One of them (Be, Inc.) is selling fully operational Batmobiles (the BeOS). They are more beautiful and stylish even than the Euro- sedans, better designed, more technologically advanced, and at least as reliable as anything else on the market--and yet cheaper than the others.
With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks.
Now if only they could FIGURE OUT THE CONTROLS. There's so damn many of them. A station wagon and SUV have a gas pedal, brake, and a steering wheel. The tanks and batmobiles have buttons, switches, wheels, dials, rotors, sliders, pedals, and gigantic computers that need specific input to get them moving in teh right direction. There are lots of us driving station wagons that look longingly at the tanks, and wish... just wish that someone would just slap a steering wheel, gas and brake pedals on it, and be done with it.
I wonder if Scaled will be able to tackle this too. I sure hope so, they've been an inspiration so far. I realize it's more than twice the amount of people, and they'd have to go much higher up to get to an orbiting station, but they've come so far with this competition.
Ha, you think that a government agency would have things like "multicasting", "Ghost", or even know what a "central console" is? HAHAHAHA. It's not a matter of having the pipe. It's the fricking state government. Try working for/with them sometime in your life. I've worked for two state government computer agencies over school summer vacations. Let me tell you, it is beyond retarded there in terms of technology. It got to the point where I asked one of my bosses "how in the hell did you get this job?" to which he responded "I have no frigging clue". It will be an eye opener.
But... You could build a space elevator with a non-geosynchronous orbit. Say for an extreme example, you anchor it to the north pole, and swing it around once every 24 hours. The cable will appear to point in the same direction, parallel to the ground directly at the pole all the time. The forces on the cable will be different, and it will fling whatever is launched from it along a completely different orbital path, but who is to say that is a bad idea? There are many reasons why you want non-geosynchronous orbits that go from the northern hemisphere to the southern. This would allow for that without requiring additional thrusters as it would take launching from a geosynchronous space elevator.
Don't get caught thinking one particular way, and assume you _need_ a geosynchronous orbit.
They're talking about Voice-chat. I can understand text-chatting to someone who's 100 feet away, just being convenient, or polite (I've IMed my roommate at school who sat about 3 feet behind me). But I'm talking about the voice-chat feature. It has a built-in Microphone. Deaf people are still SOVoice-Chat, and you still have to talk into the thing, which isn't cool for places where being quiet is keen.
I think the real advantage, and the point I was missing was the 802.11 functionality, so you can yell at your friends over the intarweb.
That are from 30 to 100 feet away! Save the energy of actually looking at people, or raising your voice slightly.
Is there some aspect of the chat feature that I'm missing or not understanding? If you're playing a game with someone within 100 feet maximum, shouldn't you be able to see and/or holler (holla for all you kids) at them?
I mean, I'm really excited that a product like this can last for as long as it has, but it's a good number of years old now. Why re-release newly packaged old hardware so late in the game? Are they really going to sell enough of them to make up for the expense of at least having to redesign the packaging of the thing, not to mention the tooling to construct it in the factories where they're made / assembled? I guess I just don't understand the _why_.
Does this mean the CD-ROMs only last 25% as long? Ohhh, Zing!
Really though, it is interesting about the apparent lack of HD room, though it appears that there might be some sort of access pannel on the top left of the machine, possibly large enough for a drive? Anybody know the answer to that?
I might just have to make the leap from my good 'ole SNES one of these days. I should get a TV first though.
At school, I used Windows 2000 the entirety of the time. I left my computer on 24/7, and _USED_ it for everything. From counter-strike, to Office, to PIC and x86 assembly, to EE modeling software. My best uptime was 57 days (no UPS either), and it rebooted because of a power surge.
If I do have to use Windows, it's Win2k all the way.
I also have to think that anyone who has dated a batshit crazy woman (ah, the good old days... when I could look beyond a woman's crumbling psyche and see the great rack inside)
Brought back some memories here as well:) Now, I got me a logical woman *gasp, can it be true?*.
From the commercials about this movie, it looks incredibly cheesy, like an unwitting hollywood insult to the retro-future styling (not to mention their choice of an actress, bleh). It's good to hear otherwise.
It's probably incorrect. I just calculated IP addresses per every atom in the earth, and there aren't enough in IPv6. I realize you said molecules and I said atoms, but... I'm only talking about the earth, and not the whole entire universe.
That information is very easily calculated with a quick google search and google calculation.
Slashdot Mirror
We broke it already!
-Jesse
One of them (Be, Inc.) is selling fully operational Batmobiles (the BeOS). They are more beautiful and stylish even than the Euro- sedans, better designed, more technologically advanced, and at least as reliable as anything else on the market--and yet cheaper than the others.
With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks.
Now if only they could FIGURE OUT THE CONTROLS. There's so damn many of them. A station wagon and SUV have a gas pedal, brake, and a steering wheel. The tanks and batmobiles have buttons, switches, wheels, dials, rotors, sliders, pedals, and gigantic computers that need specific input to get them moving in teh right direction. There are lots of us driving station wagons that look longingly at the tanks, and wish... just wish that someone would just slap a steering wheel, gas and brake pedals on it, and be done with it.
-Jesse
I wonder if Scaled will be able to tackle this too. I sure hope so, they've been an inspiration so far. I realize it's more than twice the amount of people, and they'd have to go much higher up to get to an orbiting station, but they've come so far with this competition.
-Jesse
One can only imagine the "In Soviet Russia ..." equivalent in the anti-slashdot ...
In Capitalist USA, consumer _elects_ to buy crappy products, as long as they're marketed better.
-Jesse
I have a 3 GHz processor, and 64 MB of ram vs. someone who has a 1.4 GHz processor, and 512 MB of ram?
WHAT LEVEL IS IT THEN?
This is akin to saying your rice-rocket has stage-3 nitrous, or a stage-umpteen turbocharger. It's just dumb.
-Jesse
Best idea EVAR!
-Jesse
Ha, you think that a government agency would have things like "multicasting", "Ghost", or even know what a "central console" is? HAHAHAHA. It's not a matter of having the pipe. It's the fricking state government. Try working for/with them sometime in your life. I've worked for two state government computer agencies over school summer vacations. Let me tell you, it is beyond retarded there in terms of technology. It got to the point where I asked one of my bosses "how in the hell did you get this job?" to which he responded "I have no frigging clue". It will be an eye opener.
-Jesse
Third Party Voters?
-Jesse
A friend of mine drives a TVR, I want to say 2500S... I always get model mixed up. It's a fun little car.
:)
How'd you manage to get 300 horsepower out of that little guy?
-Jesse
But... You could build a space elevator with a non-geosynchronous orbit. Say for an extreme example, you anchor it to the north pole, and swing it around once every 24 hours. The cable will appear to point in the same direction, parallel to the ground directly at the pole all the time. The forces on the cable will be different, and it will fling whatever is launched from it along a completely different orbital path, but who is to say that is a bad idea? There are many reasons why you want non-geosynchronous orbits that go from the northern hemisphere to the southern. This would allow for that without requiring additional thrusters as it would take launching from a geosynchronous space elevator.
Don't get caught thinking one particular way, and assume you _need_ a geosynchronous orbit.
-Jesse
Also, unless the DS comes with some kind of keyboard (which I didn't happen to see), good luck typing on a D-pad and a few buttons :D
-Jesse
They're talking about Voice-chat. I can understand text-chatting to someone who's 100 feet away, just being convenient, or polite (I've IMed my roommate at school who sat about 3 feet behind me). But I'm talking about the voice-chat feature. It has a built-in Microphone. Deaf people are still SOVoice-Chat, and you still have to talk into the thing, which isn't cool for places where being quiet is keen.
I think the real advantage, and the point I was missing was the 802.11 functionality, so you can yell at your friends over the intarweb.
-Jesse
That are from 30 to 100 feet away! Save the energy of actually looking at people, or raising your voice slightly.
Is there some aspect of the chat feature that I'm missing or not understanding? If you're playing a game with someone within 100 feet maximum, shouldn't you be able to see and/or holler (holla for all you kids) at them?
-Jesse
I mean, I'm really excited that a product like this can last for as long as it has, but it's a good number of years old now. Why re-release newly packaged old hardware so late in the game? Are they really going to sell enough of them to make up for the expense of at least having to redesign the packaging of the thing, not to mention the tooling to construct it in the factories where they're made / assembled? I guess I just don't understand the _why_.
Can anybody clue me in?
-Jesse
Does this mean the CD-ROMs only last 25% as long? Ohhh, Zing!
Really though, it is interesting about the apparent lack of HD room, though it appears that there might be some sort of access pannel on the top left of the machine, possibly large enough for a drive? Anybody know the answer to that?
I might just have to make the leap from my good 'ole SNES one of these days. I should get a TV first though.
-Jesse
I mean... what do you say about it? Good for you?
Not meant to be a troll, just curious as to if anybody has anything meaningful really.
-Jesse
At school, I used Windows 2000 the entirety of the time. I left my computer on 24/7, and _USED_ it for everything. From counter-strike, to Office, to PIC and x86 assembly, to EE modeling software. My best uptime was 57 days (no UPS either), and it rebooted because of a power surge.
If I do have to use Windows, it's Win2k all the way.
-Jesse
I also have to think that anyone who has dated a batshit crazy woman (ah, the good old days... when I could look beyond a woman's crumbling psyche and see the great rack inside)
:) Now, I got me a logical woman *gasp, can it be true?*.
Brought back some memories here as well
-Jesse
Hooray! The commercials make it out like she is infact "Sky Captain" and/or the main character, which would've been the poo..
-Jesse
Hahaha, best Friday post :D I was thinking the same thing. The only thing she's good for is eye-candy.
-Jesse
From the commercials about this movie, it looks incredibly cheesy, like an unwitting hollywood insult to the retro-future styling (not to mention their choice of an actress, bleh). It's good to hear otherwise.
-Jesse
There's only one "e" in Swedish, bork you very much.
-Jesse
It's probably incorrect. I just calculated IP addresses per every atom in the earth, and there aren't enough in IPv6. I realize you said molecules and I said atoms, but... I'm only talking about the earth, and not the whole entire universe.
That information is very easily calculated with a quick google search and google calculation.
-Jesse
I've noticed it's more slippery than sticky... Have you been eating anything weird?
-Jesse
Some quick google-based calculations for number of IP addresses for every square inch of the surface of the earth (including the ocean):
:) Hindsight is 20/20.
(2^128) addresses / (7.9*10^17) square inches on earth = 4.3*10^20 addresses/in^2... That's a lot.
But then again, they probably thought it was a lot to begin with
-Jesse