As you should know, one of the best Open Source direct competitors to Microsoft SMS is Back Orifice 2000. Enable it with a password and some strong encryption and it's just fine, thank you:D
Somebody want to explain to a non-mathematician (only in 1st year university, gentlemen) what P and NP are?
I'll give you a cookie if you do, and undoubtably you'll get a +5 Informative.
No, it won't let developers make PS2/Linux a better gaming platform. To do that, they would have an extra API/software layer between the game and the hardware, which would slow things down.
XBox can run Linux too, and it's much faster and more powerful. Not only that, but there's a great gaming API already on it - DirectX.
Should have thought that comment through a little more:D
Re:Begging Questions and Urban Planning
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1. How many people live close enough to work that they can afford the time to communte on a device that moves at walking speed? (no one I know)
That's what public transportation is for. You get on your Segway, go to the bus station, get on, and instead of a hectic drive, you can do some homework or check your email while you commute. Then, when you get where you're going, you hop back on the Segway and ride to work. No walking neccessary.
2. How many people live in places where the weather is neither too warm or too cold to spend the time outside?
Lots, but there are such things as jackets and T-shirts, you know. People successfully manage to walk or bike around as it is now.
3. How many businesses have the infrastructure to handle storing and charging these things?
I assume it will be carryable. As for charging, the article says that the batterys will plug into a normal wall socket.
4. Is it really going to share the sidewalk with pedestrians? Where are they going to go now?
They can get a Segway, or get the fuck out of my way. Bikes manage.
5. What about security? Riding around on a $3000 device that can't move faster than walking speed is a huge crime oppurtunity.
Bike locks will be adapted, and maybe even a key system like cars have.
Probably you'll just bring it into your work building with you, and have it near at all times! Store it in your cubicle!
From my vast experience with this distro, on a high-bandwidth connection this is the easiest way to do an install.
1. Download and write to floppy the image-1.44/compact disks (rescue, root, and driver-1).
2. Boot with Rescue in.
3. Follow the directions.
DHCP makes this a blast and you're into Dselect (or tasksel if you want) within fifteen minutes at most. You end up download much less than an entire ISO in most cases, and it's better because you're always going to get the latest packages.
If you have to do an install on multiple machines, download the entire tree for your distro onto one machine, and set it up as a server with FTP or somesuch so that APT can access that local machine as a repository. Over 100baseTX, it takes no time at all to do an install (after all, a fast hard drive over ethernet is probably faster than your cdrom drive is anyways:-D )
There are also ReiserFS boot disks available now that will let you get up and running with a great journalling filesystem from scratch, with the selection of one simple option.
I found the Debian installer much easier to use than Red Hat's, and much more powerful than Mandrake's.
I'm not going to get into the whole vinyl vs cd arguement, but suffice it to say that digital is NOT higher quality by definition - it is in the case of VCR's of course, but I'm sure an analog video system could be made better than a DVD, and a digital system could be made better than that too. The two are on equal terms when ti comes to quality, save for the longevity of digital.
In fact, you'd think the industry would be happier with formats that only lasted a few years as opposed to DVDs which might last 20 years or more.
By ease of use I meant the easy ability to modify, copy, and otherwise deal with digital information as opposed to analog.
I suppose VCR's are illegal too... oh wait, FAIR USE.
When is the industry going to realize that the only difference between digital and analog, in the eyes of the consumer, is ease of use?
I mean, given a VCR and some electronics skill, it would be a simple enough task to send video over a phone line, 100% analog, right?
This is the same idea.
And how do the networks lose money if people record their shows?
The only "bad" feature, as far as I can tell, is the commercial skipping option. If it were removed, I'm sure there would be nothing even remotely illegal in there. Of course, that won't stop a lawsuit:D
I agree. I think that's on a development box, probably a few months ago, caused by bad code of course - obviously fixed before release.
You people must realize - consoles DO NOT crash. They don't release games or hardware that crash!
Can't believe the FUD...
Re:For a different perspective...about xbox music
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Do you honestly give a fuck if your music is pirated? This is slashdot! We all use Audiogalaxy or Morpheus or whathaveyou to get our music and we don't give a fuck about recording artists.
Really, when you look at it, they get to have lots of fun and tons of free sex. Do they really need money from us, too? Fuck them!
I think that if these things were actually going to cure cancer, the ACA or other groups would donate the money for real supercomputer time to the project.
People are dying NOW from these terrible afflictions. It's not a little open source hobby or a grad project, it's serious medicine. If the creators are willing to treat it as a toy then I'm not going to donate my CPU cycles to them - they're better off being wasted on Kazaa for my porn downloading pleasure.
"Its about time you enlish Nazi's got a grip, and relized your not at all important."
Shut the fuck up, you illiterate wanker. Maybe if you knew how to spell your post would not have been so ridiculous.
Regardless, the original poster is right. If this is supposed to be a serious news site then it's about time for gramatically correct sentences.
By the way: celtic is pronounced Kel-tick.
whoo, a tick reference, so it's not off topic:D
Well hey, on a multiprocessor machine it might be interesting. Dedicate a processor for each node and you have four beowulf nodes in one box.
Not only would it be cool for developers to test Beowulf-enabled code, but it would be awesome to have each node independantly accessible from the network.
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As you should know, one of the best Open Source direct competitors to Microsoft SMS is Back Orifice 2000. Enable it with a password and some strong encryption and it's just fine, thank you :D
Somebody want to explain to a non-mathematician (only in 1st year university, gentlemen) what P and NP are?
I'll give you a cookie if you do, and undoubtably you'll get a +5 Informative.
I'm an Athlon fan too, but I have to point out one error: P4's don't catch fire, or even burn out in most cases - they simply turn off.
Oh yeah, this isn't talking the victim into it:
"T3 LINE DIRECT DOWNLOADS NO RATIOs 0-DAYz RIPS ISOS" and a link to t50.com ?
No, it won't let developers make PS2/Linux a better gaming platform. To do that, they would have an extra API/software layer between the game and the hardware, which would slow things down.
:D
XBox can run Linux too, and it's much faster and more powerful. Not only that, but there's a great gaming API already on it - DirectX.
Should have thought that comment through a little more
1. How many people live close enough to work that they can afford the time to communte on a device that moves at walking speed? (no one I know)
That's what public transportation is for. You get on your Segway, go to the bus station, get on, and instead of a hectic drive, you can do some homework or check your email while you commute. Then, when you get where you're going, you hop back on the Segway and ride to work. No walking neccessary.
2. How many people live in places where the weather is neither too warm or too cold to spend the time outside?
Lots, but there are such things as jackets and T-shirts, you know. People successfully manage to walk or bike around as it is now.
3. How many businesses have the infrastructure to handle storing and charging these things?
I assume it will be carryable. As for charging, the article says that the batterys will plug into a normal wall socket.
4. Is it really going to share the sidewalk with pedestrians? Where are they going to go now?
They can get a Segway, or get the fuck out of my way. Bikes manage.
5. What about security? Riding around on a $3000 device that can't move faster than walking speed is a huge crime oppurtunity.
Bike locks will be adapted, and maybe even a key system like cars have.
Probably you'll just bring it into your work building with you, and have it near at all times! Store it in your cubicle!
Amusing as that is, none of the troglodytes here will have read anything by Frued, so it is wasted. A pity.
I think you were smoking from an indefinite-precision crack pipe :D
From my vast experience with this distro, on a high-bandwidth connection this is the easiest way to do an install.
:-D )
1. Download and write to floppy the image-1.44/compact disks (rescue, root, and driver-1).
2. Boot with Rescue in.
3. Follow the directions.
DHCP makes this a blast and you're into Dselect (or tasksel if you want) within fifteen minutes at most. You end up download much less than an entire ISO in most cases, and it's better because you're always going to get the latest packages.
If you have to do an install on multiple machines, download the entire tree for your distro onto one machine, and set it up as a server with FTP or somesuch so that APT can access that local machine as a repository. Over 100baseTX, it takes no time at all to do an install (after all, a fast hard drive over ethernet is probably faster than your cdrom drive is anyways
There are also ReiserFS boot disks available now that will let you get up and running with a great journalling filesystem from scratch, with the selection of one simple option.
I found the Debian installer much easier to use than Red Hat's, and much more powerful than Mandrake's.
Give it a try! You won't go back!
I'm not going to get into the whole vinyl vs cd arguement, but suffice it to say that digital is NOT higher quality by definition - it is in the case of VCR's of course, but I'm sure an analog video system could be made better than a DVD, and a digital system could be made better than that too. The two are on equal terms when ti comes to quality, save for the longevity of digital.
In fact, you'd think the industry would be happier with formats that only lasted a few years as opposed to DVDs which might last 20 years or more.
By ease of use I meant the easy ability to modify, copy, and otherwise deal with digital information as opposed to analog.
I suppose VCR's are illegal too... oh wait, FAIR USE.
:D
When is the industry going to realize that the only difference between digital and analog, in the eyes of the consumer, is ease of use?
I mean, given a VCR and some electronics skill, it would be a simple enough task to send video over a phone line, 100% analog, right?
This is the same idea.
And how do the networks lose money if people record their shows?
The only "bad" feature, as far as I can tell, is the commercial skipping option. If it were removed, I'm sure there would be nothing even remotely illegal in there. Of course, that won't stop a lawsuit
To prosecute exactly WHAT?
You own the fucking box. Hack it and you void your warranty. It's not licensed like software, you own the physical unit.
Feel free to reverse engineer and hack to your heart's content. You don't break any copyrights by doing so.
Hacking MS's proprietary encrypted FS is a different issue.
The Linux Packaging System?
Sorry, but do you mean deb files, or rpm's, or perhaps a gzipped tarball with a makefile inside?
When there's no real set standard, it's fine to write an install script. Plenty of programs do it.
How does it achieve backwards compatibility:
(This is pretty much an assumption, but I don't see any other possibility)
802.11g hardware (clients) must be able to connect to 802.11b network access points.
Conversely, 802.11g network access points must be able to accept incoming 802.11b connections, albeit at the slower speed.
Because the two occupy different spectrums, there will be some duplication of components in hardware (therefore, a higher price).
I could be wrong, but this looks like the way it's set up.
"by a Science Magazine author"
You read it closely enough to see "a", but not see "author"?
Get some glasses!
I agree. I think that's on a development box, probably a few months ago, caused by bad code of course - obviously fixed before release.
You people must realize - consoles DO NOT crash. They don't release games or hardware that crash!
Can't believe the FUD...
Do you honestly give a fuck if your music is pirated? This is slashdot! We all use Audiogalaxy or Morpheus or whathaveyou to get our music and we don't give a fuck about recording artists.
Really, when you look at it, they get to have lots of fun and tons of free sex. Do they really need money from us, too? Fuck them!
I think that if these things were actually going to cure cancer, the ACA or other groups would donate the money for real supercomputer time to the project.
People are dying NOW from these terrible afflictions. It's not a little open source hobby or a grad project, it's serious medicine. If the creators are willing to treat it as a toy then I'm not going to donate my CPU cycles to them - they're better off being wasted on Kazaa for my porn downloading pleasure.
Don't you know what an XBOX is?
It is an at based computer, fool! Geforce 3 (approximately), hard drive, P3 733mhz processor.
And it runs DirectX!
It's basically the Wintendo, and everybody knows it and is fine with it. Certainly it must be easier for developers...
"Its about time you enlish Nazi's got a grip, and relized your not at all important."
:D
Shut the fuck up, you illiterate wanker. Maybe if you knew how to spell your post would not have been so ridiculous.
Regardless, the original poster is right. If this is supposed to be a serious news site then it's about time for gramatically correct sentences.
By the way: celtic is pronounced Kel-tick.
whoo, a tick reference, so it's not off topic
Well hey, on a multiprocessor machine it might be interesting. Dedicate a processor for each node and you have four beowulf nodes in one box.
Not only would it be cool for developers to test Beowulf-enabled code, but it would be awesome to have each node independantly accessible from the network.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these babies!
(That was too obvious...)
Gee, thanks, Ebert.
Why don't you at least link to his review instead of quoting without attributing it?
anyways for everyone else go check it out, it's a funny read.
You know you want it...
QNX is calling you.....
Walk into the light....
And around here, for $35/month Canadian, you can get 1500/512 Kbps ADSL....
Ahh, Vancouver.