RDS is a somewhat cool idea. I think limiting it to traffic reports is a waste of a really great technology, enter the pirates of radio. I'm a fan of pirate radio just because I have radio experience, and I like the little guys who don't have to worry about sponsors and Arbitron ratings and all that schmuk. Their stations just plain sound better. Hijacking my radio isn't too cool, but more power to the radio pirates:-)
I have a case design I've been slowly developing over the past year or so completely built out of Legos. Unfortunately, as a starving college student, I've never had the funds to build such a case. Essentially my idea goes like this:
Super-glue pieces together in chunks for building 1-piece drive bays, backplanes, removable sides, etc.
Expandability is a cinch.. just add more legos!
Add a few metal strips for grounding purposes
Use multiple colors for a neat effect or better yet, mimic your favorite superhero, country flag, or Tux the Penguin
Of course with the addition of Mindstorms, the case becomes lifelike. Allow your case to interactively assist you in upgrading, and perhaps even put a "log out and disassemble" function into X.
I have a case design I've been slowly developing over the past year or so completely built out of Legos. Unfortunately, as a starving college student, I've never had the funds to build such a case. Essentially my idea goes like this:
Super-glue pieces together in chunks for building 1-piece drive bays, backplanes, removable sides, etc.
Expandability is a cinch.. just add more legos!
Add a few metal strips for grounding purposes
Use multiple colors for a neat effect or better yet, mimic your favorite superhero, country flag, or Tux the Penguin
Of course with the addition of Mindstroms, the case becomes lifelike. Allow your case to interactively assist you in upgrading, and perhaps even put a "log out and disassemble" function into X.
I've had the best luck with Half Price Hosting. They once had a UPS problem that brought down the indexing on the Windoze web boxes, but for price, uptime, and bandwidth you can't beat them.
I don't know about the other "IT professionals" who read/. but this definitely conforms perfectly to me. If I am without Mt. Dew, my day is ruined. If I am without my mid-morning twinkies, people avoid me as if I've got PMS. Long live the stereotypical coder:-)
Corel Linux has been out for some time and I'm still bothered that a company like Corel wants to take their programmers off other projects and reinvent a *better* Debian distro.
I've looked at Corel as being a company who supports the whole linux movement by porting their existing software to linux. By writing their own Debian distro I'm really questioning Corel's involvement in linux altogether.
I'm trying to visualize this '4 month process' mentioned in the article to come up with a name. The best way I found to come up with names is to take two objects that have absolutely no connection to each other and somehow form it into one word. Say, perhaps, a telephone and a comb. Maybe something like Telecomb or CombHone or something. Then you have to go through some intense process of surveying people to make sure they like your name and would be able to buy your product just based on your name's appeal. If, say, I was manufacturing rice, Telecomb probably wouldn't be the best name. Let's see.. Maybe a combination of Uncle Ben and rice cakes... Bencake maybe? Or CakeWilds? I fail to see how it takes 4 months to come up with a catchy sounding name.
This is EXACTLY what I did. I have some merit behind it. I am 21, and I asked for LEGOs for Christmas. I can give my mom a guilt trip about not buying me LEGOs as a kid, since she's openly admitted that she should have invested in a good set. Also, I agree whole heartedly that a huge part of my childhood was missing because I never got to play with real LEGOs. I could have been an engineer. My friend who graduated college as an engineer agrees 100% that without LEGOs as a child he never could have done it. I totally believe him. I can lay it on my parents that the guilt can be relieved if they buy me the RIS 1.5 for Christmas this year. And now you can run them off linux. What BETTER GIFT for a nerd?????????
I can't read that post without asking why you've been waiting. Personally, it bugs me that Corel is trying to get their fingers into the OS market. I have been WAITING for CorelDraw to be ported, I've been told by Corel reps that they are porting it and what do they do? Put out yet another Debian clone. Corel's apps are far superior to M$ 's (ever heard of a Wordperfect macro virus???) and even though Photoshop is nicer than CorelDraw I prefer Corel just because they're making the effort to go to Linux. By moving their Linux dev team to make another port of Linux is not priority in my opinion.
Linux is free to download. Linux is free to borrow from your buddy with the CD burner. The costs come under administration, and to the newbie linux administration can be a nightmare. Inexpensive is a better word because in the IT industry, time is money. Linux takes time to set up and configure, like any other OS. If there was a truly free OS I wouldn't have a job.
10MB is a little light for my taste. I'd like to see something like this with 64 MB or so.. that way I could make it to work and back without the drive having to spin more than once. I think an MP3 player should support the best of both worlds. Have the hard drive for storage capability yet use as much solid-state storage for skip and hardware protection. Also, it would save battery life by using RAM vs a HD.
I must admit that it really looks like one of those "let's see if we *CAN* do it" products. At the same time, if one fell out of the sky and landed on my desk I probably wouldn't mind. $27,000 is an unreasonable amount for something that isn't that useful anyway. I think the LCD flat panel industry should rely more on cheaper manufacturing and lower prices than how big they can make something. If they debuted this panel in the $8,000 range or so it would have crunched down on the 17-21" panel prices and possibly made them affordable to normal people. I was holding my breath for the 21" flat screens to come down to a reasonable price but when the industry is wasting its time developing monitors for the higher-class techies there's no way I'll see a cheap flatscreen in the next 5 years.
Secondly, flat panels have shortcomings. Anything below optimal resolution just looks bad. Playing Dark Reign or any other low-res game on it is almost impossible. There's also the viewing angle problems. Aside from their sexy looks and small footprint, a flat panel can't compete with a good CRT in viewing angle or low-res mode. On top of that they want to charge double the price for a 17" flatscreen as a 17" CRT. In my personal opinion flat screens are not yet ready for prime time. At any price.(although free is nice:-)
I really hope this isn't an attempt to raise sales for flat screens. If it is, the flat screen industry has completely missed the point.
All this rediculous patenting has drawn me to one conclusion. I am going to patent the char[] data type.
From this point on, I now own the char[] data type. It cannot be used in any code, commercial or otherwise, without my express written consent. Any existing code written using char[] is also subject to patent infringement. Anyone found using char[] in their software will be sued for $60,000 per compiled executable. To save on the agony of lwayers, court dates, etc I ask that anyone using char[] just confess now and mail me your $60,000 checks.
Isn't this the way that standard shopping cart scripts work? You enter all your your information into a database, you have a username and password, and that information can be optionally stored in a cookie. I didn't know that you could 'patent' such an idea.
I used to swear by Corel WP8 for Windoze. Now I'm swearing at it. We're slowly migrating our enterprise network over to WP8 and we've discovered that even with the service packs WP8 is not a solid product. It's unstable, and even after fighting with Corel's tech support (very good tech support I might add) we can't get it stable on the power-users computers. They're frustrated and can't understand why we don't just use Word97 (MUCH worse in my opinion). Bottom line: Corel designs a much better product. I'm upset with them that they can't take their design and make a more usable application out of it.
With the increasing linux support of Dell and Compaq, and now with this happening, I think Gateway has no choice but to start supporting linux to stay on top of their competition. This is AWESOME news for me becaue the company I work for is huge on buying Gateways (unbeknownst to my superiors there are Gateways with linux lurking around here... shhhh!) and I think if Gateway started linux support it might encourage them to look into linux as an option.
I work for a government agency. We have a department who deals with the public in property tax issues. We needed a bigger monitor, and I just happened to see this exact model on Gateway's site (we get some kind of discount through them). I would prefer 1600x1200 res on it but with the exception of its thickness it's better in all aspects then the specs on the unit mentioned above. I haven't had the oppurtunity to play Quake on it yet, but I WANT TO:-). If you have the money to spend, I recommend this monitor.
No, not a new browser by any means. I find Opera to be very competitive, very clean, but very ugly on the first install. You can configure the crap out of it though so after some tweaking you can make it look like IE or NS. Overall, good browser. I've been waiting for this step for a long time.
Well, in Spanish "Jesus" is pronounced "HAY-soos" so the "HAY-zooks" pronounciation didn't really throw me. What really got to me is that it's trying to make it look like us Christians are in some kind of bubble. It kinda sounded like something based on Flanders in the Simpsons, that being a Christian is about being stereotyped to knowing everything about the bible, being happy all the time, being in our own little cloud because we're not like evryone else and that we need our own OS because Linux is "too wordly" for us to use.
Screw that.
I'm a Christian, I love Linux. I have no problem teaching my children about Linux and encouraging them to use it. Even if it does expose them to "aborts", "kills", and "daemons". I set up a LRP for my church to use a DSL connection over its network. According to the Jesux people I suppose every person who's used our network is now destined for hell. Especially if they use the computer on Sundays. Get real.
I have been a Christian for most of my life, unfortunately not a computer techie all my life though. Linux is a cool OS, and even as a strong faithful Christian I don't find the OS offensive. Anyone who takes an OS personally needs an attitude shift anyway. My guess is that this is either a NON-Christian group making fun of us Christians or it is actually Christians (sad as it may be) making fun of us. This is just plain stupid.
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Finally, after all these years someone has created a competitor for the C64. Maybe It can also drive my Lego Mindstorms :-)
RDS is a somewhat cool idea. I think limiting it to traffic reports is a waste of a really great technology, enter the pirates of radio. I'm a fan of pirate radio just because I have radio experience, and I like the little guys who don't have to worry about sponsors and Arbitron ratings and all that schmuk. Their stations just plain sound better. Hijacking my radio isn't too cool, but more power to the radio pirates :-)
- Super-glue pieces together in chunks for building 1-piece drive bays, backplanes, removable sides, etc.
- Expandability is a cinch.. just add more legos!
- Add a few metal strips for grounding purposes
- Use multiple colors for a neat effect or better yet, mimic your favorite superhero, country flag, or Tux the Penguin
Of course with the addition of Mindstorms, the case becomes lifelike. Allow your case to interactively assist you in upgrading, and perhaps even put a "log out and disassemble" function into X.- Super-glue pieces together in chunks for building 1-piece drive bays, backplanes, removable sides, etc.
- Expandability is a cinch.. just add more legos!
- Add a few metal strips for grounding purposes
- Use multiple colors for a neat effect or better yet, mimic your favorite superhero, country flag, or Tux the Penguin
Of course with the addition of Mindstroms, the case becomes lifelike. Allow your case to interactively assist you in upgrading, and perhaps even put a "log out and disassemble" function into X.I've had the best luck with Half Price Hosting. They once had a UPS problem that brought down the indexing on the Windoze web boxes, but for price, uptime, and bandwidth you can't beat them.
I don't know about the other "IT professionals" who read /. but this definitely conforms perfectly to me. If I am without Mt. Dew, my day is ruined. If I am without my mid-morning twinkies, people avoid me as if I've got PMS. Long live the stereotypical coder :-)
Corel Linux has been out for some time and I'm still bothered that a company like Corel wants to take their programmers off other projects and reinvent a *better* Debian distro.
I've looked at Corel as being a company who supports the whole linux movement by porting their existing software to linux. By writing their own Debian distro I'm really questioning Corel's involvement in linux altogether.
Isn't it odd how the truth gets in the way of science??? Too bad for them I guess :-)
I'm trying to visualize this '4 month process' mentioned in the article to come up with a name. The best way I found to come up with names is to take two objects that have absolutely no connection to each other and somehow form it into one word. Say, perhaps, a telephone and a comb. Maybe something like Telecomb or CombHone or something. Then you have to go through some intense process of surveying people to make sure they like your name and would be able to buy your product just based on your name's appeal. If, say, I was manufacturing rice, Telecomb probably wouldn't be the best name. Let's see.. Maybe a combination of Uncle Ben and rice cakes... Bencake maybe? Or CakeWilds? I fail to see how it takes 4 months to come up with a catchy sounding name.
This is EXACTLY what I did. I have some merit behind it. I am 21, and I asked for LEGOs for Christmas. I can give my mom a guilt trip about not buying me LEGOs as a kid, since she's openly admitted that she should have invested in a good set. Also, I agree whole heartedly that a huge part of my childhood was missing because I never got to play with real LEGOs. I could have been an engineer. My friend who graduated college as an engineer agrees 100% that without LEGOs as a child he never could have done it. I totally believe him. I can lay it on my parents that the guilt can be relieved if they buy me the RIS 1.5 for Christmas this year. And now you can run them off linux. What BETTER GIFT for a nerd?????????
I can't read that post without asking why you've been waiting. Personally, it bugs me that Corel is trying to get their fingers into the OS market. I have been WAITING for CorelDraw to be ported, I've been told by Corel reps that they are porting it and what do they do? Put out yet another Debian clone. Corel's apps are far superior to M$ 's (ever heard of a Wordperfect macro virus???) and even though Photoshop is nicer than CorelDraw I prefer Corel just because they're making the effort to go to Linux. By moving their Linux dev team to make another port of Linux is not priority in my opinion.
Linux is free to download. Linux is free to borrow from your buddy with the CD burner. The costs come under administration, and to the newbie linux administration can be a nightmare. Inexpensive is a better word because in the IT industry, time is money. Linux takes time to set up and configure, like any other OS. If there was a truly free OS I wouldn't have a job.
10MB is a little light for my taste. I'd like to see something like this with 64 MB or so.. that way I could make it to work and back without the drive having to spin more than once. I think an MP3 player should support the best of both worlds. Have the hard drive for storage capability yet use as much solid-state storage for skip and hardware protection. Also, it would save battery life by using RAM vs a HD.
I must admit that it really looks like one of those "let's see if we *CAN* do it" products. At the same time, if one fell out of the sky and landed on my desk I probably wouldn't mind. $27,000 is an unreasonable amount for something that isn't that useful anyway. I think the LCD flat panel industry should rely more on cheaper manufacturing and lower prices than how big they can make something. If they debuted this panel in the $8,000 range or so it would have crunched down on the 17-21" panel prices and possibly made them affordable to normal people. I was holding my breath for the 21" flat screens to come down to a reasonable price but when the industry is wasting its time developing monitors for the higher-class techies there's no way I'll see a cheap flatscreen in the next 5 years.
:-)
Secondly, flat panels have shortcomings. Anything below optimal resolution just looks bad. Playing Dark Reign or any other low-res game on it is almost impossible. There's also the viewing angle problems. Aside from their sexy looks and small footprint, a flat panel can't compete with a good CRT in viewing angle or low-res mode. On top of that they want to charge double the price for a 17" flatscreen as a 17" CRT. In my personal opinion flat screens are not yet ready for prime time. At any price.(although free is nice
I really hope this isn't an attempt to raise sales for flat screens. If it is, the flat screen industry has completely missed the point.
All this rediculous patenting has drawn me to one conclusion. I am going to patent the char[] data type.
From this point on, I now own the char[] data type. It cannot be used in any code, commercial or otherwise, without my express written consent. Any existing code written using char[] is also subject to patent infringement. Anyone found using char[] in their software will be sued for $60,000 per compiled executable. To save on the agony of lwayers, court dates, etc I ask that anyone using char[] just confess now and mail me your $60,000 checks.
Thank You.
Isn't this the way that standard shopping cart scripts work? You enter all your your information into a database, you have a username and password, and that information can be optionally stored in a cookie. I didn't know that you could 'patent' such an idea.
I used to swear by Corel WP8 for Windoze. Now I'm swearing at it. We're slowly migrating our enterprise network over to WP8 and we've discovered that even with the service packs WP8 is not a solid product. It's unstable, and even after fighting with Corel's tech support (very good tech support I might add) we can't get it stable on the power-users computers. They're frustrated and can't understand why we don't just use Word97 (MUCH worse in my opinion). Bottom line: Corel designs a much better product. I'm upset with them that they can't take their design and make a more usable application out of it.
I've always needed a reason to learn it, so I'll help translate into Yiddish if you feel the need.
With the increasing linux support of Dell and Compaq, and now with this happening, I think Gateway has no choice but to start supporting linux to stay on top of their competition. This is AWESOME news for me becaue the company I work for is huge on buying Gateways (unbeknownst to my superiors there are Gateways with linux lurking around here... shhhh!) and I think if Gateway started linux support it might encourage them to look into linux as an option.
Was Frank's 2000" TV a flatscreen?
I work for a government agency. We have a department who deals with the public in property tax issues. We needed a bigger monitor, and I just happened to see this exact model on Gateway's site (we get some kind of discount through them). I would prefer 1600x1200 res on it but with the exception of its thickness it's better in all aspects then the specs on the unit mentioned above. I haven't had the oppurtunity to play Quake on it yet, but I WANT TO :-). If you have the money to spend, I recommend this monitor.
No, not a new browser by any means. I find Opera to be very competitive, very clean, but very ugly on the first install. You can configure the crap out of it though so after some tweaking you can make it look like IE or NS. Overall, good browser. I've been waiting for this step for a long time.
I bow in awe of your infinite wisdom
Well, in Spanish "Jesus" is pronounced "HAY-soos" so the "HAY-zooks" pronounciation didn't really throw me. What really got to me is that it's trying to make it look like us Christians are in some kind of bubble. It kinda sounded like something based on Flanders in the Simpsons, that being a Christian is about being stereotyped to knowing everything about the bible, being happy all the time, being in our own little cloud because we're not like evryone else and that we need our own OS because Linux is "too wordly" for us to use.
Screw that.
I'm a Christian, I love Linux. I have no problem teaching my children about Linux and encouraging them to use it. Even if it does expose them to "aborts", "kills", and "daemons". I set up a LRP for my church to use a DSL connection over its network. According to the Jesux people I suppose every person who's used our network is now destined for hell. Especially if they use the computer on Sundays. Get real.
I have been a Christian for most of my life, unfortunately not a computer techie all my life though. Linux is a cool OS, and even as a strong faithful Christian I don't find the OS offensive. Anyone who takes an OS personally needs an attitude shift anyway. My guess is that this is either a NON-Christian group making fun of us Christians or it is actually Christians (sad as it may be) making fun of us. This is just plain stupid.