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Maybe customer service isn't dead. On November 28th, we posted a report that OEM cards using ATI chips had trouble with the official drivers from ATI. Terry Makedon (Senior Product Manager, Software for ATI Technologies) writes "Last week we posted a set of unified Linux drivers. These drivers were only loading up on 'Built by ATI' cards. Through our various feedback mechanisms we have determined that there is a large community of 'Powered by ATI' Linux users that did not benefit from our Linux drivers. At this point we are happy to announce an update to our Linux driver (ver. 2.5.1) which will work on both 'Powered by' and 'Built by.' ATI's driver and software strategy is firmly based on responsiveness and we greatly appreciate the feedback our Linux users have provided. Please use http://apps.ati.com/linuxDfeedback/ for a direct feedback line to ATI.
Thanks again for the feedback."
But what if we put the show into this Interdimensional Fungubulon, and then jumped through this here "wormhole"? xagon7 writes "David Kemper, the producer/writer of Farscape, mentioned that it would be theoretically and legally possible for a group to set up a non-profit organization for fans to donate money to, in order to finance an episode and make Farscape all that much tastier to Sci-Fi for the 5th season. They have done just that. They have $200,000 worth of pledges and only need $800,000 total....I hope this gets Slashdotted. Read the story here and you can pledge here."
You're getting less happy to see me? man_of_mr_e writes "Check out MIThril, the next generation research platform for context aware wearable computing. It's been about 18 months since this was last talked about here on Slashdot, and it's kind of cool to see how far the technology has come since then. For those that aren't aware of what it is, it's essentially a project to prototype human wearable computers, complete with schematics, pictures, and a cvs repository for software. Now you too can be like that guy in the IBM commercials trading stock while feeding the pigeons."
Flattening the slope to entry. Catskul writes "You don't need the libwine hack, mentioned in the previous news entry. Just follow the New QT Howto, download the codecs and start MPlayer."
Don't look at me in that tone of voice! 1010011010 writes "On Nov. 26, you ran a story on SpeechView, 'software that translates the voice on the other side of the line into a three dimensional animated face on the computer.' The North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science's 'Voice IO Group' is also working on that problem. Their software looks like it might be better. Read about it here. Includes quicktime movies of the results."
Victory, or a reprieve? A non moose cow writes "Just noticed that a couple of my favorite "Killed by the RIAA" webcast stations are back... like Soma-FM and Monkey Radio (get the streams at Shoutcast). The saving grace came via the recent passage of HR5469 [PDF] by the US Legislature. Thank you to all that sent letters and/or money to fix this problem. If you have been yearning for the resurrection of your favorite stream, go check, it might be back. If you would like to trace the chronology of this mess, check out the Soma-FM news page."
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HAHAHAHA, Farscape nerds! Try watching a real show like The Sopranos, or Dexter's Laboratory, or something cool like them. Farscape is teh suck!!!
frendly FYI!
with guns in their hands...
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you don't have to look very hard to see that america is in complete shambles.
children are starving, schools are failing, non-profits are going under, i've been out of a job for almost a year now, and you people are donating money to keep a tv show on the air?
what happened to citizenship in this country?
Did you know that niggers are the leading cause of the AIDS? Just why is it that Africa, like BSD, is dying? Pretty soon Linux Torvalds will get it because he has nasty Anal Cox goatse.cx with niggers!
Killing all the niggers will not just clean up our streets! No, it will also cleanse our filthy schools into perfect, white bastions of pure aryan learning!
Get rid of all the niggers today!
The JEW(tm) is the cause of all your troubles! The Jew(tm), I say! Is there no manner of sleaze and calumny in which they are not involved in some way?? AIDS. . .bad breath. . .armpits. . .terminal acne. . .all of it, Jews(tm)(c) I tell you!
How do I know this? Why it says so right here!
Enterprise is still better.
Even at it's best, Farscape sucks worse than the last season of seaQuest.
I think we all remember that abortion.
The truth hurts, and the Sci-Fi execs have once again shown that they are more intelligent than their viewers.
HTH!
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.