I think it's funny that he's worried about being pwned by the flash card firmware (answer: you can't, it's not a generic interface like USB that can be keyboards, mice, network cards, etc. on a whim), and not about being cheated by the old "1GB card that claims to be 4GB" scam.
This. I've done this with AT&T for years, even before they blocked outbound port 25. If an ISP takes outbound e-mail for a regular e-mail client, they should be able to relay outbound mail for your domain in general.
Someone in another thread was complaining that there were four twitter accounts being used by ESA. But now someone has created an entire domain for a single XKCD comic? I mean, explainxkcd could have a better presentation for #1446 but there's no reason to create a whole new freaking domain for this.
There is a story in one of those little "zen computer parables" books, which goes something like this...
A manager pushed a little box on wheels into the computer room. He said "I would like you to use our new computer as a platform for future development." A month later the manager came back and was unhappy to see the computer in the corner of the room, covered with random printouts. The developer said "the printouts are future development, and the new computer makes a fine platform for them."
Except that sand is basically ground up quartz, while granite is an igneous rock consisting of multiple minerals. While granite does contain quartz, it also contains feldspar, mica, muscovite, biotite, and hornblende-type amphiboles. Perhaps if you instead tried "taking sand from granite", you might have something.
The reverse is more often true: a game concept originated by a game designers is more likely to produce a truly fun game
I'm going to guess that "The Empire Strikes Back" by Parker Brothers fell into the latter category. In that game you do nothing but zip around and shoot imperial walkers on Hoth. There's not much depth to that game (hey, it's only 4K), but at least it's fun.
He was given all of five weeks by Atari to design and program the game, from concept to final product.
In comparison, the typical 2600 game took six months for all that. Also note that like most 2600 games, he did it completely solo. There was no art department, no sound department, etc.
Also, a few stations are on VHF, which really wants a big antenna. The worst are the few on low VHF (2-6). Another problem is that you have to receive the full (up to 19Mbit) data stream, from which you have to extract the full resolution sub-channel. If it is an HD sub-channel, there is no lower-resolution stream, so you have to down-sample it for a smaller screen. This probably isn't great for battery life. Japan has something called "1seg", which is a lower resolution stream specifically for mobile, but its very nature depends on the ISDB-T modulation they use.
According to New Zealand's current Trade Minister, Tim Groser, full disclosure of what is being discussed would likely lead to "public debate on an ill-informed basis before the deal has been done."
"We have to pass it to find out what's in it!" - Nancy Pelosi
And what a stupid name, too. All I can say is that when I see the two words "sugar" and "string", one of the things I do NOT think about is tech news. Or any kind of news, for that matter.
NASA's problem is not insufficient funding. Its inefficiency, bureaucratic bloat, corrupt contractors, and the inability to build or do much of anything in the vacinity of its manned space program.
And the Congress/Senate. They've both been requiring them to do stuff that protects existing pork projects AND constantly cutting their funding.
Looks like the problem is on bloomberg's side... according to the download prompt I get, its mime type is "html/", yes that's html slash nothing. (should be text/html) I guess that's what happens when web "designers" start messing around with the technical stuff, shit breaks in stupid ways.
I read your comment first, then I clicked on the link. Holy crap, you're right. And I'm sure that the people who go all jizz over this probably made snide comments about Apple's new Mac Pro being a big black trash can.
There's nothing else like it on the market currently.
Yeah, I wonder why.
Alienware might call it Triad, but we'd actually call it pretty bad-ass.
OHAHAHAWAHAAHWHAHAAAAA! I call it pretty dumb-ass. lol Alienware. A few weeks ago I was at a small lan party thing and one guy brought his Alienware monster that was about the size of a humvee. He actually wanted to put it on top of the table, but we managed to get him to put it on a plastic crate box (I guess he didn't want it on the floor). I was sitting where its big six inch fan blew warm air out the back, and I was the only one in the room not talking about being cold, so I guess there was one thing good about it.
I thought I posted this yesterday, but maybe I forgot to hit submit: the original message was apparently intended as a joke, but was based on the actual disassembled code.
Here is the original message. It has the comment "/* Attempt to set Vendor ID to 0 */". So yeah, they are intentionally fucking with a chip when it fails to validate. And in addition to fucking over buyers of equipment where the manufacturer may have unknowingly been given counterfeit parts, they've also told the cloners exactly what to change for their next run of chips.
Wow, just WTF. It's one thing for them to claim some loss, no matter how slight, from people leeching off of their Windows driver. But considering that the clones do not copy FTDI silicon (have ANY of them been found to do so?), and they have absolutely no claim to ownership of the Linux kernel driver, this is just greed at its worst. Also, not all clones have counterfeit labeling on the chip and can thus be considered fair competition. I wouldn't be surprised if some are even in package types that FTDI doesn't sell. Their driver may see their 16-bit VID number on the chip (you can't trademark a number, that's why Intel renamed the 586 as "Pentium"), but it can't see whether FTDI is etched on the chip or not.
Or maybe someone can point me to something that says you can patent a register layout and chip pinout. (essentially the hardware equivalent of software APIs) Except again, there is no way that the driver can even know that the chip uses the same pinout.
Now maybe if they had the chip return the text "FTDI" (aka actual trademark-able text) and checked for that along with some other kind of "real chip" test... but that still won't justify fucking with the chip. Just refuse to run is all you need.
Slashdot Mirror
I think it's funny that he's worried about being pwned by the flash card firmware (answer: you can't, it's not a generic interface like USB that can be keyboards, mice, network cards, etc. on a whim), and not about being cheated by the old "1GB card that claims to be 4GB" scam.
Anyhow, here are some relevant links:
http://www.bunniestudios.com/b...
http://www.bunniestudios.com/b...
Or you can usually use your ISP's outbound mail server as your relay, without having to set up a bunch of crap that costs money.
This. I've done this with AT&T for years, even before they blocked outbound port 25. If an ISP takes outbound e-mail for a regular e-mail client, they should be able to relay outbound mail for your domain in general.
XKCD1446.org
Someone in another thread was complaining that there were four twitter accounts being used by ESA. But now someone has created an entire domain for a single XKCD comic? I mean, explainxkcd could have a better presentation for #1446 but there's no reason to create a whole new freaking domain for this.
But how many stone does the probe weigh? (inb4 weight vs mass)
What, you mean the fish didn't just grow bigger in the time it took to get back?
Thanks, Enron.
HOLY CRAP why didn't you warn me that the link contained vertical video?!?!?!?!!!! Have some consideration for other people, bub!
There is a story in one of those little "zen computer parables" books, which goes something like this...
A manager pushed a little box on wheels into the computer room. He said "I would like you to use our new computer as a platform for future development." A month later the manager came back and was unhappy to see the computer in the corner of the room, covered with random printouts. The developer said "the printouts are future development, and the new computer makes a fine platform for them."
I think it depends on how much cold cash they were able to pipe away.
Except that sand is basically ground up quartz, while granite is an igneous rock consisting of multiple minerals. While granite does contain quartz, it also contains feldspar, mica, muscovite, biotite, and hornblende-type amphiboles. Perhaps if you instead tried "taking sand from granite", you might have something.
The reverse is more often true: a game concept originated by a game designers is more likely to produce a truly fun game
I'm going to guess that "The Empire Strikes Back" by Parker Brothers fell into the latter category. In that game you do nothing but zip around and shoot imperial walkers on Hoth. There's not much depth to that game (hey, it's only 4K), but at least it's fun.
He was given all of five weeks by Atari to design and program the game, from concept to final product.
In comparison, the typical 2600 game took six months for all that. Also note that like most 2600 games, he did it completely solo. There was no art department, no sound department, etc.
Also, a few stations are on VHF, which really wants a big antenna. The worst are the few on low VHF (2-6). Another problem is that you have to receive the full (up to 19Mbit) data stream, from which you have to extract the full resolution sub-channel. If it is an HD sub-channel, there is no lower-resolution stream, so you have to down-sample it for a smaller screen. This probably isn't great for battery life. Japan has something called "1seg", which is a lower resolution stream specifically for mobile, but its very nature depends on the ISDB-T modulation they use.
According to New Zealand's current Trade Minister, Tim Groser, full disclosure of what is being discussed would likely lead to "public debate on an ill-informed basis before the deal has been done."
"We have to pass it to find out what's in it!" - Nancy Pelosi
And what a stupid name, too. All I can say is that when I see the two words "sugar" and "string", one of the things I do NOT think about is tech news. Or any kind of news, for that matter.
NASA's problem is not insufficient funding. Its inefficiency, bureaucratic bloat, corrupt contractors, and the inability to build or do much of anything in the vacinity of its manned space program.
And the Congress/Senate. They've both been requiring them to do stuff that protects existing pork projects AND constantly cutting their funding.
THAT'S THE JOKE.
So much for those Russian engines. Maybe Elon could loan them his trampoline.
Lots of amateur videos linked here: http://spaceksc.blogspot.com/2...
And I think the launch pad area might need a fresh coat of paint or something...
Looks like the problem is on bloomberg's side... according to the download prompt I get, its mime type is "html/", yes that's html slash nothing. (should be text/html) I guess that's what happens when web "designers" start messing around with the technical stuff, shit breaks in stupid ways.
I read your comment first, then I clicked on the link. Holy crap, you're right. And I'm sure that the people who go all jizz over this probably made snide comments about Apple's new Mac Pro being a big black trash can.
There's nothing else like it on the market currently.
Yeah, I wonder why.
Alienware might call it Triad, but we'd actually call it pretty bad-ass.
OHAHAHAWAHAAHWHAHAAAAA! I call it pretty dumb-ass. lol Alienware. A few weeks ago I was at a small lan party thing and one guy brought his Alienware monster that was about the size of a humvee. He actually wanted to put it on top of the table, but we managed to get him to put it on a plastic crate box (I guess he didn't want it on the floor). I was sitting where its big six inch fan blew warm air out the back, and I was the only one in the room not talking about being cold, so I guess there was one thing good about it.
I thought I posted this yesterday, but maybe I forgot to hit submit: the original message was apparently intended as a joke, but was based on the actual disassembled code.
Here is the original message. It has the comment "/* Attempt to set Vendor ID to 0 */". So yeah, they are intentionally fucking with a chip when it fails to validate. And in addition to fucking over buyers of equipment where the manufacturer may have unknowingly been given counterfeit parts, they've also told the cloners exactly what to change for their next run of chips.
Wow, just WTF. It's one thing for them to claim some loss, no matter how slight, from people leeching off of their Windows driver. But considering that the clones do not copy FTDI silicon (have ANY of them been found to do so?), and they have absolutely no claim to ownership of the Linux kernel driver, this is just greed at its worst. Also, not all clones have counterfeit labeling on the chip and can thus be considered fair competition. I wouldn't be surprised if some are even in package types that FTDI doesn't sell. Their driver may see their 16-bit VID number on the chip (you can't trademark a number, that's why Intel renamed the 586 as "Pentium"), but it can't see whether FTDI is etched on the chip or not.
Or maybe someone can point me to something that says you can patent a register layout and chip pinout. (essentially the hardware equivalent of software APIs) Except again, there is no way that the driver can even know that the chip uses the same pinout.
Now maybe if they had the chip return the text "FTDI" (aka actual trademark-able text) and checked for that along with some other kind of "real chip" test... but that still won't justify fucking with the chip. Just refuse to run is all you need.