>We have reduced all the complexity that you have described above now. To install, setup and configure your whole system:
>lynx -source go-gnome.com | sh
Funny, that didn't work too well on my Slack 7 system.
Perhaps you Helix guys can fix this?
I'd like to actually try your software sometime, but I really don't have the
time to compile a zillion GNOME libs...
(And no, switching distros is out of the question.)
--K
...Then again, maybe I should just ask 'Bob'...
I don't know, but it looks like it costs a fair amount on a Palm VII...
According to Palm.net, the 'Basic' plan is $9.99/month - with a 50 *K* per month transfer limit.
I figure I'd have used up my limit in a day, just for e-mail.
The 'Volume' plan (300K/$39.99/month) would prolly last me a week, also just e-mail.
If I go over my limit, it's $.20 per *K*.
If I wanted any sort of useful service, I'd need to be spending $45 a month.
I already have a digital cell phone, with gobs of *cheap* minutes, that I can connect to
anything with an RS-232 port... (*cough*visor*cough*)
Palm VII just doesn't seem worth it in my situation...
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I installed my DSL a year ago. The procedure they describe is exactly what I did. All they sent was a box, no technicians.
They (USWest) activated the line from their facility, I plugged in my Cisco 675, plugged it into my hub and was running in less than an hour. (Linux too. The 675 uses DHCP.)
They've had that for years! I'm sure you've seen those big matrices of TVs, with each individual TV displaying a segment of the picture to make one large image...
Vorbis, on the other hand is named after the Terry Pratchett character from the book _Small Gods_. The name holds some significance, but it's an indirect, uninteresting story.
>They did not have full control of the name "Chunky Monkey".
Uhhh...they (the 'Munky' people) didn't own the 'Monkey' domain. ChunkyMonkey already owns it. They never made a claim to 'Monkey'.
I don't know if they ever planned on selling shirts or other stuff, but they/certainly/ WOULDN'T have put 'ChunkyMonkey.com' on them.
These domains are more different textually than eToy/eToys- did you support eToys?
Calling site 'Coca-Cola' or 'ChunkyMonkey' *is* infringement.
But is 'Mikrosoft', 'eToy', or 'ChunkyMunky' infringement? For that matter, should Cisco systems be c&d'ing Sisqo the rapper for infringement? How about 'Crisco' suing 'Cisco'? They're spelled just as close as 'Monkey' and 'Munky'...
Is the state of the american trademark system so bad that you can't even have a similar sounding trademark in a different marketplace? Maybe so. But ChunkyMunky never had the money to find out.
I dunno. The 'Monkey' people were asking them to change their content (by posting a letter/link), stay non-commercial, and be barred from creating any 'Munky' merchandise (T-shirts, stickers, etc).
I think I'd rather just 'be a jerk' than let someone else tell me that I can continue using my domain, but only if I do [xxx]. It's not so much that the 'Monkey' demands were unreasonable (they weren't), but that it would mean that the 'Munky' people didn't have full control of their site.
>Sounds like someone is judging MP3 quality through 1-inch PC speakers.
Actually, high-end equipment (even just a decent pair of headphones) makes MP3 artifacts/more/ noticeable. Low end equipment tends to mask artifacts.
I can usually hear artifacts at 128k, but the music style and encoder used makes a big difference. I've heard some 128s that sounded like they were recorded under water, and others that sound near-CD. Also, some codecs clip at 16kHz, so there definately is a audible loss of highs.
I don't consider 128 to be very high quality in most cases. 160 or 192 are much better if you care about semi-accurate reproduction.
I was recently banned when the MetalliBot ran across my bait, a track I created. I renamed the file so it included the words 'Metallica' and 'One', but was obviously not a Metallicrap song. Had they even checked the ID3 tag, it would have shown that this file was not really Metallica at all.
I wonder how much Lars is paying NetPD for a simple keyword search...
--KMM
=-=-=
Re:Clue: GiS has an International audience...
on
Nuke The Moon
·
· Score: 1
>Also, it should just grow up - we're interested in discussions about/.-related stories and >follow ups, we're not interested in 4 minutes of rambling before the actual discussions begin.
I LIKE the silly "Wayne's World" format. If I wanted straight, dry tech news I'd go to C|Net or something. I listen to GiS because it's fun, not because I'm too lazy to READ the news.
I started when I was around 10 using BASIC (I'm ~20), but I don't know if I'd recommend that because I found it fairly hard to pick up C after years of being fluent in BASIC.
Perl might be a good idea, as it's got a similar block structure to C, but without the more involved things like pointers and casting. (Which are definately something that needs to be taught/learned, but prolly not right away...)
I don't know mych about Python, but I hear it's good for teaching OO programming.
Both Perl and Python have TCL bindings so they can play with GUIs if they feel so inclined.
Will someone please mod this down? First of all, it's offtopic (this thread isn't about calculators harming learning), second it's just an (admittedly clever) troll.
What about HTML? It's easy to learn, there are a zillion 'WYSIWYG' editor programs, it can be read on virtually any platform, and best of all, it's plain-text!
Binary text file formats are pure evil from the smoking pits of hell.:)
Slashdot Mirror
>We have reduced all the complexity that you have described above now. To install, setup and configure your whole system:
>lynx -source go-gnome.com | sh
Funny, that didn't work too well on my Slack 7 system.
Perhaps you Helix guys can fix this?
I'd like to actually try your software sometime, but I really don't have the
time to compile a zillion GNOME libs...
(And no, switching distros is out of the question.)
--K
...Then again, maybe I should just ask 'Bob'...
=-=-=
I thought making UNIX look pretty was Apple's job... :P
--K
=-=-=
>How much does THAT cost on a Handspring?
I don't know, but it looks like it costs a fair amount on a Palm VII...
According to Palm.net, the 'Basic' plan is $9.99/month - with a 50 *K* per month transfer limit.
I figure I'd have used up my limit in a day, just for e-mail.
The 'Volume' plan (300K/$39.99/month) would prolly last me a week, also just e-mail.
If I go over my limit, it's $.20 per *K*.
If I wanted any sort of useful service, I'd need to be spending $45 a month.
I already have a digital cell phone, with gobs of *cheap* minutes, that I can connect to
anything with an RS-232 port... (*cough*visor*cough*)
Palm VII just doesn't seem worth it in my situation...
=-=-=
From the article:
;)
Fred Moody is the author of I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier.
Of course, Slashdot has no bias whatsoever either...
=-=-=
>[...]They want finely crafted, highly polished music[...]
>Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and Eminem records[...]
Ummm...Are you suggesting those are 'finely crafted' and 'highly polished' and not 'unlistenable shit'?
It might be popular, but it's still shit. (Check out this link for proof.)
Note to crackhea^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H moderators: see SARCASM(1) and HUMOR(3) for details.
=-=-=
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I installed my DSL a year ago.
The procedure they describe is exactly what I did.
All they sent was a box, no technicians.
They (USWest) activated the line from their
facility, I plugged in my Cisco 675, plugged it into my
hub and was running in less than an hour.
(Linux too. The 675 uses DHCP.)
How is this new all of the sudden?
-K
=-=-=
>What'll be next, a Beowulf cluster of TVs?
They've had that for years!
I'm sure you've seen those big matrices of TVs,
with each individual TV displaying a segment of
the picture to make one large image...
--K
=-=-=
From http://www.xiph.org/xiphname.html :
Vorbis, on the other hand is named after the
Terry Pratchett character from the book _Small Gods_.
The name holds some significance, but it's an indirect, uninteresting story.
--KMM
=-=-=
Didn't even catch that link.
My bad.
--Kevin
=-=-=
10Mbps wireless ethernet you can build:
http://www.technocrat.net/937014982/index_html
--Kevin
=-=-=
Maybe they should join together and form Dr. 'Bob' Dobbs magazine... ;D
=-=-=
>They did not have full control of the name "Chunky Monkey".
/certainly/ WOULDN'T have
Uhhh...they (the 'Munky' people) didn't own the 'Monkey' domain.
ChunkyMonkey already owns it.
They never made a claim to 'Monkey'.
I don't know if they ever planned on selling shirts
or other stuff, but they
put 'ChunkyMonkey.com' on them.
These domains are more different textually than eToy/eToys-
did you support eToys?
Calling site 'Coca-Cola' or 'ChunkyMonkey' *is* infringement.
But is 'Mikrosoft', 'eToy', or 'ChunkyMunky' infringement?
For that matter, should Cisco systems be c&d'ing Sisqo the rapper for infringement?
How about 'Crisco' suing 'Cisco'?
They're spelled just as close as 'Monkey' and 'Munky'...
Is the state of the american trademark system so
bad that you can't even have a similar sounding
trademark in a different marketplace?
Maybe so.
But ChunkyMunky never had the money to find out.
--KMM
=-=-=
I dunno. The 'Monkey' people were asking them to
change their content (by posting a letter/link),
stay non-commercial, and be barred from creating
any 'Munky' merchandise (T-shirts, stickers, etc).
I think I'd rather just 'be a jerk' than let someone else tell me that I can continue
using my domain, but only if I do [xxx].
It's not so much that the 'Monkey' demands were unreasonable
(they weren't), but that it would mean that the
'Munky' people didn't have full control of their site.
Just my opinon tho.
--KMM
=-=-=
>Sounds like someone is judging MP3 quality through 1-inch PC speakers.
/more/ noticeable.
Actually, high-end equipment (even just a decent pair
of headphones) makes MP3 artifacts
Low end equipment tends to mask artifacts.
I can usually hear artifacts at 128k, but the music
style and encoder used makes a big difference.
I've heard some 128s that sounded like they were recorded
under water, and others that sound near-CD.
Also, some codecs clip at 16kHz, so there definately
is a audible loss of highs.
I don't consider 128 to be very high quality
in most cases. 160 or 192 are much better if you
care about semi-accurate reproduction.
=-=-=
Evangelion is really cool, and the first 4 episodes (out of 26) of it just came out on DVD.
I just got my copy this week, and it seems like
a really good transfer, but I'm not a DVD expert
by any means...
I'd say it's definately worth a look.
--Kevin
=-=-=
It's not about 'showing' anyone, stupid. I was curious
as to whether they were even cheking ID3s.
--KMM
=-=-=
I was recently banned when the MetalliBot ran
across my bait, a track I created.
I renamed the file so it included the words
'Metallica' and 'One', but was obviously not a
Metallicrap song.
Had they even checked the ID3 tag, it would have
shown that this file was not really Metallica at all.
I wonder how much Lars is paying NetPD for a simple keyword search...
--KMM
=-=-=
>Also, it should just grow up - we're interested in discussions about /.-related stories and
>follow ups, we're not interested in 4 minutes of rambling before the actual discussions begin.
I LIKE the silly "Wayne's World" format.
If I wanted straight, dry tech news I'd go to
C|Net or something. I listen to GiS because it's
fun, not because I'm too lazy to READ the news.
--Kevin
=-=-=
I started when I was around 10 using BASIC (I'm ~20),
but I don't know if I'd recommend that because
I found it fairly hard to pick up C after years
of being fluent in BASIC.
Perl might be a good idea, as it's got a similar
block structure to C, but without the more involved
things like pointers and casting.
(Which are definately something that needs to be
taught/learned, but prolly not right away...)
I don't know mych about Python, but I hear it's good for
teaching OO programming.
Both Perl and Python have TCL bindings so they
can play with GUIs if they feel so inclined.
Just some suggestions...
--Kevin
=-=-=
I've rented a couple DVDs from the local
King Soopers, and every one of them had a
'Please Rewind' sticker on the case.
Always made me wonder...
--Kevin
=-=-=
They call him Flipper, Flipper, Flipper/
he's faster than lightning/
no one you see/
flips burgers like he.../
Couldn't resist.
--KMM
=-=-=
Will someone please mod this down?
First of all, it's offtopic (this thread isn't about calculators harming learning), second it's
just an (admittedly clever) troll.
--KMM
=-=-=
Wow. Whoever modded that up must be smokin' that $2 streetcorner crack...
=-=-=
What about HTML?
:)
It's easy to learn, there are a zillion 'WYSIWYG'
editor programs, it can be read on virtually any
platform, and best of all, it's plain-text!
Binary text file formats are pure evil from the smoking pits of hell.
--Kevin
=-=-=
Or maybe just swap out the SDRAM with Isolinear optical chips... ;)
Prolly cost less than RDRAM, too!
=-=-=