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Not sure about the power-hungriness.

The TDP of AMD K6-2 were all in the 10-20 watt range.

It was only the Athlon and the Pentium 4 where the TDPs went through the roof, past 50 watts.

Reference: http://www.geocities.co.jp/Sil...

Is it something lacking in Asia

Can't speak for all of Asia, but having spent a decade in Japan, toilet humour is basically as good as it gets on TV. Even rakugo, a traditional form of Japanese humour that is practically a fine art
compared to what usually passes for comedy in Japan, is utterly dry tripe.

Note that while wikipedia states 'the rakugo artist depicts a long and complicated comical story', well, I'll let you be the judge.
Here is a passable rendition of Meguro no sanma,
one of the most famous and best-loved rakugo. Hilarious stuff, isn't it.

(random aside: geocities.co.jp lives??! talk about insular! guess we didn't give the memo a visitor's visa.)

"But if you speak a little Japanese, even though it is broken,
then people feel very close to you and try to be friendly to you."

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Berkeley-Labo/6160/

The only reason you got modded up was because most slashdotters don't know about Nihon-so they rely on someone propgating ignorance instead. Slashdot mod points do not necessaily reflect reality, which you failed today.

Bakayarou

Good show, worth watching, but 2-ch (the forum that the show is based on) isn't like slashdot. 2-ch is like yahoo groups... it's non-technical and is 40% ASCII (erm EUC_JP) art, 50% slang, and 10% "insight". Slashdot is 50% flamebait and 50% insight, generally. (Slashdot.jp is even better. The only flamebait I've ever seen is one I posted :) Damn Americans muck everything up... :)

But anyway, here's the original 2-ch thread that inspired Densha Otoko:

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milkyway-Aquarius/7075/ trainman.html

(The real thread got taken down when it got popular. There was a book, manga, TV show, movie, etc... so I guess the traffic was too high.)

Erm, no. I am writing this on my AMD64-laptop right now. It does have a Mobile Athlon64 processor, but not a Turion.

I get about 1:45h w/ all kinds of power savings enabled, no wifi, and LCD at medium brightness. And that was out of the box.

What size battery? What's your battery wear level? Use MobileMeter's Battery Info tab to find that. I've run into lots of people on r3000forums.com and the HP forum on notebookreview.com who've had battery runtime issues that were traced to their Li-ion batteries wearing out prematurely. Unfortunately, MobileMeter doesn't read the current-generation HP notebooks correctly. Hopefully it'll read your notebook (probably an eMachines or Gateway with an 8 cell battery?).

The cult recently opened one of their "temples" in California (of course). They have many local churches.

Like the Scientologists who have their "e-meter", these lego freaks have their or psuedo-technological props. They even have an mystic Oracle that you can ask questions on the internet. And just like the leader of the Scientologists, their leaders aspire to be JRR Tolkien. Not only that, these foul fiends have the temerity to rewrite the Bible.

And they are Holocaust revisionists, too boot

1. Exhibit A - one of their foul leaders proudly displays their trumped up "evidence"
2. Exhibit B
3. Exhibit C
4. Exhibit D
5. Exhibit E
6. Exhibit F

They worship strange, vile gods. And are building machines to take over the world.

http://www.geocities.co.jp/MotorCity/7168/others/j apaneseindex.html

Ha, in the first entry, the candy wrapper's katakana says "funakku" instead of "sunakku"!!

Use CrystalCPUID to manage your AMD64 CPU's speed and voltage rather than the default Cool 'n Quiet power management (set your Power Scheme to "Always On" to disable that, definitely leave the CnQ driver installed). On most HP AMD64 notebooks we've found that you can usually safely set the core voltage at about 0.2V below stock at full speed. Judging by the AMD Thermal Design Guide, that's enough to cut power consumption nearly in half. I swapped in a Mobile-class Athlon 64 3200+ into my Pavillion zv5000z in place of the stock DTR-class chip and have been running 1GHz at 0.8V, 1.6GHz at 1.025V, and 2GHz at 1.225V for months. That puts the full speed power consumption at slightly above AMD Turion ML levels. For the stock DTR chips, 1.3V at full speed is popular.

Of course, in average use, the standard AMD Cool 'n Quiet behavior of running 800MHz at 0.95V while idle will give you battery life that's almost as good as an undervolted setup. 3-4 hours of battery life with a 12 cell battery is common, versus a fraction of that for the poor bastards who bought the P4-based zv5000 series (HP wisely dropped Intel CPUs from their zv6000 line). Undervolting does wonders under heavy CPU load though.

MobileMeter is my favorite way to monitor CPU speed and temperature, and Hot CPU Tester Pro verifies that I didn't go too far.

I share your enthusiasm for the Model M, however, there is one, and only one, thing about it that drives me nuts.

Size.

That keyboard is freakin' huge. Useful if you need a weapon and bulletproof shield to beat back a gang of muggers, sure, but not so good if you want a lot of desk space.

That's why my favorite is the silm-design version of the IBM Model M2. Same internal engineering, same key action, and same longevity (the one I'm typing this on came with my first computer, an IBM PS/2 circa 1993). Here are some images of it. I've only ever seen one other, at a salvation army store, for $5. That one is sitting in a closet waiting for this one to fail. I think by the time it finally fails, computers won't have PS/2 interface connectors anymore. I will use a soldering iron and rebuilt the keyboard controller by hand before I give up this keyboard for any newer models. Also, to hell with Windows keys. They interfere with my gaming.

There are companies on the web that will sell you a remanufactured version of this keyboard (or any IBM series, for that matter), but so far I've yet to have one fail and need replacement. For the record, it's been through the dishwasher for a thorough cleaning seven times (little more than once a year). It has also survived dozens of meals (and spills) at the keyboard. I lost an entire can of Mt. Dew in it once, which sat overnight (damn cats). That'll kill any keyboard but these Model M types... one quick trip through the dishwasher and it's good as new.

Yeah, I know what it was meant to be... but using an ASCII representation of a company's logo in a piece of writing, rather than the company's name (Digital Equipment Corporation), or a commonly-used abbreviation (Digital or DEC), is silly. Not that there's anything wrong with being silly... but then when it's done wrong, that silliness turns into stupidity. The old DEC logo is lowercase. If IcarusMoth really had an Alpha, perhaps he could've looked at the logo on the case and gotten it right.

Korea is not the country with the mecha-craze. It is Japan. The building of a giant robot is not new. Many years ago, this giant robot was already being developed in Japan. Although there is no actual functionality with this Gundam, but I doubt that NMX04-1A can be made to be autonomous any time soon.

Open source server-side software is available.

.. and happy about it. Although it won't play wmv9 and divx/xvid encoded with q-pixels enabled. And no USB connection.
old model page: http://www.iodata.jp/prod/multimedia/video/2003/av lp1dvd/index.htm
and other than the included software, you can use Uzuhttp://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupert ino/2647/ as a lighter drop-in replacement, with a lot of customization options.

I've always wanted a decent PC lossless animation format that's quick, highly compressible and convenient. APNG looks like it could fulfil this criteria.

But for those that can't wait, one of the best I've found so far is to save in a lossless AVI format; the codec is LCL (lossless codec library), created by Kenji Oshima. It compresses cartoon-style animations very well.

However, there is one format that even beats this, but it means RARring or ZIPping the file at the end. In fact, you've probably already got it - the "Microsoft Video 1" codec. Simply configure the "Video Quality" to 100%, and you have a fair-sized file normally, but when zipped/rarred, it's the smallest I've ever seen. Plus, you can use the animation through the Explorer browser, and can make it run at 60 frames per second or more if you so wish.

While we are at it lets look at what sold in 2000 and 2003.

I don't listen to the radio or pop music in general, but let me guess which of the 7 top 10 albums from 2000 broke 5mil units. 1) Nsync "No strings attached" 2) Santana "Supernatural" (also one of the best selling albums of all time) 3) m&m "The Marshall Mathers LP" 4) BS "Oops I did it again" 5) Creed "Human Clay" 6) Celine Dion "All The Way...A Decade Of Song" 7) Christina Aguilera "Christina Aguilera"

Summary: 2 boy bands (they sell, what other music will 11 year old girls buy?) 1 famous musician that has been around over 30 years and had one of the best selling albums of all time (santana) 2 bimbo chicks (that sell to 11 year old girls and boys up to 14) and Celine Dion just sells, noone knows who buys it, but somebody does.

OK, 2003 which 2 sold 5mil units? I guess 50 Cent's "Get rich or die tryin'" and I dunno its a tossup for the otherone, it doesn't really matter.

Anyway, I can see why the sales have dropped by almost 1/2. No boy bands, no blond bimbos, and the rest is pretty much marginal popy stuff.

Its worth noting that concert sales are way down this year. Lollipoluza (sp?) had to cancel because of a lack of interest. I guess all the kids think that sitting in front of their computer listening to MP3s on small computer speakers is comparable to a concert.... Or maybe there isn't stuff to see?

Example of open source alternative

A cheap network adapter would be nice. Although I have not tried it myself, there is a modem to modem method of establishing a PPP connection to your local network with the DC. Not ethernet but it should be a reliable connection.

For Divx I've only used dcmplay. I do not know the relationship if any between it and Pocket Divx but this one suffers from sync problems also.

Even with the obvious negatives of the DC, it was a very capable console and there is still a decent amount of development floating around for it.

And what about those open source and non-American filesharing programs? Are these folks going to be ecstatic to add this wonderful DRM type technology to their programs? I really doubt it...

If you want to play SNES on your Mac, don't use the "official" port of SNES9X.. SNES9X Custom is much better, and is frequently updated with new features and SNES9X code (the official port hasn't been updated since April of last year!).

Prior art, so to speak: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) IMDB

Or, for the Slashdot crowd: this, specifically here and here.

Very prophetic, in restrospect, so let the French have it ;)

Prior art, so to speak: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) IMDB

Or, for the Slashdot crowd: this, specifically here and here.

Very prophetic, in restrospect, so let the French have it ;)

Prior art, so to speak: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) IMDB

Or, for the Slashdot crowd: this, specifically here and here.

Very prophetic, in restrospect, so let the French have it ;)

Is this the one you're talking about? http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milkyway/4645/

Another site with some very cool lego creations is http://www.zemi.net/lego/ - this guy gave the entire alphabet the star wars spaceship treatment :)

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino /5678/

This? No space needed after 'Cupertino'.

If you're interested in making NES music (the Game Boy is more powerful, actually, but I personally feel more nostalgia for the NES), check out MCK:

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Denei/9628/mak edata_e.html

You can even use my MIDI converter MIDIMML so that you aren't stuck typing numbers into a text-based sequencer.

Also, my Tom 7 Entertainment System project has a bunch of original NES-ish songs for you.

The Japanese peer to peer application Winny seems to be some sort of software based on Freenet, or so I've heard. It works remarkably well. You'd basically park it overnight and tell it what to look for.

Actually, most Japanese who are knowledgeble about p2p use winny which is based on freenet and is totally anonymous(and searchable). Although it doesn't have a chat feature, it does feature a unique bulletin board system.

The cult recently opened one of their "temples" in California (of course). They have many local churches.

Like the Scientologists who have their "e-meter", these lego freaks have their or psuedo-technological props. They even have an mystic Oracle that you can ask questions on the internet. And just like the leader of the Scientologists, their leaders aspire to be JRR Tolkien. Not only that, these foul fiends have the temerity to rewrite the Bible.

And they are Holocaust revisionists, too boot

1. Exhibit A - one of their foul leaders proudly displays their trumped up "evidence"
2. Exhibit B
3. Exhibit C
4. Exhibit D
5. Exhibit E
6. Exhibit F

They worship strange, vile gods. And are building machines to take over the world.

The most popular P2P application in Japan is called Winny and is built around Freenet. There's some english information about it here, as well as a translated client. The last time I tried, though, the translated client was an older version and I couldn't get it to connect, but the latest Japanese binary worked for me.

There is also a translation of the first "Click me" in a flash file which I found here. Only the singing is translated, not all the Japanese text. The translation seems like it was done literally so it is a litte hard to follow.

There is also alot of other japanese flash files that appear to be done by the same person. I found a page of those here. Not all of them are ascii. but there are alot more that just the chinko one... This is one of my favorites cause they use The Offspring, and they have some cool effects like a guy who is running up an endless set of stairs.

The Amiga ascii scene (Now often refered to as the "oldschool scene"):
From the early 90's people made "collections" - large textfiles - with logos (file_id.diz, bbs adverts, demo group names, etc), and later rants, poems and other forms of self expression. Tools of the trade: Slash, backslash, underscore, pipe, you get the idea.
Freshpla.net has a pretty good (though not updated) archive. Yes, I know, this might be look like madness to, hm, laymen :) If you really want to have a closer look, though, check out the works of e.g. Mark Ryder, Grimlock, and... no, too many to mention. All collections should be viewed with CygnusEd in Topaz 8, even though your browser could do the trick.

The blockstyle scene
These are the nice people that make most of those NFO files. Uses the blocks in the MS-DOS charset. Two of the biggest groups are Superior Art Creations (SAC) and Chemical Reaction (CRO). Get the Damn NFO Viewer (Win32).

The newschool scene
Seems to be the part of the group-based ascii scene that stays furthest away from the warez scene. Uses e.g. $$$$$$ to fill shapes, and various other characters to make their outline smooth. Only active examples I can remember at the moment are Mimic and Remorse. Ansi happens :)

The Ansi scene
Ascii is ascii and ansi is ansi, but these scenes are closely connected. Colourized art using the MS-DOS font. There can only be one: ACID. Viewers available for most platforms, just use Google.

...and then, of course, there are those other forms of ascii art, as the hilarious The Adventures of the Boy with Immovable Hair and this wonderful flash anim synced to an Offspring song (Might be from the same author as that flash link in the parent post).

Note that this release is not compatible with Apache 1.3.

So is that like saying "I fart in your general direction" ?

The cult recently opened one of their "temples" in California (of course). They have many local churches.

Like the Scientologists who have their "e-meter", these lego freaks have their or psuedo-technological props. They even have an mystic Oracle that you can ask questions on the internet. And just like the leader of the Scientologists, their leaders aspire to be JRR Tolkien. Not only that, these foul fiends have the temerity to rewrite the Bible.

And they are Holocaust revisionists, too boot

1. Exhibit A - one of their foul leaders proudly displays their trumped up "evidence"
2. Exhibit B
3. Exhibit C
4. Exhibit D
5. Exhibit E
6. Exhibit F

They worship strange, vile gods. And are building machines to take over the world.

1. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.obrien2/index. html

   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gnome&m=1010157075 21446&w=2

   http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley/1596/en/c ygwin.html

Unfortunately, I don't see any new efforts at a port of Evolution to Windows, but as it improves folks will start to demand it everywhere they are.

Mac OSX users are much more lucky -- they can get Evolution right now. Fink lists it as a ported app.

It would be nice to have a Windows CD with all X apps so that folks can see that *nix systems aren't usually text-based or some ugly form of CDE. Till then, I've found the boot CD and full Debian distributionKnoppix to be an ideal introduction. Blew the socks off of a admin I showed it to who didn't know it was possible, and impressed others who like the idea of Linux but can't be bothered with actually learning anything (kids, job, wife, do the math).

High-fidelity, very light LOTR movie trailer available exclusively for Angband players!!!!

Note: the fidelity of the movie heavily depends on the "Imaging" facility installed in your brain :-)

FOTR Trailer part 1
FOTR Trailer part 2

Note: it should be obvious, but you'll need to be able to handle animated gifs to view these properly.

I hope the guy does a rendition of the "Two Towers" trailer soon. ;-)

Pete.

High-fidelity, very light LOTR movie trailer available exclusively for Angband players!!!!

Note: the fidelity of the movie heavily depends on the "Imaging" facility installed in your brain :-)

FOTR Trailer part 1
FOTR Trailer part 2

Note: it should be obvious, but you'll need to be able to handle animated gifs to view these properly.

I hope the guy does a rendition of the "Two Towers" trailer soon. ;-)

Pete.

Here's a picture for you.
Mahoro.

Do you like it?! ;-)))))

This sounds to me like too little, too late.

Robots like this one (and much more sophisticated) have been sold in Japan since at least 1985. I bought a semi-autonomous robot back in 1987 dubbed Kikuzo that recognized 8 spoken phrases, was configurable to recognize its owners voice, played games, and was able to pick-up and release small objects. Very cool. The robot cost me about $100.00 at the Beverly Centre in Beverly Hills, at a store that specialized in Japanese gadgets.

Kikuzo is fully programmable and it acts/reacts to voice commands. Its cordless "microphone" used a 9 V battery, and the 25 cm. tall robot itself runs on four 1.5 V C batteries. It features:

• Move forward
• Move back
• Pick up
• Put down
• Rotate left
• Rotate right
• "Smile" (flash all lights in a friendly way)

Check out this guy's page for infos: http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Gaien/6415/ki kuzo.html -- the page is in Japanese, but it has lots of pretty pictures.

While this is sort of cool, I would expect this R2-D2 to be a quantum leap over my trusty Kikuzo. We even "dissected" Kikuzo for one of my computer engineering classes (logical design) in the university (and later put him back together). We defined a cordless interface so you could program and command him from a PC (MS-DOS -- this was back in late 1988).

Granted, R2-D2 has a richer vocabulary than Kikuzo, but both respond to voice commands and play games, etc. I don't see myself spending money on such a limited R2-D2 since my Kikuzo would probably kick its arse. Offer me something as sophisticated as Aibo and then we'll talk. Meanwhile, Kikuzo even has collector's value.

Cheers!

"Look at all the money the .gif royalties made Compuserve..."

In fact, the royalties went to Unisys.

GIF uses an adaptation of LZW (Lempel Ziv Welch) algorithm for image compression. Unfortunately, this famous algorithm is patented by Unisys Corporation.

In January of 1993, Unisys Corp. became aware that GIF uses the LZW algorithm and began negotiations with CompuServe Inc. to create a licensing agreement. They reached agreement on licensing in June 1994, and CompuServe Inc. announced it at the end of December 1994. Since then Unisys require developers of GIF-based software to secure a licensing agreement with Unisys Corp.

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley/3453/gif_ info/lzw_patent_en.html

Minnie Mouse is a slut. She goes to Japan and the moment she thinks Mickey won't find out, what does she do? Has sex with a monkey on a public place!

... and more information on the Digi-Q here.

xyame NES/GB/GBC emulator, running your favorite Pokemon ROM.

And by the way:
> tis-the-season-form-making-lists dept.

Tis-always-the-season-to-submit-anything-related-t o-videogames-if-you-want-it-posted-on-slashdot. For months now, video games get the cheap front page /. real estate that only anti-Microsoft stories used to receive. I'm not complaining -- but I do find myself rolling my eyes a bit when stories like this one make the cut...

Here are pictures of an iBook fitted into a Halliburton case. Simply one of the best I've seen. He fitted the cd-rom into the side so it opens like a normal laptop, and the hole where the power cable plugs in is dimpled. There are a lot more fine points. The link is:

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino /5980/index.html

If you're going to the trouble to make a custom laptop, you should ruggedize it. It would be easier to modify a ruggedized briefcase than to get someone to fabricate a custom plastic case. And, it would look a whole lot cooler.

See the Halli Mac. This laptop modification was here on Slashdot back in August.

Yes, you could build and run Evolution under Windows, but currently ONLY under Cygwin + an X11 server (this is still local on the Windows box). A Cygwin setup can be accomplished by a newbie. See links below for running GNOME under Cygwin on a Windows box.

Much of GNOME will not build natively, although the libraries themselves are designed to be portable, and GTK is working just fine as Win32 (see GIMP).

There are two kinds of Windows ports... X11 display based, and true "native" Win32. The former is easy to do; the latter is not yet possible (tho you can help!). It's likely that a "native GNOME for Windows" will be much easier, once GTK 2.0 is released.

Links regarding running GNOME or compiling under a local X11 display:
http://news.gnome.org/976323862/index_html
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/screenshots/
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley/1596/en/c ygwin.html

From the GNOME FAQ, regarding native GNOME for M$ Windows:
http://canvas.gnome.org:65348/gnomefaq/html/x359.h tml

A lot of people want to port GNOME and GTK apps over to Windows. To conquer the enemy they say, you have to enter their territory, then sway them to your culture (OS). ;-)

When I'm toting my laptop, I need to carry a mouse and a power cord, among other things. I need my notebooks, pens, CD's, etc... If I carry this thing, not only will it not fit in my laptop backpack which I'll STILL have to carry, but now I've also lost one of my two carry-ons allowed on the plane. If I stuff my current Dell (or iBook) into my backpack, I've got everything I need plus room to spare, and I can also carry on a toiletries bag in case I get stranded.

If you want tough, go and buy a Miltope TSC-750 or any one of the rugged laptops from Niche. Besides, according to this article in MacWorld, the iBook is pretty tough as it is.

"Come to think of it, there already are a million monkeys at a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." - Blair Houghton

On the details ("detail") page,

CD-RECORDER DRIVE

It has a cd-r drive for imac, CDR-I420/IM(SONY CRX510E), made by Melco.
It is very useful when I work aborad. It makes it easy to transfer large data to Windows-using clients.

POWER KEY

The power key is solid aluminium. The same for the reset key.

SPEAKER

The speaker consists of a mesh of aluminium and a ring made of solid aluminium.

TRACK PAD

The button is made of solid aluminium. It feels wonderful when you click. Also, it prevents miss-clicks.

SLEEP LAMP

I made the sleep lamp out of a solid acrylic. It flashes when the mac is sleeping. Together with the apple mark, this is important for the look.

APPLE MARK

I made this apple mark by casting graphite-colored epoxy-resin into a mould I made with silicone by taking the shape of the apple mark on a blueberry ibook.
It glows softly by the light of the LCD backlight. (put your mouse pointor on the picture --novastyli)

PORT

The USB connector, whose position is a shorcoming of an ibook, was moved to the back, beefed up to a four-port hub. Of course, all other connectors are also on the back.

AIR MAC (Mech Mushroom)

It contains an air-mac inside. It works great when I work at places near my home, such as a park or a cafe.

As far as I can tell, this looks like it's a working mod. It also appears, that the guy (or gal) might not have a lot of details on how he did this mod, becuase he is selling a book. (look near the bottom).

Also, the Japanese version of Mac Wire has an article about it. (But I have no idea what it says)

I did a search for "Halli Mac" on google. Apparently, the Japanese Mac-enthusiast sites are all over this. But I have no idea what they say either.

Probably just another neat case mod.

because there's a musical note hanging in the air.

I'm assuming it's just a mockup, the nicer to be proved wrong about ;)

It seems to be a working model. There's a picture of it working here