I've heard xanim plays quicktime movies in linux just fine. As for Sorenson, I never mentioned it, and, frankly, I don't care about it.
As for my supposed lack of experience with Apple products, I used to be a developer of Macintosh software.
Macs have been using open firmware for a long time now, expertise in the workings of the Mac Plus do not translate well onto modern hardware or software. Anyway, "used to be" doesn't lend you much credibility when commenting about Apple's recent activites, especially after the ignorance you displayed in your comment.
BTW, you don't flame well. Try harder next time, or not at all.
And don't they still have the boot rom thing so that you can only load MacOS on Apple hardware? Yeah, real open.
Have you ever heard of OpenFirmware? No, I see you haven't. It's the thing that most Linux distributions on the Mac use to boot. Neat huh?
Why do you speak with certainty about Apple an their hardware when it's obvious that you don't follow the company, and don't have any experiece with their products?
all parts of MacOS X that aren't in Darwin
What's in Linux that isn't in Darwin? Apple never had to Open Source anything, expecting them to opensource everything, and complaining is being unreasonable.
That way Universal et al will get the message that their copy protection is not wanted. If you just don't buy the thing, then they can just explain away the CDs poor sales without even mentioning copy protection, they could claim that it was a mediocre CD, that the economy has affected record sales, etc.
If they put out the CD and get a %10-%20 return rate (an insanely high number). They'll be able to make no excuses, to themselves or others, they'll have to drop the technology. They can't remain profitable with a high return rate.
There's still no reason to waste it. He lives in Canada, I live in North Dakota, I could use the heat put out by a server room during the winter. It would sure save on heating.
I picked up the newspaper. What do I see on page two? Weather forecasts. Be more specific next time, we don't all read the same newspaper as you.
Now assuming your refering to the opinion page, you're just being a moron. Traditionally editors wrote most opinion articles, this is by tradition only, it is not part of the job description.
It is also considered extreamly bad, as a reporter or editor, to mix your opinions into the news anywere but the opinion page. This is what Micheal is doing. He is not editing (well, he might be), he is opinionating in a news piece. This is bad, and it deserves a good bitching.
Moral? With something as infinitely reproducible as information, I'd say the creators should expect people to do whatever they want with it, and
get over it. They still have it intact for themselves, no matter what others do. No loss there.
This is coming form someone who most likely has never created anything worth a copyright in their entire life, and is addicted to some napster-clone or has taken open source zelotry a bit too far.
Please, go yell, "INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE! FREE I TELL YOU, FREE!" somewhere else. I'm all fine and dandy with you creating something and placing it in the public domain, but you're crossing the line when you expect everyone else to put what they've made in the public domain, whether they like it or not.
A liquid morphic villian with big breasts. It will have hot robot sex with The Terminator and bring him back to the side of evil, where he rightly belongs.
In response to This poster. Terminator 3 will bring serious debate about hot robot sex out of academia to all levels of society.
I saw this today and it had a very interesting tidbit of information. In the settlement, Microsoft is valuing the software part at $840 million. Apple contends that actual cost of that software would be more like $1 million and only 5%-6% of the value of the settlement would be able to be used to buy non-Microsoft technology.
The only way they could ever possibly do this is with communist-china-style filters. I could see American/etc porn sites just giving Germany a big fuck you if they try to make them shut down during the day. Porn sites are just far too numerous for Germany to put the kind of pressure on them like France did to Yahoo & (correct be if I'm wrong) ebay.
I'm running the linux version of communicator 4.78 and I'm seeing them. I do have the flash plugin installed, but disabling it in the application prefrences doesn't seem to kill the ads.
If you look on the Windows lifecycle page you'll see that MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 will become unsupported a month after Windows 95. Is it me, or is that really f*cked up?
An example, Cable One of Phoenix Arizona. On their support site, they have a page with all the information that you'll need to set up your connection if you use an unsupported operating system. There's nothing proprietary about it.
On the other hand certain ADSL plans here require you to run a windows program just to connect to the service. I wouldn't go making blanket statements that only go with cable if it's your only option for broadband, because many times, cable is the better choice.
Buying an returing the CD will send a clear message to anyone who's paying attention. It makes it clear that you're pissed of with the CD. If you just refuse to buy it, what does that accomplish? No one will ever get your message. A 5% return rate will speak louder than a 5% drop in sales.
RC5 = find the average time it takes to decrypt
encrypted data
You can find out how long it would take to decrypt something without actually doing a brute force attack. Doing a brute force attack is a waste of time, computing power, and electricity. If you really want to run something from d.net, participate in the OGR project instead of RC5 (I do on one of my computers). At least those numbers will be useful once the project is over.
The obvious answer, given the time from #1 above,
is: NO!
This isn't the first time I've seen someone bullshit some numbers to prove that something isn't possible. Thought experiments don't prove anything. You can belive something all you want, but you can't prove it until you go out and find some real proof.
Why do you keep talking about Seti like it's an equation that has to be solved? You don't "solve" a search.
Of course, when you live in the US, where your wireless services are about eight years
behind the curve, this is less of an issue. *grin*
If I could get one of those big old 80s-early 90s cell phones (like the one that kid had in saved by the bell), I would use it. I don't need no stinkin' text-messaging WAP shit on my phone.
Why try to search and calculate something that doesn't have any known solution?
Now what are you trying to say there? Seti@home isn't an attempt to calculate a particular number or solve a particular equation, it is an attempt to detect radio signals that may be indicative of an extraterrestrial civilization. There's no solution, but there is a set of possible outcomes, the same set that is associated with such things as "crunching proteins to cure cancer"
IMHO, RC5-64 is a worthless waste of effort. What are you proving by yet-again finding the key used to encrypt a known message? Nothing. There's not even the potential to do anything new.
That's right a "Technology Analyst" with an AOL address. Fuck, I wonder how much this person gets paid, an easy job, easy money, and you don't have to know shit about what you're talking about.
Someone needs to smack this person with a cluestick. Has this person heard of cable companies that encourage you to use NAT? What does this person think that a gateway running NAT would look like to this fancy new computer counting technology? Has this person actually neworked two computers together, or did (s)he just read "Wired's history of the Internet and NAT, for dummies?"
It distributes a utility called ResEdit that allows you to tamper with the metadata associated with Macintosh files, including the invisible bit!
Someone needs to tell the RIAA about this, fast. No matter how large the company, no one should be able to get away with distributing hacker piracy tools!
The US and Europe are friendly tward each other when it comes to anything important. I mean it's not like Europe is going to be fighting a war against the US any time soon (or not so soon).
I can see some country like Iraq or China having good reasons for their own independant GPS system, but not Europe, they're more likely than anyone to be sided with the US during any event that may call for decreased GPS accuracy.
IIRC. I have a fairly low-end GPS receiver and I can regularly get accuracy within about 12-15 feet. To get any better, I think you need more expensive equipment, the acronym DGPS comes to mind, but I can't remember exactly what that is. I think it has to do with using two receivers to get a more accurate position.
Slashdot Mirror
What's so famous about it?
As for my supposed lack of experience with Apple products, I used to be a developer of Macintosh software.
Macs have been using open firmware for a long time now, expertise in the workings of the Mac Plus do not translate well onto modern hardware or software. Anyway, "used to be" doesn't lend you much credibility when commenting about Apple's recent activites, especially after the ignorance you displayed in your comment.
BTW, you don't flame well. Try harder next time, or not at all.
Have you ever heard of OpenFirmware? No, I see you haven't. It's the thing that most Linux distributions on the Mac use to boot. Neat huh?
Why do you speak with certainty about Apple an their hardware when it's obvious that you don't follow the company, and don't have any experiece with their products?
all parts of MacOS X that aren't in Darwin
What's in Linux that isn't in Darwin? Apple never had to Open Source anything, expecting them to opensource everything, and complaining is being unreasonable.
Look it's the Quicktime file format! Make your own player.
More Open Source projects at Apple.
If they put out the CD and get a %10-%20 return rate (an insanely high number). They'll be able to make no excuses, to themselves or others, they'll have to drop the technology. They can't remain profitable with a high return rate.
There's still no reason to waste it. He lives in Canada, I live in North Dakota, I could use the heat put out by a server room during the winter. It would sure save on heating.
I picked up the newspaper. What do I see on page two? Weather forecasts. Be more specific next time, we don't all read the same newspaper as you.
Now assuming your refering to the opinion page, you're just being a moron. Traditionally editors wrote most opinion articles, this is by tradition only, it is not part of the job description.
It is also considered extreamly bad, as a reporter or editor, to mix your opinions into the news anywere but the opinion page. This is what Micheal is doing. He is not editing (well, he might be), he is opinionating in a news piece. This is bad, and it deserves a good bitching.
An AC bashing an AC for being an AC.
This is coming form someone who most likely has never created anything worth a copyright in their entire life, and is addicted to some napster-clone or has taken open source zelotry a bit too far.
Please, go yell, "INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE! FREE I TELL YOU, FREE!" somewhere else. I'm all fine and dandy with you creating something and placing it in the public domain, but you're crossing the line when you expect everyone else to put what they've made in the public domain, whether they like it or not.
A liquid morphic villian with big breasts. It will have hot robot sex with The Terminator and bring him back to the side of evil, where he rightly belongs.
In response to This poster. Terminator 3 will bring serious debate about hot robot sex out of academia to all levels of society.
read about it here.
I saw this today and it had a very interesting tidbit of information. In the settlement, Microsoft is valuing the software part at $840 million. Apple contends that actual cost of that software would be more like $1 million and only 5%-6% of the value of the settlement would be able to be used to buy non-Microsoft technology.
This is the first time that I can recall the slashdot effect triggering a security response.
The only way they could ever possibly do this is with communist-china-style filters. I could see American/etc porn sites just giving Germany a big fuck you if they try to make them shut down during the day. Porn sites are just far too numerous for Germany to put the kind of pressure on them like France did to Yahoo & (correct be if I'm wrong) ebay.
I'm running the linux version of communicator 4.78 and I'm seeing them. I do have the flash plugin installed, but disabling it in the application prefrences doesn't seem to kill the ads.
If you look on the Windows lifecycle page you'll see that MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 will become unsupported a month after Windows 95. Is it me, or is that really f*cked up?
On the other hand certain ADSL plans here require you to run a windows program just to connect to the service. I wouldn't go making blanket statements that only go with cable if it's your only option for broadband, because many times, cable is the better choice.
Buying an returing the CD will send a clear message to anyone who's paying attention. It makes it clear that you're pissed of with the CD. If you just refuse to buy it, what does that accomplish? No one will ever get your message. A 5% return rate will speak louder than a 5% drop in sales.
You can find out how long it would take to decrypt something without actually doing a brute force attack. Doing a brute force attack is a waste of time, computing power, and electricity. If you really want to run something from d.net, participate in the OGR project instead of RC5 (I do on one of my computers). At least those numbers will be useful once the project is over.
The obvious answer, given the time from #1 above, is: NO!
This isn't the first time I've seen someone bullshit some numbers to prove that something isn't possible. Thought experiments don't prove anything. You can belive something all you want, but you can't prove it until you go out and find some real proof.
Why do you keep talking about Seti like it's an equation that has to be solved? You don't "solve" a search.
If I could get one of those big old 80s-early 90s cell phones (like the one that kid had in saved by the bell), I would use it. I don't need no stinkin' text-messaging WAP shit on my phone.
Now what are you trying to say there? Seti@home isn't an attempt to calculate a particular number or solve a particular equation, it is an attempt to detect radio signals that may be indicative of an extraterrestrial civilization. There's no solution, but there is a set of possible outcomes, the same set that is associated with such things as "crunching proteins to cure cancer"
IMHO, RC5-64 is a worthless waste of effort. What are you proving by yet-again finding the key used to encrypt a known message? Nothing. There's not even the potential to do anything new.
Yeah, look how much work I put into that thing. If I've got nothing to put there, I'm sure as hell not going to pay for hosting.
I really hope so. Too bad about the innocents that will be taken down with them, but that's the price you pay.
That's right a "Technology Analyst" with an AOL address. Fuck, I wonder how much this person gets paid, an easy job, easy money, and you don't have to know shit about what you're talking about.
Someone needs to smack this person with a cluestick. Has this person heard of cable companies that encourage you to use NAT? What does this person think that a gateway running NAT would look like to this fancy new computer counting technology? Has this person actually neworked two computers together, or did (s)he just read "Wired's history of the Internet and NAT, for dummies?"
It distributes a utility called ResEdit that allows you to tamper with the metadata associated with Macintosh files, including the invisible bit!
Someone needs to tell the RIAA about this, fast. No matter how large the company, no one should be able to get away with distributing hacker piracy tools!
The US and Europe are friendly tward each other when it comes to anything important. I mean it's not like Europe is going to be fighting a war against the US any time soon (or not so soon).
I can see some country like Iraq or China having good reasons for their own independant GPS system, but not Europe, they're more likely than anyone to be sided with the US during any event that may call for decreased GPS accuracy.
IIRC. I have a fairly low-end GPS receiver and I can regularly get accuracy within about 12-15 feet. To get any better, I think you need more expensive equipment, the acronym DGPS comes to mind, but I can't remember exactly what that is. I think it has to do with using two receivers to get a more accurate position.