Cervisia integration is just incredible - I can totally manage a CVS project from konqueror now, including doing visual merges and diffs, checkins, tagging, etc. Wow.
Can someone tell me how to use this? I have cervisia installed. How do I enable it as a konq plugin?
A great, fun project - too bad they have to go and make sweeping statements in their "theory" that betray their shallow depth of knowledge of the field.
They are certainly not the first to use a set of discrete features to do image recognition. And "most" image recognition routines don't rely on neural networks.
Just be happy that you've built a clever little electric butler to keep the critters out, and don't act like you've discovered electricity.
A less drastic solution is to get keyboard, mouse, and monitor extension cables. (I got mine from here).
I pulled the baseboards off my walls, ran these into another room (actually underneath my bathtub in the process), and moved all of the heat and noise away. Only monitor hum remains.
Isn't it interesting that so many people are
morally outraged when a programmer may
benefit from free software, but stand up and
cheer when megasite.com is using free software
to run their web server, or bajillionare films uses open source clustering technology to render the graphics in some movie.
It doesn't make sense to me why it's outrageous to think that a kid could make a few bucks on a chess program using a networking protocol (BSD code at that), but it would be raving if every law firm started using a free OS and software for its reports and billing. Both benefit from someone else's work, but one guy gets clobbered by a bunch of zealots.
Should every document made with KWord, every image made with GIMP, and every packet that passes through LRP code be only used for the advancement of open source projects? Why bash only the programmer that wants to draw from the pool? At least s/he may be in a spot to give back to the community on other projects.
Of course, if someone wanted to beat them at their own game, wouldn't it be trivial to jam their database full of bogus profiles for a given serial number? These profiles could just be white noise (randomly selected bar codes from a massive database), or they could be carefully crafted so you get junk mail from the UFO society, Frederick's, or whoever. Choose your own identity!
A simple privacy reclamation web app could ask for your cat serial number, and then just submit a ton of HTTP queries to big brother. Perhaps at randomly distributed times. Perhaps with random IP sources. A more devious hacker might do this for a wide range of serial numbers, but reclaiming your own privacy (as if you were dumb enough to give it to them anyway) by diluting their database certainly seems justified.
Someone will find a way to grab the digital out before its converted to analog by the soundcard
This is already done. I think ESD is a perfect fit in the Linux world. There are also already such tools for the unenlightened masses - sound drivers for win 9x and win nt that dump to.wav (audiojacker, etc).
I can't imagine that the laywers would argue that you don't have the right to record the sounds you make on your PC. No, I guess I can imagine them saying that, but they'll look quite rediculous in the process. Not that that's ever stopped them before... but this is way over the top
saw that the subscription is not absolutely necessary - if you don't have one, you just program Tivo like you would a vcr, no bells and whistles though.
I'm just about certain that you do need one. In fact, Tivo loses $ with each device it sells. Their whole business model is based on selling subscriptions.
The fact that Tivo is running on Linux is very cool, but I'm not sure how much that means to us. Others have already pointed out that you need Tivo hardware for their stuff to run, and that their whole application isn't available to us.
Another question is whether or not we could even touch the OS. Tivo needs its own telephone line to connect to its service. It must dial out itself. AFAIK that's the only contact with the world 'cept for the TV signal in & out. It'd be extremely cool to telnet tivo and write your own app to do commercial filtering (tho it matters much less with tivo than a tape based vcr) or other snazzy stuff...
perhaps they'd put a NIC on the next model if everyone at/. promised to buy one to play with:)
I've been scoping them out for a while. Their competition just released a 20 hour version, so I can't imagine tivo being far behind. But tivo has a $100 rebate if you buy this year (clearing out the old drives???)
Tivo is only $500 compared to ReplayTV's $700, but the scam is that tivo charges you for the "subscription" necessary to use their service - $10/month vs $200/lifetime - so the costs are really comparable.
I think I read that the 30 hour tivo only gets 9.3 hours at the best compression rate, but many reviewers have said that the highest compression rate is usually acceptable. I think it's still better than VHS.
I just saw something at the end of an article on digital standards for flat panel display signaling protocols that goes further than anything I'd seen before. There is a variant of one of the protocols, DVI, called DVI-CP. This variant supports encryption of HDTV DVD's all the way from the disk, through the graphics controller, and into the enhanced digital monitor. Presumably this would prevent audiojacker type tee'ing of the video.
Now if they can find a way to sucker people into buying them...
The bad part is that it's just as likely B&N will simply make their ordering system a "two-click" setup than fight with Amazon over a patent issue.
all fine & dandy until that pesky "two-click" patent pops up... Will have to wait and see I guess, but in a landscape littered with patent mines, this issue is going to come to the fore at some point, and I'd expect it from B&N before joeschmoe.com. They might deem it in their overall better interest to clear the general air with a court precedent if they feel confident they can win.
is that at least this fight is against someone with (relatively) deep pockets. I mean, at least bn.com isn't a one man show that doesn't even know a lawyer.
In a perfect world, the patent isn't valid if it was obvious to one skilled in the art. Hopefully B&N will duke this thing out and get a good precedent set.
I just read somewhere (for the life of me I can't remember where) that Duck Head pants is the victim of a "smear campaign" that is spreading rumors that their pants are not Y2K compliant.
Their sense of humor is pretty strained on this whole thing, as they just got done vindicating themselves from a Duck-Head-Pants-Equals-Satanism scandal. The executive interviewed had a quote to the effect of "I don't know why this always happens to us. All I want to do is sell pants."
There was a great three-part article in the Post last year about privacy in the digital age (really the lack thereof). Acxiom figured prominently into the story.
Most notably, the article said that Acxiom, in a nod to self regulation, allows consumers to opt out of the database. While I agree that opting-in is far preferrable for consumer rights, at least make the most of the current system (assuming you give them the benefit of the doubt that they'll do what they say). The company said that only 300 people had opted out prior pre-1998(!)
I actually went through the trouble to follow up on this after reading the article, and found out how to do it. Send them an email with your name and snail mail address and they send you a pretty package with a form to fill out and send back to them. Costs a stamp, but I'm of the opinion that these mega-snoops have too much to loose by getting busted directly violating what they say they'll do - so I had them take me out.
How about a./ effect that spills over to snail mail?
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Can someone tell me how to use this? I have cervisia installed. How do I enable it as a konq plugin?
A great, fun project - too bad they have to go and make sweeping statements in their "theory" that betray their shallow depth of knowledge of the field.
They are certainly not the first to use a set of discrete features to do image recognition. And "most" image recognition routines don't rely on neural networks.
Just be happy that you've built a clever little electric butler to keep the critters out, and don't act like you've discovered electricity.
Can somebody succinctly summarize the percieved threats of a national ID Card?
A less drastic solution is to get keyboard, mouse, and monitor extension cables. (I got mine from here).
I pulled the baseboards off my walls, ran these into another room (actually underneath my bathtub in the process), and moved all of the heat and noise away. Only monitor hum remains.
Highly recommended.
http://www.kingpigeon.com/perspec/hanna.htm
It doesn't make sense to me why it's outrageous to think that a kid could make a few bucks on a chess program using a networking protocol (BSD code at that), but it would be raving if every law firm started using a free OS and software for its reports and billing. Both benefit from someone else's work, but one guy gets clobbered by a bunch of zealots.
Should every document made with KWord, every image made with GIMP, and every packet that passes through LRP code be only used for the advancement of open source projects? Why bash only the programmer that wants to draw from the pool? At least s/he may be in a spot to give back to the community on other projects.
One thing about kmail is that you can't have a ~/Mail directory, say, from other mail programs as it will silently hang while reading it.
Of course, if someone wanted to beat them at their own game, wouldn't it be trivial to jam their database full of bogus profiles for a given serial number? These profiles could just be white noise (randomly selected bar codes from a massive database), or they could be carefully crafted so you get junk mail from the UFO society, Frederick's, or whoever. Choose your own identity! A simple privacy reclamation web app could ask for your cat serial number, and then just submit a ton of HTTP queries to big brother. Perhaps at randomly distributed times. Perhaps with random IP sources. A more devious hacker might do this for a wide range of serial numbers, but reclaiming your own privacy (as if you were dumb enough to give it to them anyway) by diluting their database certainly seems justified.
So how is this different than writing a driver for any other piece of hardware? Couldn't any encoding scheme be construed as IP by some fat lawyer?
Someone moderate this guy up! At least someone gets it.
Can you imagine what a favor you're doing for the market-eers, scanning every item in your house? This is doubleclick's wet dream.
Seriously, if you purists want to harp on someone, at least try to make it funny...
I guess I overlooked the Phil Hartman commercial in the first spot...
Is it just me, or it that Kevin Nieland (sp?) of future SNL fame in the Atari commercial (third row, second column)
In case you haven't seen it, take a peek and witness firsthand some of the backlash they've generated (Flash req)
This is already done. I think ESD is a perfect fit in the Linux world. There are also already such tools for the unenlightened masses - sound drivers for win 9x and win nt that dump to .wav (audiojacker, etc).
I can't imagine that the laywers would argue that you don't have the right to record the sounds you make on your PC. No, I guess I can imagine them saying that, but they'll look quite rediculous in the process. Not that that's ever stopped them before... but this is way over the top
I'm just about certain that you do need one. In fact, Tivo loses $ with each device it sells. Their whole business model is based on selling subscriptions.
The fact that Tivo is running on Linux is very cool, but I'm not sure how much that means to us. Others have already pointed out that you need Tivo hardware for their stuff to run, and that their whole application isn't available to us.
Another question is whether or not we could even touch the OS. Tivo needs its own telephone line to connect to its service. It must dial out itself. AFAIK that's the only contact with the world 'cept for the TV signal in & out. It'd be extremely cool to telnet tivo and write your own app to do commercial filtering (tho it matters much less with tivo than a tape based vcr) or other snazzy stuff...
perhaps they'd put a NIC on the next model if everyone at /. promised to buy one to play with :)
I've been scoping them out for a while. Their competition just released a 20 hour version, so I can't imagine tivo being far behind. But tivo has a $100 rebate if you buy this year (clearing out the old drives???)
Tivo is only $500 compared to ReplayTV's $700, but the scam is that tivo charges you for the "subscription" necessary to use their service - $10/month vs $200/lifetime - so the costs are really comparable.
I think I read that the 30 hour tivo only gets 9.3 hours at the best compression rate, but many reviewers have said that the highest compression rate is usually acceptable. I think it's still better than VHS.
Now if they can find a way to sucker people into buying them...
all fine & dandy until that pesky "two-click" patent pops up... Will have to wait and see I guess, but in a landscape littered with patent mines, this issue is going to come to the fore at some point, and I'd expect it from B&N before joeschmoe.com. They might deem it in their overall better interest to clear the general air with a court precedent if they feel confident they can win.
In a perfect world, the patent isn't valid if it was obvious to one skilled in the art. Hopefully B&N will duke this thing out and get a good precedent set.
I just read somewhere (for the life of me I can't remember where) that Duck Head pants is the victim of a "smear campaign" that is spreading rumors that their pants are not Y2K compliant.
Their sense of humor is pretty strained on this whole thing, as they just got done vindicating themselves from a Duck-Head-Pants-Equals-Satanism scandal. The executive interviewed had a quote to the effect of "I don't know why this always happens to us. All I want to do is sell pants."
Ahh, if life were only so simple...
There was a great three-part article in the Post last year about privacy in the digital age (really the lack thereof). Acxiom figured prominently into the story.
Most notably, the article said that Acxiom, in a nod to self regulation, allows consumers to opt out of the database. While I agree that opting-in is far preferrable for consumer rights, at least make the most of the current system (assuming you give them the benefit of the doubt that they'll do what they say). The company said that only 300 people had opted out prior pre-1998(!)
I actually went through the trouble to follow up on this after reading the article, and found out how to do it. Send them an email with your name and snail mail address and they send you a pretty package with a form to fill out and send back to them. Costs a stamp, but I'm of the opinion that these mega-snoops have too much to loose by getting busted directly violating what they say they'll do - so I had them take me out.
How about a ./ effect that spills over to snail mail?