when you RTFA you see that he tried to put a laptop just under the camera but it still looked stupid once it was on tape as he was looking down. With a teleprompter there is a sheet of glass placed infront of the camera at an angle, the camera sees through this just fine. There is then a source of light placed underneath and because of total internal reflection the light (or screen of text) gets reflected into your eyes. you can then read the word and look into the camera at the same time.
its not, thats an advert quite cleverly designed to liik like the rest of the site. The links are all ad.doubleclick.net and the blurb is all about windows being better.
slashdot even has MS adverts, they are just everywhere. and where better to put them? trying to scare inquisitive new users away.
i agee with you there, i found it interesting too although the links to the slashdot story from 2001 were funnier.
i remember the first mp3 player i bought, about 150 GBP for 32 MB of storage and it was about the same size as an ipod. If i encoded the songs at 64kbps i could just about squeeze 2 albums on! it was magic! i think either the decoding hardware was too poor for me to notice the low quality or i was delusion from being way cooler than the other kids at the time!
When you buy a book, are you really buying a license to read words on the page?
technically though, arent you? you cant legally do whatever you want with it. You cant legally copy it on a copier and give the copy to someone else. Before it was just too impractical to do and manufacturers had no real way of enforcing this.
in the same way you can legally copy half-life or any other game. But you can do what you like to the physical media, just like you can do with a book.
Just unlocked my copy, the install and unlock from the DVD took about 20 mins? if that. I have no complaints, if my pc fucks up my game is tied to my steam login so i dont need to worry about CD-keys again. I dont think its that bad a deal, it even has an offline mode if ur really that paranoid, just stop it acessing the net with a firewall product like zone alarm.
you'd be surprised but even with windows "totally" locked down the word open box is like running explorer. especially in recent versions it can be used to lauch executables of choice and browse the local system. (click on recent documents then try going up a level or a few till you reach c: then right click on a folder and click explore!)
going slightly back on topic i dont think its that people are timid or scared of learning a program but that when they are taught computers they are told not what to do but how to do it. As a result they have no idea what they are doing most of the time and if something doesnt work they wont know what to do as it goes outside the concrete world of what they know is going to happen. People rarely feel like they are in control of the computer
Just the other day my mum was stuck in thunderbird, she wanted her sent items to be saved in the sent items folder related to her account, not the local folders one. She went through all the options in the menus but didnt find what she was looking for because she didnt realise that there was more than one screen on "account settings" as she had never been told. People need to be taught why they do the things they do and how the computer works, not just send them to use a list of steps that accomplish one thing while they cautiously click around a world of incomprehensabele jargon. we often forget that words like "firefox", "browser" or "toolbar" mean nothing to most people.
It indexes the URL i leave on my slasdot comments. Its quite useful actually, i just managed to reclaim my home page from googles cache! I lost it in a format! im really happy now,even tho it is a small piece of poo!
that price i got quoted from apple's website included the bluetoth module and bluetooth keyboard and mouse, so yes, for roughly the same price you can sit on your bed and use an iMac
The Tv licence fee goes to funding the BBC and as a result the bbc doesnt have advert breaks! Ever seen a movie on regular tv with no adverts? its heaven! and also no adverts during programs either. They wont split up a 1/2 hour program to show 5 mins of adverts in the middle! did you know an episode of the simpsons lasts only 20 minutes without adverts?
Crack sites and (my friend told me this) some pron sites used to have XPI install spyware (but you had to click ok to install it).
This was fixed by the mozilla dev team's implementation of a XPI installer website whitelist consisting of (by default) just mozdev.org. The user can add other sites though, should they want to.
Im sure you could make an external battery pack of you own to supplement the DS internal batteries when your on a loong journey. this would be kinda like the guy who made a spare external battery pack for his IPod which was the subject of a slashdot story some time ago...
Ah yeah, also, if you plan to run linux on it (who wouldnt for any type of server) the EPIA wiki will be like a bible to you! http://www.epiawiki.org/wiki/tiki-index.php
They have kernel patches for the M1000 board's hardware DVD decoding (among other things) as well as listing all the kernel options to optimise it for a via processor.
My friends and i always play Rise of nations which can be fun, if not quite long per game.
we also play Tron 2.0, not very popular but its got a great multiplayer. Its slightly different from the conventional FPS (discs instead of guns) but the kevels are interactive in a way that makes it quite a laugh (like shooting out the floor)
finally i will come onto Splinter cell pandora tomorrow, which while having a fairly complicated multiplayer, once you've been through the tutorials its a hell of a lot of fun. Even if only one person is experianced in it 3 other people can gang up against them to even the difficulty out a bit!
the Yoper website is slashdotted pretty bad too now, heres a link to their torrent though, so we can all download a copy, its practically empty at the moment!!
http://apt.yoper.com/torrent/yoper.torrent
where are the comparisons of this FS to JFS and even XFS? there was a file system comparison on./ a while ago now (cant remember) and i seem to remember XFS beating the old reiserfs by a bit and it also showed how reiserfs used the most CPU for read/write. For my server i chose JFS as it was faster than EXT3 and used the least CPU.
There have been faster file systems than EXT3 for a while now, i dont know why distros havent switched over to them.
Slashdot Mirror
number on the telephone... (it zooms in that far with great clarity)
334-69705 lets ring it!!
when you RTFA you see that he tried to put a laptop just under the camera but it still looked stupid once it was on tape as he was looking down. With a teleprompter there is a sheet of glass placed infront of the camera at an angle, the camera sees through this just fine. There is then a source of light placed underneath and because of total internal reflection the light (or screen of text) gets reflected into your eyes. you can then read the word and look into the camera at the same time.
it wont happen for a while...
just think... why bother releasing on UMD to target barely 500,000 people who will be tech savvy enough to have a DVD player anyway?!
its not, thats an advert quite cleverly designed to liik like the rest of the site. The links are all ad.doubleclick.net and the blurb is all about windows being better.
slashdot even has MS adverts, they are just everywhere. and where better to put them? trying to scare inquisitive new users away.
compare like with like, please!!
your fugures mean valve are charging $2400 per year for 20 machines. About half of blizzard but its more than your EA figure.
i agee with you there, i found it interesting too although the links to the slashdot story from 2001 were funnier.
i remember the first mp3 player i bought, about 150 GBP for 32 MB of storage and it was about the same size as an ipod. If i encoded the songs at 64kbps i could just about squeeze 2 albums on! it was magic! i think either the decoding hardware was too poor for me to notice the low quality or i was delusion from being way cooler than the other kids at the time!
When you buy a book, are you really buying a license to read words on the page?
technically though, arent you? you cant legally do whatever you want with it. You cant legally copy it on a copier and give the copy to someone else. Before it was just too impractical to do and manufacturers had no real way of enforcing this.
in the same way you can legally copy half-life or any other game. But you can do what you like to the physical media, just like you can do with a book.
Just unlocked my copy, the install and unlock from the DVD took about 20 mins? if that. I have no complaints, if my pc fucks up my game is tied to my steam login so i dont need to worry about CD-keys again. I dont think its that bad a deal, it even has an offline mode if ur really that paranoid, just stop it acessing the net with a firewall product like zone alarm.
you'd be surprised but even with windows "totally" locked down the word open box is like running explorer. especially in recent versions it can be used to lauch executables of choice and browse the local system. (click on recent documents then try going up a level or a few till you reach c: then right click on a folder and click explore!)
going slightly back on topic i dont think its that people are timid or scared of learning a program but that when they are taught computers they are told not what to do but how to do it. As a result they have no idea what they are doing most of the time and if something doesnt work they wont know what to do as it goes outside the concrete world of what they know is going to happen. People rarely feel like they are in control of the computer
Just the other day my mum was stuck in thunderbird, she wanted her sent items to be saved in the sent items folder related to her account, not the local folders one. She went through all the options in the menus but didnt find what she was looking for because she didnt realise that there was more than one screen on "account settings" as she had never been told. People need to be taught why they do the things they do and how the computer works, not just send them to use a list of steps that accomplish one thing while they cautiously click around a world of incomprehensabele jargon. we often forget that words like "firefox", "browser" or "toolbar" mean nothing to most people.
It indexes the URL i leave on my slasdot comments. Its quite useful actually, i just managed to reclaim my home page from googles cache! I lost it in a format! im really happy now ,even tho it is a small piece of poo!
yeah, my "page file" is the 1s and 0s ive scribbled down on some paper
that price i got quoted from apple's website included the bluetoth module and bluetooth keyboard and mouse, so yes, for roughly the same price you can sit on your bed and use an iMac
You can buy a MUCH better Imac for that price. $1,852 if you pick the 17" 1.8ghz and upgrade the HD and RAM to match.
yeah, you know i was talking about your local hosts file being compromised
Thats why you should set your hosts file to read only. Spybot S&D does this for you but you can do it yourself too.
The Tv licence fee goes to funding the BBC and as a result the bbc doesnt have advert breaks! Ever seen a movie on regular tv with no adverts? its heaven!
and also no adverts during programs either. They wont split up a 1/2 hour program to show 5 mins of adverts in the middle!
did you know an episode of the simpsons lasts only 20 minutes without adverts?
Crack sites and (my friend told me this) some pron sites used to have XPI install spyware (but you had to click ok to install it).
This was fixed by the mozilla dev team's implementation of a XPI installer website whitelist consisting of (by default) just mozdev.org. The user can add other sites though, should they want to.
...seems to feel that posting a link to it on slashdot is a vunerability.
Im sure you could make an external battery pack of you own to supplement the DS internal batteries when your on a loong journey. this would be kinda like the guy who made a spare external battery pack for his IPod which was the subject of a slashdot story some time ago...
Ah yeah, also, if you plan to run linux on it (who wouldnt for any type of server) the EPIA wiki will be like a bible to you!
http://www.epiawiki.org/wiki/tiki-index.php
They have kernel patches for the M1000 board's hardware DVD decoding (among other things) as well as listing all the kernel options to optimise it for a via processor.
linitx.com if you're looking for a miniITx format board/proc. May i reccoment the VIA Nehimia 1Ghz board to meet all your small computing needs :)
My friends and i always play Rise of nations which can be fun, if not quite long per game.
we also play Tron 2.0, not very popular but its got a great multiplayer. Its slightly different from the conventional FPS (discs instead of guns) but the kevels are interactive in a way that makes it quite a laugh (like shooting out the floor)
finally i will come onto Splinter cell pandora tomorrow, which while having a fairly complicated multiplayer, once you've been through the tutorials its a hell of a lot of fun. Even if only one person is experianced in it 3 other people can gang up against them to even the difficulty out a bit!
the Yoper website is slashdotted pretty bad too now, heres a link to their torrent though, so we can all download a copy, its practically empty at the moment!! http://apt.yoper.com/torrent/yoper.torrent
Thats quite confusing until you remember X11 clients and servers are the other way around (from a traditional point of view)
where are the comparisons of this FS to JFS and even XFS? there was a file system comparison on ./ a while ago now (cant remember) and i seem to remember XFS beating the old reiserfs by a bit and it also showed how reiserfs used the most CPU for read/write. For my server i chose JFS as it was faster than EXT3 and used the least CPU.
There have been faster file systems than EXT3 for a while now, i dont know why distros havent switched over to them.