There was no Hugh's town. They renamed the city after Sam Houston because he did so much for Texas, and ended up settling in the area.
Houston, for those who have never been there and like to just bash those of us in Texas, is one of the few great world-class cities this country has. It has awesome food, and good night life, and diversity that you would not believe. Houston is really pretty cool, if not far too large and congested.
Coltan is the main ingredient in the capacitors that run all your precious little Playstations. The regime currently in place was funded and armed by us, when the previous president was overthrown. They have been cutting the hands of thousands of peasent miners in order to scare them off so that the military dictatorship can step in and reap all the benefits of the sale.
So for those of you who think you had nothing to do with it, you're wrong.
1. FPS - quake et al.
2. Simulation - sims, etc.
3. RTS - AOE, Civ, and all that
That is pretty much the market for PC games. Console games on the other hand, are MUCH more imaginative, have better game play, and their genres are much more diverse. You could say the relative stability of the hardware drives producers to make these qualities stand out more in their games (because they all roughly have the same limitations). Whatever it is, console gamers are the most serious simply because they have BETTER GAMES. The only PC game in the last year and a half that could hold my interest for more than a day or two was Black and White. Yet I've played Grandia II and Skies of Arcadia countless times on my Dreamcast. Or better yet, I just spent $40 on Final Fantasy:Chronicles so I could once again play games I had on my SNES.
Simply saying that a mouse makes you a serious gamer is pretty much a joke. Serious gamers are such because they are able to take any kind of game and master it, and with diversity of PC games on such short order I doubt many PC-only gamers can pick up anything other than an FPS quickly. Hell, what about the Dreamcast mouse and keyboard? Does that suddenly make console gamers more hardcore because they have a mouse-based interface to play with rather than just the controller?
I've been playing video games for almost 15 years now, and to this day I prefer playing them on dedicated consoles because the games are just _better_ and they are more diverse.
I have often read comments lamenting the effort required to read other's code. While I can understand that logically, two people can put together two different programs to serve the same purpose - but come on. Syntax? Capitilazations? This is what coding standards are for, and any good _team_ will have a well-defined standard for things like that precisely for this reason.
To begin with, I will state right now that I am an employee of Iomega, though I have nothing to with hardware. It's great to see that no one on this site ever bothers to read up on anything, and just posts whatever excrement happens to pop into their heads as fast as possible.
I'm just pissed off that there really are so many morons that post here.
Now, that's out of the way, and you all hate me...
The peerless drive has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with Jaz (non)-technology. It is nothing at all like the Jaz, and suffers from NONE of the limitations of the Jaz. It's faster, it's FAR more reliable, and best of all it's SEALED MEDIA.
It also has nothing to do with Zip technology.
Or click.
Or any other 10-year old glorified floppy or unsealed hard drive tech. This shit is brand-new.
Yes, I agree the price is pretty sick.. but what do you expect? Where are all the other portable solutions that fill the gap the Peerless meets? Don't even bring up the "portable" firewire and USB hard drives, because not only are they MUCH larger, they are MUCH heavier, and require MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE POWER. I'd really like to see you hook a portable usb hard drive up to something like a portable mp3 player, and expect it to stay powered on for more than a few minutes. Get real, please.
I also have to question the grip on reality some people have. This is not a shiny, happy world, and companies are FOR SURE neither shiny, nor happy. I want to know what other company, in the same position as iomega, would have done anything differently in light of their own click of death? I seriously doubt ANY of them would admit to anything.
If you knew how much hardware you all had in your machines that had firmware full of holes, you would be sick. Try getting the manufacturers to admit to it.. and good luck.
None of you have to buy this thing, and at that price I don't blame you. But I really wish SOMEONE would take the time to fucking read about something before shooting off at the mouth.
If you have used Arc/Info 8 or above, you know that everything is now using COM. They have also move all the personal geodatabases to use JET. The most awful piece of trash db interface / engine.
Microsoft has given them lots of money to make sure nothing but Windows NT / 2k gets supported from here on out. They are even dropping support for Irix of all things. Fuck ESRI.
BTW - has anyone noticed they really are following in Microsoft's footsteps.. Arc/Info 8 is the most crash-ridden, buggy package they've put out to date! And with the ultra-stable underpinnings of a Microsoft OS and API, it can only get worse!
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but a USB monitor would likely be the worst piece of trash you had ever used.
800x600x24bit = 11520000 bits per screen
Already, that's 10mbit / sec. There would be no interlacing, so you can't get away with halving that and drawing twice to get the whole screen of data.
If we assume a 60hz refresh, that's 60 of these screen draws per second making that 10mb (almost the limit of USB to begin with) more like 600mbit.
On the really low end, assume:
640x480x16 bit = 4915200 bits / screen
4.7 mbit per screen. At 60 hz, that's still 281mbit.
For a long time I assumed that living in the "big" city meant that getting broadband was easier. HAHA. When I moved out to the sticks (deep, deep, DEEP east texas) for school I didn't think we'd ever see anything but a modem dial-up. (And we didn't until very recently). Well, for the last 9 months we've had Cox@home cable service, and it has been awesome. 1.5mb down / 128kb up. There has been one 6 hour outage since we got it, they let us do the install and don't ask any questions about what OS we're using it with. Oh yeah, this is only 30/mo as well.
I attended an Oracle conference earlier this year, and saw a presentation of their iFS. Let me tell you, I had been thinking of something along the lines of it for quite some time and it was very cool. While I'm not so sure I would want to use Oracle (expense, size, etc.), they have put quite a bit of work into this and it ROCKS.
All access to files is accomplished through a middleware "plugin" which exports the data out in different formats. (FTP, SMB, etc) All your data is stored in tables in the DB. Every file can keep revisions of itself, and every file can have arbitrary attributes attached to it. It is also quite fast for BLOBs and CLOBs (the demo streamed a 100mb MPEG from the FS via SMB).
It was a little shakey still at the point, but I would imagine that they have worked out a lot of those bugs in the last 4 months. If I remember correctly, they will ship it with 9i or something.
Having spent the better part of the last four months on a project to build an mp3 player for commerical sale, I can tell you that this statement is WRONG. MP3 is incredibly expensive, and if Fraunhoeffer don't want you to license it, you won't.
This is US dollars. I hardly consider this "free" by any means. They have over 13 patents on the format alone, who cares if you can encode it? You can't USE it unless you pay!
Our project was scrapped because of these costs, and management's inability to grasp that there are other formats.
Vorbis is free. Period. You can get and change the code. You can make free players. You can make commerical players. You can use it in your other products. No one will come after you with a team of lawyers for not paying for Vorbis.
Research for it's own sake is the only reason you are able to read the page you just posted.
It is the only reason that you can drive your car.
It is the only reason we have big shiny airplanes.
Research for it's own sake is what truely DRIVES INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY. Without it, we are left with nothing more than last year's crap with a pretty new face. If you have ever worked at a company without a REAL research budget, you will know what I mean.
Business men are not the smartest in the bunch, they are the most greedy. They have to be told far too often the implications of the technology they promote, and if they can't show a profit from something from day one they don't want to hear about it. Nothing gets accomplished in an evironment like this. Nothing.
The "american dream" in this country has not only been destroyed, but it was auctioned off to the highest bidder. No longer can you do anything for the love of it, no longer can you be an individual without being asked "how much can you make off that".
The X-Box runs a stripped down Win2k kernel. I would say that about 75% of the full functionality is there, but ALL apps run in ring0. That is why they call it a 'game' machine.
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There was no Hugh's town. They renamed the city after Sam Houston because he did so much for Texas, and ended up settling in the area.
Houston, for those who have never been there and like to just bash those of us in Texas, is one of the few great world-class cities this country has. It has awesome food, and good night life, and diversity that you would not believe. Houston is really pretty cool, if not far too large and congested.
Coltan is the main ingredient in the capacitors that run all your precious little Playstations. The regime currently in place was funded and armed by us, when the previous president was overthrown. They have been cutting the hands of thousands of peasent miners in order to scare them off so that the military dictatorship can step in and reap all the benefits of the sale.
So for those of you who think you had nothing to do with it, you're wrong.
You can't have PIC X's that large. Not on DEC COBOL-78 anyway.
Damn cobol. Why didn't you use an indexed relative file to load your data set?
PC games tend to fall in one of three categories:
1. FPS - quake et al.
2. Simulation - sims, etc.
3. RTS - AOE, Civ, and all that
That is pretty much the market for PC games. Console games on the other hand, are MUCH more imaginative, have better game play, and their genres are much more diverse. You could say the relative stability of the hardware drives producers to make these qualities stand out more in their games (because they all roughly have the same limitations). Whatever it is, console gamers are the most serious simply because they have BETTER GAMES. The only PC game in the last year and a half that could hold my interest for more than a day or two was Black and White. Yet I've played Grandia II and Skies of Arcadia countless times on my Dreamcast. Or better yet, I just spent $40 on Final Fantasy:Chronicles so I could once again play games I had on my SNES.
Simply saying that a mouse makes you a serious gamer is pretty much a joke. Serious gamers are such because they are able to take any kind of game and master it, and with diversity of PC games on such short order I doubt many PC-only gamers can pick up anything other than an FPS quickly. Hell, what about the Dreamcast mouse and keyboard? Does that suddenly make console gamers more hardcore because they have a mouse-based interface to play with rather than just the controller?
I've been playing video games for almost 15 years now, and to this day I prefer playing them on dedicated consoles because the games are just _better_ and they are more diverse.
Just my opinion though.
They support a subset of the IrDA standard. If you download their developer docs, they have it fairly well documented.
It's really pretty nice, as it can be treated a plain serial port if you wish.
I have often read comments lamenting the effort required to read other's code. While I can understand that logically, two people can put together two different programs to serve the same purpose - but come on. Syntax? Capitilazations? This is what coding standards are for, and any good _team_ will have a well-defined standard for things like that precisely for this reason.
To begin with, I will state right now that I am an employee of Iomega, though I have nothing to with hardware. It's great to see that no one on this site ever bothers to read up on anything, and just posts whatever excrement happens to pop into their heads as fast as possible.
I'm just pissed off that there really are so many morons that post here.
Now, that's out of the way, and you all hate me...
The peerless drive has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with Jaz (non)-technology. It is nothing at all like the Jaz, and suffers from NONE of the limitations of the Jaz. It's faster, it's FAR more reliable, and best of all it's SEALED MEDIA.
It also has nothing to do with Zip technology.
Or click.
Or any other 10-year old glorified floppy or unsealed hard drive tech. This shit is brand-new.
Yes, I agree the price is pretty sick.. but what do you expect? Where are all the other portable solutions that fill the gap the Peerless meets? Don't even bring up the "portable" firewire and USB hard drives, because not only are they MUCH larger, they are MUCH heavier, and require MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE POWER. I'd really like to see you hook a portable usb hard drive up to something like a portable mp3 player, and expect it to stay powered on for more than a few minutes. Get real, please.
I also have to question the grip on reality some people have. This is not a shiny, happy world, and companies are FOR SURE neither shiny, nor happy. I want to know what other company, in the same position as iomega, would have done anything differently in light of their own click of death? I seriously doubt ANY of them would admit to anything.
If you knew how much hardware you all had in your machines that had firmware full of holes, you would be sick. Try getting the manufacturers to admit to it.. and good luck.
None of you have to buy this thing, and at that price I don't blame you. But I really wish SOMEONE would take the time to fucking read about something before shooting off at the mouth.
If you have used Arc/Info 8 or above, you know that everything is now using COM. They have also move all the personal geodatabases to use JET. The most awful piece of trash db interface / engine. Microsoft has given them lots of money to make sure nothing but Windows NT / 2k gets supported from here on out. They are even dropping support for Irix of all things. Fuck ESRI. BTW - has anyone noticed they really are following in Microsoft's footsteps.. Arc/Info 8 is the most crash-ridden, buggy package they've put out to date! And with the ultra-stable underpinnings of a Microsoft OS and API, it can only get worse!
I just ordered one, and got it in three days. You can't buy them anywhere beyond their site.
It's awesome.
240Z - ~1972, 2.4 liter inline 6, 4 speed manual, no AC
260Z - ~1974, 2.6 liter inline 6, 5 speed manual, AC
280Z - 1975/6, 2.8 liter inline 6, 5 speed, AC
The 20 was by far the best looking.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but a USB monitor would likely be the worst piece of trash you had ever used.
800x600x24bit = 11520000 bits per screen
Already, that's 10mbit / sec. There would be no interlacing, so you can't get away with halving that and drawing twice to get the whole screen of data.
If we assume a 60hz refresh, that's 60 of these screen draws per second making that 10mb (almost the limit of USB to begin with) more like 600mbit.
On the really low end, assume:
640x480x16 bit = 4915200 bits / screen
4.7 mbit per screen. At 60 hz, that's still 281mbit.
Firewire, OTOH could be used for this..
For a long time I assumed that living in the "big" city meant that getting broadband was easier. HAHA. When I moved out to the sticks (deep, deep, DEEP east texas) for school I didn't think we'd ever see anything but a modem dial-up. (And we didn't until very recently). Well, for the last 9 months we've had Cox@home cable service, and it has been awesome. 1.5mb down / 128kb up. There has been one 6 hour outage since we got it, they let us do the install and don't ask any questions about what OS we're using it with. Oh yeah, this is only 30/mo as well.
I attended an Oracle conference earlier this year, and saw a presentation of their iFS. Let me tell you, I had been thinking of something along the lines of it for quite some time and it was very cool. While I'm not so sure I would want to use Oracle (expense, size, etc.), they have put quite a bit of work into this and it ROCKS.
All access to files is accomplished through a middleware "plugin" which exports the data out in different formats. (FTP, SMB, etc) All your data is stored in tables in the DB. Every file can keep revisions of itself, and every file can have arbitrary attributes attached to it. It is also quite fast for BLOBs and CLOBs (the demo streamed a 100mb MPEG from the FS via SMB).
It was a little shakey still at the point, but I would imagine that they have worked out a lot of those bugs in the last 4 months. If I remember correctly, they will ship it with 9i or something.
What does homosexuality have to do with morality?
And what does someone else's morality have to do with me?
To sum it up: homosexual or moral, keep it to yourself.
Try more like 2-6.00 US dollars a copy of any shipping software product.
Plus the 10k US yearly minimum.
It's quite a racket they have going with mp3. They did a good job pulling the wool over most people's eyes.
And how are you going to do that, exactly?
I'm don't see the difference between NT on port 80 and Linux on port 80.
I suppose you didn't read that part.
Houston. There's quite a few of them.
Sure, if you want to do a hardware player it's a bit less expensive.. but I'm talking about software-only.
Having spent the better part of the last four months on a project to build an mp3 player for commerical sale, I can tell you that this statement is WRONG. MP3 is incredibly expensive, and if Fraunhoeffer don't want you to license it, you won't.
Commercial decoding:
15k annual pre-pay + 2.50 / item shipped.
Commercial encoding:
Their object code:
15k annual
$250k minimum
$5.00/copy shipped
Their patents:
15k annual
$2.50/copy shipped.
This is US dollars. I hardly consider this "free" by any means. They have over 13 patents on the format alone, who cares if you can encode it? You can't USE it unless you pay!
Our project was scrapped because of these costs, and management's inability to grasp that there are other formats.
Vorbis is free. Period. You can get and change the code. You can make free players. You can make commerical players. You can use it in your other products. No one will come after you with a team of lawyers for not paying for Vorbis.
I get sick of hearing about how "open" mp3 is.
??
Research for it's own sake is the only reason you are able to read the page you just posted.
It is the only reason that you can drive your car.
It is the only reason we have big shiny airplanes.
Research for it's own sake is what truely DRIVES INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY. Without it, we are left with nothing more than last year's crap with a pretty new face. If you have ever worked at a company without a REAL research budget, you will know what I mean.
Business men are not the smartest in the bunch, they are the most greedy. They have to be told far too often the implications of the technology they promote, and if they can't show a profit from something from day one they don't want to hear about it. Nothing gets accomplished in an evironment like this. Nothing.
The "american dream" in this country has not only been destroyed, but it was auctioned off to the highest bidder. No longer can you do anything for the love of it, no longer can you be an individual without being asked "how much can you make off that".
The X-Box runs a stripped down Win2k kernel. I would say that about 75% of the full functionality is there, but ALL apps run in ring0. That is why they call it a 'game' machine.
What a joke, eh?
Abe was a republican when they were quite liberal.
Then go start your own fucking site.