I reviewed the footage (much of which I shot) and you should realize that while some crashes/contact is shown, the race is one part entertainment. We pull out the exciting parts and compile the video so you get a taste of the action, but crashes are not as common as you may think. It should also be mentioned that these vehicles are slapped together at hackerspaces, usually using whatever free or cheap parts we can find, and are not precision machines. The endurance portion of the race is 75 minutes long, which really puts these vehicles to the test. Motors overheat, the vibration of driving shakes controllers loose, batteries wear out. There is some serious engineering that goes into these things, though you might not see it in a short promo video.
Yeah, I know, it's nothing new, the whole automating the pulling down of content. What's really important is that a framework is being established. RSS is getting more and more popular by the day, and if producers of audio content get it together, and produce RSS feeds with enclosures pointing to the audio files, it becomes *extremely easy* for developers to write apps to handle that content, and *extremely easy* for users to get that content - automatically!
Adam knows he's not a brilliant programmer. He's a frustrated developer, who is really trying to kickstart this whole thing by enticing others to write better code than his, which is happening. It made me release my crappy perl code, and prompted others to start similar projects.
Heck, this is the Apple section of/. right? Remember "easy of use" is somewhere near the top of the list for some people.
Is Mac OS X slow? Yes.. and no... I could definitely work a lot faster in Mac OS 9, but that's probably a familiarity thing. Still, I just can fly around the OS like I used to. I use a 400mhz G4 daily (with Mozilla) and I definitely think it's slow in some tasks. Moving 100 large files in the Finder on a remote volume can be painful, then again, I can do it in the terminal 10 times faster. Until my employer get's me a new Mac, I'll just work at a relaxed pace. I also use Mac OS X on a 733mhz G4, and it's much improved, still some things feel a little slower than they should. I've also got a 250mhz G3 PowerBook, and while it is of course slow, about all I do with it is use Mozilla for mail, news, and browsing, so it doesn't seem that slow. If I tried to do development work on it, I'd probably do a lot more swearing and waiting...
Don't mess with AOL, cuz when you mess with AOL, you mess with Mozilla. Maybe they should put copies of Mozilla on every AOL CD? Who wouldn't appreciate getting Mozilla binaries on CD delivered to their house each month?
I can't justify the cost of broadband. Believe me, I wish I could.;) (Luckily I've got T-1 access at the office for those big downloads.) I've stuck with dialup because it would probably double the cost per month to switch to DSL, and if I do switch to DSL I'm going to want to run a server, which might even cost more...
If I could get broadband for under $35 per month I'd most likely go for it. I'm only getting 46k connection speeds with dialup, and if I could get speeds up to 4 times faster for about 1 1/2 times as much money, well, you do the math...
I'm a longtime Mac user as well, I was a MacPerl guy like pudge years ago, but I could not wait to jettison Mac OS 9 for Mac OS X. I still cringe when I have to use Classic at the office. There's nothing wrong with Mac OS 9, my wife and kids use it (not to say it's for housewives and little girls) as it's an extremely easy to use OS. I'm willing to trade some ease of use for some power and control. Not enough to switch to Linux for my desktop needs, but just enough that Mac OS X is the (almost) perfect OS for me... right now anyway...
I switched from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X as soon as I could. I've been in the publishing world and using Macs forever, and always preferred to use them over Windows. When Linux got popular years ago, I liked it, and started using it as a server OS, but kept using the Mac as a desktop machine. I wasn't going to buy a new machine and switch to Linux since the Mac did (mostly) what I needed it to do. But with Mac OS X, well, I've got real Perl (MacPerl was good for what it was, but it doesn't compare to/usr/bin/perl) and Apache, and all that gooey *nix goodness beneath the sheets to love...
So I never had to switch to Windows and never attempted to switch to Linux, I just had to wait for the Mac OS to catch up with where I was going...
Sigh... While I love Mac OS X, and using/usr/bin/perl while I'm at home, I work in an office that has many Macs running Mac OS 9 with no OS X update scheduled yet, so MacPerl 5.6.1 is a much needed thing.
And really, depending on what/how you write perl, you can do a hell of a lot with MacPerl on a daily basis. (Thanks pudge!)
I think there's maybe two groups, the designers and home users who use Macs, and don't really know much about Apple besides that, and the die-hards and tech-heads who follow all the new stuff, and even read Slashdot. I mean, you must admit, Steve Jobs and his wacky-plastic boxes look a lot nicer than Bill Gates and some Dell box with Windows ME on it...
Nokia has announced an media terminal at IBC'2000 (International Broadcasting Convention, Amsterdam) which seems to be a serious competitor for the home.
I think I'll stick with my home. Even though this media terminal is a "serious competitor" for my home, my home stores a lot more stuff, and allows me to live inside of it.
I'm in agreement. I've tried LinuxPPC, and never even got it to install properly! Yellow Dog has been great... easy install, mailing list support, good stuff - even for a Linux newbie. I just wish my hardware wouldn't keep giving out on me:(
Perl is portable. Show me another good language that allows me to write a web-based app or cgi and easily move it between a Mac OS, Windows NT, and unix server in practically no time at all...
Not to mention that perl is almost always available for cgi, very important for people who maintain sites on like a dozen different server configurations.
Yeah, perl has it's disadvantages, but it's advantages usually outweight them.
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Thanks for attempting to steer the discussion back on track.
I reviewed the footage (much of which I shot) and you should realize that while some crashes/contact is shown, the race is one part entertainment. We pull out the exciting parts and compile the video so you get a taste of the action, but crashes are not as common as you may think. It should also be mentioned that these vehicles are slapped together at hackerspaces, usually using whatever free or cheap parts we can find, and are not precision machines. The endurance portion of the race is 75 minutes long, which really puts these vehicles to the test. Motors overheat, the vibration of driving shakes controllers loose, batteries wear out. There is some serious engineering that goes into these things, though you might not see it in a short promo video.
Insane bandwidth bill...
As mentioned, check out ourmedia.org, archive.org, ibiblio.org for free hosting, and libsyn.com for very cheap hosting. Your bandwidth bill = $0.00
- Mefeedia videoblog directory
- VLOGDIR directory
- vlogmap.org
Want to create videoblogs?Well, if you like jogging I guess this sounds good, but I was recording Slashdot articles and comments to cassette tapes using my Mac and listening to them in my car's tape deck back in 1998 or so...
Welcome to the future! ;)
Yeah, I know, it's nothing new, the whole automating the pulling down of content. What's really important is that a framework is being established. RSS is getting more and more popular by the day, and if producers of audio content get it together, and produce RSS feeds with enclosures pointing to the audio files, it becomes *extremely easy* for developers to write apps to handle that content, and *extremely easy* for users to get that content - automatically!
Adam knows he's not a brilliant programmer. He's a frustrated developer, who is really trying to kickstart this whole thing by enticing others to write better code than his, which is happening. It made me release my crappy perl code, and prompted others to start similar projects.
Heck, this is the Apple section of
Is Mac OS X slow? Yes.. and no... I could definitely work a lot faster in Mac OS 9, but that's probably a familiarity thing. Still, I just can fly around the OS like I used to. I use a 400mhz G4 daily (with Mozilla) and I definitely think it's slow in some tasks. Moving 100 large files in the Finder on a remote volume can be painful, then again, I can do it in the terminal 10 times faster. Until my employer get's me a new Mac, I'll just work at a relaxed pace. I also use Mac OS X on a 733mhz G4, and it's much improved, still some things feel a little slower than they should. I've also got a 250mhz G3 PowerBook, and while it is of course slow, about all I do with it is use Mozilla for mail, news, and browsing, so it doesn't seem that slow. If I tried to do development work on it, I'd probably do a lot more swearing and waiting...
You must be Ellen Feiss's dad!
Don't mess with AOL, cuz when you mess with AOL, you mess with Mozilla. Maybe they should put copies of Mozilla on every AOL CD? Who wouldn't appreciate getting Mozilla binaries on CD delivered to their house each month?
JFK's speech was political crap. The real reason he wanted the US to go to the moon was to get there before the Russians did...
>Have you never played DOOM or Quake?
Correct, I have never played DOOM or Quake...
I can't justify the cost of broadband. Believe me, I wish I could. ;) (Luckily I've got T-1 access at the office for those big downloads.) I've stuck with dialup because it would probably double the cost per month to switch to DSL, and if I do switch to DSL I'm going to want to run a server, which might even cost more...
If I could get broadband for under $35 per month I'd most likely go for it. I'm only getting 46k connection speeds with dialup, and if I could get speeds up to 4 times faster for about 1 1/2 times as much money, well, you do the math...
I'm glad Java's not dead on the client, or I'd have a helluva time running jEdit...
I'm a longtime Mac user as well, I was a MacPerl guy like pudge years ago, but I could not wait to jettison Mac OS 9 for Mac OS X. I still cringe when I have to use Classic at the office. There's nothing wrong with Mac OS 9, my wife and kids use it (not to say it's for housewives and little girls) as it's an extremely easy to use OS. I'm willing to trade some ease of use for some power and control. Not enough to switch to Linux for my desktop needs, but just enough that Mac OS X is the (almost) perfect OS for me... right now anyway...
>You'll just be violating the terms of the license.
And if you think other licenses are important to adhere to (GPL, Artistic, etc) then you might as well follow Apple's...
I switched from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X as soon as I could. I've been in the publishing world and using Macs forever, and always preferred to use them over Windows. When Linux got popular years ago, I liked it, and started using it as a server OS, but kept using the Mac as a desktop machine. I wasn't going to buy a new machine and switch to Linux since the Mac did (mostly) what I needed it to do. But with Mac OS X, well, I've got real Perl (MacPerl was good for what it was, but it doesn't compare to /usr/bin/perl) and Apache, and all that gooey *nix goodness beneath the sheets to love...
So I never had to switch to Windows and never attempted to switch to Linux, I just had to wait for the Mac OS to catch up with where I was going...
It's here.
Sigh... While I love Mac OS X, and using /usr/bin/perl while I'm at home, I work in an office that has many Macs running Mac OS 9 with no OS X update scheduled yet, so MacPerl 5.6.1 is a much needed thing.
And really, depending on what/how you write perl, you can do a hell of a lot with MacPerl on a daily basis. (Thanks pudge!)
I think there's maybe two groups, the designers and home users who use Macs, and don't really know much about Apple besides that, and the die-hards and tech-heads who follow all the new stuff, and even read Slashdot. I mean, you must admit, Steve Jobs and his wacky-plastic boxes look a lot nicer than Bill Gates and some Dell box with Windows ME on it...
Nokia has announced an media terminal at IBC'2000 (International Broadcasting Convention, Amsterdam) which seems to be a serious competitor for the home.
I think I'll stick with my home. Even though this media terminal is a "serious competitor" for my home, my home stores a lot more stuff, and allows me to live inside of it.
I'm in agreement. I've tried LinuxPPC, and never even got it to install properly! Yellow Dog has been great... easy install, mailing list support, good stuff - even for a Linux newbie. I just wish my hardware wouldn't keep giving out on me :(
Hmmm, I tried this:
print ($today / 2);
and got 0 as a result - so $today must be an even number...
Aw yeah... BSD, Apache, Perl, hmmm, let's add in perhaps PHP, MySQL, etc. etc. etc... all running on a Mac! The future looks good my friends...
Slashdot, meet Slugbot, Slugbot, Slashdot, Slashbot, Slugdot... Slashbot the Slugbot!
;)
Slashdot also fuels itself using it's victims
Perl is portable. Show me another good language that allows me to write a web-based app or cgi and easily move it between a Mac OS, Windows NT, and unix server in practically no time at all...
Not to mention that perl is almost always available for cgi, very important for people who maintain sites on like a dozen different server configurations.
Yeah, perl has it's disadvantages, but it's advantages usually outweight them.
See what Pair Networks names their servers.
(see the bottom of the page for a note on naming)