But obviously not a brain. If you'll sort by date and take a look at the oldest posts, you'll notice that there happens to be about 50 kajillion poeople posting the link so they too can get moderated -1 redundant... Maybe I should try it.. Ok moderators, here we go, I'm posting the link! AHH! Let's hear it for the moderators folks!
(I want to see at least ONE +1 Funny out of this if I get mod'd down... Come on, have a heart.)
Guess there must have been a number-of-people-posting-the-fixed-link-getting-+1 -informative cutoff today. Did you guys see that. Fscking hillarious.. You see all these +1 informative's of guys all posting the same link, and then BAM... Anyone who accidentally posted the link not realizing that someone else already had. -1 Redundent. Gotta love that.
Let's hear it for moderation folks! (And for those of you who have itching fingers to mark this down as a troll or something, give it up. It's a serious post. Don't waste your points, find something actually worth reading somewhere and bring it to the top. If I was trolling I would not be using my name, as thats just stupid.)
You know the DOJ would be all over that... Think about how much they're whining over MS building IE right into Windows. Now you're not only allowing one browser, you're allowing one ISP? HA! I'd like to see that get by in court. AOL is poised after all to be the next MS-sized megaopoly.
I've got a great idea! Lets split up AOL into like 4 or 5 pieces so they can't have a monopoly... Oh wait, n/m, that'd be pointless... Then you'd just have Napster, Netscape, Compuserve, AOL, and Time Warner. doh!
But at present, I'm not so sure the PSX2 will live up to the expectations.
Actually, you're right. At least it didn't live up to MY expectations. I just returned from a trip to Japan, and while I was in Tokyo I visited Akihabara. (The place that would make any computer geek spooge upon seeing it.) I played plenty of PSX2 games while I was there, and I wasn't that impressed. In fact, Soul Caliber and DOA2 for DC look a helluva lot better! Now, I believe that once developers learn how to use the PSX2 then we will see some sweet games. However, that is true for any console, so its definitely true for the DC as well. And let me tell you, there are already a bunch of great games for the DC. I'll buy a PSX2 when they come out, but I'm still more impressed with the DC.
What the fuck? Oh.. I'm a troll now? Is that it? Give me a fucking break. How is that being a troll? If I'm gonna troll like I'm gonna do it with my own respectable user name. Some people shouldn't be given the right to breathe, let alone moderation points...
Actually, thats not quite an obvious question, as it is answered in the article itself:
Darwin 1.0 is processor-independent and is built for PowerPC and Intel platforms, enabling Open Source developers to work on Darwin projects on the widest choice of computer systems.
Now, if you had actually read the article you might have noticed this juicy little tidbit... It sounds pretty cool to me.
Now if Darwin is the core of OSX, is OSX cross-platform? I haven't heard anything about that... Anyone know anything?
Actually, you sir, are misinformed. Slashdot, being the great service it is likes to email me the last 24 hours of headlines for the days when i'm not clicking every 15 seconds to look for a new one. I just happened to notice that FreeBSD 4.0 was a headline on there, so I believe that you must have missed it. Read about it here
What is up with this man? It is Christians like you that give the rest of us a bad name. We are held to a different standard than the world man, and they aren't responsible to hold the same moral values that we do because they don't know any different. You can't just try to force what you believe on them. We live in a world indoctrinated by filth and violence, but you alone are not gonna change that by getting up on your soapbox and denouncing Nutella. AND Gnutella. Keep it out of your house, because thats your choice, and THAT's where you have a safe environment for your kids, because you can't control anywhere else.
There you go. Block the primary host and you shut the whole thing out: It's what Northwestern University did: they blocked *.napster.com from resolving, meaning that you couldn't connect to get the 'optimal server'. The downloads would've gone through if they were to ever begin, because they're not blocking ports, just name resolution. The same thing, methinks, could be done with this program too.
Actually good sir, I believe you're mistaken. Gnutella appears to use a peer-to-peer-to-peer network to form its lists. That means all you have to do is link to a friend outside of the university firewall on whatever port you would decide, and all of a sudden you have access to all the hosts that he has, and all the hosts that the people he is linked to has, etc. This expands exponetially, and the only thing colleges could do is block EVERY port except vital ones. (HTTP, FTP, GOPHER, etc.) Heh, I'd like to see them try to pull that off.. They'd have a geek riot on their hands.;-)
Ok... Downloaded. Installed. Attempted to use. *BAM* (that was the sound of me falling flat on my face when searching for a song.) So can anyone shoot me some pointers on how the heck to use this uber-cool gnu muzac software?
Try to think out of the box a bit more, some of the most innovative inventions come can come from seemingly stupid ideas - why do you think that nothing is out of bounds in a brainstorming session - ideas spark ideas.
Hey, I'm all for creativity, but this really has nothing to do with human vision. Its kinda deceptive if you didn't fully understand the article because it states that it emulates the human visual process. But that really has nothing to do with helping people see better. All this does is track where things go. What good would that do for a human? Our brain already tracks things well enough. For blind people, its just learning how to see again (or for the first time in alot of cases) with the equipment provided, not to mention actually interfacing well enough with the human brain to stimulate it exactly the same way the visual cortex is stimulated by the eyes. I seriously hope that vision systems for blind people are developed some day, but I think this is a totally unrelated field of study.
Ok, now before I get kinda pissed about this, think about what you're saying first guys. This isn't some awesome new vision system that will allow blind people to see. It is just a method of emulating the way the brain processes signals from your eyes, and using that information to track objects.
The brain-eye system uses layers of parallel-processing neurons that pass the signal through a series of preprocessing steps, resulting in real-time tracking of multiple moving objects within a visual scene.
Get it now? So please guys, don't get any *SMART* ideas and jab your eyes out so you can buy a nice new $6 dollar replacement. (I know no one was actually serious about that, but you guys did still miss the point. Its not the camera thats important, and it would do no good to put xray or a zoom lense on there because you're not looking for the output of what its seeing. Its a TRACKING device. So its not used for monitoring either... geez.) \rant
Hmm.. It Makes me wonder whether you were misinformed, or just unware of PHP.
PHP, freely availble from php.net is a Pre-Hypertext-Processor (Hence the name.) It is similar to ASP in the fact that you splice snippets of code into HTML, but thats where the similarities stop. I used to do full time ASP backend development for the web design company I work for (no, not digital11 for those of you who like to criticize my page.) I was looking for something that was totally server compatible for pretty much everything, because our client's hosting methods vary between OS's. Once I found PHP, I never looked back. Its faster, its easier to learn, its easier to use, its faster, it has many more features, its open source, its faster. Now I haven't heard about web objects (oh, did I mention that PHP is faster?) But after using PHP, I'm sure it would have to do everything but fsck your wife for you to be better than PHP.
Nielson definitely makes quite a few good points in his interview. However, I think one of the major problem with computers in general is the fact that usability is a big grey area. You can't define how to make something usable. Usability for the most part is a user defined term. For example. Most (linux) people would consider Windows to be the least intuitive OS around. However, I am by far more productive in Windows than I am in any other OS. This isn't because I'm an idiot, or because Windows is necessarily a great OS. Its because thats what I've learned, and thats what I'm comfortable with. If you want to have a great, usable interface, you must design something that is not out of reach of the users comfort zone. This doesn't necessarily have to be a windows imitator, or have anything to do with computers. Just something the user can relate to in some way, and that is when you're going to be on the way to having a respectable interface.
I've heard it said that for a beginning computer user, (ie. never touched any OS) Linux is the most intuitive. Now, in part this is true, because once you learn the basics, the complicated stuff definitely follows closely behind. However, I disagree with Nielson's statement that Linux doesn't have any difference between the basic features and the advanced. The problem is not that the user has access to all the things he's not ready for yet. The problem is that he can't find the things he is ready to use, in order to be ready to use the more advanced features. Sure, anyone can read a HOWTO and learn how to use something. But I dare you to tell a Linux newbie to go read a how to and not get a reply similar to "What the hell is a HOWTO?"
I'm not sure whether you were posting that as a flamebait or what, but if you know even ANYthing about DVDs you'll know that what you just said is a bunch of balogna. WHERE THE HELL did you get the idea that DVDs would have anything to do with it? If there was risk of someone cracking the PSX2's CSS Key wouldn't there be that same risk for every other freaking DVD player on the market... Why don't you mull that one over for a second, and next time, think about what you say.
Nope. The Japanese PSX2 will not be able to read US games nor Region 1 encoded DVDs. (Kinda sucks) However, I'm hoping a mod chip will become available that will allow both, as I'm going to Japan on March 22nd and am dying to get one. Anyone else have any info on this? Also, anyone think I'll actually be able to get one out of the country?
Excuse me? Since when do minors have the ability to exercise every right? Including the First Ammendment. Minors do not have all the rights of an adult in this country, and that is fact. Ask any minor in highschool who has cussed a teacher out and gotten suspended/expelled for doing so. I can believe in free speech and still believe that minors should not have access to unacceptable materials.
I never said it did. I'm all for keeping minors from accessing unnacceptable material by whatever means possible. Basically I'm already arguing against the soon to be hundreds of posts that are like "this is bullsh*t, down with censorship!" I believe in free speech, but I also believe in the rights of minors to be protected from such material.
I will agree with you there. It shouldn't take filtering to keep little kids in a library from browsing pr0n. But have they had any other system work so far? How about having computers for adults only use that are unfiltered, and then free-for-all use that IS filtered...
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Read much? You can't use the TV-out on the PS2 when you're in Linux mode... It requires a computer monitor.
HAHAHHA... I just called him to see what the answering machine would say... The dude actually answered!!! Call it!
(I want to see at least ONE +1 Funny out of this if I get mod'd down... Come on, have a heart.)
Let's hear it for moderation folks! (And for those of you who have itching fingers to mark this down as a troll or something, give it up. It's a serious post. Don't waste your points, find something actually worth reading somewhere and bring it to the top. If I was trolling I would not be using my name, as thats just stupid.)
I've got a great idea! Lets split up AOL into like 4 or 5 pieces so they can't have a monopoly... Oh wait, n/m, that'd be pointless... Then you'd just have Napster, Netscape, Compuserve, AOL, and Time Warner. doh!
Actually, you're right. At least it didn't live up to MY expectations. I just returned from a trip to Japan, and while I was in Tokyo I visited Akihabara. (The place that would make any computer geek spooge upon seeing it.) I played plenty of PSX2 games while I was there, and I wasn't that impressed. In fact, Soul Caliber and DOA2 for DC look a helluva lot better! Now, I believe that once developers learn how to use the PSX2 then we will see some sweet games. However, that is true for any console, so its definitely true for the DC as well. And let me tell you, there are already a bunch of great games for the DC. I'll buy a PSX2 when they come out, but I'm still more impressed with the DC.
And wow! Aren't you the 334th person to post a url to that site! Congratulations!
No, actually, Mambox is the model after Mamboix. Get your roman numerals straight AC. ;)
What the fuck? Oh.. I'm a troll now? Is that it? Give me a fucking break. How is that being a troll? If I'm gonna troll like I'm gonna do it with my own respectable user name. Some people shouldn't be given the right to breathe, let alone moderation points...
LOL... Yea I was wondering about that... Heh, I Just browser at -1 cause its amusing to see AC posts sometimes.
Darwin 1.0 is processor-independent and is built for PowerPC and Intel platforms, enabling Open Source developers to work on Darwin projects on the widest choice of computer systems.
Now, if you had actually read the article you might have noticed this juicy little tidbit... It sounds pretty cool to me.
Now if Darwin is the core of OSX, is OSX cross-platform? I haven't heard anything about that... Anyone know anything?
-d11
What is up with this man? It is Christians like you that give the rest of us a bad name. We are held to a different standard than the world man, and they aren't responsible to hold the same moral values that we do because they don't know any different. You can't just try to force what you believe on them. We live in a world indoctrinated by filth and violence, but you alone are not gonna change that by getting up on your soapbox and denouncing Nutella. AND Gnutella. Keep it out of your house, because thats your choice, and THAT's where you have a safe environment for your kids, because you can't control anywhere else.
Actually good sir, I believe you're mistaken. Gnutella appears to use a peer-to-peer-to-peer network to form its lists. That means all you have to do is link to a friend outside of the university firewall on whatever port you would decide, and all of a sudden you have access to all the hosts that he has, and all the hosts that the people he is linked to has, etc. This expands exponetially, and the only thing colleges could do is block EVERY port except vital ones. (HTTP, FTP, GOPHER, etc.) Heh, I'd like to see them try to pull that off.. They'd have a geek riot on their hands. ;-)
Ok... Downloaded. Installed. Attempted to use. *BAM* (that was the sound of me falling flat on my face when searching for a song.) So can anyone shoot me some pointers on how the heck to use this uber-cool gnu muzac software?
Hey, I'm all for creativity, but this really has nothing to do with human vision. Its kinda deceptive if you didn't fully understand the article because it states that it emulates the human visual process. But that really has nothing to do with helping people see better. All this does is track where things go. What good would that do for a human? Our brain already tracks things well enough. For blind people, its just learning how to see again (or for the first time in alot of cases) with the equipment provided, not to mention actually interfacing well enough with the human brain to stimulate it exactly the same way the visual cortex is stimulated by the eyes. I seriously hope that vision systems for blind people are developed some day, but I think this is a totally unrelated field of study.
The brain-eye system uses layers of parallel-processing neurons that pass the signal through a series of preprocessing steps, resulting in real-time tracking of multiple moving objects within a visual scene.
Get it now? So please guys, don't get any *SMART* ideas and jab your eyes out so you can buy a nice new $6 dollar replacement. (I know no one was actually serious about that, but you guys did still miss the point. Its not the camera thats important, and it would do no good to put xray or a zoom lense on there because you're not looking for the output of what its seeing. Its a TRACKING device. So its not used for monitoring either... geez.) \rant
PHP, freely availble from php.net is a Pre-Hypertext-Processor (Hence the name.) It is similar to ASP in the fact that you splice snippets of code into HTML, but thats where the similarities stop. I used to do full time ASP backend development for the web design company I work for (no, not digital11 for those of you who like to criticize my page.) I was looking for something that was totally server compatible for pretty much everything, because our client's hosting methods vary between OS's. Once I found PHP, I never looked back. Its faster, its easier to learn, its easier to use, its faster, it has many more features, its open source, its faster. Now I haven't heard about web objects (oh, did I mention that PHP is faster?) But after using PHP, I'm sure it would have to do everything but fsck your wife for you to be better than PHP.
d11
I've heard it said that for a beginning computer user, (ie. never touched any OS) Linux is the most intuitive. Now, in part this is true, because once you learn the basics, the complicated stuff definitely follows closely behind. However, I disagree with Nielson's statement that Linux doesn't have any difference between the basic features and the advanced. The problem is not that the user has access to all the things he's not ready for yet. The problem is that he can't find the things he is ready to use, in order to be ready to use the more advanced features. Sure, anyone can read a HOWTO and learn how to use something. But I dare you to tell a Linux newbie to go read a how to and not get a reply similar to "What the hell is a HOWTO?"
d11
I'm not sure whether you were posting that as a flamebait or what, but if you know even ANYthing about DVDs you'll know that what you just said is a bunch of balogna. WHERE THE HELL did you get the idea that DVDs would have anything to do with it? If there was risk of someone cracking the PSX2's CSS Key wouldn't there be that same risk for every other freaking DVD player on the market... Why don't you mull that one over for a second, and next time, think about what you say.
Nope. The Japanese PSX2 will not be able to read US games nor Region 1 encoded DVDs. (Kinda sucks) However, I'm hoping a mod chip will become available that will allow both, as I'm going to Japan on March 22nd and am dying to get one. Anyone else have any info on this?
Also, anyone think I'll actually be able to get one out of the country?
Excuse me? Since when do minors have the ability to exercise every right? Including the First Ammendment. Minors do not have all the rights of an adult in this country, and that is fact. Ask any minor in highschool who has cussed a teacher out and gotten suspended/expelled for doing so. I can believe in free speech and still believe that minors should not have access to unacceptable materials.
Heh, actually it uses flash, and actually I haven't touched that page in FORever.
I never said it did. I'm all for keeping minors from accessing unnacceptable material by whatever means possible. Basically I'm already arguing against the soon to be hundreds of posts that are like "this is bullsh*t, down with censorship!" I believe in free speech, but I also believe in the rights of minors to be protected from such material.
I will agree with you there. It shouldn't take filtering to keep little kids in a library from browsing pr0n. But have they had any other system work so far? How about having computers for adults only use that are unfiltered, and then free-for-all use that IS filtered...