isn't it obvious to anyone else that he's simply too powerful? why can't we just burn him at the stake before it's too late?
If you build a tool so even an idiot can use it...
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Bad Review for the Zaurus
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· Score: 2, Flamebait
...then only idiots will use it. unfortunately for Mr. Wall Street though, the converse is also true, and the majority of the world's population is cattle. *sigh*
anyway. don't believe this review... the zarus is pricy, but awesome. if you're a linux user, you will truly be able to appreciate the beauty of this little bad-boy. it runs BASH! it runs VI! it runs OPERA! it plays MP3's! it supports wireless ethernet cards! it supports compact flash cards. it supports java for christ sakes and it's got more horsepower than any palm-pilot ever made.
i remember hearing about a project someone had started to set up an alternate set of root servers primarily for the purpose of re-allocating top-level domains and eliminating the artificially limited resource that is the current state of the web's dns... what ever happned to those guys? mabye they're project could be just the thing the web needs now...
but if all those extra dll's are integrated into the operating system, that means there's less memory left for quake when everything's closed.
do senators read slashdot?
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SSSCA Hearing
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· Score: 1
they should. i know one of you out there is within personal contact of A senator. a good handful of you must be. SEND THEM A LINK TO THIS DISCUSSION FEED!
computer geekdom: a way of life. a real, honest, solid genre of people, with it's own mythology, it's own history, it's own unique culture. The SSSCA will DESTROY geek culture. it will kill us all, in a very real way. someone has to stop this madness.
ok, let me just start this rant out by saying "damnit."
damnit.
damnit, damnit, damnit.
ok, now that we have that out of the way, let me explain those damnits. i worked VERY hard to be able to even SEE a copy of warcraft 3 beta. i convinced EVERY SINGLE ONE of my friends (ok, mabye that's not many, but shut up, i tried) to register for the warcraft beta. i, a linux enthusiest to what is an almost fanatical level, risked permanant taint on my soul just to reboot into my dustsy win98 partition in order to register MYSELF for the beta test.
did blizzard have any way to recognize this effort? no.
did they pick me for the beta test? no.
did they pick 5000 people, about 4940 of whom apparently took one look at the battle.net servers and ran screaming to the bnetd servers?
yes!
are some of those same beta testers, testers BLIZZARD hand-picked, responsible for the hacking of wc3, allowed by blizzards negligence, surely, that is now being blamed on the bnetd people?
yes. sorry people, i hate to point fingers, i know it's gonna get me modded down, but YES DAMNIT YES!
and now, ironicly (i'm sure i spelled that wrong) they're firing they're legal cannons at the only party involved who is NOT responsible for wc3 getting hacked and all the battle.net servers being unpopular.
blizzard, mabye you'd better start solving your own problems before you start blaming everyone else on them.
anyway, i had to let that one out. mod me how you will, but THINK about what's really going on here. someday i'd like to see a world where the justice system has the ability to keep large companies from preying on private persons however they please, simply because they have lots of money.
there must not be any vandals in whales...
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ULTra Robo-Taxi
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· Score: 4, Funny
that thing wouldn't last 10 minutes on the streets of LA.
...and while we're at it, let's get a round of applause for another example of how well open source compliments the forward progress of technology. all i can say is i'm anxiously awaiting SMP boards for these badboys.
It's hard for me (a practiced paranoid) not to be really worried when this type of stuff bubbles up to the surface. Imagine a world where it's *illegal* to have full control over your computer. Imagine a world where running a non-copy-protection-compliant operating system (like anything not made by microsoft) is illegal.
while it's certainly true that http was never originally ENVISIONED as a protocol to serve shoutcast/icecast streams, for example, it's usefulness to that purpose is a tribute to how well the spec was thought out. the simple fact remains that it's an incredibly versatile protocol which can be (and is) used for nearly every data/media transport/request over the internet. microsoft is going to have to do something FAR more impressive to convince me they have a good reason to scuttle the most re-purposeable protocol on the internet.
ever wonder why 99% of ANY urls you see start with an http? ever wonder why flash webpages don't start with something like mmfttp and shoutcast streams don't start with plsttp?
isn't the rest of the gamecube based on modified powerpc architecture? my guess is that the Triforce will probably be made from motorola graphics chips nobody's seen yet.
of course there's disadvantages too, but the advantages are enough so that arguably, with a couple more years, digital projection really could eclipse traditional film projection in theatres.
for those of you lucky enough to live in the los angeles area, there's a theatre up in hollywood across the street from the 'Mann's Chinese theatre that's called the El Capitan. it's owned by Disney, and therefore pretty much shows disney movies, (pricy too, like 13-24$ a ticket) but going and watching a newly produced disney feature film in digital projection you really can see the advantages. the above post is right, it's not in an incredibly high resolution. here's what i advise... get a front-row BALCONY seat, and watch the movie from there, then when the credits are scrolling, run downstairs to the front of the theatre and watch the credits scroll up close: from up close, you can SEE the pixels on the screen, they're about the size of a fingertip each, however, from anywhere more then about 10 rows back (balcony is prime, like i said) you can't see the pixels at all... every edge looks razor sharp, and when it's a CARTOON, especially, there's something else you don't see: the FILM GRAIN.....
that's right, film is in MUCH higher resolution than any current digital projection standard can offer, but it's got NOISE... grain, dust, dirt, decomposition... all these things plague even NEW films. you will be suprised how much of a difference it can make, especially, like i said, on cartoons, when areas of the image that are supposed to be solid colors actually ARE. it'll almost ruin your ability to appreciate non-digital projection.
there are other advantages too: production cost and editing costs are trivial for digital editing compared to good quality film editing. the projector equipment is more expensive, but not nearly as much so as IMAX film and projection equipment, which is one of the big reasons why IMAX hasn't taken over the theaters either yet (that and it's hard to find a place to put a 5-story screen)
also, (again, for those of you lucky enough to live in the Los Angeles area) it's somehow not very well known that the second of those 20 existing digital projection screens is in one of the theatres in the AMC in Burbank, near the Media Center Mall. Every once in a while they show a new release in digital there... it's worth it to go check it out (remember to sit more than 10 rows back or so, if you can) just to be able to compare it to a film you can see projected on film as well.
ok, seriously though, this browser has come a LONG WAY. i use it as my primary browser both at work and at home. i really think anyone who hasn't tried it out or tried it early on and stopped because it crashed too much should really try it out again. anyone who stopped because it was too slow might wanna wait till 1.0;-)
when they tried it with vrml it was poorly thought out, poorly executed, and way ahead of the hardware technology currently available.
now with 3d accelerated graphics cards far more commonplace in the desktop world, there actually is a serious chance this type of thing could be the next face of the "web".
don't you think that in it's early stages the current iteration of the web must have seemed useless? imagine... the year is 1994...
"plain text served over modem connections? why would anyone want to bother when you could just
mail them a printed flyer"
.... and now the web is a mainstay of corporate advertising. virtual 3d environments for it are simply the next step in a logical progression.
hmm. i see some plusses and some minuses... i'd say the real decision-maker is how much the things will cost. does anyone know if sgi has mentioned that part yet?
isn't there a better place for these patches?
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Linus Does Not Scale
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it seems to me that it would be a Bad Thing(TM) if too many developers had free reign to add shit into the kernel... it would quickly become a completely unmanagable overbloated kernel. I think that there really needs to be a unified site to keep track of all kernel patches, so that you have easy access to the hard work these people are putting out, but without the need to clutter the kernel with tons of stuff most people may not need or even want. Then the decisions as to what gets merged into the main trunk of the kernel tree can be left up to Linus (it's his project after all... trust his judgement on this stuff!) but nobody's work gets shuffled under the karpet.
Slashdot Mirror
isn't it obvious to anyone else that he's simply too powerful? why can't we just burn him at the stake before it's too late?
...then only idiots will use it. unfortunately for Mr. Wall Street though, the converse is also true, and the majority of the world's population is cattle. *sigh*
anyway. don't believe this review... the zarus is pricy, but awesome. if you're a linux user, you will truly be able to appreciate the beauty of this little bad-boy. it runs BASH! it runs VI! it runs OPERA! it plays MP3's! it supports wireless ethernet cards! it supports compact flash cards. it supports java for christ sakes and it's got more horsepower than any palm-pilot ever made.
anyway. </rant>
personally, i think there's a certain comfort in knowing that linus is still on board with this madness somewhere...
http://www.open-rsc.org/
check this vision out... it seems to me that
they're time may have come.
http://www.open-rsc.org/
there is a hope. anyone can set up a dns server. anyone can choose to use or not use that server.
i remember hearing about a project someone had started to set up an alternate set of root servers primarily for the purpose of re-allocating top-level domains and eliminating the artificially limited resource that is the current state of the web's dns... what ever happned to those guys? mabye they're project could be just the thing the web needs now...
type about:mozilla in your location bar in ns4 and in mozilla to view the prophecies.
oh god. why can't those people spending all they're effort trying to make mp3's illegal just make THIS stuff illegal?
but if all those extra dll's are integrated into the operating system, that means there's less memory left for quake when everything's closed.
they should. i know one of you out there is within personal contact of A senator. a good handful of you must be. SEND THEM A LINK TO THIS DISCUSSION FEED!
computer geekdom: a way of life. a real, honest, solid genre of people, with it's own mythology, it's own history, it's own unique culture. The SSSCA will DESTROY geek culture. it will kill us all, in a very real way. someone has to stop this madness.
ok, let me just start this rant out by saying "damnit."
damnit.
damnit, damnit, damnit.
ok, now that we have that out of the way, let me explain those damnits. i worked VERY hard to be able to even SEE a copy of warcraft 3 beta. i convinced EVERY SINGLE ONE of my friends (ok, mabye that's not many, but shut up, i tried) to register for the warcraft beta. i, a linux enthusiest to what is an almost fanatical level, risked permanant taint on my soul just to reboot into my dustsy win98 partition in order to register MYSELF for the beta test.
did blizzard have any way to recognize this effort? no.
did they pick me for the beta test? no.
did they pick 5000 people, about 4940 of whom apparently took one look at the battle.net servers and ran screaming to the bnetd servers?
yes!
are some of those same beta testers, testers BLIZZARD hand-picked, responsible for the hacking of wc3, allowed by blizzards negligence, surely, that is now being blamed on the bnetd people?
yes. sorry people, i hate to point fingers, i know it's gonna get me modded down, but YES DAMNIT YES!
and now, ironicly (i'm sure i spelled that wrong) they're firing they're legal cannons at the only party involved who is NOT responsible for wc3 getting hacked and all the battle.net servers being unpopular.
blizzard, mabye you'd better start solving your own problems before you start blaming everyone else on them.
anyway, i had to let that one out. mod me how you will, but THINK about what's really going on here. someday i'd like to see a world where the justice system has the ability to keep large companies from preying on private persons however they please, simply because they have lots of money.
that thing wouldn't last 10 minutes on the streets of LA.
aah. i was partially mistaken at least, my bad. i had just assumed that motorola was behind it because i had heard it was ppc based.
...and while we're at it, let's get a round of applause for another example of how well open source compliments the forward progress of technology. all i can say is i'm anxiously awaiting SMP boards for these badboys.
hell yea! nobody really needs to play online games with graphics that aren't ascii anyway! bring me back my muds!
It's hard for me (a practiced paranoid) not to be really worried when this type of stuff bubbles up to the surface. Imagine a world where it's *illegal* to have full control over your computer. Imagine a world where running a non-copy-protection-compliant operating system (like anything not made by microsoft) is illegal.
Terrifying.
while it's certainly true that http was never originally ENVISIONED as a protocol to serve shoutcast/icecast streams, for example, it's usefulness to that purpose is a tribute to how well the spec was thought out. the simple fact remains that it's an incredibly versatile protocol which can be (and is) used for nearly every data/media transport/request over the internet. microsoft is going to have to do something FAR more impressive to convince me they have a good reason to scuttle the most re-purposeable protocol on the internet.
ever wonder why 99% of ANY urls you see start with an http? ever wonder why flash webpages don't start with something like mmfttp and shoutcast streams don't start with plsttp?
wonder.
isn't the rest of the gamecube based on modified powerpc architecture? my guess is that the Triforce will probably be made from motorola graphics chips nobody's seen yet.
of course there's disadvantages too, but the advantages are enough so that arguably, with a couple more years, digital projection really could eclipse traditional film projection in theatres.
for those of you lucky enough to live in the los angeles area, there's a theatre up in hollywood across the street from the 'Mann's Chinese theatre that's called the El Capitan. it's owned by Disney, and therefore pretty much shows disney movies, (pricy too, like 13-24$ a ticket) but going and watching a newly produced disney feature film in digital projection you really can see the advantages. the above post is right, it's not in an incredibly high resolution. here's what i advise... get a front-row BALCONY seat, and watch the movie from there, then when the credits are scrolling, run downstairs to the front of the theatre and watch the credits scroll up close: from up close, you can SEE the pixels on the screen, they're about the size of a fingertip each, however, from anywhere more then about 10 rows back (balcony is prime, like i said) you can't see the pixels at all... every edge looks razor sharp, and when it's a CARTOON, especially, there's something else you don't see: the FILM GRAIN.....
that's right, film is in MUCH higher resolution than any current digital projection standard can offer, but it's got NOISE... grain, dust, dirt, decomposition... all these things plague even NEW films. you will be suprised how much of a difference it can make, especially, like i said, on cartoons, when areas of the image that are supposed to be solid colors actually ARE. it'll almost ruin your ability to appreciate non-digital projection.
there are other advantages too: production cost and editing costs are trivial for digital editing compared to good quality film editing. the projector equipment is more expensive, but not nearly as much so as IMAX film and projection equipment, which is one of the big reasons why IMAX hasn't taken over the theaters either yet (that and it's hard to find a place to put a 5-story screen)
also, (again, for those of you lucky enough to live in the Los Angeles area) it's somehow not very well known that the second of those 20 existing digital projection screens is in one of the theatres in the AMC in Burbank, near the Media Center Mall. Every once in a while they show a new release in digital there... it's worth it to go check it out (remember to sit more than 10 rows back or so, if you can) just to be able to compare it to a film you can see projected on film as well.
the 15 minutes i've spent browsing with this build has completely wiped any cynicism out of my mind. fuck i love this browser.
why god, why?
;-)
ok, seriously though, this browser has come a LONG WAY. i use it as my primary browser both at work and at home. i really think anyone who hasn't tried it out or tried it early on and stopped because it crashed too much should really try it out again. anyone who stopped because it was too slow might wanna wait till 1.0
when they tried it with vrml it was poorly thought out, poorly executed, and way ahead of the hardware technology currently available.
now with 3d accelerated graphics cards far more commonplace in the desktop world, there actually is a serious chance this type of thing could be the next face of the "web".
don't you think that in it's early stages the current iteration of the web must have seemed useless? imagine... the year is 1994...
"plain text served over modem connections? why would anyone want to bother when you could just
mail them a printed flyer"
.... and now the web is a mainstay of corporate advertising. virtual 3d environments for it are simply the next step in a logical progression.
yes, twice but this is the first time in a while anyone's tried it for linux, which does *not* necessarily mean that it won't work :)
frankly, i'm excited. i'm a big fan of blender.
hmm. i see some plusses and some minuses... i'd say the real decision-maker is how much the things will cost. does anyone know if sgi has mentioned that part yet?
it seems to me that it would be a Bad Thing(TM) if too many developers had free reign to add shit into the kernel... it would quickly become a completely unmanagable overbloated kernel. I think that there really needs to be a unified site to keep track of all kernel patches, so that you have easy access to the hard work these people are putting out, but without the need to clutter the kernel with tons of stuff most people may not need or even want. Then the decisions as to what gets merged into the main trunk of the kernel tree can be left up to Linus (it's his project after all... trust his judgement on this stuff!) but nobody's work gets shuffled under the karpet.