You think the OSX gui is amazing? I hate it. I'm forced to use it from time to time for HD content and I always dread the experience. Opening a file is the most common thing you can do, and it's not the easiest thing to find in the menu. Don't even ask about closing a file.
Story takes a dive in credibility right there. VLC is good, yes, and sometimes it will play a format you can't get anything else to play. But from a video perspective, the interface is clunky and unintuitive. Especially on a Mac with the ridiculous file-open-close buthchery it uses.
I'll upgrade to this version, but VLC is never my first choice to play multimedia content (I mentioned Mac OSX but I more often use Linux or Windows). Will this version win me over? We'll see, but I doubt it. I'm in no rush. The sheer hyperbole of "better by a long stretch" has left me underwhelmed. The author maybe did VLC a desservice with that language.
Oh well, you got me! I forgot what day it is today. I forgot to mark my calendar that today is the one day a year looking at/. is guaranteed to be a complete waste of time. There are other days, to be sure, but April 1 is the only one planned that way.
Harmony is for idiots. Overrated and overpriced. No internet connection? Sorry, no device setup for you. Harmony remotes take "lowest common denominator" to a new low, and we're talking about the "idiot box" and "boob tube" to start with.
Here's something to try: Get your Harmony remote to turn on your cable box BEFORE turning on the television. Let me know how that works out for you. In my case, I can't "Watch TV!" unless I turn it on first, and I can't turn it on unless the cable box has already been turned on first. Harmony can't handle that little detail. Overrated. Although adequate for morons.
Seriously, anyone who skips this "news" completely will have missed nothing. I have not read the FA, I have not read the/. story summary or any of the 8 comments thus far. There's literally nothing to see here except BS.
It has been for several years IMO, but now it's becoming clear that they won't be able to alter the course of events. I think the fate of the company is no longer in its own hands. A sale is more likely than a bankruptcy. I can see IBM taking another shot at this market segment:) It might be worth a shot if they can get it cheap enough.
I've read both previous books and will read this one, too. I see this story as a spoiler zone, and I haven't read the entire review, but I want to thank/. for putting up a review on it in the first place. Bamford's looks at the secret world of our intelligence agencies are nothing short of thorough and well-researched.
Everyone should read Bamford before ever uttering the letters "NSA" in public. Whenever someone starts ranting about the NSA I ask them if they've ever read the Puzzle Palace or Body of Secrets. If they answer, "No", then I know their opinion can safely be discounted.
This agency is one Americans know very little about - with good reason most of the time - and oversight of it is incredibly important and sorely lacking.
I see none when I'm on a Linux system, and none on Windows unless I specifically request it. I only click through to actual flash content once in a great while. Like maybe 0.1 percent of the time (i.e. 1 in a thousand).
then they're not much of a problem to begin with. Sorry, this red-light traffic camera thing, in all countries, is a scam waiting to be abused by corrupt officials. QED Flash 'em the bird.
I know slashdot frowns on really short comments, but what the fuck? I'd rather see the.gov money in this go to any one of a dozen different techology efforts.
Nope. We would be immensely better off if they pulled the plug on ALL television. A few million people's idiot boxes going dark is a GOOD thing in my book. The moving picture with sound is a crutch that causes people to withdraw from real life. The advertisers like it that way.
If I was relatively ignorant of security matters there's no way I'd let this guy anywhere near my systems. On the other hand, knowing what I know, this is exactly the guy I'd want for the job. I'd insist, of course, on detailed information about his actions, that I could audit myself if need be. I'd much rather have someone who knows what they're doing than some of these security outfits who are basically charlatans.
With the economy the way it is, all H-1B visas should be eliminated. Don't tell me there aren't enough Americans to fill those positions. There are. You just have to pay enough to get them. The increased salaries will draw more young people into the field as a career. Eliminating H-1B visas will have both short and long-term positive effects in the US.
Seconded. Best comment of the new year on ANY story thus far. And it doesn't even mention the kiddie pr0n. If they want you they will apply disproportionate resources in order to secure "evidence" against you.
Aside from both being incredibly dishonest, I see little connection between the net neutrality debate and swiftboating. They both involve making shit up, but that's about it. You don't have to look far to find examples of people making shit up in the US. It's legal, too. For example, see any Mickey D's television ads where the burgers look hot and fresh. The vast majority of advertising in this country walks the fine line between puffery and outright deception.
In the early '80s there were no "older" programmers unless you were talking mainframe data processing. On microprocessor CPU systems the average age was low, as I recall. Back then we didn't blame poor software on "youthful programmers". We blamed it on idiots who didn't know what they were doing. I think it's safe to say that much hasn't changed.
You can't have a war against a fucking noun, you twit. Just like the others wars "on" something, the whole premise is flawed and doomed to failure. You can take effective action against criminals and devote more resources to it, sure. Calling it a "war" on something is usually cover to expand a bureacracy somewhere and suck the federal teat for funding, which you then rely on for the rest of your miserable existence.
As in I'm in the middle of a similar project right now... If you have drivers, go for 2.6 and make it a recent 2.6, like 2.6.26. I was very afraid of kernel bloat when we were considering a move up from 2.4.18, but the hit wasn't as bad as I feared. As others have said, maybe 5 or 10%. That can be a lot depending on your runtime system. How do you save non-volatile variables? Flash? PXE boot? Custom bootloader that boots up with an NFS-mounted root partition? We have found the initramfs boot environment of 2.6 MUCH easier to use than the initrd of 2.4. You don't even need to compile in ext2 to the kernel!
Toolchains. Toolchains are a GIGANTIC PAIN IN THE ASS. Don't be fooled by people who tell you buildroot, or openwrt or cross-tool are panaceas. They are not. You will have to do major modifications on any of them to fit your particular needs. Having said that, you're much more likely to have early success with a modern toolchain. One that uses, say, gcc 4.1.2 (or even newer). I built gcc 2.something toolchains a couple of years ago. What a nightmare trying to find support/patches/mailing list archived posts newer than a couple of years ago.
Before I get rambling on too much... I strongly recommend going to 2.6 if your hardware allows it. I also recomment using an OpenWrt-like approach to your toolchain, kernel, driver and application development system. You will have to modify it for your own situation, but having everything reproducible from source in one tree is a definite advantage.
All the security bullshit is just that: bullshit. Security Theater. The talk is big (this includes recent cyber-security alarmist stories) but in no relation whatsoever to real threats. The arena of "security" is about protecting the feifdom now. Jobs and budgets to protect. Projects to hype. Dangers to overestimate. Get your consultant dollars - step right up.
Somebody has to call a spade a spade and do it soon or else Orwell will be here to stay in this guise. Bush opened the door. Americans invited him in. Failure to now see that the emperor has no clothes will be his invitation to stay on as a permanent houseguest.
IMO the hero of this story is that citizen who, when asked to delete their photo, told them to go fuck themselves.
Call me when collision insurance on it is about $20 a month. Until then these yupster "because my kids have to be safe" fads will continue to nauseate me.
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You think the OSX gui is amazing? I hate it. I'm forced to use it from time to time for HD content and I always dread the experience. Opening a file is the most common thing you can do, and it's not the easiest thing to find in the menu. Don't even ask about closing a file.
Story takes a dive in credibility right there. VLC is good, yes, and sometimes it will play a format you can't get anything else to play. But from a video perspective, the interface is clunky and unintuitive. Especially on a Mac with the ridiculous file-open-close buthchery it uses.
I'll upgrade to this version, but VLC is never my first choice to play multimedia content (I mentioned Mac OSX but I more often use Linux or Windows). Will this version win me over? We'll see, but I doubt it. I'm in no rush. The sheer hyperbole of "better by a long stretch" has left me underwhelmed. The author maybe did VLC a desservice with that language.
Oh well, you got me! I forgot what day it is today. I forgot to mark my calendar that today is the one day a year looking at /. is guaranteed to be a complete waste of time. There are other days, to be sure, but April 1 is the only one planned that way.
That sound you hear is the sound of millions of torrenters clicking TPB out of their download software.
Harmony is for idiots. Overrated and overpriced. No internet connection? Sorry, no device setup for you. Harmony remotes take "lowest common denominator" to a new low, and we're talking about the "idiot box" and "boob tube" to start with.
Here's something to try: Get your Harmony remote to turn on your cable box BEFORE turning on the television. Let me know how that works out for you. In my case, I can't "Watch TV!" unless I turn it on first, and I can't turn it on unless the cable box has already been turned on first. Harmony can't handle that little detail. Overrated. Although adequate for morons.
Seriously, anyone who skips this "news" completely will have missed nothing. I have not read the FA, I have not read the /. story summary or any of the 8 comments thus far. There's literally nothing to see here except BS.
It has been for several years IMO, but now it's becoming clear that they won't be able to alter the course of events. I think the fate of the company is no longer in its own hands. A sale is more likely than a bankruptcy. I can see IBM taking another shot at this market segment :) It might be worth a shot if they can get it cheap enough.
I've read both previous books and will read this one, too. I see this story as a spoiler zone, and I haven't read the entire review, but I want to thank /. for putting up a review on it in the first place. Bamford's looks at the secret world of our intelligence agencies are nothing short of thorough and well-researched.
Everyone should read Bamford before ever uttering the letters "NSA" in public. Whenever someone starts ranting about the NSA I ask them if they've ever read the Puzzle Palace or Body of Secrets. If they answer, "No", then I know their opinion can safely be discounted.
This agency is one Americans know very little about - with good reason most of the time - and oversight of it is incredibly important and sorely lacking.
Sounds like a good position to eliminate completely. Take the whole DHS with you on the way out the door. And possibly a good chunk of NSA too.
I see none when I'm on a Linux system, and none on Windows unless I specifically request it. I only click through to actual flash content once in a great while. Like maybe 0.1 percent of the time (i.e. 1 in a thousand).
then they're not much of a problem to begin with. Sorry, this red-light traffic camera thing, in all countries, is a scam waiting to be abused by corrupt officials. QED Flash 'em the bird.
I know slashdot frowns on really short comments, but what the fuck? I'd rather see the .gov money in this go to any one of a dozen different techology efforts.
Nope. We would be immensely better off if they pulled the plug on ALL television. A few million people's idiot boxes going dark is a GOOD thing in my book. The moving picture with sound is a crutch that causes people to withdraw from real life. The advertisers like it that way.
If I was relatively ignorant of security matters there's no way I'd let this guy anywhere near my systems. On the other hand, knowing what I know, this is exactly the guy I'd want for the job. I'd insist, of course, on detailed information about his actions, that I could audit myself if need be. I'd much rather have someone who knows what they're doing than some of these security outfits who are basically charlatans.
With the economy the way it is, all H-1B visas should be eliminated. Don't tell me there aren't enough Americans to fill those positions. There are. You just have to pay enough to get them. The increased salaries will draw more young people into the field as a career. Eliminating H-1B visas will have both short and long-term positive effects in the US.
They've got a great story, you betcha! And it's only going to get better! Rah rah! Sis boom bah!
It's disgusting. I wanna puke.
Seconded. Best comment of the new year on ANY story thus far. And it doesn't even mention the kiddie pr0n. If they want you they will apply disproportionate resources in order to secure "evidence" against you.
Aside from both being incredibly dishonest, I see little connection between the net neutrality debate and swiftboating. They both involve making shit up, but that's about it. You don't have to look far to find examples of people making shit up in the US. It's legal, too. For example, see any Mickey D's television ads where the burgers look hot and fresh. The vast majority of advertising in this country walks the fine line between puffery and outright deception.
You've gone and slashdotted the Institute of Physics! The Quantum Flux is not amused and the Strangelets are circling the wagons.
In the early '80s there were no "older" programmers unless you were talking mainframe data processing. On microprocessor CPU systems the average age was low, as I recall. Back then we didn't blame poor software on "youthful programmers". We blamed it on idiots who didn't know what they were doing. I think it's safe to say that much hasn't changed.
This is perhaps the single most ridiculous thing I've ever read on slashdot.
You can't have a war against a fucking noun, you twit. Just like the others wars "on" something, the whole premise is flawed and doomed to failure. You can take effective action against criminals and devote more resources to it, sure. Calling it a "war" on something is usually cover to expand a bureacracy somewhere and suck the federal teat for funding, which you then rely on for the rest of your miserable existence.
As in I'm in the middle of a similar project right now... If you have drivers, go for 2.6 and make it a recent 2.6, like 2.6.26. I was very afraid of kernel bloat when we were considering a move up from 2.4.18, but the hit wasn't as bad as I feared. As others have said, maybe 5 or 10%. That can be a lot depending on your runtime system. How do you save non-volatile variables? Flash? PXE boot? Custom bootloader that boots up with an NFS-mounted root partition? We have found the initramfs boot environment of 2.6 MUCH easier to use than the initrd of 2.4. You don't even need to compile in ext2 to the kernel!
Toolchains. Toolchains are a GIGANTIC PAIN IN THE ASS. Don't be fooled by people who tell you buildroot, or openwrt or cross-tool are panaceas. They are not. You will have to do major modifications on any of them to fit your particular needs. Having said that, you're much more likely to have early success with a modern toolchain. One that uses, say, gcc 4.1.2 (or even newer). I built gcc 2.something toolchains a couple of years ago. What a nightmare trying to find support/patches/mailing list archived posts newer than a couple of years ago.
Before I get rambling on too much... I strongly recommend going to 2.6 if your hardware allows it. I also recomment using an OpenWrt-like approach to your toolchain, kernel, driver and application development system. You will have to modify it for your own situation, but having everything reproducible from source in one tree is a definite advantage.
All the security bullshit is just that: bullshit. Security Theater. The talk is big (this includes recent cyber-security alarmist stories) but in no relation whatsoever to real threats. The arena of "security" is about protecting the feifdom now. Jobs and budgets to protect. Projects to hype. Dangers to overestimate. Get your consultant dollars - step right up.
Somebody has to call a spade a spade and do it soon or else Orwell will be here to stay in this guise. Bush opened the door. Americans invited him in. Failure to now see that the emperor has no clothes will be his invitation to stay on as a permanent houseguest.
IMO the hero of this story is that citizen who, when asked to delete their photo, told them to go fuck themselves.
Call me when collision insurance on it is about $20 a month. Until then these yupster "because my kids have to be safe" fads will continue to nauseate me.