But would Minardi actually want to? There is almost no media coverage in the US of the CART circuit, and I doubt there is much in Europe. They get far more eyeballs viewing in Europe on the F1 circuit, and thus get more money from sponsors.
I picked up a LaCie disk pack not too long ago, and it is perfect for this kind of thing. External, Firewire 400/800 attached diskpack, each with 1TB. Two of those in a mirror would give you a decent amount of storage, and also provide for easy portability if you want to move data from one location to another. Just hook one of them back up later, and the mirror will rebuild itself.
If you're playing a fps, you should use headphones and listen to the ambient sound, not listen to music. That is, if you're at all interested in winning (which by your comment, it sounds like you are).
I get ~20fps@640x480 playing Battlefield Vietnam, but still manage to place in the top 5 or so every map, because I use headphones, and listen to what's going on around me. If I was listening to music, with that kind of framerate I'd place in the bottom five on every map.
It is the same codec, but the interface is completely different. WMP doesn't really give you more than a simple play/pause/stop for DVDs, while other standalone software can do so much more (like skipping those sections marked unskippable).
When I read over the Comcast agreement when I signed up for their service a year or so ago, I checked for the "server clause". The agreement that I had to sign, said specifically "high-bandwidth servers, such as Usenet and IRC servers, are not allowed". It didn't say servers in general, it said high-bandwidth servers. They didn't clarify what constitues high-bandwidth, but from the example, it's pretty clear they don't care about some home user/small business' web and/or email servers, they just don't want someone running a server that will suck up every available drop of bandwidth 24/7.
I keep mine for a few months, and then get rid of them, as like the article said, they get nasty, even when cleaned regularly. I tend to visit my local Target, and purchase a decent curtain for $10, which is disposable AFAIC. They aren't exactly recyclable, so I'm contributing to the landfill problem, but hell, half of Seattle is build on landfill, and without people like me throwing things away, this town wouldn't exist:)
It's a little hard to disable when it's an application that you have to run on your windows box in order to use their service. As you said, it's trivial if it's an external thing, but once you let them run their code on your box, it's game over.
The best music I remember from a game is the original Doom. The midi soundtrack from E1M1 was stellar, and every time I hear it, it brings back great memories.
Just disable Javascript and Java in Mozilla (plus activex and active scripting if using IE), and you won't EVER have a popup/popunder.
Not only do you not have to deal with stupid ads and crap that websites foist upon you, you're far safer, as most browser exploits require javascript or java to run.
For the occasional site that refuses to render without javascript, enable it if you want to view that site, and then disable it again. Or if using Mozilla/Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox, use Shimoda Hiroshi's "Tabbrowser Extension", and create a custom tab for that site that has java/javascript enabled, and keep it disabled for everyone else.
As you mentioned, allowing access to vote history would cause problems. Where I live, there aren't any issues (that I know of) with ballot stuffing, buying votes, etc. However, with the ability to go back and see what any one person voted in the past, it makes it very easy to verify that the vote you bought was actually the vote you paid for. If you paid (or likely, coerced) someone into voting for Mr. A, with a vote history it's easy to go back and check that they really did vote for Mr. A, and not Mr. B.
I was curious, so I took a look at the patch for the 2.6.5 kernel. It appears that a sync will force it to write to disk, as one of the problems mentioned was syslog without the nosync flag set. The patch appears to simply set the amount of time that dirty pages can be held in ram before writing to disk to quite long, and enables a larger read ahead, to cache things into ram more often. There are some other things dealing with color depth, spin down times, acpi integration, etc.., but that's the gist of it.
There is code in there dealing with syncs while in laptop mode that appears to work, so that is probably the best way to go about forcing a write.
A simple sync command should force a write to disk, and it's faster than toggling laptop mode off and back on. If for some reason laptop mode doesn't respect the sync command, then it's horribly broken, and should be fixed.
The most annoying thing about di.fm is the periodic station annoucement/advertising they do. Great station, but at only 96k, it's far from high quality. Still, it IS free.
He did say that, just in a semi-difficult way to read:
Although after Juan Rico has joined the military and after losing his wife in an enemy attack, Juan's father will eventually join up too.
This probably could've been written something like this:
Later though, Juan's father did join the military, after his wife was killed in a bug attack.
I failed both English composition and spelling in high school, so I'm obviously far from perfect here, but that's probably an easier to understand version.
I piss off the people I work with because I always use the keyboard for everything. On the other hand, it's painful for me to watch some of them sit there and slowly use the mouse to copy and paste things when I could've had it done in a few seconds with a couple keyboard commands.
And I wholeheartedly agree with you about civ. I like PTW over the new Conquests expansion, but I've spent many a night up until daybreak with just one more turn syndrome.
Zork, and other *true* text based games have pretty much gone the way of the dodo, but ascii based games such as nethack are still around and kicking. In fact, rec.games.roguelike.nethack is a very active newsgroup, and a lot of new people are showing up and playing for the first time. If you like ascii based games, try nethack.
Support FLAC, and I'd buy one. The only mass market player out there that does at the moment is the Rio Karma, which frankly, looks like ass. If there was a 10+ GB player that was small, looked nice like the iPod, and supported FLAC, I'd purchase it. Every single one of my media files is a properly named and labeled FLAC file, because disk is cheap, and I like listening to cd quality audio, not mp3 quality.
And I'll buy. That's the nice thing about Metallica's new concert store. All the songs they offer are in FLAC or MP3 format, so you can get a high quality recording.
Plus, FLAC doesn't have any DRM, so I can listen to it on any computer I own.
Slashdot Mirror
But would Minardi actually want to? There is almost no media coverage in the US of the CART circuit, and I doubt there is much in Europe. They get far more eyeballs viewing in Europe on the F1 circuit, and thus get more money from sponsors.
I picked up a LaCie disk pack not too long ago, and it is perfect for this kind of thing. External, Firewire 400/800 attached diskpack, each with 1TB. Two of those in a mirror would give you a decent amount of storage, and also provide for easy portability if you want to move data from one location to another. Just hook one of them back up later, and the mirror will rebuild itself.
If you're playing a fps, you should use headphones and listen to the ambient sound, not listen to music. That is, if you're at all interested in winning (which by your comment, it sounds like you are).
I get ~20fps@640x480 playing Battlefield Vietnam, but still manage to place in the top 5 or so every map, because I use headphones, and listen to what's going on around me. If I was listening to music, with that kind of framerate I'd place in the bottom five on every map.
It is the same codec, but the interface is completely different. WMP doesn't really give you more than a simple play/pause/stop for DVDs, while other standalone software can do so much more (like skipping those sections marked unskippable).
When I read over the Comcast agreement when I signed up for their service a year or so ago, I checked for the "server clause". The agreement that I had to sign, said specifically "high-bandwidth servers, such as Usenet and IRC servers, are not allowed". It didn't say servers in general, it said high-bandwidth servers. They didn't clarify what constitues high-bandwidth, but from the example, it's pretty clear they don't care about some home user/small business' web and/or email servers, they just don't want someone running a server that will suck up every available drop of bandwidth 24/7.
I'm only getting about 32 mb/s from that site, but that's about all my box can stream to disk at a time. Thanks :D
They weren't routers, they were full on mainframes.
I keep mine for a few months, and then get rid of them, as like the article said, they get nasty, even when cleaned regularly. I tend to visit my local Target, and purchase a decent curtain for $10, which is disposable AFAIC. They aren't exactly recyclable, so I'm contributing to the landfill problem, but hell, half of Seattle is build on landfill, and without people like me throwing things away, this town wouldn't exist :)
It's a little hard to disable when it's an application that you have to run on your windows box in order to use their service. As you said, it's trivial if it's an external thing, but once you let them run their code on your box, it's game over.
The best music I remember from a game is the original Doom. The midi soundtrack from E1M1 was stellar, and every time I hear it, it brings back great memories.
Nethack. Has a plot to it, is very well written, been around for 20 years and still has a lot of people playing it, and could probably qualify as art.
The feeling from getting your first accension and winning is great. The replayability is phenomonal, and it will run on just about anything.
Just disable Javascript and Java in Mozilla (plus activex and active scripting if using IE), and you won't EVER have a popup/popunder.
Not only do you not have to deal with stupid ads and crap that websites foist upon you, you're far safer, as most browser exploits require javascript or java to run.
For the occasional site that refuses to render without javascript, enable it if you want to view that site, and then disable it again.
Or if using Mozilla/Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox, use Shimoda Hiroshi's "Tabbrowser Extension", and create a custom tab for that site that has java/javascript enabled, and keep it disabled for everyone else.
As you mentioned, allowing access to vote history would cause problems. Where I live, there aren't any issues (that I know of) with ballot stuffing, buying votes, etc. However, with the ability to go back and see what any one person voted in the past, it makes it very easy to verify that the vote you bought was actually the vote you paid for. If you paid (or likely, coerced) someone into voting for Mr. A, with a vote history it's easy to go back and check that they really did vote for Mr. A, and not Mr. B.
I was curious, so I took a look at the patch for the 2.6.5 kernel. It appears that a sync will force it to write to disk, as one of the problems mentioned was syslog without the nosync flag set. The patch appears to simply set the amount of time that dirty pages can be held in ram before writing to disk to quite long, and enables a larger read ahead, to cache things into ram more often. There are some other things dealing with color depth, spin down times, acpi integration, etc.., but that's the gist of it.
There is code in there dealing with syncs while in laptop mode that appears to work, so that is probably the best way to go about forcing a write.
Hopefully the other 72% said they wanted cd quality, not fm radio quality, and voted for flac, shn, etc..
A simple sync command should force a write to disk, and it's faster than toggling laptop mode off and back on. If for some reason laptop mode doesn't respect the sync command, then it's horribly broken, and should be fixed.
The most annoying thing about di.fm is the periodic station annoucement/advertising they do. Great station, but at only 96k, it's far from high quality. Still, it IS free.
He did say that, just in a semi-difficult way to read:
Although after Juan Rico has joined the military and after losing his wife in an enemy attack, Juan's father will eventually join up too.
This probably could've been written something like this:
Later though, Juan's father did join the military, after his wife was killed in a bug attack.
I failed both English composition and spelling in high school, so I'm obviously far from perfect here, but that's probably an easier to understand version.
Right back at ya ;)
I piss off the people I work with because I always use the keyboard for everything. On the other hand, it's painful for me to watch some of them sit there and slowly use the mouse to copy and paste things when I could've had it done in a few seconds with a couple keyboard commands.
And I wholeheartedly agree with you about civ. I like PTW over the new Conquests expansion, but I've spent many a night up until daybreak with just one more turn syndrome.
Zork, and other *true* text based games have pretty much gone the way of the dodo, but ascii based games such as nethack are still around and kicking. In fact, rec.games.roguelike.nethack is a very active newsgroup, and a lot of new people are showing up and playing for the first time. If you like ascii based games, try nethack.
Support FLAC, and I'd buy one. The only mass market player out there that does at the moment is the Rio Karma, which frankly, looks like ass. If there was a 10+ GB player that was small, looked nice like the iPod, and supported FLAC, I'd purchase it. Every single one of my media files is a properly named and labeled FLAC file, because disk is cheap, and I like listening to cd quality audio, not mp3 quality.
I wasn't sure if that was the case, or if it was doled out to individual nations, or what.
Who gets the money in the end? If MS shills out 497 million euros, whose coffers does it fill?
And I'll buy. That's the nice thing about Metallica's new concert store. All the songs they offer are in FLAC or MP3 format, so you can get a high quality recording.
Plus, FLAC doesn't have any DRM, so I can listen to it on any computer I own.