I find it interesting that very few of these articles attempt to cover HDTV or digital TV. There is more than one DTV card supported in Linux and an article containing this would prove much more valuable that just the "here's how to setup a box with a PVR-250/350" story that I seem to see everywhere.
It is now official - Slashdot has confirmed: Slashdot Dupes are here to stay
Yet another duped story bolstered the imitative Better Slashdot Dupes psyche when recently IDC confirmed that Better Slashdot Dupes accounts for a majority of all news stories. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Better Slashdot Dupes has copied more stories, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Better Slashdot Dupes is replicating in an exponential fashion, as fittingly exemplified by duping fastest in the recent Slashdot comprehensive duplicity story postings test.
You don't need to be a CmdrTaco [cmdrtaco.net] to predict Better Slashdot Dupes' future. The electrons are on the screen: Better Slashdot Dupes faces a repetitious future. In fact, the future is all copies for Better Slashdot Dupes because Better Slashdot Dupes is reproducing. Things are looking very good for Better Slashdot Dupes. As many of us are already aware, Better Slashdot Dupes continues to replicate more stories. Green ink flows like a river of money. Frontpage Slashdot Dupes is the most promising of them all, having gained 93% over other duped stories.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the (reciprocal) numbers.
Obviously Blind Slashdot Dupes leader Timothy states that there are 7000 Slashdot Dupes each year. How many stories due to Blind Slashdot Dupes are there? Let's see. The number of Frontpage versus Obvious dupes on Slashdot is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Obvious dupes. Less Obvious Dupe stories on Slashdot are about half of the volume of Obvious dupes. Therefore there are about 700 Less Obvious Dupes. A recent article put Frontpage Slashdot Dupes at about 80 percent of the Better Slashdot Dupes share. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Frontpage Slashdot Dupes. This is consistent with the number of Frontpage Slashdot Dupes showing as Slashdot stories.
Due to the fortunes of Linux, OSDN, and so on, Frontpage Slashdot Dupes doubled business and overtook Obvious Slashdot Dupes. Now Obvious Slashdot Dupes are cloning, turning over an increasing number of dupes.
All major surveys show that Better Slashdot Dupes has steadily redoubled in news stories. Better Slashdot Dupes is multiplying its pace and its long term prospects are exponential. If Better Slashdot Dupes continues this growth, it will be at the expense of regular stories. Better Slashdot Dupes continues to copy. Nothing short of a miracle could save real stories at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Better Slashdot Dupes are here to stay.
I have the exact same model LCD (Dell 2001FP), and I have had zero problems. I don't know what's wrong with your system, but there's a problem somewhere.
Also, make sure you run it using DVI if possible; it is noticeably crisper than the analog VGA.
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I'm sorry, but I don't think the "rule of thumb" maxim can be applied 21 times to the same area. "Rules of thumb" are what you use when you don't have any other accurate mechanism, or you just want to estimate... Perhaps the quality of Microsoft software can be traced back to the "21 Thumbs" rule they use.
Ideaflood, Inc. has more than 30 patents and patent applications,
many of which were filed before the US Patent and Trademark Office began publishing patent applications, and cover many widely used and easily recognizable technologies that make the internet possible and profitable. Much of Ideaflood's intellectual property is just as central to core internet functions, but operate behind-the-scenes on network servers and other back-end hardware and software.
If I understand you correctly, I would rephrase it like this:
All GPL developers maintain the copyright to their own code, and they are free to re-release it under any other license that they will. Of course once their code is in the (GPL'd) source, they can't revoke what they have put under the GPL, although they still maintain their original copyright, and can do whatever else they would like with it.
[A] personal, nontransferable and nonexclusive right to use in the United States each Software Product identified in the one or more Supplements hereto, solely for Licensee's own internal business purposes and solely on or in conjunction with Designated CPUs for such Software Product. Such right to use includes the right to modify such Software Product and to prepare derivative works based on such Software product, provided the resulting materials are treated hereunder as part of the original Software Product.
The copyright in a compilation or derivative work extends only to the material contributed by the author of such work, as distinguished from the preexisting material employed in the work...
Thus, IBM owns the copyrights to any files that it created. This is because each individual file that was written is considered a separate work (I believe).
Furthermore, SCO has no copyrights to IBM's code (they only own copyright to their own code, that's why they can't force IBM to give it to them). Quoting copyright law:
The copyright in such work is independent of, and does not affect or enlarge the scope, duration, ownership, or subsistence of, any copyright protection in the preexisting material.
According to SCO:
Such right to use includes the right to modify such Software Product and to prepare derivative works based on such Software product, provided the resulting materials are treated hereunder as part of the original Software Product.
So perhaps it is possible that IBM violated the contract by not keeping any contributed source within the license scope, although did they not meet this condition by keeping the AIX derivative work to themselves? (The materials being the final derivative work that is AIX.) They are free to use their own copyrighted code wherever they please. Of course IANAL, so judge for yourself.
As a Linux Admin, one thing I have realized I'm not very good at is marketing -- I tried Google AdWords, but I didn't get a high-enough hit ratio to survive.
Maybe it is just hard to produce a non-free product or service for the open-source community. Of course, if the demand is there, I'm sure businesses would be the ones to provide the cash-flow...
This is the game that never ends, It just goes on and on, my friend; Somebody started playing it, not knowing what it was, And they'll continue playing it forever just because, This is the game that never ends, It just goes on and on, my friend; Somebody started playing it, not knowing what it was, And they'll continue playing it forever just because, This is the game that never ends, (repeat ad infinitum)
Excuse me, I have to go play... er... do something.. er.. non-..computer related.
I'm a little rusty on my JPEG technology, but this seems to fail on several points:
The present invention specifically relates to methods and apparatus useful in video compression systems. It focuses on intra-frame compression technologies, incl motion detection and compensation, etc.
This patent seems to only cover lossless transmission. (Removing redundant data, not removing information.)
It uses Huffman-coding after performing statistical analysis, run-length encoding, etc, but not details on cosine transforms, which JPEG uses.
It appears that other patents they reference describe existing systems which use cosine transforms with lossy compression...
AT&T's previous increase (about 1 year ago) from ~$30 to ~$38 basically said "Now, for this price increase you get basic cable".
I think they realised this after seeing that they couldn't put a video trap on the same line as your cable modem. This happened to me when I discontinued their free-digital TV trial back in Jan 2000. I had to have them come out and remove the trap to get my internet to work again.
So, I have cable going to both my cable modem and my TV-tuner card, and haven't felt like it was "free" at all, especially since I've been paying for it.
Although this diagram looks nice, it doesn't present a clear view of what is happening now. It consists of all conflicts between countries from Richardson's statistics (1820 - 1950), with refinements from Wilkinson.
Consider the graph (when it eventually comes up). All the red-lines represent Category 7, which is only the two world wars (the most recent of which was 50+ years ago). Category 6 is for deaths of from 500,000 to 2,000,000.
It would be nice to have information regarding something in more recent history, such as the last 10 - 20 years.
I think I'll start running it when it comes bundled in the next release of my favourite distribution... That way, it'll be nicely packaged and ready for my lazy installation skills.
Actually, I think ESO's is a clear winner.
Compare ESO's version (largest is 4.6MB JPEG @ 1951x2366)
and
any on Hubble's page (wide @ 800x813, closeup @ 1000x800).
NOAO has better images than Hubble's too, but they're also wide angle (but still really nice)...
Hubble's MPEG movie animation is very cool though.
More like they'd be confused into thinking that Lindows is either:
a) Microsoft's version of Lin
b) Lin for Microsoft Windows
c) Microsoft Windows for Lin
Outside the community, if they know what Linux is, they know Microsoft isn't producing a version for it. Others would have no idea what it is, and probably wouldn't care.
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I find it interesting that very few of these articles attempt to cover HDTV or digital TV. There is more than one DTV card supported in Linux and an article containing this would prove much more valuable that just the "here's how to setup a box with a PVR-250/350" story that I seem to see everywhere.
:)
Where's the cutting edge stuff!?!
It is now official - Slashdot has confirmed: Slashdot Dupes are here to stay
Yet another duped story bolstered the imitative Better Slashdot Dupes psyche when recently IDC confirmed that Better Slashdot Dupes accounts for a majority of all news stories. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Better Slashdot Dupes has copied more stories, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Better Slashdot Dupes is replicating in an exponential fashion, as fittingly exemplified by duping fastest in the recent Slashdot comprehensive duplicity story postings test.
You don't need to be a CmdrTaco [cmdrtaco.net] to predict Better Slashdot Dupes' future. The electrons are on the screen: Better Slashdot Dupes faces a repetitious future. In fact, the future is all copies for Better Slashdot Dupes because Better Slashdot Dupes is reproducing. Things are looking very good for Better Slashdot Dupes. As many of us are already aware, Better Slashdot Dupes continues to replicate more stories. Green ink flows like a river of money. Frontpage Slashdot Dupes is the most promising of them all, having gained 93% over other duped stories.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the (reciprocal) numbers.
Obviously Blind Slashdot Dupes leader Timothy states that there are 7000 Slashdot Dupes each year. How many stories due to Blind Slashdot Dupes are there? Let's see. The number of Frontpage versus Obvious dupes on Slashdot is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Obvious dupes. Less Obvious Dupe stories on Slashdot are about half of the volume of Obvious dupes. Therefore there are about 700 Less Obvious Dupes. A recent article put Frontpage Slashdot Dupes at about 80 percent of the Better Slashdot Dupes share. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Frontpage Slashdot Dupes. This is consistent with the number of Frontpage Slashdot Dupes showing as Slashdot stories.
Due to the fortunes of Linux, OSDN, and so on, Frontpage Slashdot Dupes doubled business and overtook Obvious Slashdot Dupes. Now Obvious Slashdot Dupes are cloning, turning over an increasing number of dupes.
All major surveys show that Better Slashdot Dupes has steadily redoubled in news stories. Better Slashdot Dupes is multiplying its pace and its long term prospects are exponential. If Better Slashdot Dupes continues this growth, it will be at the expense of regular stories. Better Slashdot Dupes continues to copy. Nothing short of a miracle could save real stories at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Better Slashdot Dupes are here to stay.
Fact: Better Slashdot Dupes are here to stay.
Read the SSN's website
I have the exact same model LCD (Dell 2001FP), and I have had zero problems. I don't know what's wrong with your system, but there's a problem somewhere.
Also, make sure you run it using DVI if possible; it is noticeably crisper than the analog VGA.
Look here
I'm sorry, but I don't think the "rule of thumb" maxim can be applied 21 times to the same area.
"Rules of thumb" are what you use when you don't have any other accurate mechanism, or you just want to estimate...
Perhaps the quality of Microsoft software can be traced back to the "21 Thumbs" rule they use.
whois.net says:
I say:
(PS. We're so big we don't even run our own nameservers!)
It would be awesome if Slashdot did something like this and allowed users to set their own CSS (in the user preferences or something).
That could even be worth paying for! (j/k)
If I understand you correctly, I would rephrase it like this:
All GPL developers maintain the copyright to their own code, and they are free to re-release it under any other license that they will. Of course once their code is in the (GPL'd) source, they can't revoke what they have put under the GPL, although they still maintain their original copyright, and can do whatever else they would like with it.
Furthermore, SCO has no copyrights to IBM's code (they only own copyright to their own code, that's why they can't force IBM to give it to them). Quoting copyright law: According to SCO: So perhaps it is possible that IBM violated the contract by not keeping any contributed source within the license scope, although did they not meet this condition by keeping the AIX derivative work to themselves? (The materials being the final derivative work that is AIX.) They are free to use their own copyrighted code wherever they please. Of course IANAL, so judge for yourself.
Mod parent fluff down please.
28.8k modem announced in mid-Feb 1993
56Kbps (v.90) didn't come out for several years after that.
Can somebody explain how RSS and BitTorrent equal a content management system ?
Sounds more like a (possibly improved) content delivery system.
Too bad the article didn't indicate anything about content management.
CompleteLinux.Info is my startup.
As a Linux Admin, one thing I have realized I'm not very good at is marketing -- I tried Google AdWords, but I didn't get a high-enough hit ratio to survive.
Maybe it is just hard to produce a non-free product or service for the open-source community. Of course, if the demand is there, I'm sure businesses would be the ones to provide the cash-flow...
(DNS seems to be an issue right now though.)
See the following new letter (dated Sept 9th!):
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/34007.htm
Well, I don't know about your ISP, but AT&T (now Comcast) provides this in my area, and I've been using it since day 1.
This is the game that never ends,
It just goes on and on, my friend;
Somebody started playing it, not knowing what it was,
And they'll continue playing it forever just because,
This is the game that never ends,
It just goes on and on, my friend;
Somebody started playing it, not knowing what it was,
And they'll continue playing it forever just because,
This is the game that never ends,
(repeat ad infinitum)
Excuse me, I have to go play... er... do something.. er.. non-..computer related.
- The present invention specifically relates to methods and apparatus useful in video compression systems. It focuses on intra-frame compression technologies, incl motion detection and compensation, etc.
- This patent seems to only cover lossless transmission. (Removing redundant data, not removing information.)
- It uses Huffman-coding after performing statistical analysis, run-length encoding, etc, but not details on cosine transforms, which JPEG uses.
It appears that other patents they reference describe existing systems which use cosine transforms with lossy compression...AT&T's previous increase (about 1 year ago) from ~$30 to ~$38 basically said "Now, for this price increase you get basic cable".
I think they realised this after seeing that they couldn't put a video trap on the same line as your cable modem. This happened to me when I discontinued their free-digital TV trial back in Jan 2000. I had to have them come out and remove the trap to get my internet to work again.
So, I have cable going to both my cable modem and my TV-tuner card, and haven't felt like it was "free" at all, especially since I've been paying for it.
Although this diagram looks nice, it doesn't present a clear view of what is happening now. It consists of all conflicts between countries from Richardson's statistics (1820 - 1950), with refinements from Wilkinson.
Consider the graph (when it eventually comes up). All the red-lines represent Category 7, which is only the two world wars (the most recent of which was 50+ years ago). Category 6 is for deaths of from 500,000 to 2,000,000.
It would be nice to have information regarding something in more recent history, such as the last 10 - 20 years.
I think I'll start running it when it comes bundled in the next release of my favourite distribution...
That way, it'll be nicely packaged and ready for my lazy installation skills.
Actually, I think ESO's is a clear winner.
Compare ESO's version (largest is 4.6MB JPEG @ 1951x2366)
and
any on Hubble's page (wide @ 800x813, closeup @ 1000x800).
NOAO has better images than Hubble's too, but they're also wide angle (but still really nice)...
Hubble's MPEG movie animation is very cool though.
More like they'd be confused into thinking that Lindows is either:
a) Microsoft's version of Lin
b) Lin for Microsoft Windows
c) Microsoft Windows for Lin
Outside the community, if they know what Linux is, they know Microsoft isn't producing a version for it. Others would have no idea what it is, and probably wouldn't care.