I'm from Genk too, but I didn't know that either until I was walking through the park with my wife and spotted that collection of sundials over there. However, I seem to have completely missed that digital sundial (may not have been there yet at that time). We have one thing to be proud of however: The digital dial in Genk was the first one on public display world-wide
Perhaps Genk should include something more about the sundial park one their own website, instead of just linking to that dutch site:-)
While that driver was obviously in error, you could have easily prevented that accident by looking at the car, and making sure it was slowing down or that the driver at least saw you.
I mean... there's only one car on the road, and even then do you manage to not look at it, while it is probably the only serious possible threath to your safety within a hundred meters? You were reasonably lucky, because you survived the accident without serious injuries, but a lot of people aren't that lucky.
Something similar happened to me, but the pedestrian was the other guy... He was standing at a pedestrian crossing (red light for him). I see him looking left and right for approaching vehicles, but he somehow fails to see me and decides to cross the road regardless of the red light. It's really hard to avoid a pedestrian who decides to step in front of your vehicle about 10m further down the road. Luckily for him, I was riding my bicycle (at about 35kph), and nobody was injured... This just shows how easy it can be to completely miss some obvious things. I also tend to wear a bicycle helmet nowadays, since I realize that we were both very lucky.
No, the next big thing was a few years ago... the B-Bomb. All it took was a few boeings and a few towers. The loss of property and life - however tragic - wasn't comparable to the damage caused by an A-Bomb, but if you only look back at the reaction of the current administration they seem to have considered it at least as dangerous.
Well, I guess at least the big campaign sponsors are happy with the military spending and increasing oil prices, and that's all that matters, or is it?
The serial code for Half-Life is 14 digits, meaning a total of 289.254.654.976 possible combinations.. giving that the game has sold something like 20 million copies, that would turn out to try at least 20.000 keys before hitting one successful..
it's more like 14463 keys. And even that's assuming that every possible combination is a valid key (for half-life, without checking the WON network). If this were the case, what would the use of keygens be. In reality, only a certain percentage os all possible combinations is a key that validates correctly with Half-life. a certain percentage of those keys will also validate correctly on WON.
If we assume (wild guess) that 1 in 1000 possible combinations results in a correct key, that would make about one out of every 15 generated keys valid for WON... even if it's 1/100 for half-life, then 1/150 of all generated keys would be good for WON... which would result in quite a high number of people who are affected by this problem.
You're absolutely right. And I know it won't probably get me much credit, but it should be said anyway... Microsoft's $250k reward is a good thing (tm). It stopped at least this virus writer, and will probably discourage others...
Of course, it would have been better if the vulnerability that sasser exploits hadn't been there in the first place. On the other hand... all software has its issues, whether it be windows, linux or other operating systems. It's just that if MS's track record would have been a bit better, there wouldn't be so many viruses all over the place. However, the responsability isn't completely with MS, but it also boils down to people installing the available updates on a regular basis...
I have the feeling that the next time I change enough hardware to make XP panic, it'll be messy.
Don't worry about that too much... I have activated my copy of windows XP Pro (full version too) at least 7 times or so. I just happen to change computers frequently, and move the license from one PC to the next. The people whom I sell the PC (or parts) mostly just get a Windows XP Home license with it or it gets sold without OS.
After the first few installs, I had to call them to be able to activate. Recently I upgraded again (XP-M 2600+ running cool & quiet in my desktop) and did a fresh install, but it activated over the internet without a problem. Probably they just allow you to activate it over the internet a certain number of times within a certain timespan...
Why would we feel bad about that? It's not as if the companies are violating the GPL or that kind of things by doing that. Everybody who wants to make money that way can do that... in fact, why not just start selling your own linux distro tomorrow.
Isn't it so that Sun for example may well be making money on open source, but has also made Openoffice.org possible by releasing the source code for their office suite? Red hat has also done some good things.
Furthermore, the developpers that do the work for (almost) nothing do that of their own choice, and if they wouldn't like that someone else would profit from that, they wouldn't work on open source software. The fact that some large companies make money with open source is even a good thing, since that kind of industry backing will make linux and open source a more credible alternative for closed source software in some cases.
All this support from those large companies is certainly good for extending the user base, which IMHO gives those aforementioned developers a good feeling, because more people are able to enjoy their work.
C) People who don't live in a coutry where D3 is for sale already.
Can you really call it piracy if you download something you can't buy yet, just to be able to play the game, and then buy it as soon as it's released where you live?
I guess however, that ID DID lose some sales, because some people who might have bought it (if it were available) will have downloaded it, and maybe decided they didn't really like it that much, and as a result... won't buy the game anymore.
The result is that: - people who would have bought it if it had been a post-release availability will mostly still buy it if they like it, even if they downloaded it already (some loss of revenue since some will de cide thy don't like it enough to shell out the cash) - people who wouldn't have bought it won't buy it now either (no loss of revenue) - people who would have downloaded and not bought the game because they don't want to support good software will still do the same (same loss of revenue as with normal after-the-facts piracy)
If someone turns on their computer twice a day everyday, then that person still has 68 years of service out of that drive
That would be nice indeed, but consider that some users will probably be running with some power saving features enabled, causing the hard drive to spin down (and up) regularly. Let's assume that this happens about 8 times an hour with extreme settings, which would mean 64 times on an 8-hour working day... meaning that the drive would reach 50,000 start/stop cycles before it's 3 years old.
Of course... All the mass media in the U.S. are controlled by the government when it comes to the war in Iraq. When they don't report what the government wants, they don't get to come with the military anymore, or aren't allowed in certain areas 'because the military can't guarantee their safety'.
Every now and then something like this scandal pops up, the media can't do anything but report it.
Well, that's not entirely correct. Windows update has the possibility to inform you of patches, download them, and install them. There would thus be 4 scenarios:
1. You have disabled the autmatic updates, in which case your scenario is correct. 2. You asked to be informed: The company comes at your door and rings the doorbell until you open your door. They then inform you that there's a fix for a problem, and ask you if they should get the updated lock and install it for free. 3. You ask for updates to be downloaded and then be prompted for installation: The company comes at your door and rings the doorbell until you open your door. They then inform you that they have a fix for a problem in that little box in their hands, and ask you if they should install it. 4. you ask for updates to be installed automatically: The company comes at your door, opens it, and installs the b Brand New Lock (TM), leaving you a message that your door is now fixed, and possibly leaving a message that you should open and close all locks on said door again for the fix to be effective.
In the first case: blame the door owner! If they were still testing it, maybe that could have been done a bit faster, since the fix was already available for a few weeks if I'm not mistaken...
I dind't notice any digitizer drift problems. As far as I can remember I only had to callibrate it after a hard reset.
I didn't notice any instability issues with PXAClocker Lite, except when testing how far I could push the T3. When running at 588MHz instead of the normal 400MHz, the device would occasionally freeze, requiring a soft reset. Now I'm running most apps at 118MHz (118 x 1) which is enough for ogg playback (using aeroplayer) and some others at 354MHz (118 x 3).
There may be stability issues when changing the memclk (FSB) on the fly. If this is the case, I suggest you just keep the FSB constant and only change the multiplier. With some frequencies you may notice a high-pitched noise coming from the speaker. If this happens, just increase/decrease the FSB one or 2 steps.
Battery life is improved indeed, but I guess a lower FSB and higher multiplyer may be better for that purpose.
Anyway, this conversation is getting a bit off-topic... but I would be happy to answer any further questions you might have if you email me at slashdot_tmp@gorby.be
Indeed, the memory in the Tunsten T doesn't really cut it anymore. When they released the T3 I was so amazed by the device that I didn't wait too long to upgrade... I guess the time when 16MB was more than enough for palm apps is long gone.
At the moment, I'm perfectly happy with the T3 with it's 320x480 screen and fast CPU. The CPU is more than powerful enough, so I have it underclocked for most applications (PXAClocker free edition). The power-hungry apps run at full speed for maximum performance (although I could overclock it:-). The 64MB of memory (of which 52MB is accessible for user data) is more than sufficient at the moment with only 26,7MB in use.
The large screen makes it a nice device for web browsing on the go when used in landscape mode.
To get Bluetooth, you had to go with a Tungsten 2 or 3
wrong: the Tungsten T also has bluetooth. It's the Tungsten E that doesn't have bluetooth.
The Tungsten T is almost as good, but doesn't feature any extra connectivity--i.e. no "Universal Connector"
wrong again: the Tunsten T is almost identical to the T2, but with half the memory and a lower quality screen. This means that it DOES have a universal connector, which is unchanged since the m500 series. Here again, it's the Tungsten E which doesn't have a universal connector.
I have to agree with you on the fact that it would be nice to have a zire with bluetooth and without the camera. Not only because you can't take it everywhere you want, but also because I'd rather pay less and not have a crappy integrated camera. When I want to take pictures I use a camera that's built for that purpose... at least that does things right.
hmm... customizable handhelds... now that would really be cool!
Seriously, i have a nokia 6600, what can the Zire's do that the 6600 cant.
PDA's have a decent-sized screen. Any device that has a screen big enough to be comfortable to use is too big for me. I don't want a Palm/PPC sized phone, and I don't want a SE T68i sized PDA.
Phones should be small and easy to use for calling and have a decent battery life. All the rest I do with my PDA (SMS, e-mail, web browsing, instant messaging and even calling people from my PDA's address book using the bluetooth with the phone).
I guess it's just a personal preference however, but for me, the wish of having a PDA with a decent size screen and a phone that's smaller than the screen of said PDA makes for 2 devices instead of one.
Why doesn't anybody seem to notice that the word CPU time is used instead of just time. This means that you will get this profit only if the application is constantly using up 100% of your CPU.
I seriously doubt if that will be the case. I guess your mail server and some other apps will be eating the majority of your CPU time, leaving you with maybe 20-30% of that income... and an evil SPAM mark on your forehead!
Because... if you go out for a 2 week hike away from civilization it might be harder to find a wall outlet than just grabbing the bottle of methanol in your backpack and giving it some more juice in a few minutes.
While this would be a nice solution, I don't think that would work for many people. When I'm playing a game,I want other things too: - email client notifies me of new mail - voice chat/IP Telephony app - I want to be able to share files - I want to be able to quickly switch to another application and then back to the game.
I still think that this could work, but then you would have to be able to play the game not only by booting the livecd but from your installed distro too. I once had a Gentoo Linux UT2003 Demo LiveCD, which worked like a breeze (and in fact introduced me to gentoo:-). Don't know if you could easily run that game from your own distro using the livecd though...
As a matter of fact I did before posting (as I usually do), and I got a list of more than 100 errors. Now I do get a 403 forbidden too... Apparently somebody changed something somewhere.
The post I was responding to contained a bad URL to start with, and that's why I tried with the correct URL for slashdot and got a correct result (well, correct result isn't probably the best word for a page with that many errors). All that rests now is saving the file and then uploading to W3C for checking...
Maybe if you use the correct URL for W3C validation (which is the same you use to access this site) and not http://wwww.slashdot.org it would work (works over here anyway). The W3C validator isn't smart enough to automatically try alternatives if a user can't even enter the correct URL (and I'm thankful for that). Here's the Correct URL.
I have to agree... still a whole lot of errors though, which I certainly didn't expect for this site!
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I'm from Genk too, but I didn't know that either until I was walking through the park with my wife and spotted that collection of sundials over there. However, I seem to have completely missed that digital sundial (may not have been there yet at that time).
:-)
We have one thing to be proud of however: The digital dial in Genk was the first one on public display world-wide
Perhaps Genk should include something more about the sundial park one their own website, instead of just linking to that dutch site
The netherlands seem to be ahead of the rest of the world on that one... :-)
It's partly legalized over there
Only one answer to this...
While that driver was obviously in error, you could have easily prevented that accident by looking at the car, and making sure it was slowing down or that the driver at least saw you.
I mean... there's only one car on the road, and even then do you manage to not look at it, while it is probably the only serious possible threath to your safety within a hundred meters? You were reasonably lucky, because you survived the accident without serious injuries, but a lot of people aren't that lucky.
Something similar happened to me, but the pedestrian was the other guy... He was standing at a pedestrian crossing (red light for him). I see him looking left and right for approaching vehicles, but he somehow fails to see me and decides to cross the road regardless of the red light. It's really hard to avoid a pedestrian who decides to step in front of your vehicle about 10m further down the road. Luckily for him, I was riding my bicycle (at about 35kph), and nobody was injured... This just shows how easy it can be to completely miss some obvious things. I also tend to wear a bicycle helmet nowadays, since I realize that we were both very lucky.
No, the next big thing was a few years ago... the B-Bomb. All it took was a few boeings and a few towers. The loss of property and life - however tragic - wasn't comparable to the damage caused by an A-Bomb, but if you only look back at the reaction of the current administration they seem to have considered it at least as dangerous.
Well, I guess at least the big campaign sponsors are happy with the military spending and increasing oil prices, and that's all that matters, or is it?
The serial code for Half-Life is 14 digits, meaning a total of 289.254.654.976 possible combinations.. giving that the game has sold something like 20 million copies, that would turn out to try at least 20.000 keys before hitting one successful..
it's more like 14463 keys. And even that's assuming that every possible combination is a valid key (for half-life, without checking the WON network). If this were the case, what would the use of keygens be. In reality, only a certain percentage os all possible combinations is a key that validates correctly with Half-life. a certain percentage of those keys will also validate correctly on WON.
If we assume (wild guess) that 1 in 1000 possible combinations results in a correct key, that would make about one out of every 15 generated keys valid for WON...
even if it's 1/100 for half-life, then 1/150 of all generated keys would be good for WON... which would result in quite a high number of people who are affected by this problem.
Boohoo. You do the crime, you serve the time.
You're absolutely right. And I know it won't probably get me much credit, but it should be said anyway... Microsoft's $250k reward is a good thing (tm). It stopped at least this virus writer, and will probably discourage others...
Of course, it would have been better if the vulnerability that sasser exploits hadn't been there in the first place. On the other hand... all software has its issues, whether it be windows, linux or other operating systems. It's just that if MS's track record would have been a bit better, there wouldn't be so many viruses all over the place. However, the responsability isn't completely with MS, but it also boils down to people installing the available updates on a regular basis...
I have the feeling that the next time I change enough hardware to make XP panic, it'll be messy.
Don't worry about that too much... I have activated my copy of windows XP Pro (full version too) at least 7 times or so. I just happen to change computers frequently, and move the license from one PC to the next. The people whom I sell the PC (or parts) mostly just get a Windows XP Home license with it or it gets sold without OS.
After the first few installs, I had to call them to be able to activate. Recently I upgraded again (XP-M 2600+ running cool & quiet in my desktop) and did a fresh install, but it activated over the internet without a problem. Probably they just allow you to activate it over the internet a certain number of times within a certain timespan...
Why would we feel bad about that? It's not as if the companies are violating the GPL or that kind of things by doing that. Everybody who wants to make money that way can do that... in fact, why not just start selling your own linux distro tomorrow.
Isn't it so that Sun for example may well be making money on open source, but has also made Openoffice.org possible by releasing the source code for their office suite? Red hat has also done some good things.
Furthermore, the developpers that do the work for (almost) nothing do that of their own choice, and if they wouldn't like that someone else would profit from that, they wouldn't work on open source software. The fact that some large companies make money with open source is even a good thing, since that kind of industry backing will make linux and open source a more credible alternative for closed source software in some cases.
All this support from those large companies is certainly good for extending the user base, which IMHO gives those aforementioned developers a good feeling, because more people are able to enjoy their work.
We have some nice beers in Belgium that are a bit stronger than that (up to 12% alc/vol I believe).
:-)
Those will make sure that not only your beer is warm, but you'll also have a nice warm feeling yourself by the time you're done with a 64oz portion
You forgot this:
C) People who don't live in a coutry where D3 is for sale already.
Can you really call it piracy if you download something you can't buy yet, just to be able to play the game, and then buy it as soon as it's released where you live?
I guess however, that ID DID lose some sales, because some people who might have bought it (if it were available) will have downloaded it, and maybe decided they didn't really like it that much, and as a result... won't buy the game anymore.
The result is that:
- people who would have bought it if it had been a post-release availability will mostly still buy it if they like it, even if they downloaded it already (some loss of revenue since some will de cide thy don't like it enough to shell out the cash)
- people who wouldn't have bought it won't buy it now either (no loss of revenue)
- people who would have downloaded and not bought the game because they don't want to support good software will still do the same (same loss of revenue as with normal after-the-facts piracy)
If someone turns on their computer twice a day everyday, then that person still has 68 years of service out of that drive
That would be nice indeed, but consider that some users will probably be running with some power saving features enabled, causing the hard drive to spin down (and up) regularly. Let's assume that this happens about 8 times an hour with extreme settings, which would mean 64 times on an 8-hour working day... meaning that the drive would reach 50,000 start/stop cycles before it's 3 years old.
You can bet the RIAA is having kittens right now!
Ah, that's where that 'RIAAaaauuw' sound is constantly coming from...
CNN it's just like a big video game
Of course... All the mass media in the U.S. are controlled by the government when it comes to the war in Iraq. When they don't report what the government wants, they don't get to come with the military anymore, or aren't allowed in certain areas 'because the military can't guarantee their safety'.
Every now and then something like this scandal pops up, the media can't do anything but report it.
Well, that's not entirely correct. Windows update has the possibility to inform you of patches, download them, and install them. There would thus be 4 scenarios:
1. You have disabled the autmatic updates, in which case your scenario is correct.
2. You asked to be informed: The company comes at your door and rings the doorbell until you open your door. They then inform you that there's a fix for a problem, and ask you if they should get the updated lock and install it for free.
3. You ask for updates to be downloaded and then be prompted for installation: The company comes at your door and rings the doorbell until you open your door. They then inform you that they have a fix for a problem in that little box in their hands, and ask you if they should install it.
4. you ask for updates to be installed automatically: The company comes at your door, opens it, and installs the b
Brand New Lock (TM), leaving you a message that your door is now fixed, and possibly leaving a message that you should open and close all locks on said door again for the fix to be effective.
In the first case: blame the door owner!
If they were still testing it, maybe that could have been done a bit faster, since the fix was already available for a few weeks if I'm not mistaken...
I dind't notice any digitizer drift problems. As far as I can remember I only had to callibrate it after a hard reset.
I didn't notice any instability issues with PXAClocker Lite, except when testing how far I could push the T3. When running at 588MHz instead of the normal 400MHz, the device would occasionally freeze, requiring a soft reset. Now I'm running most apps at 118MHz (118 x 1) which is enough for ogg playback (using aeroplayer) and some others at 354MHz (118 x 3).
There may be stability issues when changing the memclk (FSB) on the fly. If this is the case, I suggest you just keep the FSB constant and only change the multiplier. With some frequencies you may notice a high-pitched noise coming from the speaker. If this happens, just increase/decrease the FSB one or 2 steps.
Battery life is improved indeed, but I guess a lower FSB and higher multiplyer may be better for that purpose.
Anyway, this conversation is getting a bit off-topic... but I would be happy to answer any further questions you might have if you email me at slashdot_tmp@gorby.be
Indeed, the memory in the Tunsten T doesn't really cut it anymore. When they released the T3 I was so amazed by the device that I didn't wait too long to upgrade... I guess the time when 16MB was more than enough for palm apps is long gone.
:-). The 64MB of memory (of which 52MB is accessible for user data) is more than sufficient at the moment with only 26,7MB in use.
At the moment, I'm perfectly happy with the T3 with it's 320x480 screen and fast CPU. The CPU is more than powerful enough, so I have it underclocked for most applications (PXAClocker free edition). The power-hungry apps run at full speed for maximum performance (although I could overclock it
The large screen makes it a nice device for web browsing on the go when used in landscape mode.
To get Bluetooth, you had to go with a Tungsten 2 or 3
wrong: the Tungsten T also has bluetooth. It's the Tungsten E that doesn't have bluetooth.
The Tungsten T is almost as good, but doesn't feature any extra connectivity--i.e. no "Universal Connector"
wrong again: the Tunsten T is almost identical to the T2, but with half the memory and a lower quality screen. This means that it DOES have a universal connector, which is unchanged since the m500 series. Here again, it's the Tungsten E which doesn't have a universal connector.
I have to agree with you on the fact that it would be nice to have a zire with bluetooth and without the camera. Not only because you can't take it everywhere you want, but also because I'd rather pay less and not have a crappy integrated camera. When I want to take pictures I use a camera that's built for that purpose... at least that does things right.
hmm... customizable handhelds... now that would really be cool!
Seriously, i have a nokia 6600, what can the Zire's do that the 6600 cant.
PDA's have a decent-sized screen. Any device that has a screen big enough to be comfortable to use is too big for me. I don't want a Palm/PPC sized phone, and I don't want a SE T68i sized PDA.
Phones should be small and easy to use for calling and have a decent battery life. All the rest I do with my PDA (SMS, e-mail, web browsing, instant messaging and even calling people from my PDA's address book using the bluetooth with the phone).
I guess it's just a personal preference however, but for me, the wish of having a PDA with a decent size screen and a phone that's smaller than the screen of said PDA makes for 2 devices instead of one.
Why doesn't anybody seem to notice that the word CPU time is used instead of just time. This means that you will get this profit only if the application is constantly using up 100% of your CPU.
I seriously doubt if that will be the case. I guess your mail server and some other apps will be eating the majority of your CPU time, leaving you with maybe 20-30% of that income... and an evil SPAM mark on your forehead!
Because... if you go out for a 2 week hike away from civilization it might be harder to find a wall outlet than just grabbing the bottle of methanol in your backpack and giving it some more juice in a few minutes.
While this would be a nice solution, I don't think that would work for many people. When I'm playing a game,I want other things too:
:-). Don't know if you could easily run that game from your own distro using the livecd though...
- email client notifies me of new mail
- voice chat/IP Telephony app
- I want to be able to share files
- I want to be able to quickly switch to another application and then back to the game.
I still think that this could work, but then you would have to be able to play the game not only by booting the livecd but from your installed distro too. I once had a Gentoo Linux UT2003 Demo LiveCD, which worked like a breeze (and in fact introduced me to gentoo
As a matter of fact I did before posting (as I usually do), and I got a list of more than 100 errors. Now I do get a 403 forbidden too...
Apparently somebody changed something somewhere.
The post I was responding to contained a bad URL to start with, and that's why I tried with the correct URL for slashdot and got a correct result (well, correct result isn't probably the best word for a page with that many errors).
All that rests now is saving the file and then uploading to W3C for checking...
Maybe if you use the correct URL for W3C validation (which is the same you use to access this site) and not http://wwww.slashdot.org it would work (works over here anyway). The W3C validator isn't smart enough to automatically try alternatives if a user can't even enter the correct URL (and I'm thankful for that). Here's the Correct URL.
I have to agree... still a whole lot of errors though, which I certainly didn't expect for this site!
personally i'll wait for the next which wil allow me to have port *outside* the dvd
hmm, like... a bigger hole in the center of the DVD?