First off Mozilla wont work unless it can from the banks point of view look like Netscape or IE.
I go for command line only for 2 main reasons.
1. One can learn a lot more living on the command line. X tends to be a little sheltering.
2. System bloat. My main system is a p100 with 32mg ram and a 1.2 gig harddrive. Running an emacs server, pine, slrn, BitchX, links, micq, and 9 instances of bash at any given moment tends to work the system a bit, and running X would slow it down to a crawl, especialy when 04:00 rolls around.
Also by being full command line you can move to any other n*x system pull out a floopy and have $HOME sweet $HOME in under 50 seconds.
On the bright side you get more codeing done because you don't spend all day in alt.binaries.*. Can't watch mpgs and avis from the command line.
Konq without X is cool but how about Netscape without X? You may ask yourself why. In order to access my bank online I have to use Netscape or IE. I am command line only at home and would love to have a framebufferd browser that is usable for this so I don't have to wait till I get to work and use one of their browsers. zen is a browser that will compile for gtk, qt or work from the framebuffer but its totaly useless for anything other than viewing a static page.
I want to see more development on command line only browsers to take advantage of older hardware or for people like myself who are GUI-impaired. One of the nice bennies of more development would be one could do $ getbankballence.sh | netscape --prompt4password. Now wouldn't that be cool in cron.
Some of the command line browsers out there, sorted by usefulness:
Sorry I didn't get here sooner.
I made a Interactive Bash Prompt config script you can get on freshmeat. Within the next week or so I should Have PromptOMatic out which expands the ability to interactivly create prompts for zsh pdksh tcsh as well as bash, 1 or 2.
I have always thought we should have a pr0n suit.
Make the backend so that it will compile with ncurses or gtk or qt. The interface would be something like if you where to take a MC/Xtree interface and add an image viewer field. Inside that field you should be able to see the full range of jpgs, bmps, png, etc as will as mpgs, avis, movs, rms, etc.
The problem is that I have as of yet to see a console app that could even be hacked to do this. The available image viewers like zgv, fbi, fbview, seejpeg and even jpig (jpeg to ASCII for ASCII pr0n) all take up the whole screen and have no built in menuing capability. There is only one mpeg viewer for the command line and its still in early beta testing.
Hackers consume more porn than anyone does (mostly because we know the nntp will supply unlimited amounts of it for free) and we should have a Pr0n 'O' Matic application that is capable of a lot of cool tricks. Until we can tell Joe Win user that we have the best porn viewing software we will never win the desktop war. Linux has conquored the porn server market and now its time for us to hit the desktop.
When I read that part of the article I had fond memories of my school days.
Middle school: go downtown to the newspaper stands in front of the court house and put a dollar in and get a fist full of the swingers papers. Sell them for $2 each to suburban peers.
High school: I would sell 2 cartons of cigs a day. GPC/Basic:.10 each or $2 a pack. Name Brand:.25 each or $4 a pack. I didn't start smoking until 3 years after I graduated because a dealer doesn't make money if they sample the merchandise.
Collage: Go to the major Magic the Gathering (Tragic the Addiction) tournaments and by rare cards for cheap and then sell them to suburban peers at "book" rate. Not dishonest or illegal but very profitable.
Now I am all grown up and have a much better moral code. Ah to be young and non-prosecutable and without a conscious again.
I was a big fan of BG back in the day. Then they started showing the reruns. Faux-wife and I sat down to watch it for old time nostalgia. It was the classic episode with the cross-shaped glowing white space ship that they show in the opening credits. Let me tell you something. It Sucked. It sucked more than anything I had seen in a long time. Faux-wife was deeply saddened to see a show she loved growing up as one of the worst pieces of TV sci-fi to ever be rebroadcast. The plot was sickly. The characters where two dimensional in the extreme. I was under the impression that I would be privilege to the benefit of watching it older and wiser. I would see new things I had missed before.
Some how I got just as much out the episode this time as I did when I saw it nearly 2 decades ago.
It is my hope that the new version of BG is not a special effects enhanced version of the old. Fox, if you are listening, please do us a favor: create a show that will have some value after 20 years. I think things like _good_ plots and characters with character, not 2D stereo types, might be a good start.
There has been much said about the relivance of this topic. So let us define nerds.
Here is my definition:
Some one outside of the main stream with an interest in intalectual feilds of study in both the higher and lower sciencs.
By that defintion anything with the suffix -ology qualify, like say for example biology. Is it the best idea for a story? No. But flip through you news paper and you will see sports scores on the front page and murders on page c-17. If the coments generated by this story are any indecation then the topic "Its' Funny Laugh" should be remove all together lest some one expand there brain past "sanctioned nerd topics".
How long before they get sued for violation of DMCA. Isn't emulating a valid DirecTV account reverse engineering and/or fraud?
I don't side with the dtv people at all and like the idea but what is the fallout going to be?
Everyone is out there buying Tivo and other set top boxes only to wait for HDTV to come in with its protection schemes that will remove time-shifting and render their hardware useless.
So now we use other hardware to make a workaround. This cycle of events ensures that only the wealthy can compete for control over how/when they view media. As history has shown it's the little guys who are the majority. Unless we start challenging the laws, more accurately the abuse of vague laws, that make it possible to make the hardware/software that create the "need" for these circumventing devices we will all end up getting shafted in the end.
Corporations will always be one step ahead in the coming years.
I don't want to have to worry about updating my foo-emulater every time a new device comes out that threatens part of what is supposed to be a free media. I want to know that I, and the rest of the little people, will have the same unencumbered access to media that we have always had.
You have a wonderful insight as to what this releas really means. Which in short is propaganda and not anything of substance.
But you articulated it far better than I ever could. I would love to see you get a job doing this full time to reveiw Whitehouse press releases for something like "The Daily Show" but I feel it would be bad for your blood pressure.
Linux is in its newest incarnation ~25mg of tared and g/b2/zip'ed source code written in C and covered by the GPL. Without gcc or some other compiler you can't even compile it. Without a shell you can't do much with it. All of those things come from the GNU or other sources.
Linux is in its simplest form much like a Japanese car built with 87% United States parts.
On a personal note:
In the beginning there was Linus and the word was with Linus. Accept Linux into your hart and you shall have uptime eternal.
Kernal 3:16:
For Linus loved man so much that he gave his first begotten OS.
As I understand it, they are stuck in pretty much static orbits that only fly over a certain spot every once and awhile (I'm not sure what the exact figures are
The usual time is every 45 minutes. Or to put it another way Dalles to Paris in 17 seconds.
The US and USSR each have been putting almost 2 spy sat's in orbit each year for about 20 years now. Chances of one of those 80 sat's having a picture of Brentwood in a given 45 minute period? Pretty good.
I remember back during the OJ Simpson trial thinking there had to be one decent shot of Brentwood in the US/China/USSR satellite archives.
What would this show? It would show the location of the "White Bronco" and the time it was(n't) there and since we are talking IR we could even see if the engine was warm.
Kidnappings and lots of other crimes could be traced with this tech beyond just farm fraud.
But with all things there is a dark side.
The next thing you know this information is commercially, don't even think about publicly, available and you find your email and mail box stuffed with spam saying they noticed that YOU where stuck in traffic at 17:45, of course no spamer would ever assume their customer was smart enough to read military time, and they want to sell you something to easy your time to and from work.
In short: rejoice for the good this can bring. In long: Big Brother is watching.
that was my error. it should have been the number of people with an IQ >125 that make up the total number of people with BPD.
On another note in any given poll there is about a 3% margin of error.
On a funny note there was a slashdot poll a long time ago that only had one option. ~97% of the people who responded picked that response.
300 was just a nice round exaggerated number.
The true requirement is that you place in the 98th percentile.
Fun with numbers:
pop. with IQ >125 = 3.5%
pop. with IQ 125 with Bipolar Disorder = 33%
Percent of Bipolar people that make up the 1% of total population with Bipolar = ~97%
The numbers for other disorders like schizophrenia are much the same.
Most people with an IQ in the 180 range that I have met are unable to see the value in things like bathing more than 1 time a week, can't tie there shoe laces, can't spell or lack some other less obvious skill like the ability to say how much time has passed (like 3 minutes or 3 hours).
Whould it be possable to make a nokia pci(mcia) card that could be used in a lappy? It would be easy to string some antena wire through the display casing and plug it into the card. Then we could have 9.6k connections with out haveing to load around any extra gizmo's other than the solar pannel.
Here I am living in San Diego so I said to myself:
"Self, why don't you go and see Mundie and Tim speek?"
I will not be able to do this though because it costs $895 and the reason I was attracted to Linux in the first place (before I even had a computer to run it on) was because it was free/cheep.
I would loved to have attended even if it ment shelling out $50 to stand in the back or watch it on CCTV and hang out with like minded people. However I have been priced out of Open Souce.
My alarm clock goes to radio for 30 minutes and then I get hit with the buz sound.
Today I didn't even need the buz because as I heard it at 13:30 in CA I caught the word Linux. Then I caught the word Linus.
What was going on here?
Linus was on NPR.
It was nice haveing him as my alarm clock waking me with talk about his granddads first prebuilt computer and how he wrote some realy bad games and how games in genral are the most demanding thing you can do to a system. When you think of famous people who did something to be famous other than just be famous you dont normaly think about them sitting at the dinner table with their parents or playing on their granddads calculator.
It was a good interview over all and the host did not ask stupid questions that are so commen in interviews (celeb or other wise).
ICANN is conducting a study about whether general Internet users, as opposed to those that represent business or another constituency, should have seats on the board.
And in other news the US Congress has announced that they will no longer be accepting bribes. This story can be found at file:///dev/null
Some people (RMS) are on a anti-amazon kick becuse of the way that they have gone overboard on patents at times (one-click-shoping). B&N is too mega-corp to mention directly so us geeks go with Fatbrain because of the... well... fat brain aspect.
I posted about Global Dreams last week and in in the interests of fairness posted the links for all three sites. Amazon, BN or FatBrain
Slashdot Mirror
First off Mozilla wont work unless it can from the banks point of view look like Netscape or IE.
I go for command line only for 2 main reasons.
1. One can learn a lot more living on the command line. X tends to be a little sheltering.
2. System bloat. My main system is a p100 with 32mg ram and a 1.2 gig harddrive. Running an emacs server, pine, slrn, BitchX, links, micq, and 9 instances of bash at any given moment tends to work the system a bit, and running X would slow it down to a crawl, especialy when 04:00 rolls around.
Also by being full command line you can move to any other n*x system pull out a floopy and have $HOME sweet $HOME in under 50 seconds.
On the bright side you get more codeing done because you don't spend all day in alt.binaries.*. Can't watch mpgs and avis from the command line.
I want to see more development on command line only browsers to take advantage of older hardware or for people like myself who are GUI-impaired. One of the nice bennies of more development would be one could do $ getbankballence.sh | netscape --prompt4password. Now wouldn't that be cool in cron.
Some of the command line browsers out there, sorted by usefulness:
links
w3m
w3/emacs
lynx
zen
Sorry I didn't get here sooner.
I made a Interactive Bash Prompt config script you can get on freshmeat. Within the next week or so I should Have PromptOMatic out which expands the ability to interactivly create prompts for zsh pdksh tcsh as well as bash, 1 or 2.
I have always thought we should have a pr0n suit.
Make the backend so that it will compile with ncurses or gtk or qt. The interface would be something like if you where to take a MC/Xtree interface and add an image viewer field. Inside that field you should be able to see the full range of jpgs, bmps, png, etc as will as mpgs, avis, movs, rms, etc.
The problem is that I have as of yet to see a console app that could even be hacked to do this. The available image viewers like zgv, fbi, fbview, seejpeg and even jpig (jpeg to ASCII for ASCII pr0n) all take up the whole screen and have no built in menuing capability. There is only one mpeg viewer for the command line and its still in early beta testing.
Hackers consume more porn than anyone does (mostly because we know the nntp will supply unlimited amounts of it for free) and we should have a Pr0n 'O' Matic application that is capable of a lot of cool tricks. Until we can tell Joe Win user that we have the best porn viewing software we will never win the desktop war. Linux has conquored the porn server market and now its time for us to hit the desktop.
When I read that part of the article I had fond memories of my school days. .10 each or $2 a pack. Name Brand: .25 each or $4 a pack. I didn't start smoking until 3 years after I graduated because a dealer doesn't make money if they sample the merchandise.
Middle school: go downtown to the newspaper stands in front of the court house and put a dollar in and get a fist full of the swingers papers. Sell them for $2 each to suburban peers.
High school: I would sell 2 cartons of cigs a day. GPC/Basic:
Collage: Go to the major Magic the Gathering (Tragic the Addiction) tournaments and by rare cards for cheap and then sell them to suburban peers at "book" rate. Not dishonest or illegal but very profitable.
Now I am all grown up and have a much better moral code. Ah to be young and non-prosecutable and without a conscious again.
Spell checked for your sanity.
Most drinking games are show spacific. How about a general Sci-Fi one?
,i.e. "early 21st century"
Take a shot anytime:
1. The captin dose something that might break a sweat.
2. An explostion in space can be heard.
3. Another dimention opens up.
4. An inteligent race is humanoid.
5. An inteligent race does us a favor by looking humanoid.
6. There is a referance to the time you live in
7. There is an airodynamic space ship. What a drag.
(Hear me out before you mod me down)
I was a big fan of BG back in the day. Then they started showing the reruns. Faux-wife and I sat down to watch it for old time nostalgia. It was the classic episode with the cross-shaped glowing white space ship that they show in the opening credits. Let me tell you something. It Sucked. It sucked more than anything I had seen in a long time. Faux-wife was deeply saddened to see a show she loved growing up as one of the worst pieces of TV sci-fi to ever be rebroadcast. The plot was sickly. The characters where two dimensional in the extreme. I was under the impression that I would be privilege to the benefit of watching it older and wiser. I would see new things I had missed before.
Some how I got just as much out the episode this time as I did when I saw it nearly 2 decades ago.
It is my hope that the new version of BG is not a special effects enhanced version of the old. Fox, if you are listening, please do us a favor: create a show that will have some value after 20 years. I think things like _good_ plots and characters with character, not 2D stereo types, might be a good start.
There has been much said about the relivance of this topic. So let us define nerds. Here is my definition: Some one outside of the main stream with an interest in intalectual feilds of study in both the higher and lower sciencs. By that defintion anything with the suffix -ology qualify, like say for example biology. Is it the best idea for a story? No. But flip through you news paper and you will see sports scores on the front page and murders on page c-17. If the coments generated by this story are any indecation then the topic "Its' Funny Laugh" should be remove all together lest some one expand there brain past "sanctioned nerd topics".
Everyone is out there buying Tivo and other set top boxes only to wait for HDTV to come in with its protection schemes that will remove time-shifting and render their hardware useless. So now we use other hardware to make a workaround. This cycle of events ensures that only the wealthy can compete for control over how/when they view media. As history has shown it's the little guys who are the majority. Unless we start challenging the laws, more accurately the abuse of vague laws, that make it possible to make the hardware/software that create the "need" for these circumventing devices we will all end up getting shafted in the end. Corporations will always be one step ahead in the coming years.
I don't want to have to worry about updating my foo-emulater every time a new device comes out that threatens part of what is supposed to be a free media. I want to know that I, and the rest of the little people, will have the same unencumbered access to media that we have always had.
You have a wonderful insight as to what this releas really means. Which in short is propaganda and not anything of substance.
But you articulated it far better than I ever could. I would love to see you get a job doing this full time to reveiw Whitehouse press releases for something like "The Daily Show" but I feel it would be bad for your blood pressure.
Linux is in its newest incarnation ~25mg of tared and g/b2/zip'ed source code written in C and covered by the GPL. Without gcc or some other compiler you can't even compile it. Without a shell you can't do much with it. All of those things come from the GNU or other sources.
Linux is in its simplest form much like a Japanese car built with 87% United States parts.
On a personal note:
In the beginning there was Linus and the word was with Linus. Accept Linux into your hart and you shall have uptime eternal.
Kernal 3:16:
For Linus loved man so much that he gave his first begotten OS.
The usual time is every 45 minutes. Or to put it another way Dalles to Paris in 17 seconds.
The US and USSR each have been putting almost 2 spy sat's in orbit each year for about 20 years now. Chances of one of those 80 sat's having a picture of Brentwood in a given 45 minute period? Pretty good.
I remember back during the OJ Simpson trial thinking there had to be one decent shot of Brentwood in the US/China/USSR satellite archives.
What would this show? It would show the location of the "White Bronco" and the time it was(n't) there and since we are talking IR we could even see if the engine was warm.
Kidnappings and lots of other crimes could be traced with this tech beyond just farm fraud.
But with all things there is a dark side.
The next thing you know this information is commercially, don't even think about publicly, available and you find your email and mail box stuffed with spam saying they noticed that YOU where stuck in traffic at 17:45, of course no spamer would ever assume their customer was smart enough to read military time, and they want to sell you something to easy your time to and from work.
In short: rejoice for the good this can bring. In long: Big Brother is watching.
that was my error. it should have been the number of people with an IQ >125 that make up the total number of people with BPD.
On another note in any given poll there is about a 3% margin of error.
On a funny note there was a slashdot poll a long time ago that only had one option. ~97% of the people who responded picked that response.
300 was just a nice round exaggerated number.
The true requirement is that you place in the 98th percentile.
Fun with numbers:
pop. with IQ >125 = 3.5%
pop. with IQ 125 with Bipolar Disorder = 33%
Percent of Bipolar people that make up the 1% of total population with Bipolar = ~97%
The numbers for other disorders like schizophrenia are much the same.
Most people with an IQ in the 180 range that I have met are unable to see the value in things like bathing more than 1 time a week, can't tie there shoe laces, can't spell or lack some other less obvious skill like the ability to say how much time has passed (like 3 minutes or 3 hours).
Ignorance is bliss and Mensa is expensive.
http://www.phys.warwick.ac.uk/teach/course_home/px 250/overheads/fortsl2h/node1.html
http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis4 00/fortran/fortran.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/fortran/ch1-1 .html
On the version of this emailed to me the last one was:
So with all of that I want it known that if you find my bloated old corps hunched over my computer please sue Bill Gates.
Whould it be possable to make a nokia pci(mcia) card that could be used in a lappy? It would be easy to string some antena wire through the display casing and plug it into the card. Then we could have 9.6k connections with out haveing to load around any extra gizmo's other than the solar pannel.
Here I am living in San Diego so I said to myself:
"Self, why don't you go and see Mundie and Tim speek?"
I will not be able to do this though because it costs $895 and the reason I was attracted to Linux in the first place (before I even had a computer to run it on) was because it was free/cheep.
I would loved to have attended even if it ment shelling out $50 to stand in the back or watch it on CCTV and hang out with like minded people. However I have been priced out of Open Souce.
My alarm clock goes to radio for 30 minutes and then I get hit with the buz sound.
Today I didn't even need the buz because as I heard it at 13:30 in CA I caught the word Linux. Then I caught the word Linus.
What was going on here?
Linus was on NPR.
It was nice haveing him as my alarm clock waking me with talk about his granddads first prebuilt computer and how he wrote some realy bad games and how games in genral are the most demanding thing you can do to a system. When you think of famous people who did something to be famous other than just be famous you dont normaly think about them sitting at the dinner table with their parents or playing on their granddads calculator.
It was a good interview over all and the host did not ask stupid questions that are so commen in interviews (celeb or other wise).
ICANN is conducting a study about whether general Internet users, as opposed to those that represent business or another constituency, should have seats on the board.
And in other news the US Congress has announced that they will no longer be accepting bribes. This story can be found at file:///dev/null
I posted about Global Dreams last week and in in the interests of fairness posted the links for all three sites. Amazon, BN or FatBrain
pentium computers in this case means what? 75mhz? 1.5ghz? by saying pentium they really aren't saying much.
And here is the Moors Law break down:
In 15 years one computer will be equal to 1000 computers now. So just-around-the-corner the above will quote will look something like this:
One of the technicians is quoted as saying that "A quantum computer would need over 1 second to decrypt a 10 minute phone-call".
Amazon, BN or FatBrain
I may even be doing a book review on it.
--
"So easy to filter no wonder its number one, in China"