Someone should bury the executives and "marketing masterminds" who come up with this drivel under a multi-ton pile of their "perished" DVD's...
Let's add AOL to that pile...
DivX should have been the end of this short-sightedness. Remember that one? Same concept, even worse implementation.
This is actually a trend I've been seeing in large, bloated, over-valued, scared companies. Make the same mistakes and bad business/product decisions over and over and over. Ultimately, make the consumer pay for all your dumb mistakes. Then hunt the consumer down for not playing by your rules.
So how's this for a Fight Club-esque social-hack: find a means of cracking the airtight seal on in-store copies undetected. Of course, then boxcutters and knives will be outlawed in public places... oh wait... already are...
My company had an extra Silver Tower PPC 800mhz kicking around and we had a mail server crisis (our mail server's primary and backup lines both went down)... So, one of our sys admins and I (I'm primarily a J2EE/Web Developer, but hey, I like vegamite too...) grabbed the PPC machine and carted it over to one of our office locations that hadn't been hosed by Verizon's crappy last mile. We had MacOS X setup with a mailserver and apache running SquirrelMail (something of a porting fiasco, but not bad) inside of an 2 hours. Sans for having to build PHP from binaries, it was a smooth and, dare-I-say, *NIX-like process.
I've since played with what we now call MacBSD X.2 for hosting full open-source web server stacks. It's fasts... It's wicked stable... It's aweful pretty to look at... and best of all, it doesn't make me feel like I have to sacrifice the command/filesystem architecture as a compromise to having a pretty UI... errmmm, ccccougggh-XP...
To say the least, all the anxiety I had over MacOS 7 and 8 being big turds has been vanquished in MacBSD... My fiance and I are planning on picking up an iBook and iMac-17" respectively after the holidays (thanks to/. for the great thread on when the best time to by Apple-wares is)...
I seriously hope Jobs doesn't get too nepoleonic and actually considers the Intel architecture for Apple hardware as well as porting MacBSD X.x over to such an architecture. Intel is getting a bad rap for being bed-buddies with Microsloth. And while I love the idea of broad-pipelining on paper, 4.7Ghz vs. 1Ghz is still a huge difference... esp. when you consider the advantages of 4x/8x AGP and the throughput of a DDR400 memory pathway... drool...
So, Levendis47 sez, "Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the MacBSD X.2", you'll feel good about it in the morning...
This whole thread reminds me of a similar discussion over in the Apple forum the other day...
Quite a few of my friends are currently pondering "retiring" their current machines to the "home network infrastructure" wrecking yard and building new systems... it seems to be all we talk about at work.
One of the trends I've seen (amongst ~15 fairly competent developers currently in the process of buying parts and whotnot) is that quite a few have hopped on the dual processor bandwagon... particularly Dual-Athlon MB's for the obvious price points.
To that end, the biggest trend I've found is that the most important component to these guys isn't the processor or having a toater-oven GeForce 4 Ti... but rather a solid MB with a good set of ram. One of them even got the dual-MB and just set it up with a single low/mid-range XP processor. As he said, "For $400 now, I can get an excellent motherboard, an okay processor and some high-quality DDR333 RAM and use just leftover components from my old machine [not bad: Audigy, GF3-Ti and 80gb HD]... in 6 months, I'll buy 2 MP processors for 30% less than what they currently are and put the XP in my old KT133 motherboard."
I'm considering following his example.
Of course, I have yet to own a machine faster that 800Mhz/512mb RAM and it serves all of my needs except playing UT2K3 until my fingers blister...
Anyone else have good/bad/indifferent experiences about using dual-CPU's as a long-term upgrade path? Intel or AMD?...
Yeah, with lame-o boyfriend-girlfriend matching jersey names... like "Fortenbras" and "Montague"...
losers...
8^)
Speaking of losers... hehe... how've you been? Email me...
As for Albany, the best thing that City could do to improve their economic viability ("... because, I am NOT EC-O-NOMICALLY VIABLE!!!") would be to squirt some money at Amtrak and add another real Acela rail from NYC to Albany. But Pataki's too short-sighted for that...
Now I have to get back to not working and lurking postings...
Re:One Word Explains it: "Illuminati"
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA...
The Illuminati is a ruse for the Pentavirate Cabal... or maybe it's the other way around...
The Freemasons do have a good hold on the upstate NY area tho... George Washington (aka. Adam Weischupt) spread his "seed" far and wide in his day...
Because Albany IS a hub already...
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I went to school at RPI in Troy, NY (mmmm, how I miss Troy-gray skies)... A few plusses for the Albany, NY area:
1) RPI has an excellent BigBlue-funded circuit design and nano/micro-tech program that's been growing and growing and growing over the past 10 years. Esp. now with Shirley Anne Jackson (the new Institute Prez) pushing hard for commerciallizing of the research and grad programs a la MIT.
2) Cost of living is dirt cheap. I live in Richmond,VA now, but the decade I spent in Albany pre/post-graduation, I never paid more than $500/month for rent and that got me a nice 800+ sqft. apartment on the Hudson waterfront.
3) It's close to everything that deams itself important in the Northeast... 3 hours to Manhatten, 5 hours to Philly, 2.5 hours to Boston, 1-3 hours to skiing and manufacturing in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachussetts, Connecticut, and PA, 3.5 hours to Canada.
4) There's still good money to be invested in NYC and investors there are now looking for business plans that cut overhead and operations costs from the get-go... what better a place than one that takes less time to drive to than Hoboken or Hartford?
Of course, I'm saying the same thing about Richmond, VA now... 8^) but kudos to them for seeing that area as greener pastures and not just a has-been relic that so many want to make it out to be.
There's a boot sector on the disc that boots either the bare-bones boost strap OS that Sega developed and then runs your application ontop of that. The data sector contains the compiled application and all data for the game.
OR
The boot sector contains the CUSTOM Windows CE for Dreamcast which loads, boots, inits the system and then launches the game application.
The WinCE method is nice because it offers developers the ability to develop games in DirectX 6.0 for CE and crosscompile them for the DC. The real hacking problem is getting a GD-ROM burner.
Anyone feel like ponying up the $20k for a developers license so we can start hacking the system and serial port?
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Someone should bury the executives and "marketing masterminds" who come up with this drivel under a multi-ton pile of their "perished" DVD's...
Let's add AOL to that pile...
DivX should have been the end of this short-sightedness. Remember that one? Same concept, even worse implementation.
This is actually a trend I've been seeing in large, bloated, over-valued, scared companies. Make the same mistakes and bad business/product decisions over and over and over. Ultimately, make the consumer pay for all your dumb mistakes. Then hunt the consumer down for not playing by your rules.
So how's this for a Fight Club-esque social-hack: find a means of cracking the airtight seal on in-store copies undetected. Of course, then boxcutters and knives will be outlawed in public places... oh wait... already are...
viva le revolucion!,
or something,
Levendis47
Worrying and Learned to Love The MacBSD X.2
/. for the great thread on when the best time to by Apple-wares is)...
My company had an extra Silver Tower PPC 800mhz kicking around and we had a mail server crisis (our mail server's primary and backup lines both went down)... So, one of our sys admins and I (I'm primarily a J2EE/Web Developer, but hey, I like vegamite too...) grabbed the PPC machine and carted it over to one of our office locations that hadn't been hosed by Verizon's crappy last mile. We had MacOS X setup with a mailserver and apache running SquirrelMail (something of a porting fiasco, but not bad) inside of an 2 hours. Sans for having to build PHP from binaries, it was a smooth and, dare-I-say, *NIX-like process.
I've since played with what we now call MacBSD X.2 for hosting full open-source web server stacks. It's fasts... It's wicked stable... It's aweful pretty to look at... and best of all, it doesn't make me feel like I have to sacrifice the command/filesystem architecture as a compromise to having a pretty UI... errmmm, ccccougggh-XP...
To say the least, all the anxiety I had over MacOS 7 and 8 being big turds has been vanquished in MacBSD... My fiance and I are planning on picking up an iBook and iMac-17" respectively after the holidays (thanks to
I seriously hope Jobs doesn't get too nepoleonic and actually considers the Intel architecture for Apple hardware as well as porting MacBSD X.x over to such an architecture. Intel is getting a bad rap for being bed-buddies with Microsloth. And while I love the idea of broad-pipelining on paper, 4.7Ghz vs. 1Ghz is still a huge difference... esp. when you consider the advantages of 4x/8x AGP and the throughput of a DDR400 memory pathway... drool...
So, Levendis47 sez, "Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the MacBSD X.2", you'll feel good about it in the morning...
blarg,
Levendis47
This whole thread reminds me of a similar discussion over in the Apple forum the other day...
Quite a few of my friends are currently pondering "retiring" their current machines to the "home network infrastructure" wrecking yard and building new systems... it seems to be all we talk about at work.
One of the trends I've seen (amongst ~15 fairly competent developers currently in the process of buying parts and whotnot) is that quite a few have hopped on the dual processor bandwagon... particularly Dual-Athlon MB's for the obvious price points.
To that end, the biggest trend I've found is that the most important component to these guys isn't the processor or having a toater-oven GeForce 4 Ti... but rather a solid MB with a good set of ram. One of them even got the dual-MB and just set it up with a single low/mid-range XP processor. As he said, "For $400 now, I can get an excellent motherboard, an okay processor and some high-quality DDR333 RAM and use just leftover components from my old machine [not bad: Audigy, GF3-Ti and 80gb HD]... in 6 months, I'll buy 2 MP processors for 30% less than what they currently are and put the XP in my old KT133 motherboard."
I'm considering following his example.
Of course, I have yet to own a machine faster that 800Mhz/512mb RAM and it serves all of my needs except playing UT2K3 until my fingers blister...
Anyone else have good/bad/indifferent experiences about using dual-CPU's as a long-term upgrade path? Intel or AMD?...
-levendis47
Yeah, with lame-o boyfriend-girlfriend matching jersey names... like "Fortenbras" and "Montague"...
losers...
8^)
Speaking of losers... hehe... how've you been? Email me...
As for Albany, the best thing that City could do to improve their economic viability ("... because, I am NOT EC-O-NOMICALLY VIABLE!!!") would be to squirt some money at Amtrak and add another real Acela rail from NYC to Albany. But Pataki's too short-sighted for that...
Now I have to get back to not working and lurking postings...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA...
The Illuminati is a ruse for the Pentavirate Cabal... or maybe it's the other way around...
The Freemasons do have a good hold on the upstate NY area tho... George Washington (aka. Adam Weischupt) spread his "seed" far and wide in his day...
I went to school at RPI in Troy, NY (mmmm, how I miss Troy-gray skies)...
A few plusses for the Albany, NY area:
1) RPI has an excellent BigBlue-funded circuit design and nano/micro-tech program that's been growing and growing and growing over the past 10 years. Esp. now with Shirley Anne Jackson (the new Institute Prez) pushing hard for commerciallizing of the research and grad programs a la MIT.
2) Cost of living is dirt cheap. I live in Richmond,VA now, but the decade I spent in Albany pre/post-graduation, I never paid more than $500/month for rent and that got me a nice 800+ sqft. apartment on the Hudson waterfront.
3) It's close to everything that deams itself important in the Northeast... 3 hours to Manhatten, 5 hours to Philly, 2.5 hours to Boston, 1-3 hours to skiing and manufacturing in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachussetts, Connecticut, and PA, 3.5 hours to Canada.
4) There's still good money to be invested in NYC and investors there are now looking for business plans that cut overhead and operations costs from the get-go... what better a place than one that takes less time to drive to than Hoboken or Hartford?
Of course, I'm saying the same thing about Richmond, VA now... 8^) but kudos to them for seeing that area as greener pastures and not just a has-been relic that so many want to make it out to be.
ciao,
Levendis47
The way the GD-ROM discs work is like this:
There's a boot sector on the disc that boots either the bare-bones boost strap OS that Sega developed and then runs your application ontop of that. The data sector contains the compiled application and all data for the game.
OR
The boot sector contains the CUSTOM Windows CE for Dreamcast which loads, boots, inits the system and then launches the game application.
The WinCE method is nice because it offers developers the ability to develop games in DirectX 6.0 for CE and crosscompile them for the DC. The real hacking problem is getting a GD-ROM burner.
Anyone feel like ponying up the $20k for a developers license so we can start hacking the system and serial port?