talk by Naomi Klein a few weeks ago and she mentioned that she had heard a US Military official mention that they are expecting 20 years of war. Even if that is totally uncredible it still makes you think, "what if?"
1984 may have only been 17 years off.
How acceptable do imperial unites get? They've been rejected by the British already and they invented the units. I don't mean to beat a dead dog but dammit if the US is so advanced and whatnot why do they hold on so fiercely to something so outdated?
It's probably all part of a large conspiracy by the British back at the Boston Tea Party.
Dammit, you're right. I meant just the opposite.
Won't it weigh 0 lb in space? Surely you meant to give its mass in slugs.
Slugs? Isn't that an archaic unit of measure? Surely you meant to ask for its mass in Newtons.
Well I'm also a source, please quote me as saying 88 is, "not quite half" of their employees. There. Now it is cast as fact and not even the trolls can dispute it.
Oh, what a common mistake! Your skill and precision is justly reflected by your demonstration. Therefor I humbly propose this comment should no be modded up.
Good show.
Wait, you're missing something. This is slashdot! Just saying something makes it true! Watch this:
This comment should be modded up.