While I agree that the selective service registration is not without problems in itself.. I think that it's much easier to prevent new programs from becoming law.. I don't think anyone in Washington is about to repel us all registering..
It's a one step at a time battle, always has been, always will be.. If we lose here, then what's next?
Can you even imagine what the next step might be?
Where does it end? I mean really.. Broadcast flags are one things, but keeping tabs on every person that enters college? That's insane..
Granted not a lot of people finish college, but a great deal start.. and the idea that the government feels the need to keep track of me in yet another way is outragious.. By the time we get to college, we're in charge of making sure we succeed, not the government
Not sure about a program to just rip a cd when it is inserted.. Maybe you could write a script for it..
I like mp3blaster for a simple command line mp3 player though.. I'm pretty sure you can find it with just a search.. and it's in Gentoo's portage;-) It runs well on my 166 w/48 megs of ram:)
I'm really suprised at the number of people who give answers like "Don't do that" or "Give up on the idea." These people must not be like me with a nice system in the living room and a need for a network based machine to just play mp3s with.. I've got tons of 166ish computers laying around, and no real use for most of them:-(
The thing looks nice.. A million other people have already said that. But from looking at it, it seems very laking in the ease of use department.. At least from the stand point of a music player..
If I'm listening to music, I really don't want to have to look down to change the song.. I want it to be done very easily and only by touch.. When you put buttons on both sides and make the device take two hands to hold/use, you really make it harder to use.
Take for instance the old Sharp camcorders that had the screen on the back.. Sure they looked nice, had a big, nice LCD.. But they took two hands to use, and were hard to hold with just one hand.. Very few people bought a second one if they wanted to replace/upgrade their first, for that very reason.
Of course, for watching movies and that sorta thing, it shouldn't be a problem.. So unless they've got a wonderful interface that really is easy to use just by touch, the thing won't sell well.. Not to mention the whole price issue..
Do you realize what you're about to get yourself into? Haven't you ever heard the joke where the people call tech support and the tech support guy asks to talk to the youngest child in the house to fix the problem? And of all things, programming? Something that takes a huge effort to produce something that's really worth using much? While there are small rewards along the way, you oughta get her involved in something more along the lego lines.. but mix in some programming if you feel that she really wants to learn.. Check out the botball kits or something with the handyboard and let her play with some robots.. www.botball.org
Don't forget to get a V-Tech sticker too:) Oh, and one of those big red 'R' stickers.. Oh! and a NOS sticker too.. For when you need that extra couple Terebits;-)
Seti actully turned 5 years old on May 17th. Even the official Seti site didn't point it out until the day after.. Looks like they missed their own birthday..
Have a look for yourself, it's on the right side of the page.. http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
The transistor didn't exist.. The idea of how to build one did..
And as far as cancer goes, I know it's not a brute-force encryption scheme.. That's pretty obvious:) What I meant to imply, is that researchers use *gasp* computers to aid them. Perhaps having developed computers sooner, they would have been able to use computer aided research sooner, and perhaps, and I mean PERHAPS, found something before now.
There's a lot more that computers do besides compute long equations you know.
I had a professor tell me this story, and never bothered to go back through and check on the truth, but I assume it to be true:)
He said that Bell labs actully had to wait several years for a patent on the idea of an Field Effect Transistor (FET) to expire before trying to create their own. However, it was while they were trying to create the FET that the BJT was mistakenly invented.
Just through it was an interesting story about the effects that pattents have on society.. Can you imagine where the computer world might be if we'd gotten the transistor 5 years earlier or even more? It's an exciting thing to think about, and raises questions about patents.. Perhaps we could have cured cancer with that extra computing power.. Maybe we could have cured AIDs.. Or maybe our video games would be that much cooler;-)
(Still OT;-) )
Our DLPs just dropped $500 in regular selling price.. the 43" is just 2999 now.. Thats at Sears btw.. So the 50" is 3499.. I think the 50" Hitachi is $3299.. So not a lot of price difference there anymore.. Glad to see prices dropping.. Hopefully LCOS will bridge the gaps between the two.. No more color wheels and higher native resolutions.. I suppose time will tell.
Could be.. Not exactly sure how the tiny tiny tiny ones used in the projection screens are different from ones typically used in laptop screens and such.. I do know that my laptop screen at 1600x1200 looks a lot brighter and crisper than the Hitachi LCD projection we have at work.. and better than any I've seen other places.. However, I can see some space between the pixels when I get real real close to my screen;-) As far as both suffering.. Could be that the larger size influences my perception more..
It's not about actully seeing the blank space.. it's more about the picture quality that results.. DLP pictures seem brighter because of it, and closer to that of a computer monitor.. Hope that makes sense..
Lets not also forget that with any LCD projection screen, about 20% of the screen is the blank space between the pixels.. With DLP you've only got about 10% empty..
We don't have an LCOS on the floor where I work yet, so I haven't done a great deal of research into them.. But I belive that they have a higher resolution by default..
With 20% blank space, or even 10%, you're not going to want to use it as a monitor..
Go to your local Electronics store and ask how many TV's they have that put out 1920x1080.. I think Mitsubishi makes one.. It's a 73in.. Most just do 1280x740 or whatever.. It's really pretty shabby.. Why anyone would go out and buy a tv that can't even show full HD quality is beyond me..
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It depends heavily on if it was a DX or SX chip.
X PriCe winner? Please check your spelling before posting. :)
Like all good college students that have come before me, I've taken up the past time of not sleeping :)
While I agree that the selective service registration is not without problems in itself.. I think that it's much easier to prevent new programs from becoming law.. I don't think anyone in Washington is about to repel us all registering..
It's a one step at a time battle, always has been, always will be.. If we lose here, then what's next?
Can you even imagine what the next step might be?
Where does it end? I mean really.. Broadcast flags are one things, but keeping tabs on every person that enters college? That's insane..
Granted not a lot of people finish college, but a great deal start.. and the idea that the government feels the need to keep track of me in yet another way is outragious..
By the time we get to college, we're in charge of making sure we succeed, not the government
In windows it's the power button.
We're still waiting.. It's been 9 days so far.. But, the splash screen loaded.. So, a little faster than the average install.
I had a windows system like that once.. But it wasn't emulated :-/
Not sure about a program to just rip a cd when it is inserted.. Maybe you could write a script for it..
;-) It runs well on my 166 w/48 megs of ram :)
:-(
I like mp3blaster for a simple command line mp3 player though.. I'm pretty sure you can find it with just a search.. and it's in Gentoo's portage
I'm really suprised at the number of people who give answers like "Don't do that" or "Give up on the idea." These people must not be like me with a nice system in the living room and a need for a network based machine to just play mp3s with.. I've got tons of 166ish computers laying around, and no real use for most of them
There's Sears too.. As far as nation wide places go..
In Russia.. The CD Copywrites you! .. You insens.. clod.. I don't own a CD player you... etc.. :)
The thing looks nice.. A million other people have already said that. But from looking at it, it seems very laking in the ease of use department.. At least from the stand point of a music player..
If I'm listening to music, I really don't want to have to look down to change the song.. I want it to be done very easily and only by touch.. When you put buttons on both sides and make the device take two hands to hold/use, you really make it harder to use.
Take for instance the old Sharp camcorders that had the screen on the back.. Sure they looked nice, had a big, nice LCD.. But they took two hands to use, and were hard to hold with just one hand.. Very few people bought a second one if they wanted to replace/upgrade their first, for that very reason.
Of course, for watching movies and that sorta thing, it shouldn't be a problem.. So unless they've got a wonderful interface that really is easy to use just by touch, the thing won't sell well.. Not to mention the whole price issue..
Do you realize what you're about to get yourself into? Haven't you ever heard the joke where the people call tech support and the tech support guy asks to talk to the youngest child in the house to fix the problem? And of all things, programming? Something that takes a huge effort to produce something that's really worth using much? While there are small rewards along the way, you oughta get her involved in something more along the lego lines.. but mix in some programming if you feel that she really wants to learn.. Check out the botball kits or something with the handyboard and let her play with some robots.. www.botball.org
Don't forget to get a V-Tech sticker too :) Oh, and one of those big red 'R' stickers.. Oh! and a NOS sticker too.. For when you need that extra couple Terebits ;-)
Seti actully turned 5 years old on May 17th. Even the official Seti site didn't point it out until the day after.. Looks like they missed their own birthday..
Have a look for yourself, it's on the right side of the page.. http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
The transistor didn't exist.. The idea of how to build one did.. :) What I meant to imply, is that researchers use *gasp* computers to aid them. Perhaps having developed computers sooner, they would have been able to use computer aided research sooner, and perhaps, and I mean PERHAPS, found something before now.
And as far as cancer goes, I know it's not a brute-force encryption scheme.. That's pretty obvious
There's a lot more that computers do besides compute long equations you know.
I had a professor tell me this story, and never bothered to go back through and check on the truth, but I assume it to be true :) ;-)
He said that Bell labs actully had to wait several years for a patent on the idea of an Field Effect Transistor (FET) to expire before trying to create their own. However, it was while they were trying to create the FET that the BJT was mistakenly invented.
Just through it was an interesting story about the effects that pattents have on society.. Can you imagine where the computer world might be if we'd gotten the transistor 5 years earlier or even more? It's an exciting thing to think about, and raises questions about patents.. Perhaps we could have cured cancer with that extra computing power.. Maybe we could have cured AIDs.. Or maybe our video games would be that much cooler
... And they can't buy a fast webhost?
(Still OT ;-) )
Our DLPs just dropped $500 in regular selling price.. the 43" is just 2999 now.. Thats at Sears btw.. So the 50" is 3499.. I think the 50" Hitachi is $3299.. So not a lot of price difference there anymore.. Glad to see prices dropping.. Hopefully LCOS will bridge the gaps between the two.. No more color wheels and higher native resolutions.. I suppose time will tell.
Could be.. Not exactly sure how the tiny tiny tiny ones used in the projection screens are different from ones typically used in laptop screens and such.. I do know that my laptop screen at 1600x1200 looks a lot brighter and crisper than the Hitachi LCD projection we have at work.. and better than any I've seen other places.. However, I can see some space between the pixels when I get real real close to my screen ;-) As far as both suffering.. Could be that the larger size influences my perception more..
It's not about actully seeing the blank space.. it's more about the picture quality that results.. DLP pictures seem brighter because of it, and closer to that of a computer monitor.. Hope that makes sense..
Lets not also forget that with any LCD projection screen, about 20% of the screen is the blank space between the pixels.. With DLP you've only got about 10% empty.. We don't have an LCOS on the floor where I work yet, so I haven't done a great deal of research into them.. But I belive that they have a higher resolution by default.. With 20% blank space, or even 10%, you're not going to want to use it as a monitor..
Go to your local Electronics store and ask how many TV's they have that put out 1920x1080.. I think Mitsubishi makes one.. It's a 73in.. Most just do 1280x740 or whatever.. It's really pretty shabby.. Why anyone would go out and buy a tv that can't even show full HD quality is beyond me..
some social skills (you don't come off like a neanderthal cave-coder in interviews)... Are we forgetting that this is Slashdot again?
Learn some other languages.. Maybe some southern Asian ones.. And try to avoid growing roots in the USA