Hey car companies are already working on making it impossible to fix your own car, but not through legal measures, but design ones. Have you looked under the hood of a new car? Half of them anymore have stuff in place that needs to be removed before you can even see the engine, let alone work on it. Also, ever wonder why your oil filter (the most often replaced part of your car) is in such a crazy and hard to reach location?
What facts exactly were screwed up? Other than the headline I thought it was an excellent article. And IIRC DeCSS is a windows program and has nothing to do with linux. One more thing, have you ever heard the expression, "You catch more flies with honey than vinager"? It's true. Sending a newspaper an angry letter, especially one ranting about linux is very likely to get you ignored. Sending a polite, but firm, letter is more likely to get some attention.
Who is the bigger geek, the geek or the geek who insults the geeks? Or maybe it's the geek who parodies lines from star wars. I find it amusing that you insult all of us for being "losers", as you define it, yet you are the one who seems to get his kicks by insulting people on slashdot. BTW, for a record, I do have a social life, I had a moderately long term girlfriend until recently when I broke up with her, and I am a quite adept skier (is that how you spell it?). Life is short when you constantly insult others and never bother to live your own life.
P.S. Please excuse my spelling or grammar errors. We all know that not being able to spell or speak correctly is a requirement for being a true/. geek.
what i find funny is that the post is "redundant" yet it is the second post and the first is your usual first post bull. I don't see how it's possible for this post to be redundant. Too bad I don't have any moderator points to fix it.
Yup that was them. That was a really weird situation too. People tried to shut anon.penet.fi down because a lot of kiddie porn passed through it. That failed. But when people used it to critisize the scientologists...poof it went. I personally find their behavior childish and terrifying. I wonder how long it will be before I have a lawyer calling me up.
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Guess we gotta keep those kiddies away from Linux, it's worse than crack:). Dare to keep kids off Linux.
Yah it must be useless. As well all know all "proprietary software" is bad. Period. No exceptions, ever! Only open software is safe!!! Btw, when is the last time you did a line by line security audit of any program?
I'm curious, are you just spouting out buzz words, or did you actually sit down and think about what you were saying? This has NOTHING at all to do with "the Cathedral / Bazaar scenario". It's about a careless company and someone cracking a weak encryption scheme. It has nothing to do with open source, linux, whatever else you might want to call it. It's a crack. Sheesh.
First off, writing a player app is going to be a LOT easier than CSS. For the player we have the source code to the driver as a reference, and the API as it stands right now (which will change) isn't that complicated. The test app that comes with the driver is about 4k, sure it's not feature rich, but it works. I was actually considering writing a player myself as a project. Any half decent coder could do the same. Also, don't count on a decent player to come from creative until after the driver is working, if at all.
I hate to burst your bubble but you are wrong. The dxr2 does CSS completely in hardware so the "CSS leak" (which happened quite some time ago btw) has nothing at all to do with it. The dxr3 does CSS in software which is probally why we are only seeing dxr2 at the moment.
Also, please read the post in the future, maybe notice the link to the drivers given in the source. Creative already released the source, and I've already got it working on my system (for un-encrypted DVDs, haven't tried it with encrypted ones yet).
you obviously have never seen a dxr2 in action. The tv output is *much* better than the onscreen output. Hell, the output to my tv tuner looks better than the signal the dxr2 puts on my monitor, except for the combing.
It does work, a bit. I managed to get my system to play back dvds over my tv tuner. I don't know how sound works because my cd audio doesn't work right under linux to begin with. Video looks good, but it's extremely jumpy. Not entirely certain why. Also, I had to change the source of PAL to NTSC in test.c before I could get everything working right (but that's an issue with my tv tuner not the card I think). Has anyone else noticed jumpiness or is it just me? Also, creative doesn't have bugzilla going for Dxr2 yet:(.
That was probally the single most stupid and insulting thing I have ever read. I don't know about anyone else here, but I've never shown a girl my bug collection, come to think of it I don't have one. Although I have beaten a few girls at nintendo.
I'm curious though, what do other geeks find attractive in the female gender.
Here's my ideal (read non-existant) girl in some order of importance: -intelligent: I like to be able to have conversations with girls that actually make me think. -nice: Who wants a bitchy girl? -geek: I can dream, can't I? -enjoys quiet nights on irc: Bonus points if she knows what IRC stands for. -likes punk rock-ish music: If she likes Britaney Spears she's out.
And now we enter the oh so important physical characteristics.
-about 3 or 4 inches shorter than me (I'm 5'8"). -red hair -freckels
Oh and the part that makes here 100% not real. -she's just plain goofy for 5'8" geeks who are slightly over-weight wear flannel and have purple hair.
It's 100% different. To most cd players cdrs look like a standard cd. The only real difference being they reflect slightly less light. I think it's about 80% of what a cd reflects. DVD-RAM is not a DVD at all. It's essentially a high capacity cd-rw in a cartridge which can't be opened. The only reason they called them DVD-anything was to be buzz-word compliant. They do make DVD-R drives which from what I understand burn true DVDs in the same sense a CD-R is a true CD. But they cost about $18,000 a drive and I have no clue what the media is, but I imagine it's not cheap.
I got about 11fps on a pII-300Mhz w/o sound. For some reason I couldn't get sound to work at all. Now under windows using software only I get what appears to be a full 30fps with sound. Someday...
GNOME's use of corba is not standard. IIRC, ORBit uses a proprietary authentication scheme that made interoperability difficult if not impossible from the begining.
The initial AI doesn't scare me at all. What scares me is more of a 2001 scenario: when the AI determines that humans are an obsticle to its mission. Or what if the AIs learn how to reprogram themselves. They obviously have to have the ability to learn or else they would be pretty useless. I just worry about our ability to design an AI that we can retain total controll of.
Then there is the even more frightening issue. What if AIs become weapons. Think about it, what happens when the KKK designs an AI that has an uncontrollable need to elliminate all blacks? Or truely "smart" bombs.
IMHO AI is a double edged sword. Sure it can do a lot of great things for humanity, but at what cost?
If you read the article you would see that they give the size to be several times that of jupiter. Jupiter happens to be the largest planet in our solar system. Now if you rule out this new thing as a "minor planet" I hate to think what you would consider earth.
IIRC the technical definition of a planet is anything that orbits the sun. So if I threw a baseball into orbit around the sun by that definition it would be a planet. As far as classifying things as planets as we know them I don't think there is a definition. Look at the controversy over pluto for example. I think basically it comes down to size. If it's small it's an asteroid, if it's big, it's a planet.
Yah! Damned redhat. How dare they release new versions? Why couldn't they have just stopped at version 1.0, it was perfect after all. How dare they force us to upgrade our boxes. Damn Linus too for that matter. Where does he get off thinking he's allowed to release version aftter version of the kernel.
Now incase you couldn't tell this has been entirely sarcastic. This post simply makes no sense what so ever. Your complaints about redhat releasing new versions are simply stupid. Every company releases new versions of their products. Also, your crap about paying for bug fixes are unfounded too. Look at updates.redhat.com. It has a bunch of bugfixes and other updates for redhat versions. And they don't just do the latest version. I know that 5.2 is still being maintained and probally older versions too.
Why is it that since redhat did that little IPO thing everyone has been jumping down their throats at every single move they made. Stupid paranoid kids.
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Hey car companies are already working on making it impossible to fix your own car, but not through legal measures, but design ones. Have you looked under the hood of a new car? Half of them anymore have stuff in place that needs to be removed before you can even see the engine, let alone work on it. Also, ever wonder why your oil filter (the most often replaced part of your car) is in such a crazy and hard to reach location?
What facts exactly were screwed up? Other than the headline I thought it was an excellent article. And IIRC DeCSS is a windows program and has nothing to do with linux. One more thing, have you ever heard the expression, "You catch more flies with honey than vinager"? It's true. Sending a newspaper an angry letter, especially one ranting about linux is very likely to get you ignored. Sending a polite, but firm, letter is more likely to get some attention.
Who is the bigger geek, the geek or the geek who insults the geeks? Or maybe it's the geek who parodies lines from star wars. I find it amusing that you insult all of us for being "losers", as you define it, yet you are the one who seems to get his kicks by insulting people on slashdot. BTW, for a record, I do have a social life, I had a moderately long term girlfriend until recently when I broke up with her, and I am a quite adept skier (is that how you spell it?). Life is short when you constantly insult others and never bother to live your own life.
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P.S. Please excuse my spelling or grammar errors. We all know that not being able to spell or speak correctly is a requirement for being a true
what i find funny is that the post is "redundant" yet it is the second post and the first is your usual first post bull. I don't see how it's possible for this post to be redundant. Too bad I don't have any moderator points to fix it.
Yup that was them. That was a really weird situation too. People tried to shut anon.penet.fi down because a lot of kiddie porn passed through it. That failed. But when people used it to critisize the scientologists...poof it went. I personally find their behavior childish and terrifying. I wonder how long it will be before I have a lawyer calling me up.
1. YOU CERTIFY THAT YOU ARE NOT A MINOR AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE
:). Dare to keep kids off Linux.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET OUT IN THE LICENSE BELOW. DOWNLOADING AND/OR USING THE
PRODUCT WILL BE AN IRREVOCABLE ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE
LICENSE.
Guess we gotta keep those kiddies away from Linux, it's worse than crack
Yah it must be useless. As well all know all "proprietary software" is bad. Period. No exceptions, ever! Only open software is safe!!! Btw, when is the last time you did a line by line security audit of any program?
I'm curious, are you just spouting out buzz words, or did you actually sit down and think about what you were saying? This has NOTHING at all to do with "the Cathedral / Bazaar scenario". It's about a careless company and someone cracking a weak encryption scheme. It has nothing to do with open source, linux, whatever else you might want to call it. It's a crack. Sheesh.
yah, the command they gave was wrong. mknod /dev/dxr2 c 120 0 is the correct command.
First off, writing a player app is going to be a LOT easier than CSS. For the player we have the source code to the driver as a reference, and the API as it stands right now (which will change) isn't that complicated. The test app that comes with the driver is about 4k, sure it's not feature rich, but it works. I was actually considering writing a player myself as a project. Any half decent coder could do the same. Also, don't count on a decent player to come from creative until after the driver is working, if at all.
I hate to burst your bubble but you are wrong. The dxr2 does CSS completely in hardware so the "CSS leak" (which happened quite some time ago btw) has nothing at all to do with it. The dxr3 does CSS in software which is probally why we are only seeing dxr2 at the moment.
Also, please read the post in the future, maybe notice the link to the drivers given in the source. Creative already released the source, and I've already got it working on my system (for un-encrypted DVDs, haven't tried it with encrypted ones yet).
you obviously have never seen a dxr2 in action. The tv output is *much* better than the onscreen output. Hell, the output to my tv tuner looks better than the signal the dxr2 puts on my monitor, except for the combing.
It does work, a bit. I managed to get my system to play back dvds over my tv tuner. I don't know how sound works because my cd audio doesn't work right under linux to begin with. Video looks good, but it's extremely jumpy. Not entirely certain why. Also, I had to change the source of PAL to NTSC in test.c before I could get everything working right (but that's an issue with my tv tuner not the card I think). Has anyone else noticed jumpiness or is it just me? Also, creative doesn't have bugzilla going for Dxr2 yet :(.
That was probally the single most stupid and insulting thing I have ever read. I don't know about anyone else here, but I've never shown a girl my bug collection, come to think of it I don't have one. Although I have beaten a few girls at nintendo.
I'm curious though, what do other geeks find attractive in the female gender.
Here's my ideal (read non-existant) girl in some order of importance:
-intelligent: I like to be able to have conversations with girls that actually make me think.
-nice: Who wants a bitchy girl?
-geek: I can dream, can't I?
-enjoys quiet nights on irc: Bonus points if she knows what IRC stands for.
-likes punk rock-ish music: If she likes Britaney Spears she's out.
And now we enter the oh so important physical characteristics.
-about 3 or 4 inches shorter than me (I'm 5'8").
-red hair
-freckels
Oh and the part that makes here 100% not real.
-she's just plain goofy for 5'8" geeks who are slightly over-weight wear flannel and have purple hair.
It's 100% different. To most cd players cdrs look like a standard cd. The only real difference being they reflect slightly less light. I think it's about 80% of what a cd reflects. DVD-RAM is not a DVD at all. It's essentially a high capacity cd-rw in a cartridge which can't be opened. The only reason they called them DVD-anything was to be buzz-word compliant. They do make DVD-R drives which from what I understand burn true DVDs in the same sense a CD-R is a true CD. But they cost about $18,000 a drive and I have no clue what the media is, but I imagine it's not cheap.
I got about 11fps on a pII-300Mhz w/o sound. For some reason I couldn't get sound to work at all. Now under windows using software only I get what appears to be a full 30fps with sound. Someday...
GNOME's use of corba is not standard. IIRC, ORBit uses a proprietary authentication scheme that made interoperability difficult if not impossible from the begining.
The initial AI doesn't scare me at all. What scares me is more of a 2001 scenario: when the AI determines that humans are an obsticle to its mission. Or what if the AIs learn how to reprogram themselves. They obviously have to have the ability to learn or else they would be pretty useless. I just worry about our ability to design an AI that we can retain total controll of.
Then there is the even more frightening issue. What if AIs become weapons. Think about it, what happens when the KKK designs an AI that has an uncontrollable need to elliminate all blacks? Or truely "smart" bombs.
IMHO AI is a double edged sword. Sure it can do a lot of great things for humanity, but at what cost?
Uhm...Unless I don't remember TCP/IP correctly w/o ICMP you can't open any TCP connection.
If you read the article you would see that they give the size to be several times that of jupiter. Jupiter happens to be the largest planet in our solar system. Now if you rule out this new thing as a "minor planet" I hate to think what you would consider earth.
IIRC the technical definition of a planet is anything that orbits the sun. So if I threw a baseball into orbit around the sun by that definition it would be a planet. As far as classifying things as planets as we know them I don't think there is a definition. Look at the controversy over pluto for example. I think basically it comes down to size. If it's small it's an asteroid, if it's big, it's a planet.
The nemesis theory describes a star, not a planet, so there is some difference.
Yah! Damned redhat. How dare they release new versions? Why couldn't they have just stopped at version 1.0, it was perfect after all. How dare they force us to upgrade our boxes. Damn Linus too for that matter. Where does he get off thinking he's allowed to release version aftter version of the kernel.
Now incase you couldn't tell this has been entirely sarcastic. This post simply makes no sense what so ever. Your complaints about redhat releasing new versions are simply stupid. Every company releases new versions of their products. Also, your crap about paying for bug fixes are unfounded too. Look at updates.redhat.com. It has a bunch of bugfixes and other updates for redhat versions. And they don't just do the latest version. I know that 5.2 is still being maintained and probally older versions too.
Why is it that since redhat did that little IPO thing everyone has been jumping down their throats at every single move they made. Stupid paranoid kids.
Sticks!!! You had sticks?!?!?! We had to scratch the dirt with our finger nails.
I second that motion. I'm thinking about boycotting Pizza Hut simply because they THOUGHT about it.