Well, I think the usual response is that once you factor in your time, the cost is more than that of a top model Aleinware box, or a Mac.:) It's the same as MythTV versus Tivo or any other commercial versus open source argument. Now people can do it for the hobby aspect- lord knows I've frittered away hours on things people might find a waste of time. But it's hard to run with a cost benefit analysis on any of this stuff.
No, the design needs to be reprogrammable (one FPGA programs the rest off a Flash RAM, and the Flash RAM is writable over a network), and it's something for high end satcom links, so only a handfulof these things get built. There's no volume to justify ASIC development.
I was using computers in 1974, kid. The first processor I programmed was the KIM-1 using buttons and a hand translated list of machine codes. This is not 1985. This is 2005. Certain GUI details have shown themselves to work better than others. Flash applets blow as well. Expose is something new that *better*. That example has NOTHING to do with what I was saying in terms of user interface concepts. Oh, what's the point...
First of all, there's no point where this is considered dangerous yet. None of them have caught fire and burned down a church full of orphans.
Well, we can only hope one will.;-)
But don't think you're superior to other people who feel the system is worth it.
Well, I don't think the OP was making any superiority claims, but there is a general "please plow my ass again" attitude in the consumer base for things computery that is deserving of some amount of derision.
And, seriously, you can't look at some grown man waiting in line for 24+ hours to get a game machine that will be readily available in a couple days elsewhere and not feel a little superior. Obsession used to be considered a character flaw back when the collective consciousness of humanity still had a semblence of sanity.
Yeah, but they have, like, 80 trillion dollars and can hire anyone they want.
Thermal analysis is *basic* to electronic unit design. It's Unit Design 101 stuff. The fact they have THREE fast processors should have alerted even the summer interns that heat needed to be looked at closely.
And as I recall the overheating batteries were defective batteries. There was a recall on the *battery*. When replaced, all was well. That's different from poor housing design and ineffective thermal regulation of a unit's thermal environment.
All this to play 14 sports sequels, 23 racing sequels and 19 FPS sequels without crashes because MS couldn't be bothered to do basic themal analysis which is in the top three Very Important Things To Do before releasing any enclosed electronic unit into the wild. Seriously, the has the gaming world become a bit... undemanding? I was going to buy a 360 (I was planning on getting all three of the next gen consoles) until I got a gander at the game release schedule into next April. Meh... Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm burning out on gaming.
Piffle. In all the X apps I use the text selection functionality is inconsistent and unpredictable, along with the scroll bars and other things that the rest of computerdom had working smoothly 20 years ago. It even varies from text field to text field in the same app. I can't find a person who has anything but utter distaste for X Win GUIs. And it's not *my* way, it's the way of the other 95% of the world, and there's a reason it's that way.
Can we get some of that software mojo where I work? Honestly, I spend less money to completely redesign a 24 inch by 16 inch high speed PC board (and I'm talking something with 3 Gbps digital ECL signals that have to be treated like RF signals, along with a dozen multimillion gate FPGAs in fine grid BGA packages) than our software people do to add a single function or routine. It takes a fucking act of Congress to alter a couple lines of code in this joint.
Add to that picture all the horribly programmed engineering tools we have to use (and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for), with GUIs that were created by retarded lemurs on acid, and, well, my opinion of the current state of the science of programming is not very healthy. Nice to see someone out there is taking some initiative.
Seriously, when a Mac head like me favors using your tool via the command line and C shell scripts, you need to *FIRE* whomever it is that designs your GUIs.
Oh, and X Windows programmers? The text that's highlighted? That's what I expect to be replaced by my typing. It's not meant for the random decoration that you all use it for.
I enjoyed your poat, and totally agree, but you are wasting your time arguing with ideologues (and only an ideologue would suggest the artificial tripling of gas prices).
We are neck deep in ideologues, and when I use that term, I mean the mass of humanity that has totally and completely abandoned critical thinking and reason in favor of myth, lies and ignorance. Instead of analyzing a particular situation for a solution, they run and check whatever manifesto they follow. It's a "one size fits all" playbook.
It used to be there was a political extremist fringe, but over the past 50 years or so this debilitating set of memes has trickled down to everyday folks.
I gave up discussing politics years ago when most of them started going like this.
OTHER PERSON: Clinton was the best president ever.
ME: Meh. I didn't care for his approaches to several issues.
OP: Oh, yeah, your hero Bush is doing so much better.
ME: My hero? What are you talking about. I like Bush less than Clinton.
OP: You're just upset you couldn't impeach Clinton.
ME: What? He *was* impeached but acquitted, and I didn't support impeachment. It was a waste of time and resources.
OP: It was just a blow job.
ME: He wasn't impeached for that.
OP: You hero Rush Limbo tell you that?
ME: I don't like Limbaugh.
OP: Oh, please, you Repugnicans are all the same.
ME: (blank stare and pondering if I should tell OP I'm a long time independent voter) So, how about those Dodgers?
Damn it, we are a society of achievers. It is what drives this country. Yes it can be excessive but damn if we keep up this "loser" mentality then we truly will fall behind.
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Preach on, brother!
You're not Terry Goodkind by any chance, are you?;-)
If you punish success you will get mediocrity.
And if you reward failure, you get Microsoft.:-) Hee hee. I crack me up!
For every respectable site, there are three or four seedy places that you wouldn't want to be seen surfing by relatives.
You've never met my relatives.
We have some scary types here at the Desperation compound. The weird, seedy web sites are some of the few things that keeps them settled and relatively under control.
Someone needs to open shop with the Dumbest Name Ever and others will stop trying.
I mean, Pajamas Media? The name alone makes me want to lob ebola bombs into orphanages and run busses full of nuns off the road. No, wait... that how I always feel. Never mind about that.
Anyway, someone please start "Grotty Foo-Foo Linux" or "Neener Neener Neeeeeeeeeeener Media" or some such intellect grating piffle of a name.
1. How do you feel about people who take the show too seriously, and rant on endlessly in various online locales about proper scientific method?
2. Do you feel sorry for all the ones who asked about Kari?
3. Have you ever considered politically charged mythbusting, like cell phones or power lines causing cancer (just to toss out a couple probably impractical examples)?
No, there's just many different types of SF. There's people who focus the SF label to what used to be called "hard SF", but most fans laugh at those folks and put dirt in their hair. In the middle is "science fantasy" and a dozen other subgenres.
And in the end, who gives a damn? Read what what you want to read. It really not worth having an "arrogant opinion" about.
And now I'm successful (financially at least) but I hate the fucking world with a passion, and I root for the ELE asteroid.
Funny how things work out.
I'm a hardcore skeptic, too, but I admit sometimes I hope to find sone hint of something greater, and some proof that this civilization is not just a pack of marching morons, as Kornbluth called it.
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Well, I think the usual response is that once you factor in your time, the cost is more than that of a top model Aleinware box, or a Mac. :) It's the same as MythTV versus Tivo or any other commercial versus open source argument. Now people can do it for the hobby aspect- lord knows I've frittered away hours on things people might find a waste of time. But it's hard to run with a cost benefit analysis on any of this stuff.
No, the design needs to be reprogrammable (one FPGA programs the rest off a Flash RAM, and the Flash RAM is writable over a network), and it's something for high end satcom links, so only a handfulof these things get built. There's no volume to justify ASIC development.
I was using computers in 1974, kid. The first processor I programmed was the KIM-1 using buttons and a hand translated list of machine codes. This is not 1985. This is 2005. Certain GUI details have shown themselves to work better than others. Flash applets blow as well. Expose is something new that *better*. That example has NOTHING to do with what I was saying in terms of user interface concepts. Oh, what's the point...
Well, we can only hope one will. ;-)
But don't think you're superior to other people who feel the system is worth it.
Well, I don't think the OP was making any superiority claims, but there is a general "please plow my ass again" attitude in the consumer base for things computery that is deserving of some amount of derision.
And, seriously, you can't look at some grown man waiting in line for 24+ hours to get a game machine that will be readily available in a couple days elsewhere and not feel a little superior. Obsession used to be considered a character flaw back when the collective consciousness of humanity still had a semblence of sanity.
Thermal analysis is *basic* to electronic unit design. It's Unit Design 101 stuff. The fact they have THREE fast processors should have alerted even the summer interns that heat needed to be looked at closely.
And as I recall the overheating batteries were defective batteries. There was a recall on the *battery*. When replaced, all was well. That's different from poor housing design and ineffective thermal regulation of a unit's thermal environment.
All this to play 14 sports sequels, 23 racing sequels and 19 FPS sequels without crashes because MS couldn't be bothered to do basic themal analysis which is in the top three Very Important Things To Do before releasing any enclosed electronic unit into the wild.
Seriously, the has the gaming world become a bit... undemanding? I was going to buy a 360 (I was planning on getting all three of the next gen consoles) until I got a gander at the game release schedule into next April. Meh... Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm burning out on gaming.
Piffle. In all the X apps I use the text selection functionality is inconsistent and unpredictable, along with the scroll bars and other things that the rest of computerdom had working smoothly 20 years ago. It even varies from text field to text field in the same app. I can't find a person who has anything but utter distaste for X Win GUIs. And it's not *my* way, it's the way of the other 95% of the world, and there's a reason it's that way.
Add to that picture all the horribly programmed engineering tools we have to use (and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for), with GUIs that were created by retarded lemurs on acid, and, well, my opinion of the current state of the science of programming is not very healthy. Nice to see someone out there is taking some initiative.
Seriously, when a Mac head like me favors using your tool via the command line and C shell scripts, you need to *FIRE* whomever it is that designs your GUIs.
Oh, and X Windows programmers? The text that's highlighted? That's what I expect to be replaced by my typing. It's not meant for the random decoration that you all use it for.
We are neck deep in ideologues, and when I use that term, I mean the mass of humanity that has totally and completely abandoned critical thinking and reason in favor of myth, lies and ignorance. Instead of analyzing a particular situation for a solution, they run and check whatever manifesto they follow. It's a "one size fits all" playbook.
It used to be there was a political extremist fringe, but over the past 50 years or so this debilitating set of memes has trickled down to everyday folks.
I gave up discussing politics years ago when most of them started going like this.
OTHER PERSON: Clinton was the best president ever.
ME: Meh. I didn't care for his approaches to several issues.
OP: Oh, yeah, your hero Bush is doing so much better.
ME: My hero? What are you talking about. I like Bush less than Clinton.
OP: You're just upset you couldn't impeach Clinton.
ME: What? He *was* impeached but acquitted, and I didn't support impeachment. It was a waste of time and resources.
OP: It was just a blow job.
ME: He wasn't impeached for that.
OP: You hero Rush Limbo tell you that?
ME: I don't like Limbaugh.
OP: Oh, please, you Repugnicans are all the same.
ME: (blank stare and pondering if I should tell OP I'm a long time independent voter) So, how about those Dodgers?
I hear the pictures turned out like shit, though.
{{{{{{{{{{HUG}}}}}}}}}}
Preach on, brother!
You're not Terry Goodkind by any chance, are you? ;-)
If you punish success you will get mediocrity.
And if you reward failure, you get Microsoft. :-) Hee hee. I crack me up!
You've never met my relatives.
We have some scary types here at the Desperation compound. The weird, seedy web sites are some of the few things that keeps them settled and relatively under control.
Well, google was named after googol, wasn't it?
Someone needs to open shop with the Dumbest Name Ever and others will stop trying.
I mean, Pajamas Media? The name alone makes me want to lob ebola bombs into orphanages and run busses full of nuns off the road. No, wait... that how I always feel. Never mind about that.
Anyway, someone please start "Grotty Foo-Foo Linux" or "Neener Neener Neeeeeeeeeeener Media" or some such intellect grating piffle of a name.
Any other suggestions?
1. How do you feel about people who take the show too seriously, and rant on endlessly in various online locales about proper scientific method?
2. Do you feel sorry for all the ones who asked about Kari?
3. Have you ever considered politically charged mythbusting, like cell phones or power lines causing cancer (just to toss out a couple probably impractical examples)?
4. Do you have any relationship with snopes.com?
Whatever you say, Kreskin.
And in the end, who gives a damn? Read what what you want to read. It really not worth having an "arrogant opinion" about.
I wasn't serious, AC pussy.
Fucking dickheads. Useless little dog rapers.
He'll kick their asses!
One wonders if DirecTV is thinking, "Crap, we could be running this in ads if we hadn't abandoned Tivo."
I don't know if it rates as a geek novel, but I like it.
Funny how things work out.
I'm a hardcore skeptic, too, but I admit sometimes I hope to find sone hint of something greater, and some proof that this civilization is not just a pack of marching morons, as Kornbluth called it.
Morons
Too negative? Who give a fuck?
Sheesh. Only on fucking Slashdot...
It's short for prepare, but more often used in the sense of preparing for something bigger than a video game system.