The coolest way of doing it was not getting strapped in, but just sitting inside with about a bucket and a half of water being poured in. You just go flying down the hill sliding all over the place. Other stuff we did was ly in front of the ball as its rolling. Its always fun flattening your mates and it doesn't hurt at all!!!!! Is did it in Rotorua, New Zealand
They should forget the CRT and do an iMac with a - flat screen - G4 600Mhz - GeForce video - 5 button mouse - 20Gb hard drive - FireWire - Vertically mounted DVD drive
With all the parts embedded in the case of the Flat screen monitor.
Hmmm.... BeOS apps are growing. But there still doesn't seem to be enough. From memory, the other articles I've read by John Devorak it would appear he is chump that likes to get headlines, not neccessarily with the facts. I can't see how using one free OS over another free OS affects the price of a machine. No matter how little the machine costs despite the fact FreeBSD still doesn't support alot of hardware.
Many like to blame Microsoft's dominance for the death of competition and innovation, but more likely, business simply pooped out.
2 lines Above = LOAD OF ASS
- no room for innovation? - How about voiced based interfaces. - True integrated with telephone and video systems for transmission of information. - Multimedia/ Video/ Sound on demand - ie something like not having to go down to the video store. - 3 dimensional visualization systems.
Computers can be used to automate only so many things. Once word processors, database managers, and spreadsheets were invented and perfected, what else was there?
MORE CRAP - Perfected - I think not.
- How about the integration of a decent vector graphics package into the word processor. - Multi lingual translations - Proper export of documents to XML/ HTML/ XSL - Death of the paper clip. - Databases perfected - How about XML based databases, object databases, databases that can handle decent amount of binary/ media data properly. - Voice to text systems.
Just games. The modem-equipped machine was good for remote access; then the Web was invented, and now there is nothing left to conquer. For at least a decade, the only thing that's been going on is the debugging of old code. Without the Net, the computer business would have been in the toilet years ago.
- The web conquored - I doubt it - Bandwidth still opening up making more options available. - Distributed processing and computing still a young field with huge potential. - Personalisation systems still young. - Without the Net, the computer business would have been in the toilet years ago ?
Obviously has been studying the books of that guy that said there was a world market for perhaps 10 computers at the maximum.
One of my networking gurus said that he has never seen any Linux system on the IRC-probably the roughest networking environment on earth-hold up to the strain. In this instance, we're talking about the three major IRC networks: DALNet, Efnet, and Undernet.
His networking guru must be a spaz. Looking through the list here were some of the ones using Linux. There seems to be a spread of FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris boxes running the Undernet. Through the no of FreeBSD seems to be a bit higher than Linux, and probably a bit lower than the solaris usage. (Haven't looked through that many entries)
Undernet entries can be found here: http://www.routing-com.undernet.org/ - improve.net - vuurwerk.nl.2 - ihug.co.nz - using their old Quake server As for the IRC creating the greatest load. Given the IHUG server is the old Quake server I would expect Quake to provide a bigger load. Though it is a slightly different kind of processing.
- Though I will admin these are probably not the IRC servers under the most stress.It looks like Linux is quite capable of handling quite of bit of IRC though.
FreeBSD maybe stable and handle load quite nicely, however it still has a lack of developers, and hardware support. Though it has got huge potential (I seem to remember pretty much the same thing being said about Linux about a year or two ago).
But my god.... there was so much crap in that article. That guy must write his articles by copying and pasting from IRC conversations all day. In summary John is a schnock.... and FreeBSD is cool but articles like these aren't going to help much.
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The coolest way of doing it was not getting strapped in, but just sitting inside with about a bucket and a half of water being poured in. You just go flying down the hill sliding all over the place. Other stuff we did was ly in front of the ball as its rolling. Its always fun flattening your mates and it doesn't hurt at all!!!!! Is did it in Rotorua, New Zealand
They should forget the CRT and do an iMac with a
- flat screen
- G4 600Mhz
- GeForce video
- 5 button mouse
- 20Gb hard drive
- FireWire
- Vertically mounted DVD drive
With all the parts embedded in the case of the Flat screen monitor.
Hmmm.... BeOS apps are growing. But there still doesn't seem to be enough. From memory, the other articles I've read by John Devorak it would appear he is chump that likes to get headlines, not neccessarily with the facts. I can't see how using one free OS over another free OS affects the price of a machine. No matter how little the machine costs despite the fact FreeBSD still doesn't support alot of hardware.
Many like to blame Microsoft's dominance for the death of competition
and innovation, but more likely, business simply pooped out.
2 lines Above = LOAD OF ASS
- no room for innovation?
- How about voiced based interfaces.
- True integrated with telephone and video systems for transmission of information.
- Multimedia/ Video/ Sound on demand - ie something like not having to go down to the video store.
- 3 dimensional visualization systems.
Computers
can be used to automate only so many things. Once word processors,
database managers, and spreadsheets were invented and perfected, what
else was there?
MORE CRAP - Perfected - I think not.
- How about the integration of a decent vector graphics package into the word processor.
- Multi lingual translations
- Proper export of documents to XML/ HTML/ XSL
- Death of the paper clip.
- Databases perfected - How about XML based databases, object databases, databases that can handle decent amount of binary/ media data properly.
- Voice to text systems.
Just games. The modem-equipped machine was good for
remote access; then the Web was invented, and now there is nothing
left to conquer. For at least a decade, the only thing that's been
going on is the debugging of old code. Without the Net, the computer
business would have been in the toilet years ago.
- The web conquored - I doubt it
- Bandwidth still opening up making more options available.
- Distributed processing and computing still a young field with huge potential.
- Personalisation systems still young.
- Without the Net, the computer
business would have been in the toilet years ago ?
Obviously has been studying the books of that guy that said there was a world market for perhaps 10 computers at the maximum.
One of my networking gurus said that he has never seen any
Linux system on the IRC-probably the roughest networking environment
on earth-hold up to the strain. In this instance, we're talking about
the three major IRC networks: DALNet, Efnet, and Undernet.
His networking guru must be a spaz. Looking through the list here were some of the ones using Linux. There seems to be a spread of FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris boxes running the Undernet. Through the no of FreeBSD seems to be a bit higher than Linux, and probably a bit lower than the solaris usage. (Haven't looked through that many entries)
Undernet entries can be found here:
http://www.routing-com.undernet.org/
- improve.net
- vuurwerk.nl.2
- ihug.co.nz - using their old Quake server
As for the IRC creating the greatest load. Given the IHUG server is the old Quake server I would expect Quake to provide a bigger load. Though it is a slightly different kind of processing.
- Though I will admin these are probably not the IRC servers under the most stress.It looks like Linux is quite capable of handling quite of bit of IRC though.
FreeBSD maybe stable and handle load quite nicely, however it still has a lack of developers, and hardware support. Though it has got huge potential (I seem to remember pretty much the same thing being said about Linux about a year or two ago).
But my god.... there was so much crap in that article. That guy must write his articles by copying and pasting from IRC conversations all day.
In summary John is a schnock.... and FreeBSD is cool but articles like these aren't going to help much.