Funny, I was just building my own case this weekend... I read this book by william gibson called Idoru, in which the lead character has a computer called a sandbenders which is made out of stones, etc in an indian style... It inspired me to work on a case for a portable desktop... I have an old 233 board with builtin vid/sound, so I chucked it into a plastic box about the size of a mainboard (maybe 1.5 inches high) It looks good, except for the large metal power supply box sitting on top... And the hole for the processor fan... Anyone got solutions to the power supply problem? Maybe one of those cute 120 watt E-machine power supplies--but I don't trust anything that comes from E-machines...
now we need something like the holo device used in star wars to project the endor mission profile in the briefing room--only it has to be small enough to fit on the watch, so you can use linux (preferably voice based input ( so is it dash or minus rf??--harkens back to the dilbert cartoon with wally shouting DELETE--)) on the nifty holo screen...
talk about a commuting hazard!!!
I watched pretty much that entire intro show that they had on ZDTV, and picked up an article in ieee spectrum about it (too lazy to go find, sorry) but the big difference between this and regular x86 chips is twofold. First, there is an integrated 'northbridge' on the chips that helps cut down on the power use quite a bit. In addition, its RISC, and it has half the die size of an intel chip, so it uses less power in that regard as well.
According to the spectrum article, they were originally trying to market these for both desktops and mobile, but all of their finanical backers were really only interested in mobile uses because there really are no good mobile chips out there that are specifically designed to be low power/heat. Supposedly the original chip only takes 1 watt, but I would imagine that that varies depending on what you are doing... I can't think that playing quake III/a DVD would only take 1 watt...
we did that with HALF LIFE on an LCD projector at school, and it made everyone in the place sick. Even me, and I don't have a problem with FPS games. My boss has problems with them even on 15in monitors... its interesting how you get sickness when the image gets blown up... I wonder why that is
Growing up in the 80's I remember all sorts of stuff that you heard about 'over in Japan' It wasn't until I got into computers in a big way that I realized we [usa] were actually better than them at electronics in some departments... I think they still have some of the best consumer electronics though--and honestly i have no idea what the current status of computing is over in japan. My only frame of reference on this is Serial Experiment Lain, which is really just a joke.
I would personally rather have a stable code base to be looking at rather than having to deal with a constantly (well maybe not constantly, but one big change is enough) changing codebase. I think the 'beta' stage (the original sense of the word, not ICQ) is a good time to release it, because it gives users a chance to send in comments, bugs, and perhaps get some of their own code added to the product before the 1.0 release.
is that a good thing that money is not being made from it? In some courts that would cause them to give it to the banking group instead because they stand to lose money over not having 'brand recognition' while the open source project "only" loses its name.
sambas do rule. I refused to wear anything else until i got my nifty new pair of addidas running shoes which i also dearly love. I still have 3 pairs of sambas though, I get a new pair about every year, and you are correct in your 3 year life span, so the older pairs get used for stuff like playing Ultimate Frisbee
i had major and inexplicable problems with layers in netscape 4.7 to the point where i had to abandon the layer approach entirely in order to make it netscape compliant. These days I just say screw netscape and design for IE on my personal sites... I still use netscape on my linux box, but my winblows machine and my mac both have IE on them...
hear hear... I do everything as a mockup in photoshop first to present to the client. Then it takes me anywhere from 4 hours to 2 days to build the pages in HTML/Java/DHTML, etc until i can get it to look and work like my model did. I would almost be tempted to do EVERYTHING in flash, just because its so easy, and it looks JUST LIKE you design it, even scaled, however as a linux user I don't feel the need to force people to use win/mac with flash viewer to see the site. For corporate sites i end up doing a lot of the infamous INTO FLASH, but I dont have much say in that...
you said it... Although I am a programmer as well, don't get me wrong on that score... But the client provides all of the content in 99% of the cases that I have worked on. I just make it look perty. And the client has to 'approve' that too...
instead of just domain checking they could check the IP as well, so that it its not close, they can block it... Maybe take a bit longer to figure a way around that...
donno if that would work though, because I don't really know if all servers have close IP's for their domains... the ones that i have dealt with are only 1 number off, like C class stuff, but I dont know if that is the case everywhere.
immune from SITE tracking, yes, but not demographic tracking, just because I don't have a consistent IP to track you by, doesn't mean that I can't gather a decent idea of where you are based out of via your IP. Granted with national ISP's this is virtually impossible, but I already stated that when I mentioned AOL.
i was thinking that as well with the 1x1 streched, but i have used them at 1x1 before, and as a designer it pisses me off when my pages don't display right... its generally my fault when they dont, but I don't really want/need the extra hassel of another constraint placed on the way i design
i can tell you dont work in web design at all, nor do you have to deal with clients that have LOGOs. When I am given an image of a client logo that is not alterable because of the whole 'corporate idenity' business, I have to design around it, which sometimes necessitates doing things like small gifs to push the logo over to where it needs to go.
Further, sometimes I must make a web page that looks exactly like a Print piece, which is very hard to do consistently between platforms/browsers. As a result I again have to use pixel spacers that wont change in size like an & nbsp ; would to make it happen the way the client wants it.
rooooiiiiight. So when a netscape user comes to the site, it looks like it got mauled by a script kiddie... Once they fix the way netscape handles CSS i will start using it. I already use it on my personal site, but the industry is another matter.
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Funny, I was just building my own case this weekend... I read this book by william gibson called Idoru, in which the lead character has a computer called a sandbenders which is made out of stones, etc in an indian style... It inspired me to work on a case for a portable desktop... I have an old 233 board with builtin vid/sound, so I chucked it into a plastic box about the size of a mainboard (maybe 1.5 inches high) It looks good, except for the large metal power supply box sitting on top... And the hole for the processor fan... Anyone got solutions to the power supply problem? Maybe one of those cute 120 watt E-machine power supplies--but I don't trust anything that comes from E-machines...
Just look at the naming scheme:
win 95--end user OS
nt 4.0--server/IT OS (supposedly)
win98--end user OS
win2k--NT 5.0??? how does that fit with their normal naming scheme?
I think they are trying to bring 2000 into mainstream use.
now we need something like the holo device used in star wars to project the endor mission profile in the briefing room--only it has to be small enough to fit on the watch, so you can use linux (preferably voice based input ( so is it dash or minus rf??--harkens back to the dilbert cartoon with wally shouting DELETE--)) on the nifty holo screen...
talk about a commuting hazard!!!
I watched pretty much that entire intro show that they had on ZDTV, and picked up an article in ieee spectrum about it (too lazy to go find, sorry) but the big difference between this and regular x86 chips is twofold. First, there is an integrated 'northbridge' on the chips that helps cut down on the power use quite a bit. In addition, its RISC, and it has half the die size of an intel chip, so it uses less power in that regard as well.
According to the spectrum article, they were originally trying to market these for both desktops and mobile, but all of their finanical backers were really only interested in mobile uses because there really are no good mobile chips out there that are specifically designed to be low power/heat. Supposedly the original chip only takes 1 watt, but I would imagine that that varies depending on what you are doing... I can't think that playing quake III/a DVD would only take 1 watt...
I would take a 400mhz processor running native win98 over a 75mhz MIPS running CE... But maybe thats just me.
we did that with HALF LIFE on an LCD projector at school, and it made everyone in the place sick. Even me, and I don't have a problem with FPS games. My boss has problems with them even on 15in monitors... its interesting how you get sickness when the image gets blown up... I wonder why that is
Growing up in the 80's I remember all sorts of stuff that you heard about 'over in Japan' It wasn't until I got into computers in a big way that I realized we [usa] were actually better than them at electronics in some departments... I think they still have some of the best consumer electronics though--and honestly i have no idea what the current status of computing is over in japan. My only frame of reference on this is Serial Experiment Lain, which is really just a joke.
I would personally rather have a stable code base to be looking at rather than having to deal with a constantly (well maybe not constantly, but one big change is enough) changing codebase. I think the 'beta' stage (the original sense of the word, not ICQ) is a good time to release it, because it gives users a chance to send in comments, bugs, and perhaps get some of their own code added to the product before the 1.0 release.
would you REALLY want the entire web to be flash? *SHUDDER*
sure, strap the case to your back, get a REALLY BIG battery, and find a convenient high school track... there ya go!
they look pretty slick with everything, which is why i started wearing them... the samba milleniums rule--extra white stuff round the edges...
is that a good thing that money is not being made from it? In some courts that would cause them to give it to the banking group instead because they stand to lose money over not having 'brand recognition' while the open source project "only" loses its name.
sambas do rule. I refused to wear anything else until i got my nifty new pair of addidas running shoes which i also dearly love. I still have 3 pairs of sambas though, I get a new pair about every year, and you are correct in your 3 year life span, so the older pairs get used for stuff like playing Ultimate Frisbee
i had major and inexplicable problems with layers in netscape 4.7 to the point where i had to abandon the layer approach entirely in order to make it netscape compliant. These days I just say screw netscape and design for IE on my personal sites... I still use netscape on my linux box, but my winblows machine and my mac both have IE on them...
hear hear... I do everything as a mockup in photoshop first to present to the client. Then it takes me anywhere from 4 hours to 2 days to build the pages in HTML/Java/DHTML, etc until i can get it to look and work like my model did. I would almost be tempted to do EVERYTHING in flash, just because its so easy, and it looks JUST LIKE you design it, even scaled, however as a linux user I don't feel the need to force people to use win/mac with flash viewer to see the site. For corporate sites i end up doing a lot of the infamous INTO FLASH, but I dont have much say in that...
esp. if it is something like yahoo--most of the images on there are adds anyway besides the main title graphic...
its not a matter of them using webtrends, its about what the do with the data afterwards, no?
you said it... Although I am a programmer as well, don't get me wrong on that score... But the client provides all of the content in 99% of the cases that I have worked on. I just make it look perty. And the client has to 'approve' that too...
instead of just domain checking they could check the IP as well, so that it its not close, they can block it... Maybe take a bit longer to figure a way around that... donno if that would work though, because I don't really know if all servers have close IP's for their domains... the ones that i have dealt with are only 1 number off, like C class stuff, but I dont know if that is the case everywhere.
immune from SITE tracking, yes, but not demographic tracking, just because I don't have a consistent IP to track you by, doesn't mean that I can't gather a decent idea of where you are based out of via your IP. Granted with national ISP's this is virtually impossible, but I already stated that when I mentioned AOL.
i was thinking that as well with the 1x1 streched, but i have used them at 1x1 before, and as a designer it pisses me off when my pages don't display right... its generally my fault when they dont, but I don't really want/need the extra hassel of another constraint placed on the way i design
because its horizontal only... at least in all references i have seen... if not, please let me know.
better than I could have said it... :)
i can tell you dont work in web design at all, nor do you have to deal with clients that have LOGOs. When I am given an image of a client logo that is not alterable because of the whole 'corporate idenity' business, I have to design around it, which sometimes necessitates doing things like small gifs to push the logo over to where it needs to go. Further, sometimes I must make a web page that looks exactly like a Print piece, which is very hard to do consistently between platforms/browsers. As a result I again have to use pixel spacers that wont change in size like an & nbsp ; would to make it happen the way the client wants it.
rooooiiiiight. So when a netscape user comes to the site, it looks like it got mauled by a script kiddie... Once they fix the way netscape handles CSS i will start using it. I already use it on my personal site, but the industry is another matter.