That's exaclty what I was about to post, but I also wondered if anybody knew - can they even legally take the device? do you have to reveal where it is hidden?
well, I couldn't find a mirror and the site is still very much down, so I sought a google-cache... only to find that google does not appear to have it indexed. I did find this rather similar article on ZDNet Interactive Week which is either a free magazine or somebody screwed up because I have not paid for my unsolicited subscription...
here's the search I used to find it (like you care).
rather a bold statement. it is nice, however, to see that there is advancement for... less common devices.
nice swiss army knife on the front page though; not very representative of the project's goal; "The Funcionally-Overloaded Linux Kernel" seems to be represented by a tool with a poking attachment and a bottle-opener that is too round to work.
not that I mean to totally trash it, I'm just trashing the title of this/. article; I've got a stick of bad memory that's good for the first half of its 64mb, and hopefully I can now use it again!
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very informative. thank you.
my experience was 1-3 months ago with the ogg team decoder on what was then the most recent winamp. my performance was actually an under-exaggeration, for mp3s usually take 0-1% while oggs take 3-6% CPU. your argument has convinced me to take another look the next time any ogg announcement graces/. (whereas I was otherwise waiting for a major announcement).
I hope you read the paragraph after the one you quoted. to counter your example, I pay for slashdot; I buy items at ThinkGeek. I don't buy cds because they/don't/ give much if any money to the artists who create them (see RMS speak on this subject); instead I attend concerts and buy t-shirts and cds there, so that the artists get the retailer share and any small royalties. I occasionally click ads on websites I wish to support (and sometimes even buy items, if I'm sure the click was tracked and I have interest in the merchandise).
just because/some/ dotcoms and startups went under doesn't mean that on the web, people aren't paying for anything.
here's the graphical description....basically, this just slaps a few machines together and automates a bit, but this kind of 'new' technology existed in my/high school/ six years ago and wasn't new then (actually, it was rather old). at $30k for the machine, you can expect to pay a bit more than the actual production of your book.
and this machine prints ONE book at a time, making it useless for anything other than personal books (so your school is still better off with a publisher or in-house method to produce your yearbooks). I'd expect a four hundred page book to cost you roughly $25-$40... hardly worth it. (math done: 3-5 cents a page, $5-10 for other materials like binding, $5-10 surcharge.)
BEFORE you look at players, perhaps we should examine the quality of... the entire project with all its components?
I would use Ogg Vorbis if it were equivalent to lame in quality. Sad fact is that it isn't. It's getting closer, but not quite there yet. Sure, it's a better format, more free and useable, but I care about quality. I'm not comparing it to mp3 as a whole; it's better than most mp3 encoders. Lame still whoops ogg though. While the lame team is actually working on ogg (I believe that they're actually just supporting one guy who may have given up trying), Ogg encoders and decoders still have quite a way to go in order to be fully competitive with lame.... and on the subject of decoding, WinAMP (with the ogg playback plugin) takes two to four times as much of the CPU (on my Win2k box) with ogg files as compared to mp3 files.
The Ogg team has the right ideas and plays them well, and I'd encourage others to use the format, but when I rip and encode music, it will be with the latest Lame. I try the new Ogg Vorbis on occaision, but I'll probably wait for a front page Slashdot article to claim it is equal or better than Lame (which I believe WILL happen) before my next return to Ogg experimentation.
The parent post is the first post to mention Anonymity. This is the key. In addition, I have no intention to pay $0.076 an article; they add up! I read gobs of stuff all over the internet; like many/.ers, it's a large chunk of what I do. this would add up; say I read twentyfive articles a day. that's $1.90 a day, say five days a week, times four weeks in a month - that's $38.00 a month; nearly TWICE what most users already pay. Are YOU ready to spend $58+/month for the internet AND be tracked everywhere you go? I'm not! (for less active readers, here's the math at a mere five articles a workday: $7.60/mo)... the library doesn't charge for each book you read there...
Perhaps if we had free (high-speed) internet access I'd pay a few cents per article (it would cost me about the same)... but not 7.6 cents. The theory of micropayemnts is that they don't add up. If I'm charged by the article, it had better be under a half-penny.
ok, so the GPL is viral. so release your code with its own licence that is just a copy of the gpl and indicates updates to the gpl also effect this new licence.
"'I don't want to have to remember 18 different passwords.' You don't Genuis, give the same password if you must, but make them tough."
my general password is some really cryptic (l33t) phrase. that's my password for everything not linked to $$$. my trick is that I add a hash of the site I'm at (using a common scheme) to make the password unique. I've got something hard to crack, unique per site, and if somebody gets ahold of one password, they have no others. my scheme is complex enough that they shouldn't find it even with three or four passwords (or so I'd like to think).
"Despite the plentiful extra space inside the cube, the unit is powered by a rather large external wall-mount power supply." (Quote from this page, in the middle above the larger image.)
So much for a 2.2 x 2.4 inch CerfBoard in a 3x3x3 inch box! Anybody know how big the power supply is? They imply it's huge by not mentioning anything about it's size other than what I quoted above.
Hey, James! I'd like to see your documentary in ONE file (preferably DiVX;-)) but I don't care, as long as it's ONE file and not realmedia or ASX. thanks!
to those who wish to download it, James's site is not hosting it due to/. effect, get it at the bottom this mirror page (in the miscellaneous section).
I run everything through a dedicated linux router/firewall/server. it will not be upgraded. when it dies, it will be replaced by... the same thing. Since all my other connections would have to go through it, I can cut off the phone-home on ANY application, firmware or not.
oh, you mean the stuff about bunnies? (right after Zoot mentions knitting exciting underwear and in similar scenes with her in Anthrax)
that's in the director's cut....and should NOT be part of the extra 24seconds. hopefully that will be on the DVD's cut scenes; it's too silly to be funny in the same nature as the rest of the film, even given the film's zaniness.
no.
You are stupid. Your grammar (or your french impersonation) sucks.
Demonstrating knowledge of the movie in such a manner is not funny (except the allyourgrail line).
Perhaps if your lines actually sounded like the came from the movie rather than some offlander's partial recollection, I'd have laughed. I guess that just goes to show that posting as fast as possible has its downsides (preview? what does that mean?).
You don't frighten me, anonymous pig-dog!
this should be Score: 3, Funny. not FIVE....and from zero! I feel violated.
there are some amongst us (myself not usually included) that believe that. your argument is that the statement 'everybody is educated and active in politics and community' will never happen (and doesn't currently exist). i partially agree.
oh, sure. use a scare tactic. that's definately NOT the approach I would use.
instead, since you raise your children with good morals and ethics (right?), show your children a site that is completely wrong/unjust/evil/vile/etc. teach them why. educate them on why certain things are not right.
I work under the philosophy that children shouldn't be shielded from these atrocities (though I'm not saying the opposite). they should be taught about them and why they're wrong so that they can _voluntarily_ choose not to witness or seek these things.
parents CAN'T always be there to shield their childrens' eyes. at some point, children will bear witness to something disgusting, to vile materials of some nature. why not coach them and make sure that they handle the situation appropriately, with or without a parent to hold their hands?
a society like our own (representative democracy) cannot function unless everybody is educated and active in politics and community.
while this is bad for privacy, it's great for killing ads! just connect your cablebox to the internet and have a program hash each frame. it compares these hashes to other people tuned into that channel and... knowing that there's a commercial on, it mutes the screen. maybe it also hits the 'last channel' feature for you. maybe you'll set it to jump back to your favorite show once it returns from a commercial break. (maybe this has already been done?)
aren't all of those already on the market? I've held crouching tiger in my hands. amazon is shipping both crouching tiger and close encounters. I have a friend with a kubrick collection; they're just rereleasing it. and if the release date is june 12, that's in three days (one business day); there isn't enough time to slap that in unless it's already been done.
Slashdot Mirror
That's exaclty what I was about to post, but I also wondered if anybody knew - can they even legally take the device? do you have to reveal where it is hidden?
this is not about a civilization.
the phrase "lost city" seems more interesting than this oceanographic discovery of the decade.
well, I couldn't find a mirror and the site is still very much down, so I sought a google-cache ... only to find that google does not appear to have it indexed. I did find this rather similar article on ZDNet Interactive Week which is either a free magazine or somebody screwed up because I have not paid for my unsolicited subscription...
here's the search I used to find it (like you care).
"The Funcionally-Overloaded Linux Kernel" seems to be represented by a tool with a poking attachment and a bottle-opener that is too round to work.
I would like to point to jd's quote from the article, "(* Stability not included.)"
rather a bold statement. it is nice, however, to see that there is advancement for ... less common devices.
/. article; I've got a stick of bad memory that's good for the first half of its 64mb, and hopefully I can now use it again!
nice swiss army knife on the front page though; not very representative of the project's goal; "The Funcionally-Overloaded Linux Kernel" seems to be represented by a tool with a poking attachment and a bottle-opener that is too round to work.
not that I mean to totally trash it, I'm just trashing the title of this
very informative. thank you. /. (whereas I was otherwise waiting for a major announcement).
my experience was 1-3 months ago with the ogg team decoder on what was then the most recent winamp. my performance was actually an under-exaggeration, for mp3s usually take 0-1% while oggs take 3-6% CPU. your argument has convinced me to take another look the next time any ogg announcement graces
On the web, people aren't paying for anything
/don't/ give much if any money to the artists who create them (see RMS speak on this subject); instead I attend concerts and buy t-shirts and cds there, so that the artists get the retailer share and any small royalties. I occasionally click ads on websites I wish to support (and sometimes even buy items, if I'm sure the click was tracked and I have interest in the merchandise).
/some/ dotcoms and startups went under doesn't mean that on the web, people aren't paying for anything.
I hope you read the paragraph after the one you quoted. to counter your example, I pay for slashdot; I buy items at ThinkGeek. I don't buy cds because they
just because
here's the graphical description. ...basically, this just slaps a few machines together and automates a bit, but this kind of 'new' technology existed in my /high school/ six years ago and wasn't new then (actually, it was rather old). at $30k for the machine, you can expect to pay a bit more than the actual production of your book.
... hardly worth it. (math done: 3-5 cents a page, $5-10 for other materials like binding, $5-10 surcharge.)
and this machine prints ONE book at a time, making it useless for anything other than personal books (so your school is still better off with a publisher or in-house method to produce your yearbooks). I'd expect a four hundred page book to cost you roughly $25-$40
BEFORE you look at players, perhaps we should examine the quality of ... the entire project with all its components?
... and on the subject of decoding, WinAMP (with the ogg playback plugin) takes two to four times as much of the CPU (on my Win2k box) with ogg files as compared to mp3 files.
I would use Ogg Vorbis if it were equivalent to lame in quality. Sad fact is that it isn't. It's getting closer, but not quite there yet. Sure, it's a better format, more free and useable, but I care about quality. I'm not comparing it to mp3 as a whole; it's better than most mp3 encoders. Lame still whoops ogg though. While the lame team is actually working on ogg (I believe that they're actually just supporting one guy who may have given up trying), Ogg encoders and decoders still have quite a way to go in order to be fully competitive with lame.
The Ogg team has the right ideas and plays them well, and I'd encourage others to use the format, but when I rip and encode music, it will be with the latest Lame. I try the new Ogg Vorbis on occaision, but I'll probably wait for a front page Slashdot article to claim it is equal or better than Lame (which I believe WILL happen) before my next return to Ogg experimentation.
The parent post is the first post to mention Anonymity. This is the key. In addition, I have no intention to pay $0.076 an article; they add up! I read gobs of stuff all over the internet; like many /.ers, it's a large chunk of what I do. this would add up; say I read twentyfive articles a day. that's $1.90 a day, say five days a week, times four weeks in a month - that's $38.00 a month; nearly TWICE what most users already pay. Are YOU ready to spend $58+/month for the internet AND be tracked everywhere you go? I'm not! (for less active readers, here's the math at a mere five articles a workday: $7.60/mo) ... the library doesn't charge for each book you read there...
... but not 7.6 cents. The theory of micropayemnts is that they don't add up. If I'm charged by the article, it had better be under a half-penny.
Perhaps if we had free (high-speed) internet access I'd pay a few cents per article (it would cost me about the same)
(just my $0.002)
ok, so the GPL is viral. so release your code with its own licence that is just a copy of the gpl and indicates updates to the gpl also effect this new licence.
"'I don't want to have to remember 18 different passwords.' You don't Genuis, give the same password if you must, but make them tough."
my general password is some really cryptic (l33t) phrase. that's my password for everything not linked to $$$. my trick is that I add a hash of the site I'm at (using a common scheme) to make the password unique. I've got something hard to crack, unique per site, and if somebody gets ahold of one password, they have no others. my scheme is complex enough that they shouldn't find it even with three or four passwords (or so I'd like to think).
"Despite the plentiful extra space inside the cube, the unit is powered by a rather large external wall-mount power supply." (Quote from this page, in the middle above the larger image.)
So much for a 2.2 x 2.4 inch CerfBoard in a 3x3x3 inch box! Anybody know how big the power supply is? They imply it's huge by not mentioning anything about it's size other than what I quoted above.
Hey, James! I'd like to see your documentary in ONE file (preferably DiVX;-)) but I don't care, as long as it's ONE file and not realmedia or ASX. thanks!
/. effect, get it at the bottom this mirror page (in the miscellaneous section).
to those who wish to download it, James's site is not hosting it due to
I run everything through a dedicated linux router/firewall/server. it will not be upgraded. when it dies, it will be replaced by ... the same thing. Since all my other connections would have to go through it, I can cut off the phone-home on ANY application, firmware or not.
Hey, Northeastern didn't claim Napster when Shawn Fanning coded it there; he even got help from professors.
Oh my god, I killed Kenny!
Your kung-foo no good!
I fart in your general direction
Paper or plastic?
these have not been submitted; feel free!
oh, you mean the stuff about bunnies? (right after Zoot mentions knitting exciting underwear and in similar scenes with her in Anthrax)
...and should NOT be part of the extra 24seconds. hopefully that will be on the DVD's cut scenes; it's too silly to be funny in the same nature as the rest of the film, even given the film's zaniness.
that's in the director's cut.
no.
...and from zero! I feel violated.
You are stupid. Your grammar (or your french impersonation) sucks.
Demonstrating knowledge of the movie in such a manner is not funny (except the allyourgrail line).
Perhaps if your lines actually sounded like the came from the movie rather than some offlander's partial recollection, I'd have laughed. I guess that just goes to show that posting as fast as possible has its downsides (preview? what does that mean?).
You don't frighten me, anonymous pig-dog!
this should be Score: 3, Funny. not FIVE.
there are some amongst us (myself not usually included) that believe that. your argument is that the statement 'everybody is educated and active in politics and community' will never happen (and doesn't currently exist). i partially agree.
ok. so i emphasized a misspelled word.
one more thing: IANAP (I am not a parent) and I abstained from the related poll.
oh, sure. use a scare tactic. that's definately NOT the approach I would use.
instead, since you raise your children with good morals and ethics (right?), show your children a site that is completely wrong/unjust/evil/vile/etc. teach them why. educate them on why certain things are not right.
I work under the philosophy that children shouldn't be shielded from these atrocities (though I'm not saying the opposite). they should be taught about them and why they're wrong so that they can _voluntarily_ choose not to witness or seek these things.
parents CAN'T always be there to shield their childrens' eyes. at some point, children will bear witness to something disgusting, to vile materials of some nature. why not coach them and make sure that they handle the situation appropriately, with or without a parent to hold their hands?
a society like our own (representative democracy) cannot function unless everybody is educated and active in politics and community.
while this is bad for privacy, it's great for killing ads! just connect your cablebox to the internet and have a program hash each frame. it compares these hashes to other people tuned into that channel and ... knowing that there's a commercial on, it mutes the screen. maybe it also hits the 'last channel' feature for you. maybe you'll set it to jump back to your favorite show once it returns from a commercial break. (maybe this has already been done?)
this is EXACTLY like spam. why not go in from the other direction? disable your "smart tags" by default and allow a meta tag to ACTIVATE them.
aren't all of those already on the market? I've held crouching tiger in my hands. amazon is shipping both crouching tiger and close encounters. I have a friend with a kubrick collection; they're just rereleasing it. and if the release date is june 12, that's in three days (one business day); there isn't enough time to slap that in unless it's already been done.