Don't forget the torture possibilities, imagine a bunch of tiny pins in your eye.
It would be even better if you could still plug them in backwards and overheat them very quickly like you could the 486(a friend of mine once plugged his in the wrong way, and it was glowing red), but even still, a cpu can be very painful if forced into various orifices.
As other posters have noted, a lot of chips are made in the US. Why? Because the US is where most of the expertiese(sp?) is. Fabs are almost purely automated, so you would gain very, very little savings in cost of labor. Probably the environment would be the only significant cost savings you could gain, but being away from most of the knowledge is not a good thing. Now this may change as many foriegn-born PhD's decide to return home, but only time may tell on that one.
You want to change this, then RUN YOURSELF!
Provided you are the right age(which, except for president and perhaps US Senator isn't all that high) there is nothing stopping you from running. Run on the "basic competence" party ticket.
Most people don't buy Macs because of thier hardware,
You would be surprised. Outside of the eMac(which is basically just a machine to get OS X), all other apple hardware has some definite selling points.
A portion of/.izens use iBooks/Powerbooks with Linux on them. Why? Because Apple's laptops are a nice piece of hardware. They have decent, if not overwhelming performance stats, they automatically go to sleep when you close the lid, they look nice, certain models don't weigh a whole lot for all the features you get, and they have long battery life.
The iMac has a small form factor, it is very quiet(key among recording studios), and it is sleek, stylish, and dare I say almost sexy. Currently the iMac is a horrible deal, but I would bet on a performance boost and/or price drop beforre back to school season this year.
And I'm not going to start a G5 vs. AMD vs. Intel flamewar, but there are people who believe that the powermacs give the most bang for the buck(but then there are people who disagree, you make your own conclusions)
So Apple hardware(outside of the eMac of course) isn't all that bad. If you are going on pure performance per dollar then maybe it doesn't look great, but keep in mind people have a lot of different needs for their computers.
Heh, random story about that game, I managed to make it lock up on a divide by zero error...
I was just starting to program and figure I would create a program that would insert random bytes into datafiles for various games. Doom didn't appreciate it too much(though it's always fun getting the ascii smiley in your game name), and sim farm surprisingly loaded it, though after a few minutes I guess I did something that caused a divide by zero.
memories....
she was playing DDR when it happened, instead of walking to school, going for a run etc. The arcade owner knew CPR and probably saved her life. If this had happened while she was alone, then who knows what could have transpired.
So, one could argue, DDR actually SAVED a life;)
rather than a technical solution, just strike fear into the heart of the user. Put an empty camera shell above the computer tied to a fake, but realistic looking revolver.
Tell them the camera can detect them messing with the system, and if caught, the camera/gun combo will grow legs and make them wish they hadn't installed the random screensaver exe sent to them in the mail.
Or maybe you would get sued, I dunno, I'm not a lawyer.
rotecting children from porn (if you can even call it protecting) is soly the responsibility of the parents.
What about something like this?
The guy registered a whole bunch of mis-spelled disney-related domains. And IIRC, kids are not the greatest spellers. I think that while the parents should take responsibility, porn vendors should also go out of there way to ensure that minors do not accidentally stumble across the site, and if they do, we should edcuate children on what it is, and that they should tell an adult immediately.
I was talking with my friends about this on the weekend... how cool it would be to remake DOOM and DOOM II with the DOOM3 engine. I'd definitely put some money down for that.
Well, Doom 3 is supposed to be a re-telling of the original doom...though no word on doom 4 being a re-telling of doom 2:P
XCode is probably more analgous to this release than open source *nix tools. Apple distributes XCode free with Panther(and an updated version will come out with Tiger). It is free as in beer, but not open source. However, the panther release probably isn't as nice as Visual Studio, here is hoping they improve some stuff in 2.0...
However, you can release commercial code with XCode if you so desire. Although it doesn't have BASIC or C#, it does have support for Java, applescript, and more.
Feh, I still think I will stick with XCode.
create something like Nintendo's iPaq(which is an snes/n64 built into a controller that they sell in China) were I could take my tv game, go to a game store, pay a few bucks, and download the 2600 game of my choice. Or better yet, do it online. You wouldn't even need that large of a memory card to hold a lot of these games. Come on people, innovate! You have that IP just sitting around, do something with it or else people have no choice but to download roms. And please make it better than these tv games, I don't want to have to pay $20 for a device that only holds a few games(then has to take up space in my house when it's not in use)
that the long-sagging birth rate in Japan has really taken a bite out of game sales? The Japanese birth rate is only about 1.4 or so, compared to the US's 2.06. Thats pretty significant(and has long term implications for the country as a whole). Also note that 21.25% of the American population is under 14, versus only 14% of the Japanese. Now I realize that there are adult gamers, but a large chunk of the video game market is to kids and teens. In both raw numbers and percentages, the US has a much larger market, and the Japanese market is, and has been for a while, falling.
Sources:
US Demographics Japan Demographics
Cat
I dunno...to me the name "cat" just isn't awe inspiring. I mean, could you seriously take an OS seriously if it's codename was "cat"?
Yes, and speed up your OS X experience with Meow-Mix software!
hat happened to the good old asking the kids at school what they watched in the family last night from tv?
that was nasty. no need for drm either since this way you can catch those who go over the drm....
Granted, but people who force their kids to watch Mama's family should be forced to do hard labor:P
I think the reason they don't ask you for a serial number is that they don't want to be intrusive....
If in fact you are a poor college student like myself, you can probably get a nice, legal version for cheap(in fact, my school, penn state, only charges you $5 for the media, the license is free).
I would rather have legal software(whether FOSS, low cost student options or otherwise) than pirated stuff, but maybe thats just how I roll.
Most of the online research services and transcript companies that can provide original documents (facts) cost thousands of dollars per month. My conclusion... It is IMPOSSIBLE for a common individual to be properly informed about issues that they must vote on. This is a very sad conclusion because our system of government is founded on the principal that the voting public is educated about the issues.
Try your local library. Most should have access to Lexus-Nexus, one of the most often used resources in creating these books. Just because you cannot do it from the convience of your home does not mean you cannot do it at all.
If everything happens inside the US, you are right, but you can successfully send money to less than scrupulous parties in certain nations...
I haven't done it myself, but I've read about it being done(not to mention there have been successful Nigerian 419ers).
That being said, after 9/11 it is getting harder, but not impossible, to make fradulent wire transfers.
Read the first part of my post, I said I saw the movie. And on my way to see the movie, I listened to Savage Nation for a different viewpoint. My point in making the post was, if I want to get into a political discussion on the merits of this movie, I will go to a political site.
I'm not saying that politics has no place on/., there are mixtures of politics and technology(patents, censorship, etc) that should be discussed here, however I don't feel that this issue is really one of those mixtures.
Ok, so maybe flamebate wasn't the right mod for this article, lets just call it off-topic.
Seriously, although I saw this movie and liked it, this is not the place to discuss it. This site is supposed to be about technology I thought. The only really interesting technical tidbit of this film was that it was, IIRC, entirely created on a mac using Final Cut pro....
Let's get back to discussing robots and porn tech!
WTF?? You just made a nice circular argument. You were trying to prove that it was as safe in Chicago as it was in Iraq. And you are a moron. Next time, try focusing on something meaningful instead of trying your best to poke holes in the periphery of an argument. Um, your argument was that it isn't any more dangerous in Iraq than it is in Chicago, which I showed to you, with *gasp* numbers, that you are talking out of your ass. So what is your argument? That only 800 died? Yes, compared to Vietnam-about 50k, Korea, about 50,000, etc. However, by your logic then a thief is to be commended because after he broke into a the house of a sleeping family, he only killed the man and injured the woman. Remember, it could have been worse, he could have killed the kids. I argue that he should be punished because he shouldn't have been there to begin with. Just like Dubya, the thief in our little story, had no business being in Iraq. However, he did gain financially from the deaths of innocents. For the record, "murders per unit time per geographical area" is a perfectly acceptable definition of "murder rate."
I certainly hope you don't work in statistics. By your "logic", and I use that term loosely, if a city of 500,000 has 600 murders in a year, it is as dangerous as Chicago.
I await your reply. *rolls up pants
You do realize that the total number of American soldiers killed since the invasion began is still less than 1,000, right? The invasion started in March, 2003, and it's now nearly July, 2004, which means the rate of American soldiers dying in Iraq is roughly comparable to the murder rate of Chicago, Illinois.
Um, you might wanna check on what that pesky word "rate" means. This may be just crazy liberal talk, but I interpret rate to be number of murders per unit of population. last year there were 599 declared homicides in Chicago. The population of Chicago is 2,886,251 Well, that is a 2002 estimate, but it is close enough for the purpose of this exercise. That means that there were a bout 2.075 murders per 10,000 people in the city.
From March 2003 to March 2004 there were 601 US casulties in the Iraq War. Needless to say, the # of soldiers in Iraq is much less than the number of people in Chicago, but just to drill home how dumb your point is, lets do some calculations, shall we?
The total size of US forces in Iraq is roughly 138,000. So 601/138,000, or about 43.55 people per 10,000 killed......
Maybe it's just my poor math skills(obviously a result of our public schools, which I attended for both college and high school), but it seems to me that 43.55 is a lot bigger than 2.075....
Next time, do some real research before opening your mouth, you just might be surprised to see that you were being lied to. I found all these number off the internet in about 5 minutes
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Don't forget the torture possibilities, imagine a bunch of tiny pins in your eye.
It would be even better if you could still plug them in backwards and overheat them very quickly like you could the 486(a friend of mine once plugged his in the wrong way, and it was glowing red), but even still, a cpu can be very painful if forced into various orifices.
As other posters have noted, a lot of chips are made in the US. Why? Because the US is where most of the expertiese(sp?) is. Fabs are almost purely automated, so you would gain very, very little savings in cost of labor. Probably the environment would be the only significant cost savings you could gain, but being away from most of the knowledge is not a good thing. Now this may change as many foriegn-born PhD's decide to return home, but only time may tell on that one.
You want to change this, then RUN YOURSELF!
Provided you are the right age(which, except for president and perhaps US Senator isn't all that high) there is nothing stopping you from running. Run on the "basic competence" party ticket.
Most people don't buy Macs because of thier hardware, /.izens use iBooks/Powerbooks with Linux on them. Why? Because Apple's laptops are a nice piece of hardware. They have decent, if not overwhelming performance stats, they automatically go to sleep when you close the lid, they look nice, certain models don't weigh a whole lot for all the features you get, and they have long battery life.
You would be surprised. Outside of the eMac(which is basically just a machine to get OS X), all other apple hardware has some definite selling points.
A portion of
The iMac has a small form factor, it is very quiet(key among recording studios), and it is sleek, stylish, and dare I say almost sexy. Currently the iMac is a horrible deal, but I would bet on a performance boost and/or price drop beforre back to school season this year.
And I'm not going to start a G5 vs. AMD vs. Intel flamewar, but there are people who believe that the powermacs give the most bang for the buck(but then there are people who disagree, you make your own conclusions)
So Apple hardware(outside of the eMac of course) isn't all that bad. If you are going on pure performance per dollar then maybe it doesn't look great, but keep in mind people have a lot of different needs for their computers.
Heh, random story about that game, I managed to make it lock up on a divide by zero error...
I was just starting to program and figure I would create a program that would insert random bytes into datafiles for various games. Doom didn't appreciate it too much(though it's always fun getting the ascii smiley in your game name), and sim farm surprisingly loaded it, though after a few minutes I guess I did something that caused a divide by zero.
memories....
whenever it parks behind Darl McBride's car, it keeps on slamming the gas and ramming into it...I wonder why
she was playing DDR when it happened, instead of walking to school, going for a run etc. The arcade owner knew CPR and probably saved her life. If this had happened while she was alone, then who knows what could have transpired. ;)
So, one could argue, DDR actually SAVED a life
rather than a technical solution, just strike fear into the heart of the user. Put an empty camera shell above the computer tied to a fake, but realistic looking revolver.
Tell them the camera can detect them messing with the system, and if caught, the camera/gun combo will grow legs and make them wish they hadn't installed the random screensaver exe sent to them in the mail.
Or maybe you would get sued, I dunno, I'm not a lawyer.
Nah, I'll stick to lynx running on my gamecube, the only way to surf!
rotecting children from porn (if you can even call it protecting) is soly the responsibility of the parents.
What about something like this?
The guy registered a whole bunch of mis-spelled disney-related domains. And IIRC, kids are not the greatest spellers. I think that while the parents should take responsibility, porn vendors should also go out of there way to ensure that minors do not accidentally stumble across the site, and if they do, we should edcuate children on what it is, and that they should tell an adult immediately.
I was talking with my friends about this on the weekend... how cool it would be to remake DOOM and DOOM II with the DOOM3 engine. I'd definitely put some money down for that. :P
Well, Doom 3 is supposed to be a re-telling of the original doom...though no word on doom 4 being a re-telling of doom 2
XCode is probably more analgous to this release than open source *nix tools. Apple distributes XCode free with Panther(and an updated version will come out with Tiger). It is free as in beer, but not open source. However, the panther release probably isn't as nice as Visual Studio, here is hoping they improve some stuff in 2.0...
However, you can release commercial code with XCode if you so desire. Although it doesn't have BASIC or C#, it does have support for Java, applescript, and more.
Feh, I still think I will stick with XCode.
D'oh!
I guess I have PDA on the brain.
Thanks.
create something like Nintendo's iPaq(which is an snes/n64 built into a controller that they sell in China) were I could take my tv game, go to a game store, pay a few bucks, and download the 2600 game of my choice. Or better yet, do it online. You wouldn't even need that large of a memory card to hold a lot of these games. Come on people, innovate! You have that IP just sitting around, do something with it or else people have no choice but to download roms. And please make it better than these tv games, I don't want to have to pay $20 for a device that only holds a few games(then has to take up space in my house when it's not in use)
that the long-sagging birth rate in Japan has really taken a bite out of game sales? The Japanese birth rate is only about 1.4 or so, compared to the US's 2.06. Thats pretty significant(and has long term implications for the country as a whole). Also note that 21.25% of the American population is under 14, versus only 14% of the Japanese. Now I realize that there are adult gamers, but a large chunk of the video game market is to kids and teens. In both raw numbers and percentages, the US has a much larger market, and the Japanese market is, and has been for a while, falling.
Sources:
US Demographics
Japan Demographics
Cat
I dunno...to me the name "cat" just isn't awe inspiring. I mean, could you seriously take an OS seriously if it's codename was "cat"?
Yes, and speed up your OS X experience with Meow-Mix software!
hat happened to the good old asking the kids at school what they watched in the family last night from tv? that was nasty. no need for drm either since this way you can catch those who go over the drm.... :P
Granted, but people who force their kids to watch Mama's family should be forced to do hard labor
I think the reason they don't ask you for a serial number is that they don't want to be intrusive....
If in fact you are a poor college student like myself, you can probably get a nice, legal version for cheap(in fact, my school, penn state, only charges you $5 for the media, the license is free).
I would rather have legal software(whether FOSS, low cost student options or otherwise) than pirated stuff, but maybe thats just how I roll.
Most of the online research services and transcript companies that can provide original documents (facts) cost thousands of dollars per month. My conclusion... It is IMPOSSIBLE for a common individual to be properly informed about issues that they must vote on. This is a very sad conclusion because our system of government is founded on the principal that the voting public is educated about the issues.
Try your local library. Most should have access to Lexus-Nexus, one of the most often used resources in creating these books. Just because you cannot do it from the convience of your home does not mean you cannot do it at all.
If everything happens inside the US, you are right, but you can successfully send money to less than scrupulous parties in certain nations...
I haven't done it myself, but I've read about it being done(not to mention there have been successful Nigerian 419ers).
That being said, after 9/11 it is getting harder, but not impossible, to make fradulent wire transfers.
Read the first part of my post, I said I saw the movie. And on my way to see the movie, I listened to Savage Nation for a different viewpoint. /., there are mixtures of politics and technology(patents, censorship, etc) that should be discussed here, however I don't feel that this issue is really one of those mixtures.
My point in making the post was, if I want to get into a political discussion on the merits of this movie, I will go to a political site.
I'm not saying that politics has no place on
Ok, so maybe flamebate wasn't the right mod for this article, lets just call it off-topic.
Seriously, although I saw this movie and liked it, this is not the place to discuss it. This site is supposed to be about technology I thought. The only really interesting technical tidbit of this film was that it was, IIRC, entirely created on a mac using Final Cut pro....
Let's get back to discussing robots and porn tech!
WTF?? You just made a nice circular argument. You were trying to prove that it was as safe in Chicago as it was in Iraq. And you are a moron.
Next time, try focusing on something meaningful instead of trying your best to poke holes in the periphery of an argument. Um, your argument was that it isn't any more dangerous in Iraq than it is in Chicago, which I showed to you, with *gasp* numbers, that you are talking out of your ass. So what is your argument? That only 800 died? Yes, compared to Vietnam-about 50k, Korea, about 50,000, etc. However, by your logic then a thief is to be commended because after he broke into a the house of a sleeping family, he only killed the man and injured the woman. Remember, it could have been worse, he could have killed the kids. I argue that he should be punished because he shouldn't have been there to begin with. Just like Dubya, the thief in our little story, had no business being in Iraq. However, he did gain financially from the deaths of innocents.
For the record, "murders per unit time per geographical area" is a perfectly acceptable definition of "murder rate."
I certainly hope you don't work in statistics. By your "logic", and I use that term loosely, if a city of 500,000 has 600 murders in a year, it is as dangerous as Chicago.
I await your reply. *rolls up pants
You do realize that the total number of American soldiers killed since the invasion began is still less than 1,000, right? The invasion started in March, 2003, and it's now nearly July, 2004, which means the rate of American soldiers dying in Iraq is roughly comparable to the murder rate of Chicago, Illinois.
Um, you might wanna check on what that pesky word "rate" means. This may be just crazy liberal talk, but I interpret rate to be number of murders per unit of population.
last year there were 599 declared homicides in Chicago. The population of Chicago is 2,886,251 Well, that is a 2002 estimate, but it is close enough for the purpose of this exercise. That means that there were a bout 2.075 murders per 10,000 people in the city.
From March 2003 to March 2004 there were 601 US casulties in the Iraq War. Needless to say, the # of soldiers in Iraq is much less than the number of people in Chicago, but just to drill home how dumb your point is, lets do some calculations, shall we?
The total size of US forces in Iraq is roughly 138,000. So 601/138,000, or about 43.55 people per 10,000 killed......
Maybe it's just my poor math skills(obviously a result of our public schools, which I attended for both college and high school), but it seems to me that 43.55 is a lot bigger than 2.075....
Next time, do some real research before opening your mouth, you just might be surprised to see that you were being lied to. I found all these number off the internet in about 5 minutes
Damn, you got me, didn't think of sigs, what is your paypal id, I'll send you the dollar.