If you don't like cookies to be stored on your comptuer, turn them off.
Would you rather/. logged your IP address? Oh great, imagine what lameass little trolling skript kiddies will do with THAT list once they break in and steal it. I think a number in your browser's database is harmless. QYFB!
...it would be more fun to add a synthesizer and a vocoder to a karaoke machine, esp if one person was trying to play the right notes while the other was singing, but who knows what i'm talking about...
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For voice corrections that all the boy bands do, they tape their singing and the engeneer sits down and listens to it over and over with a little graph of adjustment/time. if the singer is sharp or flat (or worse) the engeneer adds a little curve to the graph and the recording is pitch shifted by that ammount at that time. Done very carefully, yes you CAN clean up anything.
This new machine proposes to take the engeneer's seat as well as the processing equipment's. It will most likely read a signal telling what pitch the singer should be at and analize the incomming signal from the mic and based on a comparison of the two shift up or down.
One problem I have always noticed with live, real-time pitch shifting (NOTE: not auto-correcting, simply pitch shifting) is there is a delay, a millisecond or two, but enough to be audible. Methinks adding all the analysis time into the mix will add a little more delay and the singing will sound off! Hopefully they'll get it running smoothly...even if it takes all the fun out of Karaoke.
There is a world of difference between causing seizures and causing suicide.
Well I know when my computer tells me to kill myself you better lock your gun cabinet REAL good, baby.
I'm reasonably sure the only logical reason he would have killed himself (if there is such a thing) is that he was depressed he couldn't play the game anymore because of his health condition. If it was anything more idiotic like "I lost my shield with a +9 against ogers!" then I'd say drop the case. Likewise, if his health condition drew him to it through an epliepsy-induced state of mind then he was aware of the risks of playing and shouldn't have been.
And if the seizures can cause personality disorder (which he suffered) or suicidal behavior (any doctors care to comment if that is possible) then that should be in any new warning labels.
No, I believe that is the doctor's responsibility, informing the paitient of his condition. And, untimately, the PAITIENT'S responsibility for choosing to stare at a strobing CRT for hours and even days on end, with full knowledge of the possible, even probable, implications.
I believe people should be made aware of any risks that are known.
I agree with you, but do you really think it is the responsiblity of the game manufacturer to take every case into account? I would think "Dangerous for epileptics to play" should have been more than enough for this man to realize he needed a new hobby.
Ummmm however I've never played it or read the manual but I assume it comes with a warning, most if not all do, I figured it was law. If Everquest doesn't warn you then this is a little different, but it's not as if using a computer, Everquest or not, is safe for epileptics either.
This makes me wonder: Do computer monitors come with a warning like this in their manuals? I have a monitor right here that I can actually the see flicker from the 60Hz refresh in the corner of my eye if I look away. If I was epilleptic I'd probably twitch liek you where running 400 volts through me.
#1 Ok so slashdot's stories wern't that funny this year, and there where too many. Boo Hoo.
#2 It was ALOT more irritating to see, instead of funny, lighthearted comments, to see post after post about "OMFG TACO STFU JUST BECAUSE IT'S APRIL 1ST DOESN"T GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO TRY TO JOKE WITH WHINY NERDS WHO HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR". Moderators? Why do some of these comments have a +5? Where is the -1 Redundant? The -1 Flamebait? The -1 Overrated?
I propose a New Acronym; QYFB - Quit Your Fucking Bitching
...and that a few more of you find real lives. Your monitors are giving you T-Shirt tan lines.
The PPC chips of today have 64-bit DATA paths. They can, however, only access 32-Bits of addressing space. This is one of the reasons they smoke the Pentiums.
Right? I fail to understand how so many people could be upset. IT is April Fools, and so many people whine about the "quality of journalism" here it makes me wonder why anyone would care if/. takes itself seriously or not. If you want news and/. doesnt' cut it for you, you have 2 options:
Go somewhere else, there ARE other places, and we need fewer pissy, whiny, I-hate-whats-not-perfect-and-100%-ulitmate types.
Start youe own site. Slashcode is free and there are a number of alternatives, too.
Apple has been showing XPlay at Macworld Expos and already had a legal issue with the original name XPod.
In short, Apple wants this. This means more than just Mac users will buy the iPod. Anyone who buys a Mac just to use the iPod is a friggin moron. Macs are great and so is the iPod but if I owned a PC already I sure as hell wouldn't buy another EXPENSIVE machine just to use it.
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Awsome! Keep up the good work, you're doing great things for geeks everywhere:-D
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Alright, all I know is this: If either telephone or cable providers simply placed wireless base stations every place needed along their cable route they'd be no more need for wires to your house (well, except for power of course).
Your phone, your digital TV, and your Internet service could all come over the air, not only making them low maitenence and high quality, but PORTABLE to wherever you go! Wouldn't this be awsome? Even your car would become easily Internet-ready. Need directions anyone?
Of course, security would become an issue, and I'm sure there would be heavy subscriber fees, plus there would be encryption preventing you from leaving your "local service area" without extra charges, and who knows how big that will be (in fees and/or radius). You could be traced back to your phone, computer, or car quite easily and some geek at the Service Provider's main office would know exactly where on I-90 you decided to click on "Debbie does Dallas 2000".
Nevermind, maybe I'll stick to my land lines. It'd be a great idea if businesses didn't exist to suck me dry...
I haven't downloaded and tired it yet because my OSX box isn't hooked up at the moment, but from the screenshots it looks like a good idea but not every well implemented. IE it looks cluttered and hard to really view anything but the file that was right in your face.
i have yet to try it tho.
I really think 3D envirpments (a Window Manager too, not just the File browser) could make computers more useful IF DONE RIGHT. that FSV thing looked great, , now just make my windows move and order themselves in a 3D ring as i change Z order and things will be just fine:-D
WASHINGTON - In a startling move today, legislators in Washington voted to pass the new and controversial File-transfer Universal Contraban Treaty. Under this new law, any and all transfer of data across the Internet that can be catagorized as a "file" is hereby banned. This will effectively end such file-sharing nusances such as Napster, Gnutella, and the blatantly-illegal File Transfer Protocol.
In related news, the RIAA and MPAA jointly announced the grand opening of their online digital movie/music store today, before being fined and having their equipment confiscated under violation of the recently-passed FUCT bill. "We're going to loose millions on this deal, it's an outrage!" said Jack Valenti, fresh out of the hospital after recovering from a carpal-tunnel injury sustained while signing lobbyists' checks. "We will fight this in the highest courts until justice is served"...
if compilers are making such a huge problem in attaining accurate benchmarks, why doesn't someone hand code some assembly for these machines?
It's not even reasonable to take readings when you KNOW you're data will be inaccurate. Sheesh. Anyone who can code VB will call themselves a "computer scientist" these says...
REDMOND - In a shocking announcement today, Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer annoucend to an astounded press corps. what the world had suspected the entire time: Microsoft programmers couldn't produce good code if Linus was their college professor.
"That's right," said Balmer, "if Microsoft is forced to remove Internet Explorer from the Windows XP operating system, I duh dunno what we're gunnah do!" Balmer also explained how a programmer (who was subsequently fired) accidentally added "all the.c files for IE into the Windows kernel Visual Studio project," and continued by explaining that the OS was made to work strictly by "luck" and that subsequent releases became more and more costly because "we had to hire alot of people to do alot of guesswork."
Reporters from the T.R. Press tried to reach Balmer for later comments, but reached an automated recording exclaming "Give it up for me! WOOOOOOOOOOOO......"
In related news, Michael Eisner of Disney claims Microsoft failed to live up to it's contract to have CD burning software tightly integrated into the Windows OS by 2001. "I paid those bastards to have that done by now, and it still isn't reliable! Now I have to ditch Pixar and claim that 5% of computer users are causing all the piracy problems that are er...putting us out of business! Yeah..." When asked for comments, Eisner only replied "Hang on, I'm trying to get LimeWire to connect..."
- I can go to a store right now and buy a gun. That makes me a consumer. - I can take my gun to the shooting range and practice. That makes me a hobbyist. - I can take my gun into the parking lot and shoot someone. That makes me a criminal.
- I can go into the Apple Store and buy a Mac (yeah, a nice Dual G4 1GHz... *wipes drool* sorry where was I). That makes me a consumer. - I can take my Mac home and pop in a CD to listen to, as well as rip that CD to MP3s and even take my favorate songs from that CD and others for use in my car. That makes me a hobbyist. - I can also burn that mix 1,000 times and sell it unlicensed on the black market while paying no royalties to the record label or artist. That makes me a criminal.
The logic behind most corporations management of IP assets gives me a siezure if I think about it too hard. If seems that most common sense has gone out the window when it comes to tech. issues. The problem is that money is as addictive as cigarettes and those who are addicted are already swiming in it. Therefore they have the resources to buy off elected officials and get restricted laws passed. And let's not pretend for one second i'm being "unconstitutional" or "anti-american" by suggesting our politicians take kickbacks, either.
The real unconstitutionality here is that those corporations that already make enough to feed all the hungry nations of the world and don't, (yes that's you Disney, you sweatshop fucks) simply try to bleed us dry as well, as if the ultimate goal for them is to have ALL the money in the entire world. Fellas, that's not how the game is played, get your head out of your ass before you ruin every aspect of our lives.
If you made quality products, piracy or not quantity wouldn't be a problem. Stop screaming bloody murder for the protection of IP that isn't even worth protecting.
Linux hackers from Germany and elsewhere are working on a Windows-like graphical interface for Linux PCs called KDE (for K Desktop Environment). They expect to release it this spring--free of charge.
So when this new KDE thing comes out this spring to finaly give Linux a graphical interface, where will I be able to download it from?
Of course this woudl be up to the programmer but I know i use this technique and so do the authors of the SpriteWorld libraries for Mac.
Since ADB (Apple Desktop Bus, this is from before the golden age of USB) can only recognize two keys being held at once on a keyboard as read through GetKeys() (keyboard polling function on the Mac), it was always deemed better to capture keyDown, and more importantly, keyUp events and keep a map in the program. I'm nut sure how it works with USB or in the Linux/Wintel/x86 world but even with the two-key limit of GetKeys() I can still see every key press and every key release, i can hold down 10 keys at once and release the 4th and it will register.
If there is a way to apply such a technique under other OSs/platforms it would be well worth trying, for the sake of not killing your friend.
Blame poor programmers, not poor hardware. (actually in this case they both seem to be lacking but hey)
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I don't know if you've noticed, but Apple's legal department is pretty damn fierce. All the Aqua skins and themes they could find have recieved cease & desist leters, XPod was forced to change it's name, iMac knockoffs liek the eOne also come to mind...
Also, the Carbon (and Cocoa) APIs are not part of Aqua, think of Aqua as the MacOS's window manager (in fact, that's eactly what it is). You seem to be talking about a port of the entire proprietary "front-end" to the OS, for which you'd also need the QuickTime and Quartz layers as well, which now house some of the essential MacOS services, even if they are accessed indirectly though Carbon and Cocoa. This "Aqua on Linux" would mean who needs OSX's $149 proprietary interface, API, and kernel? No one, if you can get a just-as-good for free. Apple only holds a 5% market share and they're very careful to make any move, however aswome it would make the world, that will put them out. Apple can't create cool stuff if they're out of business.
After what happened with the MS Windows GUI vs. MacOS GUI back in the 80s, can you really blame then for guarding their IP like hawks? Had that turned out differently, we might all be rooting for Miscrosoft to "relieve the industry of the monopilizing Apple computer". Think about it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in order to properly copyright something (which I'm sure M$ made absolutely sure to do, seriously), don't you have to send a copy of it to the Library of Congress? I have never officialy copyrighted anything but I have been told this by various sources, usually along with "..and also, mail a copy to yourself and don't open it so in case you need to contest it you have a postmarked example of [prior art]"
Might have changed/not been 100% true or required (or even done for XP), but if the government already has it, I'm sure they could get an order to just copy it from there...
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Would you rather /. logged your IP address? Oh great, imagine what lameass little trolling skript kiddies will do with THAT list once they break in and steal it. I think a number in your browser's database is harmless. QYFB!
...it would be more fun to add a synthesizer and a vocoder to a karaoke machine, esp if one person was trying to play the right notes while the other was singing, but who knows what i'm talking about...
This new machine proposes to take the engeneer's seat as well as the processing equipment's. It will most likely read a signal telling what pitch the singer should be at and analize the incomming signal from the mic and based on a comparison of the two shift up or down.
One problem I have always noticed with live, real-time pitch shifting (NOTE: not auto-correcting, simply pitch shifting) is there is a delay, a millisecond or two, but enough to be audible. Methinks adding all the analysis time into the mix will add a little more delay and the singing will sound off! Hopefully they'll get it running smoothly...even if it takes all the fun out of Karaoke.
Whinning about whiners... metabitching... I like that.
It sounds difficult, so let's not even try.
That is exactly the type of bullshit the rest of the world laughs at us for.
Well I know when my computer tells me to kill myself you better lock your gun cabinet REAL good, baby.
I'm reasonably sure the only logical reason he would have killed himself (if there is such a thing) is that he was depressed he couldn't play the game anymore because of his health condition. If it was anything more idiotic like "I lost my shield with a +9 against ogers!" then I'd say drop the case. Likewise, if his health condition drew him to it through an epliepsy-induced state of mind then he was aware of the risks of playing and shouldn't have been.
And if the seizures can cause personality disorder (which he suffered) or suicidal behavior (any doctors care to comment if that is possible) then that should be in any new warning labels.
No, I believe that is the doctor's responsibility, informing the paitient of his condition. And, untimately, the PAITIENT'S responsibility for choosing to stare at a strobing CRT for hours and even days on end, with full knowledge of the possible, even probable, implications.
I believe people should be made aware of any risks that are known.
I agree with you, but do you really think it is the responsiblity of the game manufacturer to take every case into account? I would think "Dangerous for epileptics to play" should have been more than enough for this man to realize he needed a new hobby .
Ummmm however I've never played it or read the manual but I assume it comes with a warning, most if not all do, I figured it was law. If Everquest doesn't warn you then this is a little different, but it's not as if using a computer, Everquest or not, is safe for epileptics either.
This makes me wonder: Do computer monitors come with a warning like this in their manuals? I have a monitor right here that I can actually the see flicker from the 60Hz refresh in the corner of my eye if I look away. If I was epilleptic I'd probably twitch liek you where running 400 volts through me.
#2 It was ALOT more irritating to see, instead of funny, lighthearted comments, to see post after post about "OMFG TACO STFU JUST BECAUSE IT'S APRIL 1ST DOESN"T GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO TRY TO JOKE WITH WHINY NERDS WHO HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR". Moderators? Why do some of these comments have a +5? Where is the -1 Redundant? The -1 Flamebait? The -1 Overrated?
I propose a New Acronym;
QYFB - Quit Your Fucking Bitching
...and that a few more of you find real lives. Your monitors are giving you T-Shirt tan lines.
The PPC chips of today have 64-bit DATA paths. They can, however, only access 32-Bits of addressing space. This is one of the reasons they smoke the Pentiums.
- Go somewhere else, there ARE other places, and we need fewer pissy, whiny, I-hate-whats-not-perfect-and-100%-ulitmate types.
- Start youe own site. Slashcode is free and there are a number of alternatives, too.
You dont' runVerizon Guy: Can you see me now?...Good.
Verizon Guy: Can you see me now?...Gooooood.
In short, Apple wants this. This means more than just Mac users will buy the iPod. Anyone who buys a Mac just to use the iPod is a friggin moron. Macs are great and so is the iPod but if I owned a PC already I sure as hell wouldn't buy another EXPENSIVE machine just to use it.
Awsome! Keep up the good work, you're doing great things for geeks everywhere :-D
Your phone, your digital TV, and your Internet service could all come over the air, not only making them low maitenence and high quality, but PORTABLE to wherever you go! Wouldn't this be awsome? Even your car would become easily Internet-ready. Need directions anyone?
Of course, security would become an issue, and I'm sure there would be heavy subscriber fees, plus there would be encryption preventing you from leaving your "local service area" without extra charges, and who knows how big that will be (in fees and/or radius). You could be traced back to your phone, computer, or car quite easily and some geek at the Service Provider's main office would know exactly where on I-90 you decided to click on "Debbie does Dallas 2000".
Nevermind, maybe I'll stick to my land lines. It'd be a great idea if businesses didn't exist to suck me dry...
RTFA. Not a distro for PPC. A compiler, and an update at that. Maybe it means a distro in the future, but that is pure speculation.
i have yet to try it tho.
I really think 3D envirpments (a Window Manager too, not just the File browser) could make computers more useful IF DONE RIGHT. that FSV thing looked great, , now just make my windows move and order themselves in a 3D ring as i change Z order and things will be just fine :-D
In related news, the RIAA and MPAA jointly announced the grand opening of their online digital movie/music store today, before being fined and having their equipment confiscated under violation of the recently-passed FUCT bill. "We're going to loose millions on this deal, it's an outrage!" said Jack Valenti, fresh out of the hospital after recovering from a carpal-tunnel injury sustained while signing lobbyists' checks. "We will fight this in the highest courts until justice is served"...
This will never end.
It's not even reasonable to take readings when you KNOW you're data will be inaccurate. Sheesh. Anyone who can code VB will call themselves a "computer scientist" these says...
"That's right," said Balmer, "if Microsoft is forced to remove Internet Explorer from the Windows XP operating system, I duh dunno what we're gunnah do!" Balmer also explained how a programmer (who was subsequently fired) accidentally added "all the .c files for IE into the Windows kernel Visual Studio project," and continued by explaining that the OS was made to work strictly by "luck" and that subsequent releases became more and more costly because "we had to hire alot of people to do alot of guesswork."
Reporters from the T.R. Press tried to reach Balmer for later comments, but reached an automated recording exclaming "Give it up for me! WOOOOOOOOOOOO......"
In related news, Michael Eisner of Disney claims Microsoft failed to live up to it's contract to have CD burning software tightly integrated into the Windows OS by 2001. "I paid those bastards to have that done by now, and it still isn't reliable! Now I have to ditch Pixar and claim that 5% of computer users are causing all the piracy problems that are er...putting us out of business! Yeah..." When asked for comments, Eisner only replied "Hang on, I'm trying to get LimeWire to connect..."
- I can take my gun to the shooting range and practice. That makes me a hobbyist.
- I can take my gun into the parking lot and shoot someone. That makes me a criminal.
- I can go into the Apple Store and buy a Mac (yeah, a nice Dual G4 1GHz... *wipes drool* sorry where was I). That makes me a consumer.
- I can take my Mac home and pop in a CD to listen to, as well as rip that CD to MP3s and even take my favorate songs from that CD and others for use in my car. That makes me a hobbyist.
- I can also burn that mix 1,000 times and sell it unlicensed on the black market while paying no royalties to the record label or artist. That makes me a criminal.
The logic behind most corporations management of IP assets gives me a siezure if I think about it too hard. If seems that most common sense has gone out the window when it comes to tech. issues. The problem is that money is as addictive as cigarettes and those who are addicted are already swiming in it. Therefore they have the resources to buy off elected officials and get restricted laws passed. And let's not pretend for one second i'm being "unconstitutional" or "anti-american" by suggesting our politicians take kickbacks, either.
The real unconstitutionality here is that those corporations that already make enough to feed all the hungry nations of the world and don't, (yes that's you Disney, you sweatshop fucks) simply try to bleed us dry as well, as if the ultimate goal for them is to have ALL the money in the entire world. Fellas, that's not how the game is played, get your head out of your ass before you ruin every aspect of our lives.
If you made quality products, piracy or not quantity wouldn't be a problem. Stop screaming bloody murder for the protection of IP that isn't even worth protecting.
So when this new KDE thing comes out this spring to finaly give Linux a graphical interface, where will I be able to download it from?
;-)
Since ADB (Apple Desktop Bus, this is from before the golden age of USB) can only recognize two keys being held at once on a keyboard as read through GetKeys() (keyboard polling function on the Mac), it was always deemed better to capture keyDown, and more importantly, keyUp events and keep a map in the program. I'm nut sure how it works with USB or in the Linux/Wintel/x86 world but even with the two-key limit of GetKeys() I can still see every key press and every key release, i can hold down 10 keys at once and release the 4th and it will register.
If there is a way to apply such a technique under other OSs/platforms it would be well worth trying, for the sake of not killing your friend.
Blame poor programmers, not poor hardware. (actually in this case they both seem to be lacking but hey)
Sorry i never got to do that before...
Also, the Carbon (and Cocoa) APIs are not part of Aqua, think of Aqua as the MacOS's window manager (in fact, that's eactly what it is). You seem to be talking about a port of the entire proprietary "front-end" to the OS, for which you'd also need the QuickTime and Quartz layers as well, which now house some of the essential MacOS services, even if they are accessed indirectly though Carbon and Cocoa. This "Aqua on Linux" would mean who needs OSX's $149 proprietary interface, API, and kernel? No one, if you can get a just-as-good for free. Apple only holds a 5% market share and they're very careful to make any move, however aswome it would make the world, that will put them out. Apple can't create cool stuff if they're out of business.
After what happened with the MS Windows GUI vs. MacOS GUI back in the 80s, can you really blame then for guarding their IP like hawks? Had that turned out differently, we might all be rooting for Miscrosoft to "relieve the industry of the monopilizing Apple computer". Think about it.
...and yes, I am a die hard Mac fan. 'nuff said.
Might have changed/not been 100% true or required (or even done for XP), but if the government already has it, I'm sure they could get an order to just copy it from there...