er, almost. the foundation trilogy beat out Tolkein's LotR, the one year they gave an award out for best trilogy of all time. They werent actually up for conciteration at the same time for the normal award.
Well, i go by the rule that a game should cost $1 for ever hour of fun that you get from it. This pricing plan works best for adventure/arcade/FPS games, as i dont think anyone would have bought civ for $400, or EverQuest. Years and years ago i bought a copy of Monkey Island 2 for $30, and it took me almost 60 hours to beat. that made me happy.
dave
Actually, the "Tee-Hee chick" is a world known wine expert. she is a actress, but she also has one of the largest wine collections in the world. thats the main reason why she's on the show. (also that explains why its funny when she says something like "oh! are we having wine tonight? i like wine!" --Dave
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btw: "lupin" is "wolf" in french, so they may have dubbed it that way. --dave
This is why i participate in Live Action Role Playing (LARP). I play in a fantasy game that meets a few times a month, and is based on boffer combat (padded weapons) noone gets hurt, if you "die" you can be raised (there is a magic system) and its possible to lose yourself in the character, especially at night, when you are with your small band of friends, and your being attacked by people in goblin masks, only its too dark to see that they are masks.
One of the diferences is the sharp drop off in cost as you move outside the city. if you are willing to live an hour away, it becomes much more reasonable. For example, i live in waltham (directly west of boston) it takes me 20 mins to drive to cambridge, or 30 mins to take the train to north station(a 10 min walk from where i work) I live in a 2 bedroom apartment, for which i am paying $1000/mo, split with my roomate. There are a huge number of jobs in the Waltham(rt 128) area, with reasonable living prices around them, and now tech firms are starting to spring up around rt 495, (30 or so miles outside of boston) with even cheeper living conditions. boston can expand outwards, and keep the cost of living resonable.
First of all, of course this is a publicity stunt. allmost everything that a company does is a publicity stunt these days. Be is a publicaly traded company, so everything that they do publically has to promote the company. secondly, Their OS is concitered technically superior(except for the lack of multiuser support (scedualed for release 6 or 7)) but without the programs of a linux/windows os. third, BEOS IS NOT IN THE OPEN-SOURCE COMMUNITY. the project has never been open source, they dont have a community to give back to. Allmost every piece of software for BeOS is Open, except for a few (really excelent) large apps.
all they are making avalible is a trial version. it's full fetured as far as the OS goes, (AFAICT) but it doesnt have all teh extras. they are also relasing a full version, which they will charge for. (probably less than full price if you baught a prevoius version)
Actually, the water quality in waltham has improved. Its actually drinkable from the tap. It doesnt help that there are a lot of people at brandeis who would run screaming at the thought of drinking non-filtered, non-bottled water, but i had a friend who would take a few gallon jugs into the shower with him (in East, no less) and fill them directly from the showerhead. most people couldnt tell wheither it was bottled water or not. --David Pseudo-ex-brandesian
It was a hardware solution because the idea of Software had not been created yet. Enigma predates computers in general, because computers were created to help break the code. Also, one advantage that an actual machine has over a peice of software, is that it cant be copied, and if one is captured, you tend to know. --David
Alan Turing was the guy who (claims to) invented the first electric computer. (the term "computer" used to mean "someone who does math" He's not a encryption person, except that he created the computer to solve encryption problems. He is usually refered to as "The Father of modern Computing" or something like that. Oh, and he was gay, and heavally persicuted for it. (dont remember what, exactly, someone else can inform me though) --David
I cant tell if you ACs are being Serious, or Silly, so i'l respond. Enigma was a Encryption system used by Germany in WWII. It was a "Hardware Solution" in that it had spinning wheels, and places to patch cables, and physical buttons. It was suposed to be imposible to crack, but Turing and others in Bletchley Park, managed to do it, without the German millitary knowing. So, no. it wont run on Linux. Neither will it run on NT. Its a code that has been broken, so even if there was a software implimentation, my home computer could break it in roughly 30 seconds. --David
The reason that Linux was able to be ported to the G3s is that people reverse engeneered the specs of the motherboard. Be Inc. didnt want to do that, because they are a comercial company, and only wanted to rely on officcial specs. also, if they had simply reverse engeneered the MB, apple could change the MB design at any time, and the OS would be unable to function on that system. JLG didnt want to have this happen, so he decided to not support BeOS on the G3s --David BeOS user
Well, Cyrotek demoed a 1GHz k7 a month or 2 ago. IIRC it was just done by cooling the chip, no actual overclocking needed. I beleve that the way the K7's are made, simply cooling them down speeds them up. At the time, people thought that they had done it by using a K7/700. so overclocking a 500 to a 600 isn't all that impresive if you can do a 700 -> 1000. Mmmm 1Ghz. --Dave
just a guess but... It was posted this way so that people who are filtering out Katz's articles will have this one filtered out. if you remember, in the past these side by side collumns have been posted under the non-katz name, and have gotten complaints by people who wished not to see them, and felt that their precious time was wasted by having a 4 line summary appear on the front page of slashdot, which of course nessitated them to read the article, and post an indignant response. With the acticle posted like this, those people's time will not be wasted.
Well that would be the Visigoths. The goth subculture refers more to the Gothic movement. Think dark, vampire-themed, cathedrals,high cealings, doors with a point in the middle.. that kind of thing.. and well, yes, that still counts as going back, its not quite, because the goth movement is quite diferent than the Gothic movement. (more of an emphasis on the darkness side of things.) The idea of a bunch of 15-30 year-olds dressing up as barbarians and hanging out in bars/dance clubs is kinda funny though. --Dave
Well, those of us who run BeOS have that functionality allready.. Be mixes sounds on the fly, and provides you a mixer for each input. Last night i checked, and i had 14 channels of sound being mixed together. Each sound for BeAIM has its own channel, and so I can set them to have their own relitive volume. I had the sound from Snes9x, a CD, BeAIM, and, just for the hell of it, an MP3 all playing at the same time, and if the system had wanted to let me know, it could have beeped at me. At times, ive had 3 mp3's all decoding at the same time, playing at diferent speeds. It sounds funky, but its a good demo of what the BeOS can do. Oh, i have a K6-2/400 if you were wondering. --Dave
well, sorda.. I also happen to really really like BeOS. I use 5-6 os's regularly. at work i have a win95 box and a HP-UX box (front and back end to our system) with some systems at work runing Dos 6.2. my personal machine runs BeOS primarly, with Linux and Win98Lite (yes, it works) I would use Linux a hell of a lot more, if i could get any internet connection with it. I am gonna move soon, and have a cable modem, but until then, i have BeOS.
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yes, but that was for a small part. a larger or more complex object takes longer. Ive used them before.
er, almost. the foundation trilogy beat out Tolkein's LotR, the one year they gave an award out for best trilogy of all time. They werent actually up for conciteration at the same time for the normal award.
Well, i go by the rule that a game should cost $1 for ever hour of fun that you get from it. This pricing plan works best for adventure/arcade/FPS games, as i dont think anyone would have bought civ for $400, or EverQuest. Years and years ago i bought a copy of Monkey Island 2 for $30, and it took me almost 60 hours to beat. that made me happy.
dave
I beleve that the person who invented that usage is now at Genuity (GTE Internetworking) in a fairly high up position. so, yes, it can happen.
Actually, the "Tee-Hee chick" is a world known wine expert. she is a actress, but she also has one of the largest wine collections in the world. thats the main reason why she's on the show. (also that explains why its funny when she says something like "oh! are we having wine tonight? i like wine!"
--Dave
btw: "lupin" is "wolf" in french, so they may have dubbed it that way.
--dave
This is why i participate in Live Action Role Playing (LARP). I play in a fantasy game that meets a few times a month, and is based on boffer combat (padded weapons) noone gets hurt, if you "die" you can be raised (there is a magic system) and its possible to lose yourself in the character, especially at night, when you are with your small band of friends, and your being attacked by people in goblin masks, only its too dark to see that they are masks.
One of the diferences is the sharp drop off in cost as you move outside the city. if you are willing to live an hour away, it becomes much more reasonable. For example, i live in waltham (directly west of boston) it takes me 20 mins to drive to cambridge, or 30 mins to take the train to north station(a 10 min walk from where i work) I live in a 2 bedroom apartment, for which i am paying $1000/mo, split with my roomate. There are a huge number of jobs in the Waltham(rt 128) area, with reasonable living prices around them, and now tech firms are starting to spring up around rt 495, (30 or so miles outside of boston) with even cheeper living conditions. boston can expand outwards, and keep the cost of living resonable.
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First of all, of course this is a publicity stunt. allmost everything that a company does is a publicity stunt these days. Be is a publicaly traded company, so everything that they do publically has to promote the company. secondly, Their OS is concitered technically superior(except for the lack of multiuser support (scedualed for release 6 or 7)) but without the programs of a linux/windows os. third, BEOS IS NOT IN THE OPEN-SOURCE COMMUNITY. the project has never been open source, they dont have a community to give back to. Allmost every piece of software for BeOS is Open, except for a few (really excelent) large apps.
all they are making avalible is a trial version. it's full fetured as far as the OS goes, (AFAICT) but it doesnt have all teh extras. they are also relasing a full version, which they will charge for. (probably less than full price if you baught a prevoius version)
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Well, Brazil.. obviously..
--Dave
Actually, the water quality in waltham has improved. Its actually drinkable from the tap. It doesnt help that there are a lot of people at brandeis who would run screaming at the thought of drinking non-filtered, non-bottled water, but i had a friend who would take a few gallon jugs into the shower with him (in East, no less) and fill them directly from the showerhead. most people couldnt tell wheither it was bottled water or not.
--David
Pseudo-ex-brandesian
Thank you, I was wondering about that
--David
It was a hardware solution because the idea of Software had not been created yet. Enigma predates computers in general, because computers were created to help break the code. Also, one advantage that an actual machine has over a peice of software, is that it cant be copied, and if one is captured, you tend to know.
--David
Alan Turing was the guy who (claims to) invented the first electric computer. (the term "computer" used to mean "someone who does math" He's not a encryption person, except that he created the computer to solve encryption problems. He is usually refered to as "The Father of modern Computing" or something like that. Oh, and he was gay, and heavally persicuted for it. (dont remember what, exactly, someone else can inform me though)
--David
I cant tell if you ACs are being Serious, or Silly, so i'l respond. Enigma was a Encryption system used by Germany in WWII. It was a "Hardware Solution" in that it had spinning wheels, and places to patch cables, and physical buttons. It was suposed to be imposible to crack, but Turing and others in Bletchley Park, managed to do it, without the German millitary knowing.
So, no. it wont run on Linux. Neither will it run on NT. Its a code that has been broken, so even if there was a software implimentation, my home computer could break it in roughly 30 seconds.
--David
The reason that Linux was able to be ported to the G3s is that people reverse engeneered the specs of the motherboard. Be Inc. didnt want to do that, because they are a comercial company, and only wanted to rely on officcial specs. also, if they had simply reverse engeneered the MB, apple could change the MB design at any time, and the OS would be unable to function on that system. JLG didnt want to have this happen, so he decided to not support BeOS on the G3s
--David
BeOS user
Well, Cyrotek demoed a 1GHz k7 a month or 2 ago. IIRC it was just done by cooling the chip, no actual overclocking needed. I beleve that the way the K7's are made, simply cooling them down speeds them up. At the time, people thought that they had done it by using a K7/700. so overclocking a 500 to a 600 isn't all that impresive if you can do a 700 -> 1000. Mmmm 1Ghz.
--Dave
just a guess but...
It was posted this way so that people who are filtering out Katz's articles will have this one filtered out. if you remember, in the past these side by side collumns have been posted under the non-katz name, and have gotten complaints by people who wished not to see them, and felt that their precious time was wasted by having a 4 line summary appear on the front page of slashdot, which of course nessitated them to read the article, and post an indignant response. With the acticle posted like this, those people's time will not be wasted.
I hate to break it to you, but as someone with 12+ years of experience, Ritalin *is* a stimulant.
just a thought
--Dave
Well that would be the Visigoths. The goth subculture refers more to the Gothic movement. Think dark, vampire-themed, cathedrals,high cealings, doors with a point in the middle.. that kind of thing.. and well, yes, that still counts as going back, its not quite, because the goth movement is quite diferent than the Gothic movement. (more of an emphasis on the darkness side of things.) The idea of a bunch of 15-30 year-olds dressing up as barbarians and hanging out in bars/dance clubs is kinda funny though.
--Dave
Well, those of us who run BeOS have that functionality allready.. Be mixes sounds on the fly, and provides you a mixer for each input. Last night i checked, and i had 14 channels of sound being mixed together. Each sound for BeAIM has its own channel, and so I can set them to have their own relitive volume. I had the sound from Snes9x, a CD, BeAIM, and, just for the hell of it, an MP3 all playing at the same time, and if the system had wanted to let me know, it could have beeped at me. At times, ive had 3 mp3's all decoding at the same time, playing at diferent speeds. It sounds funky, but its a good demo of what the BeOS can do. Oh, i have a K6-2/400 if you were wondering.
--Dave
well, sorda.. I also happen to really really like BeOS. I use 5-6 os's regularly. at work i have a win95 box and a HP-UX box (front and back end to our system) with some systems at work runing Dos 6.2. my personal machine runs BeOS primarly, with Linux and Win98Lite (yes, it works) I would use Linux a hell of a lot more, if i could get any internet connection with it. I am gonna move soon, and have a cable modem, but until then, i have BeOS.