I bet we could accelerate the Earth more effectively than that if we'd all get together on the first of every month, point all our cars West, and punch the accelerator simultaneously.
Or just have everyone in China face west, and kick a wall.
Does anyone else really REALLY want to be around in, say, 2000 years to witness some of these incredible events? I would love to be cryogenically frozen now and thawed out in 4000AD. One of the greatest misfortunes of technological advancement is that the people alive to see it evolve and come about slowly almost never appreciate it. If someone picked you up out of 1980 and dropped you into 2002, you'd be thrilled at the concept of PC's and a global information network, but for those of us who have sat through those 22 years, it's a little passe, because we've seen it grow.
Imagine being dropped into 4000AD. Assuming humanity hasnt gone to hell, you'd be thrilled at the advancements made, and you'd spend the rest of your life in wide-eyed wonderment, discovering everything you missed. Freeze me up!
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Maybe if slashdot's search functionality didn't SUCK MY ASS, we could use it to find out. I use google to search slashdot, just add site:slashdot.org to your query.
Are you crazy? I used to envy people with HBO, what with all the cool movies, but now that I have it (for free, holster your flamethrower), I realize that it is roughly 96% garbage. The same movie 20 times a week, and the rest of the time, shitty shows like Arliss or Sex and the Whatever, not to mention the endless river of B movies no one has ever heard of.
The other 4%? Cool shows like the Sopranos, and Band of Brothers. (And of course, Britney concerts in mute.:) )
David Einstein stepped up to the plate and started working on a spellchecker for Mozilla
The first one discovers the most famous equation ever, and this one creates... a Mozilla spellchecker? I guess you got to start somewhere. (Even Albert, before he was famous, started out hacking a Tetris-clone for the PDP11.)
The "won" in your sentence makes it seem as though there was ever a question. It was less a war than it was "ramming down the throat" of the developer.
OpenGL is a niche market
That may be true, but in my opinion, Carmack is the reason there's even that niche market. If he didn't choose OpenGL in the Quake1 days, no 3D chip/boardmakers would have given supporting the spec a second glance, and now non-Windows users would be left in the cold, software- and hardware-wise.
Based on my salary, my time is worth around $80/hour.
I figure that at best I'd be looking at 3 hours of labor to build the physical box, get the software installed and configured.
So, is $80/hr how much you charge your kids or your wife for your "time" or do you give them a discount? This is a home project, obviously.
We can agree to disagree, because it really depends on your interests/lifestyle. I like all the fuzzy logic stuff Tivo does, but you know what I'd like more? Trying to recreate and improve it. (God, I sound like a hacker. Someone shoot me.) And it depends on how much being attached to Tivo's dialup updates sucks for you. For me, it sucks a lot: why should I pay for information thats free at any number of sites?
* Able to record up to 30 hours of programming I think thats only limited by the size of the hdd.
* Easy to use UI that is usable on a TV screen What?? You wouldn't use cron?:) Seriously, there is a link (I wish I bookmarked it) where I saw a linux app doing on-tv UI. Does anyone know the site?
* (and this is a big one) DOES NOT CRASH I don't see how this project is anymore crash-prone than others...
The "cool" factor is there, but that's not why I'd do it.... oh who am I kidding, that's the only reason.:) You could rig up networking, so you could program the thing to record from your desktop, you could transfer recordings to your PC for burning or p2p sharing, etc.
As for the cheap factor, I don't know if it would be, but it sure doesn't seem so. The main things you need are a decent cpu, hard drive, and capture card. And at least you wouldn't be tied to TiVo at the hip for the schedule uptdates.
But being realistic, the cost of such a switch is not just the hardware/software involved. Do you really think switching EVERYTHING, down to the office suite, would fly with the users of these systems? Don't you think the training costs, and the costs involved with the reduced workflow (due to more time being spent re-learning how to save documents, print, etc.) are worth the reduced software costs?
If I was in charge, I'd start small. A few alternative office suites at a time, slowly bringing people up to speed, etc.
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Wouldn't it be embarrassing to find your computer downloading pr0n
I'll settle for my computer downloading pr0n on my command, while I'm sitting in front of it, so that my mouse arm can occupy itself with... other "jobs"
Slashdot Mirror
Never underestimate the stupidity of rich people.
I bet we could accelerate the Earth more effectively than that if we'd all get together on the first of every month, point all our cars West, and punch the accelerator simultaneously.
Or just have everyone in China face west, and kick a wall.
Does anyone else really REALLY want to be around in, say, 2000 years to witness some of these incredible events? I would love to be cryogenically frozen now and thawed out in 4000AD. One of the greatest misfortunes of technological advancement is that the people alive to see it evolve and come about slowly almost never appreciate it. If someone picked you up out of 1980 and dropped you into 2002, you'd be thrilled at the concept of PC's and a global information network, but for those of us who have sat through those 22 years, it's a little passe, because we've seen it grow.
Imagine being dropped into 4000AD. Assuming humanity hasnt gone to hell, you'd be thrilled at the advancements made, and you'd spend the rest of your life in wide-eyed wonderment, discovering everything you missed. Freeze me up!
Well, they have a stupid name, so that sort of negates fast websityness?
play around with a leet OS cheaply
I believe you meant "l33t". Hrmph.. amateurs..
Maybe if slashdot's search functionality didn't SUCK MY ASS, we could use it to find out. I use google to search slashdot, just add site:slashdot.org to your query.
Are you crazy? I used to envy people with HBO, what with all the cool movies, but now that I have it (for free, holster your flamethrower), I realize that it is roughly 96% garbage. The same movie 20 times a week, and the rest of the time, shitty shows like Arliss or Sex and the Whatever, not to mention the endless river of B movies no one has ever heard of.
:) )
The other 4%? Cool shows like the Sopranos, and Band of Brothers. (And of course, Britney concerts in mute.
Shit, I didn't know Family Guy was cancelled... that sucks a nut. There is officially nothing on TV that interests me now.
Judging from this post, and your attempted FP, I can conclude that you are a dumb fuck.
I read your rant, and it seems that you were just unfamiliar with string comparison syntax in java. (Replies in your blog show you how to do it.)
Being unfamiliar with a language is hardly a reason to deem it "sucky."
far more attuned to current trends than anything RMS, ER or LT
OK, RMS, I can understand, but tv shows and retired football linebackers have _never_ been "attuned" to technology trends!
or it might just fail for some reason, leaving you with no mozilla
:) )
:)
True, but I've noticed the mozilla.org pipes are usually pretty darn fast & reliable. (AOL cash going toward a good purpose
there will be no mozilla/plugins directory
Well, there is a plugins/ and plugins/libnullplugin.so in the archive, so you do need to nuke them both before symlinking.
David Einstein stepped up to the plate and started working on a spellchecker for Mozilla
The first one discovers the most famous equation ever, and this one creates... a Mozilla spellchecker? I guess you got to start somewhere. (Even Albert, before he was famous, started out hacking a Tetris-clone for the PDP11.)
$cat newmoz.sh
#!/bin/sh
cd
rm -rf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz mozilla;
wget -c -t 0 -T 40 ftp.mozilla.org//pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozil
tar xzf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz;
rm -rf mozilla/plugins/
ln -s
(I keep all my plugins in a seperate dir to make things easier.)
As for MS, I only have to point to the the major bug, that they knew about for weeks, but didn't let anybody know about!
And if YOU know about a bug and you tell the world, then you're helping the terrorists!! You're so un-American!!
Nice going, einstein..
DirectX has won the 3D standard wars
The "won" in your sentence makes it seem as though there was ever a question. It was less a war than it was "ramming down the throat" of the developer.
OpenGL is a niche market
That may be true, but in my opinion, Carmack is the reason there's even that niche market. If he didn't choose OpenGL in the Quake1 days, no 3D chip/boardmakers would have given supporting the spec a second glance, and now non-Windows users would be left in the cold, software- and hardware-wise.
Master? I didn't know SMB had that, how do you unlock it? (I've gotten AD extra, I'm working on EX extra.)
The parent post is in fact funny. To the dumb shit who moderated it as a troll: do you know what the hell a troll is? Jesus.
Based on my salary, my time is worth around $80/hour.
I figure that at best I'd be looking at 3 hours of labor to build the physical box, get the software installed and configured.
So, is $80/hr how much you charge your kids or your wife for your "time" or do you give them a discount? This is a home project, obviously.
We can agree to disagree, because it really depends on your interests/lifestyle. I like all the fuzzy logic stuff Tivo does, but you know what I'd like more? Trying to recreate and improve it. (God, I sound like a hacker. Someone shoot me.) And it depends on how much being attached to Tivo's dialup updates sucks for you. For me, it sucks a lot: why should I pay for information thats free at any number of sites?
Oh, jesus. As if I didn't spend enough time on this forsaken black-hole-of-time "internet." Thanks a lot.
* A remote
:) Seriously, there is a link (I wish I bookmarked it) where I saw a linux app doing on-tv UI. Does anyone know the site?
:) You could rig up networking, so you could program the thing to record from your desktop, you could transfer recordings to your PC for burning or p2p sharing, etc.
What about LIRC?
* Detailed TV schedule data
XML TV
* Able to record up to 30 hours of programming
I think thats only limited by the size of the hdd.
* Easy to use UI that is usable on a TV screen
What?? You wouldn't use cron?
* (and this is a big one) DOES NOT CRASH
I don't see how this project is anymore crash-prone than others...
The "cool" factor is there, but that's not why I'd do it.... oh who am I kidding, that's the only reason.
As for the cheap factor, I don't know if it would be, but it sure doesn't seem so. The main things you need are a decent cpu, hard drive, and capture card. And at least you wouldn't be tied to TiVo at the hip for the schedule uptdates.
Relax, ace. The guy was just trying to be funny. If he thought this was a stupid story, he wouldn't have submitted.
But being realistic, the cost of such a switch is not just the hardware/software involved. Do you really think switching EVERYTHING, down to the office suite, would fly with the users of these systems? Don't you think the training costs, and the costs involved with the reduced workflow (due to more time being spent re-learning how to save documents, print, etc.) are worth the reduced software costs?
If I was in charge, I'd start small. A few alternative office suites at a time, slowly bringing people up to speed, etc.
Wouldn't it be embarrassing to find your computer downloading pr0n
I'll settle for my computer downloading pr0n on my command, while I'm sitting in front of it, so that my mouse arm can occupy itself with... other "jobs"