Do you go to a sufficiently geeky engineering or comp sci school (like me)? find the geekiest fraternity on campus, and I guarantee you they have a house that is wired to the gills. In fact the one at my school (Fiji (Phi Gamma Delta)) is building a new house for themselves now so my guess is it will feed and clothe them with robot slaves.
Well I was going to buy that album today, having never heard it. Actually, I still will - if it's anything like Stunt it will kick ass. But now it might look like I'm buying the CD becase of their Napster antics. Frig. Now if the album sells really well (and it will) people will say "see? it's because it was hard to get online".
I would like an mp3 player in the size, shape and style of home audio components. Just stack it in there with your stereo. The emphasis would be on sound quality, so rather than (or in addition to) providing DAC conversion, I would just want an optical digital out cable to stick in the dolby digital receiver. It would, of course, be upgradeable to play new formats, like ogg vorbis.
It would have an ethernet card and a high capacity hard drive, smb and/or nfs server so you can just move files on and off with any computer on your home network, and an lcd panel showing artist/title/playing time. Also, a web server could provide an interface to control it remotely from any computer.
mmmm....
Re:Wherefore am I feeding this troll?
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Where can I get the filter you used to do that? Is there a web page that does it? Please post the address. I can think of a million uses already:-)
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
here's my BeOS plug: the OS uses mime types to keep track of what should open what. Very clean solution. For files that don't have one registered (like, say, something you just downloaded) it is assigned by a combination of looking at any extension it might have and looking at the contents.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
This has been around for a while. A guy in the room next to mine last year had a whole operation like this going on his computer. He'd rent some dvds, deCSS them, Extract just the movies (leaving off titles, menus, trailers, promos, alternate soundtracks/angles, etc), compress the sound with a pirated fraunhoffer mp3 codec, compress the video with Divx mpeg-4, and put it on a CD. Sometimes two CDs, making for better quality. The result was VERY good - easily better than any VHS tape, but it has to be played on a computer. I have a couple movies he made that way.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Well first off, for those that don't know, there's ogg vorbis. You know what I'm looking forward to? Its multi-channel capability. I've taken to getting concert DVDs, because I really like the surrond sound (the only reason I buy dvds is because I have DeCSS, so I have the capability of easily ripping stuff to use as I like.)
What I plan to do is rip the surrond tracks from my dvds when ogg reaches maturity, and encode them for playing through a computer. What I _really_ would like to see is a CAR STEREO that has surround sound cabability. I mean, they're ALREADY hooked up to front and rear left and right. If I had a car stereo that could play ogg AND was surround sound aware, that would be just spiffy.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Don't worry, I'm sure he does. But if I were Rob, I wouldn't post that fact publicly cuz he's like, rich and influential and a businessman and stuff...
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Re:PGPing your email?
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Yeah, that's why you take precautions with your key, like not storing it on a computer other people use and things like that. And you verify that it's Joe by having him read you the fingerprint. If you excercise proper key management, there shouldn't be a problem.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
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When you paper-sign, the connotation is largely "I mean this" or "I promise to agree to it"
An electronic signature, despite having the name "signature", means "This DID come from your buddy Tom, and you can verify this fact yourself with very little uncertainty" Kinda like having it notarized.
Of course, with a legal signature, an electronic signature means both. The very fact that you are signing it implies the first, and the second lends it credibility.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Indexes your collection, and what you search for, so that when you're in that adventurous mood, you click "recommendations". It looks at who else has those songs. Then makes a list of the songs they have that you don't, sorts them by frequency and some google-like algorithm, and gives you your recommendations.
That could really speed up the process of a good, new artist getting recognized, while not giving you stuff you aren't likely to enjoy.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Aucbernie.2227
net.rumor
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbernie!daemon
Fri Apr 16 10:38:54 1982
Bill Joy's plans
Bill Joy has decided to become involved with a new startup company and
will be phasing out of the CSRG over the next few months. He will be
joining Sun Microsystems, Inc., a company whose founders include Andy
Bechtolsheim, the designer of the Sun workstation. SMI is one of a
number of companies which plan to offer microprocessor-based networked
workstations running 4.2BSD software.
Bill plans to continue full time until July 1 when an early version of
the 4.2BSD distribution should be complete and running in house. He
will continue half time through its polishing, tuning, beta testing and
documentation phases. Bill expects to finish writing his PhD thesis by
December.
Bill will continue as a contributor and advisor to CSRG, although it
will be a secondary activity for him. While SMI may need to develop
proprietary software in certain specialized areas, Bill expects fixes
to the shared base of 4.2BSD programs which are made at SMI can be
distributed by Berkeley. The current cooperative efforts between CSRG
and various industrial groups are seen as a model for the
relationship.
Bill has been a valued colleague and friend during his years at
Berkeley and he will be very much missed. I hope you will join me in
wishing him well as he makes this transition.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
I was in a hotel room flipping channels. There wasn't much on, so I start watching BioDome (I've never heard of the movie before, or Pauly Shore). It took me under 20 seconds to conclude that the man has brain damage...
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Lessee, it would want to make symbolic and hard links obvious, so you can see at a glance where the "duplication" is.
And it'd be nice to do something different with devices - representing them as files is fine for console work, but when you've got a gui, try representing it as a device. Not exactly sure how - something that would make linking them to various "streams" a drag and drop kind of process. Perhaps components that can be hooked together, i dunno...
hmmm, i can see where this could take some thought...
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Slashdot Mirror
wary.
Do you go to a sufficiently geeky engineering or comp sci school (like me)? find the geekiest fraternity on campus, and I guarantee you they have a house that is wired to the gills. In fact the one at my school (Fiji (Phi Gamma Delta)) is building a new house for themselves now so my guess is it will feed and clothe them with robot slaves.
Well I was going to buy that album today, having never heard it. Actually, I still will - if it's anything like Stunt it will kick ass. But now it might look like I'm buying the CD becase of their Napster antics. Frig. Now if the album sells really well (and it will) people will say "see? it's because it was hard to get online".
This is one of those times where ya wish ya had an encrypted filesystem on the non-partitioned space of the drive. They'd never find it :-)
I would like an mp3 player in the size, shape and style of home audio components. Just stack it in there with your stereo. The emphasis would be on sound quality, so rather than (or in addition to) providing DAC conversion, I would just want an optical digital out cable to stick in the dolby digital receiver. It would, of course, be upgradeable to play new formats, like ogg vorbis. It would have an ethernet card and a high capacity hard drive, smb and/or nfs server so you can just move files on and off with any computer on your home network, and an lcd panel showing artist/title/playing time. Also, a web server could provide an interface to control it remotely from any computer. mmmm....
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
What I plan to do is rip the surrond tracks from my dvds when ogg reaches maturity, and encode them for playing through a computer. What I _really_ would like to see is a CAR STEREO that has surround sound cabability. I mean, they're ALREADY hooked up to front and rear left and right. If I had a car stereo that could play ogg AND was surround sound aware, that would be just spiffy.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/as
http://www.cnn.com/20 00/TECH/space/08/01/seti.telescope.reut/
http://srd.yahoo.com/goo/paul+allen+telescope/3/*
How does that one fit in?
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
An electronic signature, despite having the name "signature", means "This DID come from your buddy Tom, and you can verify this fact yourself with very little uncertainty" Kinda like having it notarized.
Of course, with a legal signature, an electronic signature means both. The very fact that you are signing it implies the first, and the second lends it credibility.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Indexes your collection, and what you search for, so that when you're in that adventurous mood, you click "recommendations". It looks at who else has those songs. Then makes a list of the songs they have that you don't, sorts them by frequency and some google-like algorithm, and gives you your recommendations.
That could really speed up the process of a good, new artist getting recognized, while not giving you stuff you aren't likely to enjoy.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Isn't that the idea behind Storm?
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Hmm, sounds like the development branch only just started, in that case.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/NET.rumor/
And here's a reply to the Bill Joy rumor:
Fri Apr 16 14:47:31 1982
To my broker
With reference to the previous rumor (Bill Joy):
Sell Berkeley July futures short.
Buy SMI July long.
Lynn F. TenEyck
unc!lynn
aint that the truth.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
Aucbernie.2227
net.rumor
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbernie!daemon
Fri Apr 16 10:38:54 1982
Bill Joy's plans
Bill Joy has decided to become involved with a new startup company and
will be phasing out of the CSRG over the next few months. He will be
joining Sun Microsystems, Inc., a company whose founders include Andy
Bechtolsheim, the designer of the Sun workstation. SMI is one of a
number of companies which plan to offer microprocessor-based networked
workstations running 4.2BSD software.
Bill plans to continue full time until July 1 when an early version of
the 4.2BSD distribution should be complete and running in house. He
will continue half time through its polishing, tuning, beta testing and
documentation phases. Bill expects to finish writing his PhD thesis by
December.
Bill will continue as a contributor and advisor to CSRG, although it
will be a secondary activity for him. While SMI may need to develop
proprietary software in certain specialized areas, Bill expects fixes
to the shared base of 4.2BSD programs which are made at SMI can be
distributed by Berkeley. The current cooperative efforts between CSRG
and various industrial groups are seen as a model for the
relationship.
Bill has been a valued colleague and friend during his years at
Berkeley and he will be very much missed. I hope you will join me in
wishing him well as he makes this transition.
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"
And it'd be nice to do something different with devices - representing them as files is fine for console work, but when you've got a gui, try representing it as a device. Not exactly sure how - something that would make linking them to various "streams" a drag and drop kind of process. Perhaps components that can be hooked together, i dunno...
hmmm, i can see where this could take some thought...
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"