That only kinda bugged me compared to the very end, where somehow they're magically uploading this software to millions of people, thousands of uploads per second, from their garage. Last time I checked, Comcasts upload wasn't that great, especially in 2001. Everything else was decent enough though.
I'm pretty sure that was part of the comedy. They made it fairly obvious that they were switching back and forth between dos and mac...just check out the scene where he's trying to leave early on friday. I mean they actively had to try to mix up the Mac's OS and DOS!
Of course the person creating the drawings and documents must be proficient in technical writing (aka not an idiot), because no matter what tools you have, if you don't know how to explain things, they'll be useless. Try to get your documentation peer reviewed to make sure it makes sense.
I'm sorry, is there a point to your post? Are you saying that Linux doesn't have as much (if not more, and in reality there are...) trial and tribulations than Windows has? I'm not a terribly biased person, but I know that when I install Windows, a GUI login screen is going to show up. I've had to install nVidia drivers on Windows, post installation, but I've never had to coerce a freakin' OS to temporarily accept some theoretical drivers to boot up, except Linux of course. Seriously X11, I promise there's a graphic card there! You can do it! I promise!
Don't worry, flaws just mean that your precious operating system is human afterall. Just because Windows actually loads a GUI 99% of the time and Linux is still hit and miss, it really doesn't prove which one is better. All the time saved configuring conf files could actually end up time in the end. At least that's what I keep telling my boss anyway!
My personal favorite was in a CSI episode: A guy took a photo, but the tip of his finger got in the picture...so they figured ohh wtf, lets lift a print from this scanned 3x5" photo that's been through a fire!
The class I learned assembly in was on 8086s. We programmed on a keypad with 14 keys i think? 0-9 and a few others...start, go, end, something else. Our "display" was 20 leds. Our text editor of choice was college ruled loose leaf, and a mechanical pencil. Totally awesome.
Yeah, but that's incredibly unbelievable...having an undocumented, wide open public phone port in the room hosting the machine that will decide the fate of the next nuclear war. Even if it did happen, in the end, Falken wouldn't have "disappeared" because he wanted to.
I don't recall seeing the HDD a lot either, but according to Wiki, it came out in 2001 (in Japan). I personally love my HDD in my PS2. Then again, I've got it modded so that I can run any game right off the hard drive. Speeds up load times rather nicely.
I generally agree with the rest. While "best" is subjective, I still fail to understand the hypocracy of crying evil every time the software side of MS comes up, yet hailing the hardware side. Gotta remember, as much fun as an xbox360 may be, microsoft is the root of all evil! Bending morals; the ultimate human trait.
Notice that every console in this generation has some kind of mass storage device... that's Microsoft's influence.
Also notice that the Playstation 2 came out 1.5 years before the Xbox. It was designed with HDD support. The actual HDD came out several months before the Xbox was released. Not saying it wasn't a good system, but all the xbox is is a SFF computer. Microsoft built what they knew they could support...the already had the OS, they just needed something to run it on.
I see a lot of nintendo fanboys in the PSP vs DS topics. However, when it comes to general console stories, the xbox fanboys really seem to shine. If you notice above on a quick count on the types of stories (pro/anti brand x/y/z), you see that MS has the best "good guy" ratio. I do try to stay neutral, but frankly when I see so much pro MS crap / anti Sony crap, it gets a little hard to side with MS. Maybe thats the true neutral alignment in me.
I've never seen any where the network was set up competently, no.
How do you know the HDMI cable was made with any competence? For 5 bucks, I wouldn't expect that the manufacturer is spending a lot of time on quality controls.
To me the bias is mind boggling. Everyone here hates Microsoft. It's usually abbreviated to M$, Microsuck, etc etc. Even if the article has nothing to do with Microsoft, operating systems, office suites, etc, there's always at least one thread of people that bitch about microsoft. Yet, for some reason, every gaming console article is just filled with Xbox fanboys. So everyone hates microsoft, but they make quite an exception for their main hobby. They realize the original xbox ran windows too, right?
Can someone explain this in a rational manner? Thanks.
A company can find a better way of patching rather than scheduling everything to run automatically at 3am.
Right. What they can do is hose down your system with SMS pushes at 8am, just as you get in to work. So for 45 minutes (on a big push), you can sit there, idle, in your chair, not doing anything because your system is cranking away at updates. Now, that's 45 minutes of A) wasted company time (times several thousand employees), and B) by your concern, wasted energy as well. If you've got "good" employees, they'll stay the extra 45 minutes they didn't work. Then, that company is heating/cooling, lighting, providing water, etc etc to the building for 45 extra minutes that they wouldn't have to at night.
HVAC costs add up quickly as well, don't forget. Oh, and you're probably breaking a company policy as well. Managers don't really like it when you break corporate policies.
So scan the entire 2GB/4GB flash drive for changes, then update as necessary? I realize read is faster than writing, but if you're reading a full flash, then possibly updating a very large portion of that flash, couldn't that just take even longer?
I'm not comparing sleep to hibernate. I realize that sleep is faster. What the poster I was originaly responding to seemed to suggest was that by inserting a flash drive into your computer, you will magically be able to come back from hibernate as fast as sleep could by, I'm guessing, writing the contents of the RAM to flash instead of the HDD. Since, as I mentioned above, that writing to a decent flash device is about the same as a decent HDD, you wouldn't gain anything.
Think of it more as a raid...you have to slaughter your way through fields and fields of night elves, until you finally arive at the boss mob: the cute little kitty sitting on a tree branch a few feet off the ground. Awesome.
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That only kinda bugged me compared to the very end, where somehow they're magically uploading this software to millions of people, thousands of uploads per second, from their garage. Last time I checked, Comcasts upload wasn't that great, especially in 2001. Everything else was decent enough though.
I'm pretty sure that was part of the comedy. They made it fairly obvious that they were switching back and forth between dos and mac...just check out the scene where he's trying to leave early on friday. I mean they actively had to try to mix up the Mac's OS and DOS!
Word+visio.
Of course the person creating the drawings and documents must be proficient in technical writing (aka not an idiot), because no matter what tools you have, if you don't know how to explain things, they'll be useless. Try to get your documentation peer reviewed to make sure it makes sense.
I'm sorry, is there a point to your post? Are you saying that Linux doesn't have as much (if not more, and in reality there are...) trial and tribulations than Windows has? I'm not a terribly biased person, but I know that when I install Windows, a GUI login screen is going to show up. I've had to install nVidia drivers on Windows, post installation, but I've never had to coerce a freakin' OS to temporarily accept some theoretical drivers to boot up, except Linux of course. Seriously X11, I promise there's a graphic card there! You can do it! I promise!
Don't worry, flaws just mean that your precious operating system is human afterall. Just because Windows actually loads a GUI 99% of the time and Linux is still hit and miss, it really doesn't prove which one is better. All the time saved configuring conf files could actually end up time in the end. At least that's what I keep telling my boss anyway!
Remember that hunting outfit in [Texas?] that allowed you to hunt remotely?
There, now I've tied in second ammendment rights to your rights online. You can thank me later. Now, continuing on with the discussion....
that sounds more probable. I still recall the other buttons to start/stop, next line, etc, so it was probably 20 i suppose
Get off my lawn!
It was more a class on the actual design of microprocessors, memory bus, etc. The poking around on the kits was more for demoing what we learned.
This class took place two years ago...the college I went to just hadn't updated their electronics curriculum in 10 years lol
It's basic military security.
My personal favorite was in a CSI episode: A guy took a photo, but the tip of his finger got in the picture...so they figured ohh wtf, lets lift a print from this scanned 3x5" photo that's been through a fire!
The class I learned assembly in was on 8086s. We programmed on a keypad with 14 keys i think? 0-9 and a few others...start, go, end, something else. Our "display" was 20 leds. Our text editor of choice was college ruled loose leaf, and a mechanical pencil. Totally awesome.
Yeah, but that's incredibly unbelievable...having an undocumented, wide open public phone port in the room hosting the machine that will decide the fate of the next nuclear war. Even if it did happen, in the end, Falken wouldn't have "disappeared" because he wanted to.
Two words:
Sunroof + paintballs
Yeah, I can't imagine too many bible readers own copies of "Satanic Goat Sacrifices for Dummies"
As opposed to what? Malware writers that upload Vista to your favorite torrent site?
Let the FUD begin!!!
I don't recall seeing the HDD a lot either, but according to Wiki, it came out in 2001 (in Japan). I personally love my HDD in my PS2. Then again, I've got it modded so that I can run any game right off the hard drive. Speeds up load times rather nicely.
I generally agree with the rest. While "best" is subjective, I still fail to understand the hypocracy of crying evil every time the software side of MS comes up, yet hailing the hardware side. Gotta remember, as much fun as an xbox360 may be, microsoft is the root of all evil! Bending morals; the ultimate human trait.
Notice that every console in this generation has some kind of mass storage device... that's Microsoft's influence.
Also notice that the Playstation 2 came out 1.5 years before the Xbox. It was designed with HDD support. The actual HDD came out several months before the Xbox was released. Not saying it wasn't a good system, but all the xbox is is a SFF computer. Microsoft built what they knew they could support...the already had the OS, they just needed something to run it on.
I see a lot of nintendo fanboys in the PSP vs DS topics. However, when it comes to general console stories, the xbox fanboys really seem to shine. If you notice above on a quick count on the types of stories (pro/anti brand x/y/z), you see that MS has the best "good guy" ratio. I do try to stay neutral, but frankly when I see so much pro MS crap / anti Sony crap, it gets a little hard to side with MS. Maybe thats the true neutral alignment in me.
I've never seen any where the network was set up competently, no.
How do you know the HDMI cable was made with any competence? For 5 bucks, I wouldn't expect that the manufacturer is spending a lot of time on quality controls.
To me the bias is mind boggling. Everyone here hates Microsoft. It's usually abbreviated to M$, Microsuck, etc etc. Even if the article has nothing to do with Microsoft, operating systems, office suites, etc, there's always at least one thread of people that bitch about microsoft. Yet, for some reason, every gaming console article is just filled with Xbox fanboys. So everyone hates microsoft, but they make quite an exception for their main hobby. They realize the original xbox ran windows too, right?
Can someone explain this in a rational manner? Thanks.
A company can find a better way of patching rather than scheduling everything to run automatically at 3am.
Right. What they can do is hose down your system with SMS pushes at 8am, just as you get in to work. So for 45 minutes (on a big push), you can sit there, idle, in your chair, not doing anything because your system is cranking away at updates. Now, that's 45 minutes of
A) wasted company time (times several thousand employees), and
B) by your concern, wasted energy as well. If you've got "good" employees, they'll stay the extra 45 minutes they didn't work. Then, that company is heating/cooling, lighting, providing water, etc etc to the building for 45 extra minutes that they wouldn't have to at night.
HVAC costs add up quickly as well, don't forget. Oh, and you're probably breaking a company policy as well. Managers don't really like it when you break corporate policies.
So scan the entire 2GB/4GB flash drive for changes, then update as necessary? I realize read is faster than writing, but if you're reading a full flash, then possibly updating a very large portion of that flash, couldn't that just take even longer?
I'm not comparing sleep to hibernate. I realize that sleep is faster. What the poster I was originaly responding to seemed to suggest was that by inserting a flash drive into your computer, you will magically be able to come back from hibernate as fast as sleep could by, I'm guessing, writing the contents of the RAM to flash instead of the HDD. Since, as I mentioned above, that writing to a decent flash device is about the same as a decent HDD, you wouldn't gain anything.
I bet your IT department loves you for that too. There's a reason that they determine what patches get rolled out, and when.
Just curious, but how would it be as fast as sleeping? Writing to a high quality CF takes about the same amount of time as it does to a HDD.
Think of it more as a raid...you have to slaughter your way through fields and fields of night elves, until you finally arive at the boss mob: the cute little kitty sitting on a tree branch a few feet off the ground. Awesome.
Ceiling cat. Safesearch is on. I'll let you figure out which one is probably associated with Fark.