I stream to a 96" diagonal projector screen, but my pipe is still huge. WiMP is awesome for streaming to the XBox because it's extremely unintrusive. I just run it on a desktop in my corner all the time and the 360 is basically the head to that system. Sucks that you need at least WMP11 or I would stream my even larger collection from my various other puters. WMP 11 blows hard.
I got busted for this in high school(only because I told someone within earshot of a faculty member). Here's a protip: if you run a novell network, don't silently mount a network share in the background that has the netware admin program on it. Furthermore, don't allow users to change their own account's permissions with that program.
Glad it was before everything was terrorism and this sorta crap gets you thrown in jail.
It was completely worth the suspension when the principal and network 'admin' had to ask me how to get higher than kindergarten level access on their accounts.
Basically (and what it seems like Zordak is trying to say) is that once you file for a patent, whatever you're patenting can be considered Patent Pending. If someone looks the patent over and makes your item and sells it, you can essentially put them on notice for infringing. Then, once your patent is approved you can seek royalties on your item since the time you put them on notice. You just can't actually sue them until there is a fully-approved patent.
Less than being crazy I think this faux-allergy is probably at least a little attributable to working and partying for decades in a drug- and electronics-rich environment like Ibiza clubs.
I think you're the one who hasn't been in SL for a while. It is still rampant with flying dongs, facehumping creatures, and 6-foot fox-like creatures with strap-ons. Fortunately, there are easy controls to stop that from happening if you shell out the $300/month plus upfront costs to get your own chunk of land.
My worry is that despite being user-designed and 3-d Second Life is nothing like the real world. Much like any chatroom or forum, people on SL will say or do anything without fear of repercussions because of the anonymity afforded them. A sad truth which is one of the major hurdles Linden Labs will face in trying to market SL as a serious environment.
I think it's a bit hasty to dismiss things like books and radio when calling the Internet the 'Greatest communication tool man has yet devised'. Most technologically advanced, yes. Greatest? Probably not.
There were written logs of conquests from cavemen, heiroglyphs, the rosetta stone, all sorts of linguistics in both writing and spoken mediums... I think it's safe to say that even in this digital age written works yet trump 'The Internet' as a reliable communication tool.
Besides, books don't (usually) need batteries.
Instead of reading this thread and saying "Oh, what's this book? I'll go look up a synopsis on Wikipedia" you should go buy/borrow a copy (or inevitably, since this is/. , download the eBook) and actually read the damn story. It's very interesting and has all the elements of big brother-ism that all of us slashdotters love to cause a fuss about. There's police states, robotic dogs, firemen that START fires instead of putting them out, full-wall televisions, neolithic societies, people burned alive... It's well worth the read.
You can't call Ray Bradbury an idiot and still look cool. In fact, it makes you look like...an idiot.
He is one of the best authors of my lifetime, and a raging troglodyte. This does not make him an idiot, it simply makes him a very old man who is nonplussed by the bullshit on the internet today. If all I knew of "The Internet" was MySpace and Facebook and Twitter - things that the news and general public see - I'd think it was a fucking waste of time too.
As far as Wikipedia, it's not as great as some people think. Much of the information is unverified and in many places is not even valid for a source on a term paper.
As far as his book not being available on the Internet - protip: Books are on paper, in your local library and bookstore. If you can't be assed to go borrow the book, you clearly don't have enough desire to read it. Amazon, Kindles, and torrents are convenient, but there was such a thing as media before the internet made them what they are now.
I think they made a mistake in this conviction because the law is worded like a slow 5-year old was trying to explain it. The computer he needs to have been unauthorized-accessing is the one on the RECEIVING end. As in, the system he logged into...on AFF.com, not the city's servers.
In the end, he had consent from both parties to use their computer equipment, meaning no foul. WTF is wrong with this country?
In Wisconsin (at least in Madison and the surrounding areas), a majority of police vehicles already transmit their locations to dispatch via both 470-something MHz analog and their Motorola 900MHz Trunking system.
I haven't been able to do anything useful with the signal yet, and I'm wary to try any sort of decryption as I believe that's stepping into federal offense land.
To me the RIAA and MPAA statements there fundamentally fly in the face of the US legal system. Innocent until proven guilty - not the other way around. They should not have to prove that their service is used primarily for legitimate purposes. If someone has a problem with their service, it should be that person's responsibility to find something they are doing wrong and point it out. As it stands now it seems like the legal system is getting extremely lazy and it's all up to the defendants to prove themselves innocent instead of having the plaintiffs actually prove some non-implied wrongdoing.
Yes, many businesses can profit from Second Life. My University holds online courses there from time to time to do sociology experiments. I have worked with companies in SL who have made in the order of thousands of dollars per week. While it may start as 'virtual currency' it can all be traded in for real currency, and the truth is that I paid my rent for several months by building and programming items in SL.
My qualm with businesses taking over with Virtual Worlds is that they may drive free counterparts like SL out of business and then we're left with IBM's pay-as-you-go AOL-of-VR-Worlds. If you really want someone to administer it, IBM, just make the hardware and find reliable developers and managing companies to actually implement and run the things.
-R
I have a prepaid plan with Verizon and I've had it for well over 4 years. I've paid on average $15-$30 per month. I don't know why anyone wouldn't use these plans as it's cheap as hell and as long as you're not some yuppie jaw jacking all day in traffic or at the office("I totally see where Obama is coming from but he doesn't have the experience, and as bad as the republicans are...", "So I tried this new diet and it's just not working for me and I was thinking I'd..."), you don't tear through your minutes. Granted, you can't unlimitedly surf the net with those, but apparently you can't do that with AT&T's non-prepaid plans either.
People need to unplug a little bit and this shit won't happen as much.
Dude, I totally put a trojan on the station. I'm engrossed by the ongoing battle between worms(no pun intended) and one of the astronauts' Golden Retriever who he keeps writing to his wife about. Also, he needs to get a better mortgage rate before he gets taken for everything, and his newest shipment of Cialis has been delivered.
"Most intriguing, though, is the Space Wire port. It may sound like a mere science fiction fantasy, but this incredibly thin socket is a crucial part of the Space Cubeâ(TM)s armoury. Thatâ(TM)s because itâ(TM)s a type of proprietary interface use by the ESA, NASA and JAXA when the Cube actually goes into space. Itâ(TM)s useful for connecting various sensors and processing units to the Space Cube, as well as the complicated-sounding Downlink Telementary Sub-Systems, which sounds like something more akin to Battlestar Galactica or Star Wars than anything used in real life. It turns out that Space Wire is also used as a common interface for linking together modules and electronics that are often designed in different institutions."
Is it just me, or does this sound an awful lot like Phillips I2C bus?
"Want to get rid of copy protection (which has been in use since the days of floppy discs)? Get the gamer community to STOP PIRATING."
This is a complete cycle that will never end. It's like saying "If game companies didn't have DRM I wouldn't pirate their shit." and the companies saying "If people didn't pirate our shit we wouldn't have DRM." Round and round, nothing solved.
It will take a developer or ten to stop with DRM to make people trust them and stop pirating. It will never completely vanish, and using DRM to try and stem the minor leak of piracy when dealing with a solid product and good distribution, will only cause problems instead of solving them.
-R
Sony's Creative Software division(Formerly Sony Media Software, formerly Sonic Foundry) isn't nearly as evil as their main entity. I worked there for a time and in the non-corporate-megalopolis of Madison, WI it's mostly the same people who worked for the startup Sonic Foundry to create the original software and concepts, as well as a lot of the same code.
They're honestly doing it for the product, and not just for the money. While it's easy for me to say their stuff is the best because I got it for free, I also paid for and used it long before I worked there - it was a motivating factor in going to work for them.
-R
I suppose I can sue the cordless phone manufacturers who also produce phones using the 2.4GHz range for this then, right? Since they use the same frequency and power as a WiFi network? Or cell-phone companies, or pager companies, and the radio communications companies who provide service to the police, taxis, fire dept, etc? How about TV stations for the radiation their towers cause? Radio stations for the same?
People like this are why our country is a laughingstock. Please go back to Uzbekistan or wherever the hell you came from, and return to your 'dead king inheritance' scam emails instead of trying to wipe out a useful technological institution like public WiFi.
I did something similar, since basic was the only language I knew at that time.
It started off saying "Please enter the startup password:"
There was, of course, no password. No matter what you typed it would start a sine sweep using the basic 'SOUND(x,x)' function(uses the 'beeper' in the computer - no speaker necessary), and would go for 5 minutes until going back to the password prompt. It sounded exactly like a cheesy police siren wail. I put this on several of my teachers' classroom computers in the startup items, set to go fullscreen with no window controls.
The best part: It took several of them the good part of 6 hours to figure out that all you had to do to close it down was hit 'ESC', and I got to hear a nice little announcement about it the next day over the loudspeakers.
I'm confused at how there can even be two different speeds of laser light pulse. Isn't the speed of light a constant? I would love to know how they have different speeds of laser pulses in the first place to test this out.
I live in Madison. I bought my PC at CompUSA and it IS a Milwaukee PC computer. I got it on Manager's special for $499(Dual P4, 80GB HDD, 512mb RAM, cool custom case). I couldn't possibly complain about a deal like that, considering I got it in 2004, and it's the computer I'm writing from right now(though it has been upgraded beyond belief and the case has been heavily modified). Since then, I have gotten several other computers from Milwaukee PC directly. I don't know what bad experiences you've had, but I thoroughly enjoy their products.
I am with you you though, NewEgg is about to get a whole lot more business. I can't wait for the closing sales though. It's my chance to make that USB Drive RAID array I've been wanting to try for really cheap.
-R
Just release it to PC, over the internet, with no rating, and let gamers who know and fiends like us/.ers pick it up uber cheap because you didn't have to print a CD/DVD. Give Sony, Nintendo, The Senate, MPAA, and ESRB a big standing "Fuck You". I'm tired of this nazi country we live in and the only way we're going to get out from under the IndoRepubliDemofascists is to ignore them and do what we want(especially if it doesn't break any laws). Is it can be anarchy tiem now plees?
Slashdot Mirror
1998 called, they want their software distribution method back.
I stream to a 96" diagonal projector screen, but my pipe is still huge. WiMP is awesome for streaming to the XBox because it's extremely unintrusive. I just run it on a desktop in my corner all the time and the 360 is basically the head to that system. Sucks that you need at least WMP11 or I would stream my even larger collection from my various other puters. WMP 11 blows hard.
I got busted for this in high school(only because I told someone within earshot of a faculty member). Here's a protip: if you run a novell network, don't silently mount a network share in the background that has the netware admin program on it. Furthermore, don't allow users to change their own account's permissions with that program. Glad it was before everything was terrorism and this sorta crap gets you thrown in jail. It was completely worth the suspension when the principal and network 'admin' had to ask me how to get higher than kindergarten level access on their accounts.
Basically (and what it seems like Zordak is trying to say) is that once you file for a patent, whatever you're patenting can be considered Patent Pending. If someone looks the patent over and makes your item and sells it, you can essentially put them on notice for infringing. Then, once your patent is approved you can seek royalties on your item since the time you put them on notice. You just can't actually sue them until there is a fully-approved patent.
Less than being crazy I think this faux-allergy is probably at least a little attributable to working and partying for decades in a drug- and electronics-rich environment like Ibiza clubs.
I think you're the one who hasn't been in SL for a while. It is still rampant with flying dongs, facehumping creatures, and 6-foot fox-like creatures with strap-ons. Fortunately, there are easy controls to stop that from happening if you shell out the $300/month plus upfront costs to get your own chunk of land. My worry is that despite being user-designed and 3-d Second Life is nothing like the real world. Much like any chatroom or forum, people on SL will say or do anything without fear of repercussions because of the anonymity afforded them. A sad truth which is one of the major hurdles Linden Labs will face in trying to market SL as a serious environment.
There were written logs of conquests from cavemen, heiroglyphs, the rosetta stone, all sorts of linguistics in both writing and spoken mediums... I think it's safe to say that even in this digital age written works yet trump 'The Internet' as a reliable communication tool. Besides, books don't (usually) need batteries.
Instead of reading this thread and saying "Oh, what's this book? I'll go look up a synopsis on Wikipedia" you should go buy/borrow a copy (or inevitably, since this is /. , download the eBook) and actually read the damn story. It's very interesting and has all the elements of big brother-ism that all of us slashdotters love to cause a fuss about. There's police states, robotic dogs, firemen that START fires instead of putting them out, full-wall televisions, neolithic societies, people burned alive... It's well worth the read.
He is one of the best authors of my lifetime, and a raging troglodyte. This does not make him an idiot, it simply makes him a very old man who is nonplussed by the bullshit on the internet today. If all I knew of "The Internet" was MySpace and Facebook and Twitter - things that the news and general public see - I'd think it was a fucking waste of time too.
As far as Wikipedia, it's not as great as some people think. Much of the information is unverified and in many places is not even valid for a source on a term paper.
As far as his book not being available on the Internet - protip: Books are on paper, in your local library and bookstore. If you can't be assed to go borrow the book, you clearly don't have enough desire to read it. Amazon, Kindles, and torrents are convenient, but there was such a thing as media before the internet made them what they are now.
You should tell them to start with roads, and work their way up to computers.
I think they made a mistake in this conviction because the law is worded like a slow 5-year old was trying to explain it. The computer he needs to have been unauthorized-accessing is the one on the RECEIVING end. As in, the system he logged into...on AFF.com, not the city's servers. In the end, he had consent from both parties to use their computer equipment, meaning no foul. WTF is wrong with this country?
In Wisconsin (at least in Madison and the surrounding areas), a majority of police vehicles already transmit their locations to dispatch via both 470-something MHz analog and their Motorola 900MHz Trunking system. I haven't been able to do anything useful with the signal yet, and I'm wary to try any sort of decryption as I believe that's stepping into federal offense land.
To me the RIAA and MPAA statements there fundamentally fly in the face of the US legal system. Innocent until proven guilty - not the other way around. They should not have to prove that their service is used primarily for legitimate purposes. If someone has a problem with their service, it should be that person's responsibility to find something they are doing wrong and point it out. As it stands now it seems like the legal system is getting extremely lazy and it's all up to the defendants to prove themselves innocent instead of having the plaintiffs actually prove some non-implied wrongdoing.
Yes, many businesses can profit from Second Life. My University holds online courses there from time to time to do sociology experiments. I have worked with companies in SL who have made in the order of thousands of dollars per week. While it may start as 'virtual currency' it can all be traded in for real currency, and the truth is that I paid my rent for several months by building and programming items in SL. My qualm with businesses taking over with Virtual Worlds is that they may drive free counterparts like SL out of business and then we're left with IBM's pay-as-you-go AOL-of-VR-Worlds. If you really want someone to administer it, IBM, just make the hardware and find reliable developers and managing companies to actually implement and run the things. -R
I have a prepaid plan with Verizon and I've had it for well over 4 years. I've paid on average $15-$30 per month. I don't know why anyone wouldn't use these plans as it's cheap as hell and as long as you're not some yuppie jaw jacking all day in traffic or at the office("I totally see where Obama is coming from but he doesn't have the experience, and as bad as the republicans are...", "So I tried this new diet and it's just not working for me and I was thinking I'd..."), you don't tear through your minutes. Granted, you can't unlimitedly surf the net with those, but apparently you can't do that with AT&T's non-prepaid plans either. People need to unplug a little bit and this shit won't happen as much.
Bow-chicka-wow-wow.
Is it just me, or does this sound an awful lot like Phillips I2C bus?
This is a complete cycle that will never end. It's like saying "If game companies didn't have DRM I wouldn't pirate their shit." and the companies saying "If people didn't pirate our shit we wouldn't have DRM." Round and round, nothing solved.
It will take a developer or ten to stop with DRM to make people trust them and stop pirating. It will never completely vanish, and using DRM to try and stem the minor leak of piracy when dealing with a solid product and good distribution, will only cause problems instead of solving them. -R
Sony's Creative Software division(Formerly Sony Media Software, formerly Sonic Foundry) isn't nearly as evil as their main entity. I worked there for a time and in the non-corporate-megalopolis of Madison, WI it's mostly the same people who worked for the startup Sonic Foundry to create the original software and concepts, as well as a lot of the same code. They're honestly doing it for the product, and not just for the money. While it's easy for me to say their stuff is the best because I got it for free, I also paid for and used it long before I worked there - it was a motivating factor in going to work for them. -R
I suppose I can sue the cordless phone manufacturers who also produce phones using the 2.4GHz range for this then, right? Since they use the same frequency and power as a WiFi network? Or cell-phone companies, or pager companies, and the radio communications companies who provide service to the police, taxis, fire dept, etc? How about TV stations for the radiation their towers cause? Radio stations for the same? People like this are why our country is a laughingstock. Please go back to Uzbekistan or wherever the hell you came from, and return to your 'dead king inheritance' scam emails instead of trying to wipe out a useful technological institution like public WiFi.
I did something similar, since basic was the only language I knew at that time. It started off saying "Please enter the startup password:" There was, of course, no password. No matter what you typed it would start a sine sweep using the basic 'SOUND(x,x)' function(uses the 'beeper' in the computer - no speaker necessary), and would go for 5 minutes until going back to the password prompt. It sounded exactly like a cheesy police siren wail. I put this on several of my teachers' classroom computers in the startup items, set to go fullscreen with no window controls. The best part: It took several of them the good part of 6 hours to figure out that all you had to do to close it down was hit 'ESC', and I got to hear a nice little announcement about it the next day over the loudspeakers.
I'm confused at how there can even be two different speeds of laser light pulse. Isn't the speed of light a constant? I would love to know how they have different speeds of laser pulses in the first place to test this out.
No kidding. You'd think for $440+ Million they could afford to put a nice color camera on that thing...
I live in Madison. I bought my PC at CompUSA and it IS a Milwaukee PC computer. I got it on Manager's special for $499(Dual P4, 80GB HDD, 512mb RAM, cool custom case). I couldn't possibly complain about a deal like that, considering I got it in 2004, and it's the computer I'm writing from right now(though it has been upgraded beyond belief and the case has been heavily modified). Since then, I have gotten several other computers from Milwaukee PC directly. I don't know what bad experiences you've had, but I thoroughly enjoy their products. I am with you you though, NewEgg is about to get a whole lot more business. I can't wait for the closing sales though. It's my chance to make that USB Drive RAID array I've been wanting to try for really cheap. -R
Just release it to PC, over the internet, with no rating, and let gamers who know and fiends like us /.ers pick it up uber cheap because you didn't have to print a CD/DVD. Give Sony, Nintendo, The Senate, MPAA, and ESRB a big standing "Fuck You". I'm tired of this nazi country we live in and the only way we're going to get out from under the IndoRepubliDemofascists is to ignore them and do what we want(especially if it doesn't break any laws). Is it can be anarchy tiem now plees?