Just an FYI for college-nerds, I just checked with the Apple store and students have to wait until 9/15 to get a discounted purchase. On the upside, now I know when I'm getting my new toy;)
>>Also, I'm wondering why people haven't designed software to get around those silly try-to-guess-what-word-we've-seriously-distorted-b eyond-recognition systems.
Spammers and ticket-scalpers did that early on, and the distorted word systems were immediately altered to trick the code. At that point the spammers/scalpers realized that it is cheaper to hire college kids/teenagers/third-worlders to manually perform the entry than to hire programmers whose work will be immediately obsoleted by people who plan to stay one step ahead of them.
I'm sorry, but even at $19.99, the quality of images shot on a 2 megapixel camera cannot justify the effort it would take to hack the damned thing. It would be better to just buy a decent camera and devote the time to a more productive hack.
What I want to know is, when can I get a DVI-female port wired into my eyes so I can play video games without using a monitor?
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No, but they were released on LaserDisc, which made for much better transfers than VHS tapes would have. Unfortunately, most of the bootleg DVDs out there are of the Special Edition, probably because the Hong Kong Triads don't realize that Americans want the originals.
Cleaning up after clueless users is a pain. When it's a boss who screwed up the Gnome install on his Linux box, it sucks. When it's a luser who installed a "free screensaver" and FUBARed a laptop it really sucks. But neither of those experiences can compare with how painful it is to try and build a network for a kludge of clueless morons who expect one server to do everything without enough money.
" I think my experience scares prospective employers... I have been paring it down to the bare bones to try to be more attractive to employers: so far: no dice...."
It could certainly be so. I've had more than one recruiter tell me that even though I would be great for the job, that the company couldn't afford me, without every asking what kind of compensation I'm looking for. They just see a resume with a lot of skills and assume that I won't accept any salary that isn't sky-high, and go back to searching for someone who's resume looks less pricey. I eventually found that the best way to deal with this is to post multiple "targeted" versions of my resume on each of the major job sites, one for government, one for the private sector, and one for non-profits, each emphasizing different qualifications.
Games like Shenmue make me wonder where RPG designers got the idea that players wanted games with so much freedom that players don't have to be presented with much of a plot, and should instead just work everything out themselves. I mean, don't they realize that if we wanted a game to be like real life, we would just go outside?
Check out all of those Unreal engine games that have come out over the years. Many of them were developed under the assumption that everyone would be picking up 3DFX brand hardware to play on, and thus plenty of people would be able to handle games that pulled of a ton of crazy high-poly effects. Unfortunately most people's systems couldn't cope with the games, and great games like "The Wheel of Time" and "Undying" flopped because nobody wanted to touch the Unreal engine with Nvidia cards.
Any of the various Quake ]|[ based games is also worth looking at. Raven's Soldier of Fortune games are badass, and the Elite Force games got great reviews.
Agreed. I have an iBook and a Powerbook, and they both burn through batteries at much faster rates than anything Apple promises, even with everything tweaked for optimal power consumption. Anyone claiming to get five hours from an Apple laptop is a liar, anyone claiming more than five is a bad liar.
Set the page file size on all of your drives to 0. I've been running Windows that way for years, it works much better, and the only time I have trouble is when running apps like Photoshop that check for a minimal amount of swap and refuse to run if it isn't there.
That's because fluxbox is NOT a desktop. It's just a window manager, without many of the features that bog down other window managers, including Microsoft's.
Of course, most users don't care about and would never miss those features if they went away, but I'm not even going to go there...
Anyone else want to do a pool on when this game gets cancelled? Because there's no way that even the morons at Sega will be stupid enough to actually launch this shit.
Reading between the lines, I think that this could be a ploy by Sun to solve some of their biggest problems-the high prices and late deliveries caused by producing chips with huge cache sizes-which would be a boon for Sun in the marketplace. No longer would Sun be losing the performance wars due to the delays inherent in producing chips with eight-megabytes of cache, instead a generic Ultrasparc chip could just have an appropriate chip stored externally. This would allow Sun to serve a greater variety of customers at a lower cost because it could sell the exact same chip in servers with 512k, 2MB, 4MB, and 10MB of cache as opposed to having the different chip lines it does now.
that computer "hackers" are just losers angry that they can't get laid.
A note to everyone out there who gets off on cracking other people's machines-in ten years, you'll have nothing to show for your sk1llz other than a house full of lame toys. Grow up and get over infosec.
I'm downloading it now, and I really hope that it works with the old 1.0 Windows CD... I bought SC before there was a Mac version, and I really don't want to buy the hybrid-CD battle-chest just to play it on my powerbook...
I want to see a four-player fighting game that shows a close up horizontal view on one screen, and an overhead view of the entire arena on the other screen.
I agree wholeheartedly! I have purchased plenty of SNK games for non-SNK systems where the cost was reasonable, but at ~$500 for the Neo Geo system and $150-$250 for each game, I have never been in a position to afford SNK's native stuff. Anyone at SNK who thinks that piracy, and not price, is the problem is an idiot-which explains why they went under and had to be bought out by Sammy.
You are in a very bad spot, because you are competing with guys like me who dropped out of college and spent the last four years getting piles of cash to learn system administration and engineering while you were racking up student loan debt. Seriously, your best bet as far as finding a job at this point is chicanery.
Very carefully construct an open-ended resume that will get the attention of headhunters/recruiters just to get you in the door for an interview. For example "Built home LAN" becomes "Engineered and implemented client/server networks providing file, print, and internet services." "Wrote Apache modules for CGI programming classes" becomes "Developed e-commerce interface software," and "Configured my own firewall/router with Red Hat Linux" become "Router installation and management" and "Implemented secure network firewalls," respectively.
I think you get the picture. And have at least three intelligent people proofread your resume before you send it out.
IMHO power is not really a problem with grey goo theory; but lack of materials is. Self-relicating nanomachines are only going to manipulate certain materials to create new ones, for example, if the machine is made of silicon, what the heck is it going to do with the materials in my fingernail?
"Linux was supposed to be different from Windows. You weren't supposed to have to upgrade your CPU in order to get the latest security/bug fixes."
Would you mind showing me a quote from Linus or the GNU folks stating this? Because from what I've seen over the last ten years, Linux and related software are supposed to be different in that they are "free-as-in-speech" programs intended to be used by people who want alternatives to proprietary software, and usuability of the software on aging hardware was never a concern. While it could be extrapolated that this freedom also allows the user to compile lightweight versions for older systems, that part is up to the user, no the developers.
There are plenty of Linux distributions and free/open source programs meant to run on old hardware. But those are mostly specialy created by people who want to run on older hardware. They have never been in the mainstream, and have certainly never been the guiding force in the Linux/free/open source community.
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Just an FYI for college-nerds, I just checked with the Apple store and students have to wait until 9/15 to get a discounted purchase. On the upside, now I know when I'm getting my new toy ;)
>>Also, I'm wondering why people haven't designed software to get around those silly try-to-guess-what-word-we've-seriously-distorted-b eyond-recognition systems.
Spammers and ticket-scalpers did that early on, and the distorted word systems were immediately altered to trick the code. At that point the spammers/scalpers realized that it is cheaper to hire college kids/teenagers/third-worlders to manually perform the entry than to hire programmers whose work will be immediately obsoleted by people who plan to stay one step ahead of them.
I'm sorry, but even at $19.99, the quality of images shot on a 2 megapixel camera cannot justify the effort it would take to hack the damned thing. It would be better to just buy a decent camera and devote the time to a more productive hack.
What I want to know is, when can I get a DVI-female port wired into my eyes so I can play video games without using a monitor?
No, but they were released on LaserDisc, which made for much better transfers than VHS tapes would have. Unfortunately, most of the bootleg DVDs out there are of the Special Edition, probably because the Hong Kong Triads don't realize that Americans want the originals.
Cleaning up after clueless users is a pain. When it's a boss who screwed up the Gnome install on his Linux box, it sucks. When it's a luser who installed a "free screensaver" and FUBARed a laptop it really sucks. But neither of those experiences can compare with how painful it is to try and build a network for a kludge of clueless morons who expect one server to do everything without enough money.
That technology is SO twentieth-century. Just use cellular!
Fast / Cheap / Good
Pick two. You cannot have all three. This is a universal law of computing (and life in general).
" I think my experience scares prospective employers ... I have been paring it down to the bare bones to try to be more attractive to employers: so far: no dice ...."
It could certainly be so. I've had more than one recruiter tell me that even though I would be great for the job, that the company couldn't afford me, without every asking what kind of compensation I'm looking for. They just see a resume with a lot of skills and assume that I won't accept any salary that isn't sky-high, and go back to searching for someone who's resume looks less pricey. I eventually found that the best way to deal with this is to post multiple "targeted" versions of my resume on each of the major job sites, one for government, one for the private sector, and one for non-profits, each emphasizing different qualifications.
Games like Shenmue make me wonder where RPG designers got the idea that players wanted games with so much freedom that players don't have to be presented with much of a plot, and should instead just work everything out themselves. I mean, don't they realize that if we wanted a game to be like real life, we would just go outside?
Check out all of those Unreal engine games that have come out over the years. Many of them were developed under the assumption that everyone would be picking up 3DFX brand hardware to play on, and thus plenty of people would be able to handle games that pulled of a ton of crazy high-poly effects. Unfortunately most people's systems couldn't cope with the games, and great games like "The Wheel of Time" and "Undying" flopped because nobody wanted to touch the Unreal engine with Nvidia cards.
Any of the various Quake ]|[ based games is also worth looking at. Raven's Soldier of Fortune games are badass, and the Elite Force games got great reviews.
Agreed. I have an iBook and a Powerbook, and they both burn through batteries at much faster rates than anything Apple promises, even with everything tweaked for optimal power consumption. Anyone claiming to get five hours from an Apple laptop is a liar, anyone claiming more than five is a bad liar.
Set the page file size on all of your drives to 0. I've been running Windows that way for years, it works much better, and the only time I have trouble is when running apps like Photoshop that check for a minimal amount of swap and refuse to run if it isn't there.
Just don't do it unless you have ample RAM.
That's because fluxbox is NOT a desktop. It's just a window manager, without many of the features that bog down other window managers, including Microsoft's.
Of course, most users don't care about and would never miss those features if they went away, but I'm not even going to go there...
Anyone else want to do a pool on when this game gets cancelled? Because there's no way that even the morons at Sega will be stupid enough to actually launch this shit.
Reading between the lines, I think that this could be a ploy by Sun to solve some of their biggest problems-the high prices and late deliveries caused by producing chips with huge cache sizes-which would be a boon for Sun in the marketplace. No longer would Sun be losing the performance wars due to the delays inherent in producing chips with eight-megabytes of cache, instead a generic Ultrasparc chip could just have an appropriate chip stored externally. This would allow Sun to serve a greater variety of customers at a lower cost because it could sell the exact same chip in servers with 512k, 2MB, 4MB, and 10MB of cache as opposed to having the different chip lines it does now.
Word. Later, SCO losers!
that computer "hackers" are just losers angry that they can't get laid.
A note to everyone out there who gets off on cracking other people's machines-in ten years, you'll have nothing to show for your sk1llz other than a house full of lame toys. Grow up and get over infosec.
The idiots at Verizon can't even get my DSL working right, and now they're going to give me fiber? This is just ludicrous.
I'm downloading it now, and I really hope that it works with the old 1.0 Windows CD... I bought SC before there was a Mac version, and I really don't want to buy the hybrid-CD battle-chest just to play it on my powerbook...
I want to see a four-player fighting game that shows a close up horizontal view on one screen, and an overhead view of the entire arena on the other screen.
I agree wholeheartedly! I have purchased plenty of SNK games for non-SNK systems where the cost was reasonable, but at ~$500 for the Neo Geo system and $150-$250 for each game, I have never been in a position to afford SNK's native stuff. Anyone at SNK who thinks that piracy, and not price, is the problem is an idiot-which explains why they went under and had to be bought out by Sammy.
You are in a very bad spot, because you are competing with guys like me who dropped out of college and spent the last four years getting piles of cash to learn system administration and engineering while you were racking up student loan debt. Seriously, your best bet as far as finding a job at this point is chicanery.
Very carefully construct an open-ended resume that will get the attention of headhunters/recruiters just to get you in the door for an interview. For example "Built home LAN" becomes "Engineered and implemented client/server networks providing file, print, and internet services." "Wrote Apache modules for CGI programming classes" becomes "Developed e-commerce interface software," and "Configured my own firewall/router with Red Hat Linux" become "Router installation and management" and "Implemented secure network firewalls," respectively.
I think you get the picture. And have at least three intelligent people proofread your resume before you send it out.
IMHO power is not really a problem with grey goo theory; but lack of materials is. Self-relicating nanomachines are only going to manipulate certain materials to create new ones, for example, if the machine is made of silicon, what the heck is it going to do with the materials in my fingernail?
"Linux was supposed to be different from Windows. You weren't supposed to have to upgrade your CPU in order to get the latest security/bug fixes."
Would you mind showing me a quote from Linus or the GNU folks stating this? Because from what I've seen over the last ten years, Linux and related software are supposed to be different in that they are "free-as-in-speech" programs intended to be used by people who want alternatives to proprietary software, and usuability of the software on aging hardware was never a concern. While it could be extrapolated that this freedom also allows the user to compile lightweight versions for older systems, that part is up to the user, no the developers.
There are plenty of Linux distributions and free/open source programs meant to run on old hardware. But those are mostly specialy created by people who want to run on older hardware. They have never been in the mainstream, and have certainly never been the guiding force in the Linux/free/open source community.