So SGI will add XFS to the Linux Kernel shortly, great, but what if some company steals stuff from the XFS technology by looking at the kernel source and integrates it into their product?
Then the world is a better place.
The free software movement was founded on the notion that sharing ideas and information -- amongst everyone is a Good Thing. The GPL is not designed to prevent people from learning something from the code. It's designed to do the opposite.
OK, so maybe the idea wasn't all that great, but look at what the guy did accomplish -- he managed to raise $700,000 from various sources to buy Pepsi points. This guy is every startup company's dream.
And what processor(s) on earth can possibly feed this monster enough data to use it to its full potential?
None. At least among the consumer CPUs that will be shipping for the next several years.
Which is why onboard geometry acceleration, a la NVidia's NV10, is going to become a requirement in fast accelerators. All the extra fill rate power is pretty useless if you're waiting for the CPU the whole time.
How can you get porn blocked from public labs where all screens are viewable to everyone?
The same way you get printed porn blocked in public labs where it's viewable by everyone: when they guy opens up his copy of Hustler Magazine in plain view, you say "Excuse me, but would you please wipe off your chair and take that home to read in privacy?"
Common decency is common decency. You can enforce it on a person-to-person basis, without resorting to strip-searching people when they enter a public area. What is so special about electronic media that we expect it to be regulated automatically?
- Hit them in their pocketbooks. " If movie chains are going to refuse admission to movies that contain explicit sexual imagery or profanity, MP3 them. Download the movies on ICQ or Hotline...
So, because the theatre won't let them in to see this great South Park movie, they should punish the creators of South Park financially. Am I missing something?
-- Adults: Fight Ticket Booth Tyranny. Observe Take A Geek Kid To A Restricted Movie Day this Labor Day. Find a smart 13-year-old who wants to see something off-limits and take him to a movie, or, once during that long weekend, go to a nearby movie theater and help kids trying to get in.
If you're got the time and energy fight for a "cause", then PLEASE use that valuable initiative to do something USEFUL, instead of annoying minimum-wage employees while they're working. Go volunteer at a shelter, pick up litter, anything.
This is the lamest rant I've ever seen. Did venting some frustration over silly policy at a theatre really require a two-part article on slashdot?
Why the prominent statement that they're also looking at nonusage? What the heck IS an analysis of internet and computer usage, if it's NOT a comparison between people who do and do not use them?
My take on large-prime encryption schemes has always been that even if the "useful" key sizes were to be rendered breakable by advances in hardware, the problem would be self-solving: this advanced new hardware would bump up the "useful" key size. (at the point 512 bit is breakable, you've got enough horsepower to make 4096 bit keys usable.) So at any given moment in time, personal computers are fast enough to encrypt stuff such that no existing computer can crack it in a "reasonable" time.
Does this theory apply here? Does this hardware push forward the "useful key size" by an amount proportional to it's codebreaking power?
It's music the government doesn't want you to hear.
I wonder why? Wouldn't we all benefit from listening to titles like Day of The Sword - White Supremacy, Johnny Rebel - Move Them Niggers North, or Norhat - Blood on my boots.
From the site: "When the user wears the glasses and turns the display on, an image of a video or computer screen appears at a distance of several feet. A focus adjustment allows the user to place the image at a comfortable distance."
It would have to be adjustable for any sort of 'augmented reality' usage, which is what they say they're targeting. Having the augmentation be out of focus with the reality would be pretty useless.
An optical sensor captures images of the work surface at a rate of 1,500 images per second, and a digital signal processor (DSP) translates changes between the images into on-screen movements.
Just don't use this mouse on top of any sensitive documents. This thing is scanning your surface the whole time and sending the composite image to Bill.
Ok, here's my idea for an MP3 extension, that I don't think anyone's gotten around to coding yet. There's one semi-related plugin for winamp, but it's not quite there.
First, maintain some timing information about all of your MP3s: beats per minute, and a 'reference beat' offset time that indicates a time offset from the start of the track that the first 'beat' occurs. Now, the beat through a track is not constant, so for beatmixing purposes we'll probably need two 'reference beats', one near the start and one near the end. No need to perform realtime waveform analysis to try to figure out the beat, we can precalculate it or set it manually once.
Next, plug all that info into a database. Point your MP3 player at the database.
Now, as we approach the end of a given track, we start playing another MP3 with a 'compatible' bpm (we can set some sort of difference threshhold), matching the reference beats. Then, just crossfade from one track to the next. We can 'crossfade' the playback speed of the two tracks to compensate for any discrepancy in the bpm, as well.
Viola! Perfect, automated beatmixing.
Of course, there's lots of opportunity to add manual control, the crossfade and track selection to start with. No need to make the DJs feel like they're out of a job.
Most people are clueless. Any successful world-domination plan has to include them.
What I see happening is a paradigm shifting to user-friendly applications that lose complexity and robustness in the same modification. A place where we remove some of the 'arcane' options of 'tar' so that the synopsis doesn't consume an entire page and scare off our lowly MacOS refugee.
That's a cop out. Is it impossible to design for both power and ease of use? It is possible to layer these things - the numerous "Control Panel" dotfile editors are a good example. You lose none of the power of a simple text file configuration system, but gain a nice point and click interface for the newbies. It's not necessary to gut functionality to make things easier to use.
mv does a cp;rm only if you're going from one filesystem to another. (and it won't do this for directories) On a single filesystem, mv simply manipulates directory entries, without touching the data.
I'd jump at the chance to live in the Star Trek universe, but you'd never catch me in a transporter. What people seem to ignore is that, to use a unix filesystem analogy, transportation is not a mv/ship/person/planet/person it's a cp/ship/person/planet/person; rm/ship/person!! The difference is crucial!
What transportation does is clone you on the planet's surface, then deletes the original! You die a horrible death of disintegration, but no one's the wiser, because your new copy is telling everyone how the transport went just fine!
It's a nice effect, and Futurama put it to good use, but it's not groundbreaking. The first time I saw it was in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. (No, not the completely CGI ballroom scene, it was used in a few places throughout the movie.) It's been a staple of pretty much every feature-length animated movie since.
Disney's new Tarzan adaptation looks like it's 100% CGI, rendered to appear like conventional 2D cell animation.
...you might care that WinAmp 2.10 has been released.
Jamie Zawinksi once said that "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail." I think this should now be upgraded to ""Every program attempts to expand until it can browse the web."
If they had ZIPs search... or JPG search it is legal... porn search would be legal kinda too.. warez no...
Why not? A 'warez' search is just a ZIP search after all. ZIPs are legal!
I wondered how long it would be before Lycos had legal trouble. Yes, there is a great deal of legal MP3 traffic, but let's not kid ourselves here: Lycos' MP3 search is designed to let people search for pirate MP3s. They know the amount of pirate MP3 activity on the net, and they want the pirate's eyeballs just as much as any other user.
This doesn't mean their actions are illegal; but I just get sick of seeing people argue that Lycos is performing a public service helping people find indie artists' legal MP3s. If you think they didn't have pirates in mind from the start, you're delusional.
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So SGI will add XFS to the Linux Kernel shortly, great, but what if some company steals stuff from the XFS technology by looking at the kernel source and integrates it into their product?
Then the world is a better place.
The free software movement was founded on the notion that sharing ideas and information -- amongst everyone is a Good Thing. The GPL is not designed to prevent people from learning something from the code. It's designed to do the opposite.
OK, so maybe the idea wasn't all that great, but look at what the guy did accomplish -- he managed to raise $700,000 from various sources to buy Pepsi points. This guy is every startup company's dream.
This thread is over. You lose.
And what processor(s) on earth can possibly feed this monster enough data to use it to its full potential?
None. At least among the consumer CPUs that will be shipping for the next several years.
Which is why onboard geometry acceleration, a la NVidia's NV10, is going to become a requirement in fast accelerators. All the extra fill rate power is pretty useless if you're waiting for the CPU the whole time.
How can you get porn blocked from public labs where all screens are viewable to everyone?
The same way you get printed porn blocked in public labs where it's viewable by everyone: when they guy opens up his copy of Hustler Magazine in plain view, you say "Excuse me, but would you please wipe off your chair and take that home to read in privacy?"
Common decency is common decency. You can enforce it on a person-to-person basis, without resorting to strip-searching people when they enter a public area. What is so special about electronic media that we expect it to be regulated automatically?
- Hit them in their pocketbooks. " If movie chains are going to refuse admission to movies that contain explicit sexual imagery or profanity, MP3 them. Download the movies on ICQ or Hotline...
So, because the theatre won't let them in to see this great South Park movie, they should punish the creators of South Park financially. Am I missing something?
-- Adults: Fight Ticket Booth Tyranny. Observe Take A Geek Kid To A Restricted Movie Day this Labor Day. Find a smart 13-year-old who wants to see something off-limits and take him to a movie, or, once during that long weekend, go to a nearby movie theater and help kids trying to get in.
If you're got the time and energy fight for a "cause", then PLEASE use that valuable initiative to do something USEFUL, instead of annoying minimum-wage employees while they're working. Go volunteer at a shelter, pick up litter, anything.
This is the lamest rant I've ever seen. Did venting some frustration over silly policy at a theatre really require a two-part article on slashdot?
Color (and sound!) support are not new to the palmtop realm, only to the Palm brand.
It's like viewing a 10 story screen from 150 feet away!
Why the prominent statement that they're also looking at nonusage? What the heck IS an analysis of internet and computer usage, if it's NOT a comparison between people who do and do not use them?
Because everybody knows how today's teens are into FISH!!
My take on large-prime encryption schemes has always been that even if the "useful" key sizes were to be rendered breakable by advances in hardware, the problem would be self-solving: this advanced new hardware would bump up the "useful" key size. (at the point 512 bit is breakable, you've got enough horsepower to make 4096 bit keys usable.) So at any given moment in time, personal computers are fast enough to encrypt stuff such that no existing computer can crack it in a "reasonable" time.
Does this theory apply here? Does this hardware push forward the "useful key size" by an amount proportional to it's codebreaking power?
It's music the government doesn't want you to hear.
I wonder why? Wouldn't we all benefit from listening to titles like Day of The Sword - White Supremacy, Johnny Rebel - Move Them Niggers North, or Norhat - Blood on my boots.
I can only imagine how lame this music is.
If you're one of the common right-handed, right-spacebar-thumbed people, you're gonna be hard pressed (ha-ha) when it comes time to type a space.
What is the sound of one thumb pressing itself?
From the site: "When the user wears the glasses and turns the display on, an image of a video or computer screen appears at a distance of several feet. A focus adjustment allows the user to place the image at a comfortable distance."
It would have to be adjustable for any sort of 'augmented reality' usage, which is what they say they're targeting. Having the augmentation be out of focus with the reality would be pretty useless.An optical sensor captures images of the work surface at a rate of 1,500 images per second, and a digital signal processor (DSP) translates changes between the images into on-screen movements.
Just don't use this mouse on top of any sensitive documents. This thing is scanning your surface the whole time and sending the composite image to Bill.
What a neat idea: a filter that turns any web page into a WIRED page layout!
Ok, here's my idea for an MP3 extension, that I don't think anyone's gotten around to coding yet. There's one semi-related plugin for winamp, but it's not quite there.
First, maintain some timing information about all of your MP3s: beats per minute, and a 'reference beat' offset time that indicates a time offset from the start of the track that the first 'beat' occurs. Now, the beat through a track is not constant, so for beatmixing purposes we'll probably need two 'reference beats', one near the start and one near the end. No need to perform realtime waveform analysis to try to figure out the beat, we can precalculate it or set it manually once.
Next, plug all that info into a database. Point your MP3 player at the database.
Now, as we approach the end of a given track, we start playing another MP3 with a 'compatible' bpm (we can set some sort of difference threshhold), matching the reference beats. Then, just crossfade from one track to the next. We can 'crossfade' the playback speed of the two tracks to compensate for any discrepancy in the bpm, as well.
Viola! Perfect, automated beatmixing.
Of course, there's lots of opportunity to add manual control, the crossfade and track selection to start with. No need to make the DJs feel like they're out of a job.
Most people are clueless. Any successful world-domination plan has to include them.
What I see happening is a paradigm shifting to user-friendly applications that lose complexity and robustness in the same modification. A place where we remove some of the 'arcane' options of 'tar' so that the synopsis doesn't consume an entire page and scare off our lowly MacOS refugee.
That's a cop out. Is it impossible to design for both power and ease of use? It is possible to layer these things - the numerous "Control Panel" dotfile editors are a good example. You lose none of the power of a simple text file configuration system, but gain a nice point and click interface for the newbies. It's not necessary to gut functionality to make things easier to use.
mv does a cp;rm only if you're going from one filesystem to another. (and it won't do this for directories) On a single filesystem, mv simply manipulates directory entries, without touching the data.
I'd jump at the chance to live in the Star Trek universe, but you'd never catch me in a transporter. What people seem to ignore is that, to use a unix filesystem analogy, transportation is not a /ship/person /planet/person /ship/person /planet/person; rm /ship/person!!
mv
it's a
cp
The difference is crucial!
What transportation does is clone you on the planet's surface, then deletes the original! You die a horrible death of disintegration, but no one's the wiser, because your new copy is telling everyone how the transport went just fine!
No mention that she is an alien.
Well, apart from that bit where she said "I'm an alien."
But I suppose that's subject to interpretation.
Disney's new Tarzan adaptation looks like it's 100% CGI, rendered to appear like conventional 2D cell animation.
broken sent us a link to the Pig Dance. Is anyone else really sick of these?
I'm sick of seeing them on slashdot, if that's what you mean.
Jamie Zawinksi once said that "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail." I think this should now be upgraded to ""Every program attempts to expand until it can browse the web."
If they had ZIPs search... or JPG search it is legal...
porn search would be legal kinda too..
warez no...
Why not? A 'warez' search is just a ZIP search after all. ZIPs are legal!
I wondered how long it would be before Lycos had legal trouble. Yes, there is a great deal of legal MP3 traffic, but let's not kid ourselves here: Lycos' MP3 search is designed to let people search for pirate MP3s. They know the amount of pirate MP3 activity on the net, and they want the pirate's eyeballs just as much as any other user.
This doesn't mean their actions are illegal; but I just get sick of seeing people argue that Lycos is performing a public service helping people find indie artists' legal MP3s. If you think they didn't have pirates in mind from the start, you're delusional.