The source kernel source for the Motorola a760 linux phone is available on sourceforge.
But to me as an end user the real question is whether or not the phone uses an open protocol to synchronize with a computer. I believe that Treo 600 synchronizes flawlessly with gnome-pilot. This is why I want a Treo.
However if you use both kazaa and the upcoming filesharer, and you get caught by RIAA, then the RIAA has good reasons for believing that your buddies are also downloading illegal music. Will this allow them to give your friends a visit?
Anyway the whole case of protecting filesharers is pathetic. There is so much evil in this world. Why concentrate on one of the the lesser problems?
A simple
Google search reveals that the story is a
dupe. Search the old threads for cool comments to boost your karma:)
When I get more time I want to make a perl script that wgets slashdot.org once an hour and searches google for dupes. It is probably enough to test if any links from present slashdot stories have appeared on the site before, but perhaps I can find a way to pick out relevant title words. Once my script has found a dupe it should pick a few highrated comments from the old thread and repost them:)
I would like a communication tool that allowed several users to look at the same 2 dimensional x-window, while controlling one mouse each. Preferably they should communicate via voice.
Anyway, the croquet screenshots don't look very usable, but I part of the reason is that todays computer screens have too few pixels. It takes a lot of pixels to rotate a 2D-picture nicely in 3D. In 10 years Croquet be much more useful.
I never managed to find an opponent on the gnocatan metaserver. The program looks really nice but it's not fun to play alone.
It would be nice to have a common meteraserver system that allows you to start different linux games from a common chatboard. This way small games would also be played even though they did not have th crtical mass to bear a populate a metaserver by themselves. The Gnus gaming zone looked promizing at some point, but I fear that this project is slowing down. Furthermore some developers avoid it because it is too intrusive.
So he can use a binary file to create a tree of realted bits, but suppose that he has access to the compiler, how does he get from this tree to a description of which source code leads to which binary code?
I guess he should write a script to create a huge amount of very similar programs, and compile them all to create binary trees. Are there standard methods for analyzing such a data set? Is it just simple multivariate statistics?
It's a thrilling idea, but it would costs a lot of money to produce a 10 km string, that is strong enough to hold the kite. (Basically the string has to be strong enough to be able to hang in one end). You have to compare this cost with the money that you can earn from the turbine.
The present kite heigh record is
13,600 feet , so we are still below the jet streams. The record kite is far too light to carry a turbine, but of course we could try to scale everything up:)
Finally I think that there is an element of safety involved (especially in these days of terrorism), and I don't if the jet streams are sufficiently stable.
When the liquid melts, the heat of melting is taken from the vibrational energy, and thus the liquid is cooled by melting. I guess that this positive feedback mechanism would enable the liquid to melt fast whenever it is cooled below the melting point, and thus the new liquid should be very effective for cooling stuff very fast.
To a physicist the phase diagram is interesting, because the solid/gel must have a larger entropy than the corresponding liquid. (Remember that you calculate equilibrium by minimizing the Gibbs energy G = H - TS).
Anyway it has been known for many years that some triblock polymers form gels when heated, but perhaps the solid phase of this new liquid is "more solid". Perhaps the news is that the liquid has a larger enthalpy of melting. I don't know
Is the gnome-calendar gnomecal still actively maintained?
gnomecal is a small tool that only does one thing, and it allows you to use the mail client of your choice. At the moment I am using the gnome-1.3 version (with great pleasure), but I would love to have an updated version:)
This project is a brilliant example of what jabber needs. Instead of just being able to mimick everybody else, Jabber needs to have a few features that the competitors do not have. Otherwise they will never be main stream. (Here I may falsely assume that their goal is to be main stream).
Personally I have been trying to convince my friends to use Jabber for a long time. But I am using gaim, and they all know that I have accounts on icq, msn and yahoo. Therefore I haven't been able to convince anyone:(
The DS features two screens, one of which can act as a touch screen, which is incorporated into games.For example, Sega had a Sonic title on display at the show, where Sonic's rate of speed was dependent upon how fast you could move the stylus (or your finger) back and forth across the bottom screen. [...] Making those changes, Iwata feels, is the only way to keep people from getting bored.
This is not a visionary article about the future of the gaming industry. It is an article about a company trying to sell a handheld gaming device with a touch screen.
jjq writes "A decryption of the so-called Bush Memo, see the CNN news, http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/bush.briefing/ was presented at Eurocrypt 2004 (Interlaken) during the rump session. David Naccache shown how to recover words from removed text in several memos. See more about this story at Lemonde.fr (sorry, it is written in French)." Just use the the fish.
Your mother discovers that you has been hanging out with the wrong kids in school. One day she borrows your doohickey device and takes it for a walk.
You end up in a car accident. In order to prove that the accident was not your fault you need to be able to find the witnesses again. You press your doohickey, and hope for the best.
A large company pays owners of shops for the right to place a doohickey device in their shop. In return the owners can buy valuable data material about the behavior customers in their shops.
As doochickeys merge with bluetooth mobile phones, bluesnarfing becomes increasingly popular:)
One of the scenarios describes a guy who uses his device to check if a group strangers are familiar to eachother. How does this work? Does his device send a query to tell ask them if they know eachother? Would it be easy for the strangers in the room to send an untrue response to such a query?
I don't think that CRN is a scientology organization, but it is pretty easy to trace some of the members on the web. The executive director of CRN Mike Treder is also a member of the socalled
Extropy institute who advocate for genetic changes of the human genome. I quote from their very entertaining faq :
What is a transhuman? A transhuman is a human in transition. We are transhuman to the extent that we seek to become posthuman and take action to prepare for a posthuman future. This involves learning about and making use of new technologies that can increase our capacities and life expectancy, questioning common assumptions, and transforming ourselves ready for the future, rising above outmoded human beliefs and behaviors.
[SNIP]
What is transhumanism? Transhumanism was given its first definition and characterization by Dr. Max More (in Extropy The Journal of Transhumanist Thought #6, 1990) "Transhumanism is a class of philosophies that seek to guide us towards a posthuman condition. Transhumanism shares many elements of humanism, including a respect for reason and science, a commitment to progress, and a valuing of human (or transhuman) existence in this life [..]. Transhumanism differs from humanism in recognizing and anticipating the radical alterations in the nature and possibilities of our lives resulting from various sciences and technologies[...]"
What is the Singularity? As defined by Vernor Vinge, 1986: The postulated point or short period in our future when our self-guided evolutionary development accelerates enormously (powered by nanotech, neuroscience, AI, and perhaps uploading) so that nothing beyond that time can reliably be conceived. Vinge also wrote: "The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence." Transhumanists vary considerably in their view of the exact nature and definition of a Singularity, and not all transhumanists accept it as a useful notion. For good information on the Singularity from two advocates of the idea, we suggest you visit Raymond Kurzweil's KurzweilAI.net site and The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the work of its fellow, Eliezer Yudkowsky.
You can use apt-src to download and compile a source package. I guess this enables a power user to reproduce and fix error that she has found in the binary packages.
Slashdot Mirror
But to me as an end user the real question is whether or not the phone uses an open protocol to synchronize with a computer. I believe that Treo 600 synchronizes flawlessly with gnome-pilot. This is why I want a Treo.
PS: Here is a page about initial attempts to connect a Linux box to a Motorola a760 .
Anyway the whole case of protecting filesharers is pathetic. There is so much evil in this world. Why concentrate on one of the the lesser problems?
The major difference between the contestors in the test is their ability to get the colors right. That problem is not related to lenses.
When I get more time I want to make a perl script that wgets slashdot.org once an hour and searches google for dupes. It is probably enough to test if any links from present slashdot stories have appeared on the site before, but perhaps I can find a way to pick out relevant title words. Once my script has found a dupe it should pick a few highrated comments from the old thread and repost them :)
Anyway, the croquet screenshots don't look very usable, but I part of the reason is that todays computer screens have too few pixels. It takes a lot of pixels to rotate a 2D-picture nicely in 3D. In 10 years Croquet be much more useful.
It would be nice to have a common meteraserver system that allows you to start different linux games from a common chatboard. This way small games would also be played even though they did not have th crtical mass to bear a populate a metaserver by themselves. The Gnus gaming zone looked promizing at some point, but I fear that this project is slowing down. Furthermore some developers avoid it because it is too intrusive.
Roborally - Program a robot (the best game ever)
Puerto Rico - Kinda fun, (Requires curl)
Brettspielwelt - many games including catan in german.
The german site www.brettspielwelt.de has a lot of java games, but the user interface is slightly complicated.
I believe that the modern view on axioms is largely due to Poincare. Have a look at his book Science and hypothesis
That would be the end of the slashdot science section.
Anyway the two creators of the theory have a home page, but they don't provide a lot of extra information.
I guess he should write a script to create a huge amount of very similar programs, and compile them all to create binary trees. Are there standard methods for analyzing such a data set? Is it just simple multivariate statistics?
I linked to a site that is provided by the danish windturbine industry. They give a nice description of how to optimize the design.
The present kite heigh record is 13,600 feet , so we are still below the jet streams. The record kite is far too light to carry a turbine, but of course we could try to scale everything up :)
Finally I think that there is an element of safety involved (especially in these days of terrorism), and I don't if the jet streams are sufficiently stable.
v(z) = v0 ln(z/z0 )/ln(z1 /z0 )
Here v0, z0 and z1 are constants. Here is a nice site about windmill engineering.
To a physicist the phase diagram is interesting, because the solid/gel must have a larger entropy than the corresponding liquid. (Remember that you calculate equilibrium by minimizing the Gibbs energy G = H - TS).
Anyway it has been known for many years that some triblock polymers form gels when heated, but perhaps the solid phase of this new liquid is "more solid". Perhaps the news is that the liquid has a larger enthalpy of melting. I don't know
gnomecal is a small tool that only does one thing, and it allows you to use the mail client of your choice. At the moment I am using the gnome-1.3 version (with great pleasure), but I would love to have an updated version :)
However I wonder if gaim-vv will end up replacing phonegaim.
Personally I have been trying to convince my friends to use Jabber for a long time. But I am using gaim, and they all know that I have accounts on icq, msn and yahoo. Therefore I haven't been able to convince anyone
The DS features two screens, one of which can act as a touch screen, which is incorporated into games.For example, Sega had a Sonic title on display at the show, where Sonic's rate of speed was dependent upon how fast you could move the stylus (or your finger) back and forth across the bottom screen. [...] Making those changes, Iwata feels, is the only way to keep people from getting bored.
This is not a visionary article about the future of the gaming industry. It is an article about a company trying to sell a handheld gaming device with a touch screen.
jjq writes "A decryption of the so-called Bush Memo, see the CNN news, http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/bush .briefing/ was presented at Eurocrypt 2004 (Interlaken) during the rump session. David Naccache shown how to recover words from removed text in several memos. See more about this story at Lemonde.fr (sorry, it is written in French)." Just use the the fish.
You end up in a car accident. In order to prove that the accident was not your fault you need to be able to find the witnesses again. You press your doohickey, and hope for the best.
A large company pays owners of shops for the right to place a doohickey device in their shop. In return the owners can buy valuable data material about the behavior customers in their shops.
As doochickeys merge with bluetooth mobile phones, bluesnarfing becomes increasingly popular :)
One of the scenarios describes a guy who uses his device to check if a group strangers are familiar to eachother. How does this work? Does his device send a query to tell ask them if they know eachother? Would it be easy for the strangers in the room to send an untrue response to such a query?
What is a transhuman? A transhuman is a human in transition. We are transhuman to the extent that we seek to become posthuman and take action to prepare for a posthuman future. This involves learning about and making use of new technologies that can increase our capacities and life expectancy, questioning common assumptions, and transforming ourselves ready for the future, rising above outmoded human beliefs and behaviors. [SNIP]
What is transhumanism? Transhumanism was given its first definition and characterization by Dr. Max More (in Extropy The Journal of Transhumanist Thought #6, 1990) "Transhumanism is a class of philosophies that seek to guide us towards a posthuman condition. Transhumanism shares many elements of humanism, including a respect for reason and science, a commitment to progress, and a valuing of human (or transhuman) existence in this life [..]. Transhumanism differs from humanism in recognizing and anticipating the radical alterations in the nature and possibilities of our lives resulting from various sciences and technologies[...]"
What is the Singularity? As defined by Vernor Vinge, 1986: The postulated point or short period in our future when our self-guided evolutionary development accelerates enormously (powered by nanotech, neuroscience, AI, and perhaps uploading) so that nothing beyond that time can reliably be conceived. Vinge also wrote: "The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence." Transhumanists vary considerably in their view of the exact nature and definition of a Singularity, and not all transhumanists accept it as a useful notion. For good information on the Singularity from two advocates of the idea, we suggest you visit Raymond Kurzweil's KurzweilAI.net site and The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the work of its fellow, Eliezer Yudkowsky.
You can use apt-src to download and compile a source package. I guess this enables a power user to reproduce and fix error that she has found in the binary packages.
It sounds like a good idea, but I never understood why they choose the expression "custom distribution".
:)
If they had chosen the expression subproject (or perhaps metapackage) then they could have avoided many misunderstandings.
By the way I am looking forward to see xpilot-ng in Debian-junior