There's lots of people who are good with computers to a good extent, but haven't heard of this "Linux" thing outside of a 10sec blurb on MSNBC. For this reason these installfests are providing a valuable service, but I'm wondering if there are any books/online resources that could be given to/recommended to the new Linux user? I've seen many a frustrated guru in #linux become frustrated enough to scream RTFM! every time someone asks how to mount their windows partiton. Maybe even a small printout of basic commands and troubleshooting tips could be handed out at the LUG meetings.
PS: I've never been to a LUG meeting, being only 15, I don't know how well I'd fit in.
"Its not the size of the boat, its the motions it makes in the water"
Seriously though, look at what companies have done with PlayStation's crappy GPU. Even games like Road Rash on Genesis are amazing when you consider that it was running on a Z80 and a 68000. Microsoft may have the most powerful console when it comes to graphics, but if the developers aren't writng tight code, then it won't matter too much. Sony Sega and Nintendo are capable of getting the major 3rd party developers and making games for themselves, and by making their own games, they have a team who knows all the ins and outs of the system. However, the ability of the game writer to easailly port DirectX games to X-Box *may* provide MS with some good games, but look at how much crap is released for PCs that would never sell on a console. Graphics aren't everything people.
"At McDonalds, I'm no longer making just a burger, I'm making your burger"
See Jose, they are nice, hard-working people, not some big bad scary multinational corp, McDonalds is your friend, I'd advise you to have one of their great MBX sandwiches today! We all know that since McDonalds is the most popular restaurant in the world, that they make the best food too.
This seems like a hoax, think about it, osm could do this all on his own, put up a page and then start posting all this crap as AC about being sued, just to drum up some anti-slashdot morale. This is no different than any other trolls, its just some mind-game that they are playing with/. readers. I'd advise you to disregard the above message so they don't end up laughing their asses off about how they tricked everyone. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but stranger things have happened.
While its obvious that napster is aiding the piracy of music, it seems that most people JUST DON'T CARE. Every average teenager who I talk to uses napster, even ones who aren't tech-savy to say the least (I'm talking AOLers here). When it comes to music that someone recomends to me, I'll fire up napster and get a few songs, if its good, often I will actually buy the CD. Truth is, average people just disregard the laws, its civil disobediance in its finest. BTW, I just bought A Decade Of Steely Dan, its great, and when the music is good enough, I don't have a problem parting with $12.
AFAIK, Most lawyers drive a BMW 750iL and socialize at a country club, wear designer clothes, have nice furniture. These are accepted as symbols of wealth. Your average geek is more likely to drive a reasonable car, and spend his money on computers/electronics and all. To a woman, the nice car and furniture is more appealing than a Sony ES home theatre system and a Dual PIII 933. But as far as women not becoming geeks themselves, I don't know, there probably are, we just don't notice them or something.
Are there any free development environments for MacOS? If someone is going to develop a program to give away, I can see why they wouldn't want to shell out $500 for VC++ or CodeWarrior. If there was a port of gcc to MacOS (there may be, I'm not sure), there still would be the lack of a good IDE to develop with. A project like Kdevelop for macintosh would provide the ease of use and incentives that the Mac programmer would need to start writing open source.
I noticed that companies like CompUSA have changed their ads to say $0 after $400 rebate, but before Internet charges of $22/mo for 36 months. Is this from the 'goodness of their heart' or from these regulations? Anyway, who can't tell that the cost of the PC is after rebates after reading for a little more than 2 seconds.
Pentium Pro (P6) - On-die cache Actually the PPro had the cache on a separate die on the same chip package, unlike the CeleronA and Coppermine, which have the cache in the CPU die itself.
Yesterday on CNBC they were interviewing a guy from Cybex(sp?) who make and sell KVM switches. The CNBC guy had no clue what a KVM switch was, and the guy tried to explain, "well if you have 1000 servers, you only need one keyboard, mouse, and video (monitor) to control them all" The CNBC guy, baffled at this, responded with, "Would voice recoignition help this product? I see lots of voice recoignition here."
Now if I could only figure out how to dub my beta movies onto miniDisc.:)
MiniDisc is far from dead, it might not be popular for pre-recorded stuff (at least in the US), but as a format for putting music onto its great. For $2 I get a disc holding 74min of audio, how much does 60MB of flash cost for a Diamond Rio? The players aren't much larger than the discs themselves and there are many to choose from from a whole bunch of manufacturers. I wouldn't put MD in the same boat as Beta.
While this might somehow help make those Xing encoded 128kbit mp3s you get off napster sound a bit better, what is it going to do for people who already know what quality sounds like? All the mp3s off my CDs are encoded at 224kbit with GoGo, they are impossible to tell from the original CDs, even on good sound systems. Also, isn't this technology going to end up in one of Kenwood's $650 MP3/CD car decks. The kind of people who would pay $650 for a car deck obviously know what to encode their MP3s with (or they *should*) This all just sounds like hype to me BTW.
I love this show, does anyone know if there's a reasonable way to get copies of this show w/o the bad dubbing. I'd take subtitles over the crappy voices and broken english that comes out of that show. And what's the deal with Korn, is that guy some kind of jpimp or what? Oh well, *patiently awaits the new york battle*
One day I was with a few friends, and we were in Philadelphia, and we walked by one of those neighborhood asian computer stores. At the time I was looking for a new CPU so we stopped in. I asked the woman behind the counter, "Do you have any Celeron 300As, you know the ones that can overclock?", to this she responded, "no overclock, no overclock" while waving her finger back and forth, after that we got thrown out of the store. I thought these places would be pro overclocking, but I guess not, I didn't want to start an international incident, I just wanted a new CPU!
Well, I'm 15, the above comment was sort of a test comment which would seem semi-ontopic in the rare event that it would actually have posted under my UID (a few minutes ago/. wasn't posing other than AC for some reason). But I think that little ones should have their browsing restricted or at least monitored, the Internet has many paralells to the real world, just the anomnity which allows a ten year old to walk into an online porn shop as easially as a 25 year old could makes it a much worse place for young children. You wouldn't give your kids free run in a large city? Then why would you sit them down in front of a PC and tell them to keep away from porn?
On a side note, when I set this thing up I initially made the BIG mistake of plugging it into the "Phono" RCA input on the stereo... have no idea why it sounded so horrible. Then I moved it to the "CD" input and now it sounds great.
The Phono inputs go into a phono preamp before they are passed into the reciever's line ins. I've accidentally done the same thing and it does sound like crap. Note that *real* audiophiles use an external tube preamp for their precious vinyl:)
...just slowly. The USPS is starting a new eBillPay program, and there are other ways in which the governernment is leveraging the power of the internet. It just takes time, the government moves more slowly than the rest of the world.
I can see how this product works by detecting skin tones, but how will it distinguish between say, a face and a naked body. Unless it has the outlines of human genetalia programmed into it and actually spent the time tracing each proxied image to check it for such outlines, this seems impossible. Also, what about dark skinned individuals, how would this product be able to detect them? This seems like a good idea that would never work unless it had a massive amount of processing power behind it for tracing and comparing images.
It seems similar to FreshMeat in its interface, but this seems like a really good idea for finding a project to work on. I think that working on an existing project may be easier for a beginning developer then starting from scrach in some cases. However, you have to think about why the project was abandoned; Was it too difficult? Was it just not feasible? Also, working on an existing project may be more difficut from starting from scratch since you have to read through and understand all the original author's code
To keep people from saying "Photoshop rules until GIMP has good press-ready CMYK" I think that the GIMP should be able to do CMYK color conversions. Also is there any way to interface the GIMP's plugins/script-fu to a web server to use as CGIs? On the fly generated images would be mucho cool.
The sharkyextreme review puts the CPU's speed a little below the Athlon 700 in most apps, but for games, its barely going faster than a Celeron 550. Also, they were only able to overclock it to 770. However, considering the cost of this chip, it still seems like a good value. I just can't justify buying a new case/mobo/cpu for a little bit more performance, that's all. This still should make a great CPU for grandma's new computer without making things cost too much.
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PS: I've never been to a LUG meeting, being only 15, I don't know how well I'd fit in.
Seriously though, look at what companies have done with PlayStation's crappy GPU. Even games like Road Rash on Genesis are amazing when you consider that it was running on a Z80 and a 68000. Microsoft may have the most powerful console when it comes to graphics, but if the developers aren't writng tight code, then it won't matter too much. Sony Sega and Nintendo are capable of getting the major 3rd party developers and making games for themselves, and by making their own games, they have a team who knows all the ins and outs of the system. However, the ability of the game writer to easailly port DirectX games to X-Box *may* provide MS with some good games, but look at how much crap is released for PCs that would never sell on a console. Graphics aren't everything people.
This is a hoax, see this thread where slashdot's own Michael Sims says that its nothing but a troll. This is just some kind of sick mind-game.
See Jose, they are nice, hard-working people, not some big bad scary multinational corp, McDonalds is your friend, I'd advise you to have one of their great MBX sandwiches today! We all know that since McDonalds is the most popular restaurant in the world, that they make the best food too.
Pentium Pro (P6) - On-die cache
Actually the PPro had the cache on a separate die on the same chip package, unlike the CeleronA and Coppermine, which have the cache in the CPU die itself.
MiniDisc is far from dead, it might not be popular for pre-recorded stuff (at least in the US), but as a format for putting music onto its great. For $2 I get a disc holding 74min of audio, how much does 60MB of flash cost for a Diamond Rio? The players aren't much larger than the discs themselves and there are many to choose from from a whole bunch of manufacturers. I wouldn't put MD in the same boat as Beta.
IMHO children can protect themselves. At least I can protect myself. I won't say hello to strangers online and go with them into the park.
The Phono inputs go into a phono preamp before they are passed into the reciever's line ins. I've accidentally done the same thing and it does sound like crap. Note that *real* audiophiles use an external tube preamp for their precious vinyl :)