You can find quite a few large images from nasa's photojournal web site. I don't have the link in front of me (since I'm at work), but if you go to nasa.gov or jpl.nasa.gov they usually link to it (as I'm sure google will). You can also look for the press area as they tend to have the huge hi-res versions for printing, typically being 3000+ by 2500+, and you can resize it to what you want with the gimp or photoshop or whatever. (unless you can run that res...)
The Internet without P2P Networks?
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P2P Now and Then
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Ok, so as far as I see this the entire internet is made up of P2P connections. Heck, I made a point-to-point connection to pull down the slashdot page. Distributed P2P networks (where files from multiple systems are put into a list as available from my location) like Kazaa, Limewire, etc... are pretty much just fancy extensions of what I do at home when I'm on my laptop and want to pull a file from my server or workstation. So unless I'm missunderstanding all the buzz, I've been using P2P since way before Kazaa and Napster and don't see how anyone (including the *AA groups) going to interfere with my ability to transfer a movie from my PC to my laptop.
Having said that, anyone can transfer information in a number of different ways, be it open or copyrighted so how can the *AA ban a service from working because when they checked it, it happened to be transfering copyrighted material... the same service could transfer legal data (like a webserver). P2P networks will be here to stay in one way or another. That's just the way the internet works, and, as a previous poster mentioned, the Industry will just have to get over it and *gasp* use that to their advantage!
So am I the only one here that thinks the Game Cube controllers suck? The big honkin' X-box controller isn't that much better IMHO. Sure, they both looked cool, and had all the necessary controls, but there should be more time/R&D put on the long term usability and ergnomics of controllers instead of just making them look cool.
I think the controllers of the future need to have better tactile feedback as well. The vibrate function is cool, but I think an analog trigger needs to have controllable bounce to it. So when I'm using it for a brake in a racing sim it can feel like the brakes are grabing, and on the other hand when playing an FPS, it can feel like a gun trigger instead of a floppy springloaded piece of plastic. Not to say that triggers haven't come a long way since the NES Zapper (with it's instantly recognizable click), but there is still room for improvement.
Another idea would be to make the controller out of a different material than "make your hand sweat" plastic. I know they have controllers with fans in them to keep them cool, but if the materal was different that would help prolong gameplay.
Thoughts?
I agree, just like everything else in life, moderation is key. Just don't blast your music at Rock Concert Volume 24/7 and you'll be fine. I had a walkman for years and I can still hear.
My favorite method of making sure no one gets my data from a failed drive is a few shots from an HK 45.
Not that you could send it in for repair, but if you're that worried why are you sending it anywhere? Drives are cheap, just buy a new one and destroy the old one in any way you see fit. Heck, during the time you used the old one, drives have gotten cheaper and you can probably get a replacement that syncs faster, writes faster, reads faster, and stores more data.
-JML-
IMHO, while it's nice to have a GUI for somethings... I'd like to point out how user friendly a CLI is. I can blindly type a command on my linux box and get things done. I don't need to look at the keyboard, I don't need to look at the screen. I type, I hit [ENTER], I get results.
The NICE thing is that I never have to pick up my hand and move it to my mouse. I can switch screens, switch windows, run commands, scripts, whatever, all with the click of a few buttons. What's wrong with that? Come to think of it, the CLI solves a number of problems in TFA. This whole windows thing is Overrated Eye Candy.
I have to agree, hasn't this been around since the dawn of the modern file system? Heck, even before that we used filing cabinets to do the same thing. If you say that one drawer is for one artist and another from a different one, then there are folders for albums and songs... What am I missing? What makes Creative's way of organizing songs by band/album/song so much different than any other blatantly obvious method available?
Why do they insist on MySQL? Because MySQL is the self proclaimed "World's Most Popular Open Source Database"...
I think it would be interesting to see how other SQL DB's run on the system, but then I supposed it would have been a DB speed article instead...
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You can find quite a few large images from nasa's photojournal web site. I don't have the link in front of me (since I'm at work), but if you go to nasa.gov or jpl.nasa.gov they usually link to it (as I'm sure google will). You can also look for the press area as they tend to have the huge hi-res versions for printing, typically being 3000+ by 2500+, and you can resize it to what you want with the gimp or photoshop or whatever. (unless you can run that res...)
Ok, so as far as I see this the entire internet is made up of P2P connections. Heck, I made a point-to-point connection to pull down the slashdot page. Distributed P2P networks (where files from multiple systems are put into a list as available from my location) like Kazaa, Limewire, etc... are pretty much just fancy extensions of what I do at home when I'm on my laptop and want to pull a file from my server or workstation. So unless I'm missunderstanding all the buzz, I've been using P2P since way before Kazaa and Napster and don't see how anyone (including the *AA groups) going to interfere with my ability to transfer a movie from my PC to my laptop.
Having said that, anyone can transfer information in a number of different ways, be it open or copyrighted so how can the *AA ban a service from working because when they checked it, it happened to be transfering copyrighted material... the same service could transfer legal data (like a webserver). P2P networks will be here to stay in one way or another. That's just the way the internet works, and, as a previous poster mentioned, the Industry will just have to get over it and *gasp* use that to their advantage!
So am I the only one here that thinks the Game Cube controllers suck? The big honkin' X-box controller isn't that much better IMHO. Sure, they both looked cool, and had all the necessary controls, but there should be more time/R&D put on the long term usability and ergnomics of controllers instead of just making them look cool.
I think the controllers of the future need to have better tactile feedback as well. The vibrate function is cool, but I think an analog trigger needs to have controllable bounce to it. So when I'm using it for a brake in a racing sim it can feel like the brakes are grabing, and on the other hand when playing an FPS, it can feel like a gun trigger instead of a floppy springloaded piece of plastic. Not to say that triggers haven't come a long way since the NES Zapper (with it's instantly recognizable click), but there is still room for improvement.
Another idea would be to make the controller out of a different material than "make your hand sweat" plastic. I know they have controllers with fans in them to keep them cool, but if the materal was different that would help prolong gameplay.
Thoughts?
I agree, just like everything else in life, moderation is key. Just don't blast your music at Rock Concert Volume 24/7 and you'll be fine. I had a walkman for years and I can still hear.
My favorite method of making sure no one gets my data from a failed drive is a few shots from an HK 45. Not that you could send it in for repair, but if you're that worried why are you sending it anywhere? Drives are cheap, just buy a new one and destroy the old one in any way you see fit. Heck, during the time you used the old one, drives have gotten cheaper and you can probably get a replacement that syncs faster, writes faster, reads faster, and stores more data. -JML-
IMHO, while it's nice to have a GUI for somethings... I'd like to point out how user friendly a CLI is. I can blindly type a command on my linux box and get things done. I don't need to look at the keyboard, I don't need to look at the screen. I type, I hit [ENTER], I get results. The NICE thing is that I never have to pick up my hand and move it to my mouse. I can switch screens, switch windows, run commands, scripts, whatever, all with the click of a few buttons. What's wrong with that? Come to think of it, the CLI solves a number of problems in TFA. This whole windows thing is Overrated Eye Candy.
I have to agree, hasn't this been around since the dawn of the modern file system? Heck, even before that we used filing cabinets to do the same thing. If you say that one drawer is for one artist and another from a different one, then there are folders for albums and songs... What am I missing? What makes Creative's way of organizing songs by band/album/song so much different than any other blatantly obvious method available?
Why do they insist on MySQL? Because MySQL is the self proclaimed "World's Most Popular Open Source Database"... I think it would be interesting to see how other SQL DB's run on the system, but then I supposed it would have been a DB speed article instead...