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Anyone remember Steve Gibson's ClearType demo? Steve says that Apple invented this tech looong time ago (so long that patent already expired). I'm hoping that he will re-check facts and tech again and see if MS really did innovate something this time. I still think that this is old Apple's tech that Woz discovered some time ago. If anyone has a LCD pannel handy I recommend you check MS samples and Steve's ClearType app and see that the results really are similar.

Someone should ask Steve Gibson to opensource his app so that we can incorporate this tech into X display server (it's written in ASM so it's very fast to).


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yeah... i think they use something similar to cut tissue samples for microscopy etc. I don't think that the blade is atom wide though :)

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yep... I got the same impression. Cavemen were able to make these blades for chrissake... He's coming up with these lame excuses to keep his monopoly or something.... he should be straightforward and say that he doesn't wanna teach anyone.

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I wanna get a glass knife (single atom width) that Raven from Stephenson's book Snow Crash uses. Anyone know when will something like that be possible?

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If you don't want to read through specs and prefer a down-to-earth explanation of features etc, check this Designer article on JPEG2K and what it will mean to web design of future. Excellent stuff.

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This article on Katz is rather interesting.

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Wow... they actually mentioned Dr. Nikola Tesla in the 1st section, "Electrification". Not bad. I'm glad he's finally getting some recognition.


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Mavica SUCKS bad! I had it for 3 weeks... Picture quality is pisspoor and you can only store several pictures at high quality. Go for Kodak DC290 or DC275 instead. MUCH MUCH MUCH better. Anything that has flashcards is MUCH better

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I'd really like to see a PDA with Quickwriting from Ken Perlin.

Check the Java demo of how it works here.

Also, check this picture of an addon to Palm VII!

Damn cool!

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This new 'graffiti' from NYU is done by Ken Perlin (fron Perlin Noise fame) and it's absolutely fabulous. It's called Quikqriting. Can't wait to use it. Check it here: http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/perlin/ demos/quikwriting.html

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Well... the specs certainly look impressive and the feature list is many times better than that of Palm. This will definetely give Palm run for its money.

However... "Handwriting Recognition" really worries me. I used it in Apple's Newton and was not impressed at all with it. I don't think MS' HW recognition works any better (I haven't tried it yet though but I draw this from my experiences with lots of HW Recognition packages). Graffiti will be more reliable at the long run since it is very easily recognizable by the software and mismatch rate (i.e. recognizing 8 when you wrote B) is extremely low.

Also, what is the stability of this new MS operating system (which is nothing but new WinCE)? If it crashes a lot... forget it. I prefer having less but more stable set of features.

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Imagine if it could make a double espresso AND browse the web at the same time. Now that'd be perfect PC for caffeine addicts like me.


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Why doesn't /. take some of it's own advice and burn some of it's GIFs? ;)

GIFs from the front page:
http://images.slashdot.org/title.gif
http://images.slashdot.org/greendot.gif
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicmozilla.g if
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topichumor.gif
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicprivacy.g if
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicbe.gif
etc...



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... at least some @home mail servers.. my mail goes through 24.2.9.40 relay and it gets bounced from a ton of sites that use ORBS. Anyone else's @home e-mail got bounced so far?


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The second is that long ago, I received a request from people at Stanford to use Bochs for free for "educational" use. Given that I like to help out educational causes, I of course obliged. Check out where VMWare got its start. Enough said.

If anyone has seen Mendel Rosenblum's (main guy behind VMWare and also a Stanford grad) Stanford lecture on VMWare you'd have to agree that he acted little like a scrouge. He wouldn't even answer some simple questions by saying: "Ooooo... I can't tell you that... we spent a lot of time thinking about that and I don't wanna give it away" etc...

In any case... FreeMWare (now Plex86) will rock.. I tried some dev code and it's a great start. Give it another 6-8 months and it'll be competitive with VMWare.

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Go check it here: http://helixcode.com/desktop/faq.php3

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Someone posted this link on Shugashack:

click here for a pic

Stile (of Stile project) hung himself at midnight. Is it a prank? I bet $50 it is.

Moderate this up plz...

I know very well what XFCom means. I did say: The driver is also present in lastest XFree as well .. Since I didn't know off hand what version of XFree did it appear I said *I think it appears in the lates one*. XFree is always opensource. I also didn't ask any questions :)

Cheers,
nick


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ATi has _the_ best integrated DVD decoding of any multifunction card on the market right now. I own an ATi 128 All-in-Wonder card and its a very good card for my Linux machine. It is lacking an opensource driver but the binary one from SuSE works great. (http://www.suse.de/en/support/xsuse/). The driver is also present in lastest XFree as well (I think it's also opensourced).

The only other thing you need to make your ATi complete is the TV.... get gatos (General ATI TV and Overlay Software ATI-TV) at http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~ins omnia/gatos/

With this SDK we'll be able to combine all these features + DVD into one driver.

Awesome! I only wish other comps. did this... (*cough* nVidia *cough*)

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They never said which version they'll opensource! Imagine if its Windows 1.1 or Windows 3.1 :) hehehe

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... is so soft on a sitting president. Never in history have journalists been so complementary of the prez. Almost like the editor expects positive stories about Clinton and censors bad ones. Just look what happened to Paul Sperry (journalist who asked Clinton about that China scandal) -- he was banned from Whitehouse for even asking something like that. Ludicrous!

About time he got heckled a bit...

BTW: Sperry was hired by the last bastillion of the (big corporate)free press: WorldNetDaily. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/200002 08_xex_wnd_hires_pa.shtml



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I was under an impression that spooks did this ;) They are the only ones who will profit from this (security companies as well).

There's no way that "script kiddies" did this.

This reminds me of the virii... who makes them? Anti virii companies of course =)

nick


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I agree with your assesment however... 65K of these bugs? There's gotta be some that are not cosmetic in nature. What does MS have to say about those?

Maybe they are "features and NOT bugs!" ;)

nick

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The network of silicon filaments should be very flexible and move wherever air moves. So if air can get through a crack as a draught, the ball should be able to squeeze through, and then rearrange itself on the other side.

Does this remind you of that liquid robot (T1000) from Terminator 2? heheh

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This is completely unconstitutional. Everyone should have a freedom of choice. Entering a dormitory is not the same as entering a prison. Just because university is loosing a contract (which is basically a legalized monopoly) does not mean that it can ban other choices?

A side note... Has anyone noticed Coke's predominance at many universities? For example, at my University you will not be able to buy Pepsi or any other Pepsi products (i.e. Mountain Dew which we all love ;-) enywhere on campus. That pisses me more off than the phone... hehe



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http:// octobrx.com/photos/Chris_and_Christines-Wedding/64 0/p1010091.640.jpg
Who is she?

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Hmm... you think "America" has been trademarked yet? Let's see who'll be the first to file trademark papers on Monday :)

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Hmm... so you would trust Microsoft or AOL to guard your privacy, to protect your constitutional rights?

I wouldn't.

Do you get to vote for the CEO in a corporate capitalism? Of course not! This is like dictatorship. Not much different from the communism. In Russia they had politburo, here we'll have chairmen of the board. Same thing, different name.

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How long before we're left with 10 corporations in America? According to the rate of mergers so far it'll in 10 years max.

Will the government matter whan that happens? Peobably not. Corporations will do everything that the governemnt does today. People will loose their democracy and choice when that happens.

Very sad news. Hopefully FTC will put a stop to this.

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http://www.langa.com/newsle tters/1999/nov-4-99.htm#aol1

Here are the original comments sent to Fred Langa (person who wrote the original article).

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Well... Mr Cowpland probably is not allowed to answer some of the legal questions since the case is not over. I'm sure he'll issue a press release or give an interview when it's over.

As for his wife, you can ask her these questions at: http://www.marlencowpland.com

Take care :)

nick

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Tesla was one of _the_ best scientists of 20th century. They could have named him Man of the Century easily. Tons of stuff that we take for granted today was invented in part by him.

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You never know.. Corel might have some sort of connections with RedHat and they don't want to "burn" any bridges by not recommending a RH product :)

The fact that Corel chose Debian should speak for itself.

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Virtual Characters are nothing new. Only thing that is new is the marketing force behind it ;-).There has been several successful virtual characters so far (and many unsuccessful). One of the more successful ones was a virtual model for the Elite Modeling agency. Check it here. She could not speak, however. There are a lot of other virtual characters that can speak however. Check virtual friends by Haptek.
Also, check out Virtual personalities (or verbots) by Virtual Personalities Inc. here.

Those who know their computer graphics also must know Nadia Thallman and her virtual personalities (you can't forget virtual Merlyn Monroe) over at Miralabs. Microsoft also has "Agents" which act as virtual characters and personalities.

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Thanks Yoz!

I'll subscribe right away.


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What is the URL for SkeptiNews? Sounds like my kind of news ;)


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I love Lynx as much as you do however... no frames and poor table hacks have made me use it less and less. I prefer w3m. It does almost everything better than Lynx. Also, if you'd like to see pictures, you don't have to save it and then view it again... you can just pipe it to svgalib plug.

I wish Lynx and w3m combined their forces and made a single, console based, browser.


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Aha! Thanks for the info! Quick question and hope you don't mind me asking... where did you hear about this? :) I'd like to get some news about local, Ottawa, issues.

nick


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Firts of all... I notice several people mention that they know how many people are on their WAN. How dod you check for something like that?

I'm an unhappy @home user. I was happy when I got it about 1.5 yrs ago but now it's too damn slow. I get 15K from most sites during the day and thats just too damn slow.

Is there any way to optimize linux for @home? Any TCP/IP stack options you recommend for setting? MTU maybe?

Anyone else from *.slnt1.on.wave.home.com? :)

Nick

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Note: This does _not_ mean that they won't use wine. This only means that they can run win32 apps _remeotely_.

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