Just a comment about how the current situation is, they're currently using embedded sensors in the road. How can you be so sure about the fact that these sensors may just as well register the license plate of your car? A small X10-cam sitting by the road and just grabbing images of licensing plates as they go by? Just set up a couple of these, and you have the same effect. The current solution could probably be tampered with just as much as this one - and I would probably say that the new solution is a lot better than the current one. If its there, use it! If you're moving around in public space, there's always a risk of getting registered and surveillanced, even if you take all possible measures. Get a non-registered phone or something.. after all, if you really were paranoid, you wouldnt move in public spaces or carry a cell phone.
The biggest problem with steel pads (as I have had one quite close to me for some time) is that it makes an AWFUL loud noise every time you get so pissed of in a game of quake or cs and you throw your mouse at it. It stays in your ear for quite some time:(
btw, go for the func 1030 instead. better mousepad:)
The demoscene is first of all about having fun, then about doing things that are impressing. If you're not having any fun while doing it, then its probably not the right thing to do:)
Most textmode-intros these days are productions that are made just for that, fun.
While AAlib is a very nice and cool thing, i'm not quite fond of it being used.. it kinda destroys the point of coding in text-mode (at least thats the way i feel).. and it makes it (of course) feel aalibbish:).. theres a whole bunch of neat tricks one can do in standard textmode (i remember someone changing the font to something self-defined (which then were modified like regular graphics).. kinda took away the charm, however)
Re:Call me stupid but ...
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A text mode demo compo is a competition where people submit oldskool "demos" (ever heard of a thing called the 'demoscene'?).. These are usually 3d rendered in software, raytracers, plasmas, cool 2d-effects.. simply doing something that looks good and make you think "how did they do that?" (like the first time someone draw something on the borders on the c64)..
http://www.pouet.net/ and http://www.ojuice.net/ for further reference.
Examples of text-mode demos
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A few references for everyone wishing to see something created earlier or just for inspiration:
Civil disobedience also means that you are willing to accept the consequences of your illegal or potentially illegal activities. Would I be willing to get a fine or go to the bad place for playing a DVD on Linux - hell no. Not that I would get caught anyways.
Actually, I wouldn't really mind getting fined or going to prison for something like this. This is a case where I simply believe in something I do and no-one should be able to threaten me to believe or behave otherwise. This is a question about who should have the control - the people or the conglomorates (or how you write that word in english). Actually, I do hope someone get fined or imprisoned for such a thing, that would probably wake the rest of our "oh well, it doesn't have anything to do with me" oriented society.
And in addition, I'm quite happy I don't live in the US when it comes to this matter, I might have been more afraid of imprisonment / fines if I had.
Ok, for the end-user it looks modified, but please remember that the end-user him/herself has chosen to read pages through entangle.. hopefully they'll be aware of their own actions and realizing that they're reading pages through entangle.
I believe we'll probably see quite a few entangle communities on the net, where you probably just start your own entangle community with your friends or your co-workers.
.. and its not the browser who modifies the content, its the proxy.. i'm not sure if the proxy uses any special headers, but if it does, you may block your site for non-modified entangles.. But then again, why would you do that? It would only limit the audience and the usability of your own page.
Heh. I bought an ATI Radeon 9700 (woha, 8x!!) and an SiS 648-based motherboard (Asus P4S8X) which actually is able to do AGP 8x.. The result? The bios / motherboard refuses to even POST (like, before getting the display).. not even a sound. Remove the 8x-card and insert a 4x-card.. and voilà, it works. Put the 8x-card in a 4x motherboard, voilà, it works. Currently its just to quirky anyways for any practical use (bad specs? bad implementation?)..
oh, new motherboard arriving in a few hours.. *grin*
Hey, be careful about those headlines, i bet suddenly a couple of thousands geeks thought that slashdot had been cracked again.:-).. better submit the story before anyone else does!
.. In case you didnt read it, the date on the article says 'Friday March 15, 2002'.. And as someone else mentioned, penny arcade is doing a comic today about the report of someone getting in queue for Turok 50 days in advance.. read it here..
I also think i saw this news-thingy here on slashdot earlier (about the gravestones).
The merchandise-idea is neat, but it causes a new problem; If you're going to be selling stuff, you'll probably end up having to register a company, registering for taxes, paying taxes (hopefully, if you sell anything;).. and thats a lot more work than just a simple donation by an amazon wishlist (more of a grey thing).. at least thats how i think it would be interpreted here in norway.
After all, QT is a metaformat.. which isnt actually doing any compression or anything, but rather specifying which codecs to use. the biggest problem with getting an open source version that handles all QT-files nicely, is the patents and licensing on central codecs (especially the Sorenson Video codec).. more info can be found at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/specifications.html .
While 'bloated' with the explorer-name, i really enjoy the feel of the mouse.. it fits nicely in my palm and the 3.0-version has better update (which was a small problem with the first version, at least when doing fps-gaming and you suddenly wanted to turn all the way around)..
The 3.0 is also a bit "lower" than the previous version (1.0) and looks more logitechish.. i'd recommend it for anyone looking for a good, optical mouse.. the only problem is that they've moved the 'next/prev' buttons since 1.0, so i press them accidently from time to time..
and.. it doesnt bluescreen. there's a red flare, however.
I'd have to say that i like your translations, hopefully i'll not destroy too much here:
"prøveklut" - precedent.. yeah.. something that you "try" your theory on.
"Åndsverkloven" - simply the legal rights of copyright. "Åndsverk" may be explained by "something created by a person / company".. like music, art, programs and alike.
"erverv" - while you probably could 'erver' a moped (i'd go brumbrombrombrombromvroooooooooom), it would mean "getting hold of" or more correctly, "acquisition".
The vg.no article earlier mentioned has a quote from one of the people working in the norwegian cs community;
"DVD-Jon won his case in the USA, so its kind of strange that they're starting this here in Norway now. It may be because they want to `put him out there` to scare other people off."
In another article at dagbladet.no there's a quote from "Økokrim" (which is handling the prosecution).
"We want a conviction / judgement"
which may indicate what someone else hinted; that they want a clearification of the law. To quote the indictment (if i got that one right.:); he being prosecuted:
"for breaking a protection or in other ways unauthorized gaining access to data / information stored or transmitted with electronic or other technical means and for having caused damage by acquisition or by use of such unwarranted knowledge."
I'd think to get an conviction in this case, they'll have to prove the fact that he produced (as he said it himself) the GUI for the program - and that this in fact has caused a loss for the movie-industry.
There's a also a quote in the same article from "Jon Bing", which is one of the better known sci-fi writers (well, we really dont have that many) and computer-philosophers in Norway, where he's wondering if they really have anything to convict Jon by. We'll see.
As others also has pointed out, the norwegian "Økokrim" has had several examples of bad judgement the last week, especially the part of making anonymous email illegal, since they discovered that childpr0nrings has been using this as an method. [irony] I'd also suggest making photographic film illegal, since this is what makes it possible. In addition i'd render all sorts of digital cameras unlawful.. and you'd probably get 10-15 years in prison for owning a handycam or DV-cam.[/irony]
Hopefully they'll come to common sense and "discover" that he's not guilty. At least not according to the law he's being charged with.
This is currently taking place in Norway too.. where someone in the government is trying to get a full ban on Grand Theft Auto 3. This has led to every store in Norway being sold out of GTA3, which probably is more than rockstar games ever hoped for:-)
groups will end up doing the releasing, like in the warez scene
.. they already do. check EGO, APC and so on. This will however -probably- boost the popularity of such groups, since your average John Doe will have to download the mp3s instead of converting them himself.
I just want to congratulate you.. you're now officially commented in a Norwegian Newspaper (probably just on the web, but anyways).. its the largest newspaper in norway (when counting readers, both online and offline)..
Enjoy your nick, otherwise surrounded by norwegian text (and yes, they translated your post): here..
Eyh! Stop showing links to me! Thats not my policy. Go away. I'm gonna send a request to all of you demanding that you remove the links whenever they appear over my internet connection. While links earlier was something useful on the net, it's well-known as the "one thing that always leads to porn, as long as you click enough of them".
I'm not sure if thats a problem. I may for some strange reason end up surfing pr0n.
hmm. better keep those links coming.
More about The Gathering
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this picture kinda shows what The Gathering is all about.. It started out as demoparty in '92 and is still running hot. These days all 5k of tickets gets sold out in ~24-48 hours, so there's apparently a huge market for lanparties here in norway, sweden and other close countries:)
Some people has been complaining about "the stench has to be awful".. well, guess what, since this isnt your average lanparty where people are staying in small, overheated rooms (like most "hey, lets gather over at our house"-lanparties), it works out quite nicely. Most people also shower daily (guess some of you havent heard about that.;))..
Ok, for those of you that are complaing about things getting too anonymous.. well, it sorta could be. But that would be boring, wouldnt it? What you usually do is that you go to the party together with your demogroup, your clan or your friends, whatever suits your need. You sit together with the people you already know (5-10-50-100) - and guess what, just on the row behind you, someone you know from IRC is sitting.. and you're meeting them for the first time ever!.. and then, suddenly, the coder of that *awesome* demo just suddenly pops by your row to say 'hi'.. you kinda have to be there to get the spirit:)
DreamHack looks really nice this year, hopefully there'll be a few good contributions to the democompos and we'll see some nice showdowns in counter-strike and Q3..
Well; no offence to the MySQL *or* the PostgreSQL-crew; but MSSQL is in fact (although most people doesnt want to admit it) a fairly nice DB-package. It has a far better implentation of SQL than MySQL (subqueries, stored procedures,.. ), so i wouldn't blame anyone for going for MSSQL instead of MySQL.
.. and i can't excactly see how this would help mysql and postgressql, the last time i installed MySQL it would install without a password for the root-account too.. and belive me, there are fairly many of these installs around too.. perhaps running as root.. there are more than enough of incompetent people on both sides:)
As probably someone has pointed out already, the GBA is based around a ARM 7/Thumb architecture. This made it a lot easier to implement an emulator than most other gamesystems, since the chip is well-documented and the support fram ARM is very good. The chip has also been used in numerous other devices earlier, so most people are already familiar with writing assembly for the processor. The remaining part was mostly just to integrate an emulator for a well-known language with a well-known language, so therefor the progress in the developement has been far better than for most early emulators on gamesystems. You don't have to spend a couple of weeks just trying to figure out of the different stuff works. When you look at the emulators, you'll probably notice that most of the lacks sound-support. The sound-module is (afaik) more custom-designed and not well-specified, but this is probably one of the areas where things are going to get better during the next months. Its nice to see some homebrew stuff instead of the commercial dev-kits. Since the architecture is also well-known, it has been a lot easier to develope homemade applications for the architecture.
Nintendo has in fact gone for a well-known architecture thats heavily documented and which there resides many good applications for allready.
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Just a comment about how the current situation is, they're currently using embedded sensors in the road. How can you be so sure about the fact that these sensors may just as well register the license plate of your car? A small X10-cam sitting by the road and just grabbing images of licensing plates as they go by? Just set up a couple of these, and you have the same effect. The current solution could probably be tampered with just as much as this one - and I would probably say that the new solution is a lot better than the current one. If its there, use it! If you're moving around in public space, there's always a risk of getting registered and surveillanced, even if you take all possible measures. Get a non-registered phone or something .. after all, if you really were paranoid, you wouldnt move in public spaces or carry a cell phone.
the article is gone. removed from the site. move along for more interesting news at theonion.com!
The biggest problem with steel pads (as I have had one quite close to me for some time) is that it makes an AWFUL loud noise every time you get so pissed of in a game of quake or cs and you throw your mouse at it. It stays in your ear for quite some time :(
:)
btw, go for the func 1030 instead. better mousepad
I found a screenshot from the DivX-version that floated around on the web earlier and uploaded it, just so people can see for themselves:
:p)
the 'original' version... the title says that its a DVD-RIP, but it might be from another batch or another manufacturer.
(if not, its just divx screewing with the colors
The demoscene is first of all about having fun, then about doing things that are impressing. If you're not having any fun while doing it, then its probably not the right thing to do :)
Most textmode-intros these days are productions that are made just for that, fun.
While AAlib is a very nice and cool thing, i'm not quite fond of it being used .. it kinda destroys the point of coding in text-mode (at least thats the way i feel) .. and it makes it (of course) feel aalibbish :) .. theres a whole bunch of neat tricks one can do in standard textmode (i remember someone changing the font to something self-defined (which then were modified like regular graphics) .. kinda took away the charm, however)
A text mode demo compo is a competition where people submit oldskool "demos" (ever heard of a thing called the 'demoscene'?) .. These are usually 3d rendered in software, raytracers, plasmas, cool 2d-effects .. simply doing something that looks good and make you think "how did they do that?" (like the first time someone draw something on the borders on the c64)..
http://www.pouet.net/ and http://www.ojuice.net/ for further reference.
A few references for everyone wishing to see something created earlier or just for inspiration:
(mostly win32, sorry)
on pouet.net
<shameless plug>
kvasigen.demoscene.no (80x25, Hangover in Halden, Textmode 3)
</shameless plug>
Actually, I wouldn't really mind getting fined or going to prison for something like this. This is a case where I simply believe in something I do and no-one should be able to threaten me to believe or behave otherwise. This is a question about who should have the control - the people or the conglomorates (or how you write that word in english). Actually, I do hope someone get fined or imprisoned for such a thing, that would probably wake the rest of our "oh well, it doesn't have anything to do with me" oriented society.
And in addition, I'm quite happy I don't live in the US when it comes to this matter, I might have been more afraid of imprisonment / fines if I had.
Ok, for the end-user it looks modified, but please remember that the end-user him/herself has chosen to read pages through entangle .. hopefully they'll be aware of their own actions and realizing that they're reading pages through entangle.
.. and its not the browser who modifies the content, its the proxy .. i'm not sure if the proxy uses any special headers, but if it does, you may block your site for non-modified entangles .. But then again, why would you do that? It would only limit the audience and the usability of your own page.
I believe we'll probably see quite a few entangle communities on the net, where you probably just start your own entangle community with your friends or your co-workers.
Heh. I bought an ATI Radeon 9700 (woha, 8x!!) and an SiS 648-based motherboard (Asus P4S8X) which actually is able to do AGP 8x .. The result? The bios / motherboard refuses to even POST (like, before getting the display) .. not even a sound. Remove the 8x-card and insert a 4x-card.. and voilà, it works. Put the 8x-card in a 4x motherboard, voilà, it works. Currently its just to quirky anyways for any practical use (bad specs? bad implementation?) ..
.. *grin*
oh, new motherboard arriving in a few hours
Hey, be careful about those headlines, i bet suddenly a couple of thousands geeks thought that slashdot had been cracked again. :-) .. better submit the story before anyone else does!
.. In case you didnt read it, the date on the article says 'Friday March 15, 2002' .. And as someone else mentioned, penny arcade is doing a comic today about the report of someone getting in queue for Turok 50 days in advance.. read it here ..
I also think i saw this news-thingy here on slashdot earlier (about the gravestones).
The merchandise-idea is neat, but it causes a new problem; If you're going to be selling stuff, you'll probably end up having to register a company, registering for taxes, paying taxes (hopefully, if you sell anything ;) .. and thats a lot more work than just a simple donation by an amazon wishlist (more of a grey thing) .. at least thats how i think it would be interpreted here in norway.
After all, QT is a metaformat .. which isnt actually doing any compression or anything, but rather specifying which codecs to use. the biggest problem with getting an open source version that handles all QT-files nicely, is the patents and licensing on central codecs (especially the Sorenson Video codec).. more info can be found at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/specifications.html .
While 'bloated' with the explorer-name, i really enjoy the feel of the mouse .. it fits nicely in my palm and the 3.0-version has better update (which was a small problem with the first version, at least when doing fps-gaming and you suddenly wanted to turn all the way around) ..
.. i'd recommend it for anyone looking for a good, optical mouse.. the only problem is that they've moved the 'next/prev' buttons since 1.0, so i press them accidently from time to time ..
.. it doesnt bluescreen. there's a red flare, however.
The 3.0 is also a bit "lower" than the previous version (1.0) and looks more logitechish
and
I'd have to say that i like your translations, hopefully i'll not destroy too much here:
.. yeah .. something that you "try" your theory on.
.. like music, art, programs and alike.
"prøveklut" - precedent
"Åndsverkloven" - simply the legal rights of copyright. "Åndsverk" may be explained by "something created by a person / company"
"erverv" - while you probably could 'erver' a moped (i'd go brumbrombrombrombromvroooooooooom), it would mean "getting hold of" or more correctly, "acquisition".
In another article at dagbladet.no there's a quote from "Økokrim" (which is handling the prosecution).
which may indicate what someone else hinted; that they want a clearification of the law. To quote the indictment (if i got that one right.
I'd think to get an conviction in this case, they'll have to prove the fact that he produced (as he said it himself) the GUI for the program - and that this in fact has caused a loss for the movie-industry.
There's a also a quote in the same article from "Jon Bing", which is one of the better known sci-fi writers (well, we really dont have that many) and computer-philosophers in Norway, where he's wondering if they really have anything to convict Jon by. We'll see.
As others also has pointed out, the norwegian "Økokrim" has had several examples of bad judgement the last week, especially the part of making anonymous email illegal, since they discovered that childpr0nrings has been using this as an method. [irony] I'd also suggest making photographic film illegal, since this is what makes it possible. In addition i'd render all sorts of digital cameras unlawful
Hopefully they'll come to common sense and "discover" that he's not guilty. At least not according to the law he's being charged with.
This is currently taking place in Norway too .. where someone in the government is trying to get a full ban on Grand Theft Auto 3. This has led to every store in Norway being sold out of GTA3, which probably is more than rockstar games ever hoped for :-)
.. they already do. check EGO, APC and so on. This will however -probably- boost the popularity of such groups, since your average John Doe will have to download the mp3s instead of converting them himself.
I just want to congratulate you .. you're now officially commented in a Norwegian Newspaper (probably just on the web, but anyways) .. its the largest newspaper in norway (when counting readers, both online and offline) ..
:-)
Enjoy your nick, otherwise surrounded by norwegian text (and yes, they translated your post): here..
Congrats
Eyh! Stop showing links to me! Thats not my policy. Go away. I'm gonna send a request to all of you demanding that you remove the links whenever they appear over my internet connection. While links earlier was something useful on the net, it's well-known as the "one thing that always leads to porn, as long as you click enough of them".
I'm not sure if thats a problem. I may for some strange reason end up surfing pr0n.
hmm. better keep those links coming.
this picture kinda shows what The Gathering is all about .. It started out as demoparty in '92 and is still running hot. These days all 5k of tickets gets sold out in ~24-48 hours, so there's apparently a huge market for lanparties here in norway, sweden and other close countries :)
.. well, guess what, since this isnt your average lanparty where people are staying in small, overheated rooms (like most "hey, lets gather over at our house"-lanparties), it works out quite nicely. Most people also shower daily (guess some of you havent heard about that. ;))..
.. well, it sorta could be. But that would be boring, wouldnt it? What you usually do is that you go to the party together with your demogroup, your clan or your friends, whatever suits your need. You sit together with the people you already know (5-10-50-100) - and guess what, just on the row behind you, someone you know from IRC is sitting .. and you're meeting them for the first time ever! .. and then, suddenly, the coder of that *awesome* demo just suddenly pops by your row to say 'hi' .. you kinda have to be there to get the spirit :)
..
Some people has been complaining about "the stench has to be awful"
Ok, for those of you that are complaing about things getting too anonymous
DreamHack looks really nice this year, hopefully there'll be a few good contributions to the democompos and we'll see some nice showdowns in counter-strike and Q3
.. and to end it all up; go there!
Well; no offence to the MySQL *or* the PostgreSQL-crew; but MSSQL is in fact (although most people doesnt want to admit it) a fairly nice DB-package. It has a far better implentation of SQL than MySQL (subqueries, stored procedures, .. ), so i wouldn't blame anyone for going for MSSQL instead of MySQL.
.. and belive me, there are fairly many of these installs around too.. perhaps running as root .. there are more than enough of incompetent people on both sides :)
.. and i can't excactly see how this would help mysql and postgressql, the last time i installed MySQL it would install without a password for the root-account too
As probably someone has pointed out already, the GBA is based around a ARM 7/Thumb architecture. This made it a lot easier to implement an emulator than most other gamesystems, since the chip is well-documented and the support fram ARM is very good. The chip has also been used in numerous other devices earlier, so most people are already familiar with writing assembly for the processor. The remaining part was mostly just to integrate an emulator for a well-known language with a well-known language, so therefor the progress in the developement has been far better than for most early emulators on gamesystems. You don't have to spend a couple of weeks just trying to figure out of the different stuff works. When you look at the emulators, you'll probably notice that most of the lacks sound-support. The sound-module is (afaik) more custom-designed and not well-specified, but this is probably one of the areas where things are going to get better during the next months. Its nice to see some homebrew stuff instead of the commercial dev-kits. Since the architecture is also well-known, it has been a lot easier to develope homemade applications for the architecture.
Nintendo has in fact gone for a well-known architecture thats heavily documented and which there resides many good applications for allready.