Anyone know of an upconverting DVD drive? The product you describe seems pretty interesting, but I'd like to be able to control through my MythBox--meaning I'd need a an actual DVD drive.
in his 'thought experiment' book, God's Debris (WARNING, PDF).
"Humanity is developing a sort of global eyesight as millions of video cameras on satellites, desktops, and street corners are connected to the Internet. In your lifetime it will be possible to see almost anything on the planet from any computer. And society's intelligence is merging over the Internet, creating, in effect, a global mind that can do vastly more than any individual mind. Eventually everything that is known by one person will be available to all." I don't think that information overload will be our biggest problem, it will be the springboard to something greater. Not necessarily to the same conclusion that that Scott does, but the ability to process it all. We can create information successfully, we just haven't mastered the ability to search through it all. A problem such as too much information is the impetuous behind making sense of it all.
Boy...if P2P users weren't enough, those pesky radio broadcasters are letting people listen to music for free!
I was willing to give the RIAA the benefit of the doubt about the copyright lawsuits, but to me this situation lends itself to an industry that is scared stupid about its future. What I don't think they understand is that radio is a semi-safe way to get people exposed to music. If they charge radio stations to play, that means radio stations either dry up or have to get more ad revenue to pay for those songs. This translates into longer commercial time, which in turn translates into lower listening rate. This then snowballs into people getting their music fix elsewhere. Like P2P. It's like they're sabotaging their own industry.
Will it only be available for Vista users? The build path of the project is as follows://depot/longhorn_ie8/Inetcore/ieframe/shdocvw/hlframe.h
So what will be the installed user base when IE8 comes out? How many of those installation will immediately get the update? Are current trends an indicator of future ones?
If so, I'm not dancing--yet. I suppose this is (finally!) the beginning of getting out of the web development hell of having to develop for a broken browser, but it will be some time until we see some real lift from all this.
I'd like to point out that even though mainframes have gone away in many places (but certainly not all), you still need credentials, policies, and important data residing on secure central servers. Without a doubt. However, the trend towards centralizing everything else (Disk IO, CPU, et all) seems a little goofy for software dev considering that single point of failure. Just gimme my own box with Eclipse on it and let me work!
Our company decided to switch a portion of IT over to these wireless thin clients. They reasoned that maintenance costs would be lower since all the machines would be virtual instances inside a rack of blade servers. Plus, it would make them more mobile inside the building. Good idea, in theory, I suppose.
Then things quickly would grind to a halt because of network bandwidth issues, someone accidentally unplugged an access point, etc. It's a mess. For the first few months we would get periodic emails saying how great it was, when *we* would be moving to 'the workspace of the future', et all. I've stopped getting those emails all of a sudden...
Last I heard they're rethinking the whole ordeal, have now issued everyone *real laptops*, and are remoting into a real PC.
Now, for the real post.
Did we learn anything in the world of main frames? It seems that we've come full circle from the time where we all had to take turns for CPU cycles...We've gone from 'dumb terminals' to the PC revolution, to the 'network' and now back to centralized, smart-dumb terminals again. Please, lets go back to the desktop PC before its too late...
The new spec also will let users interconnect various home-networking appliances via coax cable... Have we forgotten so quickly about vamp clamps, terminators, and finding the break in the damn coax cable???
SVG is almost on the bottom of my wish list. How 'bout meeting the CSS 2.1 spec without having to implement any hacks? I'd be plenty happy with just that!
Right on the money. Full Throttle was one of my favorite adventure games, up there with the Secret of Monkey Island series. This one was cool because, like you mention, it featured music from a performing band.
But ya know what got me off MS-DOS? Games. I howled in pain when it was revealed that X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter were going to be running on Windows 95 only. It was such a fricking pain to have to boot into DOS mode to play some of my favorite games.
hehe... actually, I remeber hearing ages ago that Oni levels were built with architecture tools, not standard level design tools. I remember the tools used to create Doom 2 levels looked more like AutoCad tools more than anything.
I do not carry revolving credit such as your self, but I do have an auto loan. However, there is enough cash to pay it off this moment if needed. I view credit as a tool--one that has to be used with responsibility. In that sense, I have no problems sleeping at night because if the debtors were to cash in at this moment, I would walk away with plenty of cash still in my pocket.
Is this an attempt to lure iPhone users to their network? Pretty interesting considering they had the first opportunity at being the exclusive network for the iPhone.
The biggest drawback to your solution is that you only get a small hard drive on each channel. If 32GB weren't big enough, the pictured 4GB/per channel is pretty pitiful too.
Here's a better question:
What are the technical limitations of buying a bunch of cheap 1-4GB flash drives (anyone else pick a bunch of those up for stocking-stuffers last weekend?) and basically soldering an array of flash memory?
When you reference and make calls to unmanaged Win32 DLLs, you can run into leaks real quick. Because those libraries run on Win32 C++ code, it is still up to the developer to reclaim that memory within their.NET managed code.
For example, if you use the GDI+ library, you have to explicitly call the Dispose() method to free up the memory it is using, otherwise your C# app will continue on its merry way with that memory still allocated.
The firewall should be one of the first lines of defense. If that gets circumvented, you got all these other layers of defense in there. The firewall isn't the be all answer to security, it's a part of the complete armor.
The ingredient to the fountain of youth? As you age you have a 20 year old body waiting for you, have your brain transplanted, violá, you add 60 years to your life.
Granted, your brain isn't completely wasted away...and we figure out how to transplant it...
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Anyone know of an upconverting DVD drive? The product you describe seems pretty interesting, but I'd like to be able to control through my MythBox--meaning I'd need a an actual DVD drive.
That was my hunch. But, no sense in putting a artifact corrupted JPG image on there, eh?
Boy...if P2P users weren't enough, those pesky radio broadcasters are letting people listen to music for free!
I was willing to give the RIAA the benefit of the doubt about the copyright lawsuits, but to me this situation lends itself to an industry that is scared stupid about its future. What I don't think they understand is that radio is a semi-safe way to get people exposed to music. If they charge radio stations to play, that means radio stations either dry up or have to get more ad revenue to pay for those songs. This translates into longer commercial time, which in turn translates into lower listening rate. This then snowballs into people getting their music fix elsewhere. Like P2P. It's like they're sabotaging their own industry.
And I don't understand why they're doing that...
Will it only be available for Vista users? The build path of the project is as follows: //depot/longhorn_ie8/Inetcore/ieframe/shdocvw/hlframe.h
So what will be the installed user base when IE8 comes out? How many of those installation will immediately get the update? Are current trends an indicator of future ones?
If so, I'm not dancing--yet. I suppose this is (finally!) the beginning of getting out of the web development hell of having to develop for a broken browser, but it will be some time until we see some real lift from all this.
...but the Borg will adapt.
Our company decided to switch a portion of IT over to these wireless thin clients. They reasoned that maintenance costs would be lower since all the machines would be virtual instances inside a rack of blade servers. Plus, it would make them more mobile inside the building. Good idea, in theory, I suppose.
Then things quickly would grind to a halt because of network bandwidth issues, someone accidentally unplugged an access point, etc. It's a mess. For the first few months we would get periodic emails saying how great it was, when *we* would be moving to 'the workspace of the future', et all. I've stopped getting those emails all of a sudden...
Last I heard they're rethinking the whole ordeal, have now issued everyone *real laptops*, and are remoting into a real PC.
Now, for the real post.
Did we learn anything in the world of main frames? It seems that we've come full circle from the time where we all had to take turns for CPU cycles...We've gone from 'dumb terminals' to the PC revolution, to the 'network' and now back to centralized, smart-dumb terminals again. Please, lets go back to the desktop PC before its too late...
SVG is almost on the bottom of my wish list. How 'bout meeting the CSS 2.1 spec without having to implement any hacks? I'd be plenty happy with just that!
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So that's what they're calling it these days...
the Transformers to hack the military? Phht! Hollywood, so unrealistic these days...
Right on the money. Full Throttle was one of my favorite adventure games, up there with the Secret of Monkey Island series. This one was cool because, like you mention, it featured music from a performing band.
Blue Lightning is its name. The link is to one of my favorite mixes of it.
What? This one from TFA????
But ya know what got me off MS-DOS? Games. I howled in pain when it was revealed that X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter were going to be running on Windows 95 only. It was such a fricking pain to have to boot into DOS mode to play some of my favorite games.
I live a slight variation on this.
I do not carry revolving credit such as your self, but I do have an auto loan. However, there is enough cash to pay it off this moment if needed. I view credit as a tool--one that has to be used with responsibility. In that sense, I have no problems sleeping at night because if the debtors were to cash in at this moment, I would walk away with plenty of cash still in my pocket.
Is this an attempt to lure iPhone users to their network? Pretty interesting considering they had the first opportunity at being the exclusive network for the iPhone.
The biggest drawback to your solution is that you only get a small hard drive on each channel. If 32GB weren't big enough, the pictured 4GB/per channel is pretty pitiful too.
Here's a better question:
What are the technical limitations of buying a bunch of cheap 1-4GB flash drives (anyone else pick a bunch of those up for stocking-stuffers last weekend?) and basically soldering an array of flash memory?
When you reference and make calls to unmanaged Win32 DLLs, you can run into leaks real quick. Because those libraries run on Win32 C++ code, it is still up to the developer to reclaim that memory within their .NET managed code.
For example, if you use the GDI+ library, you have to explicitly call the Dispose() method to free up the memory it is using, otherwise your C# app will continue on its merry way with that memory still allocated.
The firewall should be one of the first lines of defense. If that gets circumvented, you got all these other layers of defense in there. The firewall isn't the be all answer to security, it's a part of the complete armor.
The ingredient to the fountain of youth? As you age you have a 20 year old body waiting for you, have your brain transplanted, violá, you add 60 years to your life.
Granted, your brain isn't completely wasted away...and we figure out how to transplant it...
If someone lifts my car I wouldn't mind if the police disable it. Therefore there's no incentive for me to put an EMI cage around it.