Yaknow, I'd like to experiment with some of this wearable stuff. In particular, taking video (and audio) unobtrusively as I walk around. However, I don't have the wife's permission^W^W^W means to spend 1000s of bucks on such a gig.
Are there any cheap A/V "pen" cameras with a wide lens, that output to USB? I'd like to just record for now; having an over-the-eye small lcd display can come later..
You may: (i) use the Software on any single computer; (ii) use the Software on a second computer so long as the first and second computers are not used simultaneously...
(you can't install it on more than 2 machines?)
Any direct use of Plug-Ins through a non-RN proprietary application, including a custom or user-written application is prohibited by this Agreement
(you can't call the plugins via, say, mplayer?)
The Software embodies a serial copying management system required by the laws of the United States. You may not circumvent or attempt to circumvent this system by any means.
(DRM, yummy!)
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WTF?
Message Center: The RealPlayer software, using Message Center, automatically communicates with RN's servers to check for new important messages, including software updates and service bulletins.... You can change the way Message Center displays messages and the frequency with which it checks for new ones by following these steps: on the View menu, select 'Message Center', then within Message Center, select 'Options', select 'Preferences' and set your desired preferences.
Note: you can't disable it: only change the frequency
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Exactly: if you are very sure that the stock is going to tank, buy put options (if the CBOE sells such options, that is). The only downside to options is that they expire at a certain date. So, you must not only be sure that the stock will tank, but also that it will tank by a certain date.
Your loss with the put options is limited to what you paid for them, plus the commission. Your gain, again, is limited to the the price of the stock itself (minus what you paid for the options and commission).
Shorting stock is not child's play. It is very risky; your potential gain is limited to the price of the stock (that you get), and the potential loss is virtually unlimited.
You can also get caught in a "short squeeze", which is when the person from whom you borrowed the stock decides to call in his loaned shares. If the stockprice is higher than what you short-sold it for, then you'll have to buy it back at the higher price and give him the borrowed shares, thereby losing money.
If many people start callling in their loans, then the number of shorts covering their positions grows, thereby creating a strong demand, increasing the share value, which in turn leads to more loans being called in, and you get into a positive feedback loop (control theory guys will understand).
Since all the west seems interested in is providing them with internet access,
Did you RTFA, or did your trollbox just cough this up? "West", my ass. It is an Indian company doing this. Don't you think the locals there have some right to use this technology as they see fit?
But they don't have clean water/food/underwear: that should come first!
What about poverty? Internet doesn't put bread on the plate!
Reminds me of "let them have cake!"
The priorities are all wrong! Billions of Indians are going hungry!
Oh great! Now the farmers in India will be taking jobs from the farmers in Iowa
I, for one, welcome our new Indian farmer overlords
Now, please allow me to rant.
Who the f*ck are you to sit in your comfy little chair (in, most probably, your parents' basement) and pass judgement on these people 9,000 miles away (from US)? Don't you think that the people in India care about poverty just a little bit more than you do? If the poverty in India does bother you so much, then sell your earthly possessions, take the first flight to India that you can get, and go live in a village and help them out, OK? Don't sit around outside, trying to lecture them.
India is not the US (nor is it UK, Australia, France, Germany, etc.). They have their own problems, and want to come up with their own solutions. LET THEM EXPERIMENT! Don't pass judgement; if you can help, then, by all means, please do so; if not, then S.T.F.U.!
Assuming you naysayers live in the USA, here are some statistics for you (from this site:
20% of all America's children live below the poverty line; 43.8% of America's black children live below the poverty line
4,000 children in the USA will be murdered by their parents this year
A child born in New York today is less likely to live to 5 than a child born in Shanghai
A gun takes the life of a child every 2 hours in the USA; 50,000 children were killed by firearms between 1979 and 1991 -- same as US casualties in the Vietnam War
On average, one out of every three Americans - 34.2 percent of all people in the United States - are officially classified as living in poverty at least 2 months out of the year. (source: U.S. Census Bureau, Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Poverty 1996-1999, July 2003.)
So, please tell me: why should the US be spending any money on weapons, Internet, Reality TV, etc. etc. when there is so much child poverty? Are you running around in your neighborhoods, telling poor folks not to spend any money on gifts/computers/TV, until they have gotten out of poverty? If not, then please start lecturing in your neighborhood first, before lecturing some people 9,000 miles away.
Talk about being skimpy on the details. Why did/. accept this story?
Assuming no overlap between the 8 base stations (i.e., maximal coverage), this works out to each AP having a range of 5 miles. That is a heck of a lot in an urban setting.
I, for one, welc^H^H^H^H would love to know the technical details behind this.
Geez, Einstein, then why don't you write something about your experiences? He at least made the effort to pen down his thoughts in the hope that they might be useful for others. What about you?
wouldn't it be great for the OS community if we could provide a law to facilitate tax cuts to companies who give to OS, or at least make it mandatory to for-profit organizations to give a certain minimum amount and take it out of their taxes?
The chances of the OSS community getting any kind of a favorable law passed are zero. Period.
Assuming the submitter is talking about the USA, face it: corporations rule. Money talks. Does the OSS community have the money to hire lobbyists and spread some "cheer" around in time for the elections? No. But companies do: and thats why they win.
On top of this, you're wishing for a mandatory "tax" on for-profit organizations?? Dream on!
What is possible is some sort of a tax-writeoff for corporations that donate source to the OSS community. But this won't fly anyways. Why? Because corporations don't pay much taxes, thats why! Most of them register offshore, and on paper their profits are zero. Checkout the writings of Nader and others (here's such an article from a little Googling).
I skimmed over the article (heretic!), and was wondering: how do they distinguish between software failures (the purpose of the test) and hardware failures (for example, random bit errors in the memory that could be caused by higher temperatures due to the stress testing)?
I seem to recall getting random crashes with cheapo memory, and it was a pain to track down the offending component. Of course, one would assume that IBM wouldn't go for cheapo components, but still: how does one point the finger at the software, instead of hardware? Is it just repeatability?
It is quite easy, for us (20|30)-year olds to pass judgement on this man. But consider this:
He is 73
He and his partially disabled wife needed the money
He comes from a simpler time, a different era
Please don't be harsh on him.
What if, 50 years from now, there's a scam going around , today, you won't in your wildest imagination consider possible? Would you fall for it? It is possible some of you would.
Please don't deride this old man, but feel sorry for him. He's ruined, with a disabled wife to take care of.
If anything, us young folks also have to share some of the blame in not spreading the message clearly that such things are scams.
To all the (presumably) SCO employees saying, "we have no choice" : what would you say to a mugger who says, "I have no choice" while mugging you ? Would you refuse to press charges against him?
Sometimes, just because you think you have no choice, it doesn't mean you have no choice.
If you chaps have a shred of decency in you, jump ship, even if it means a lower paying job.
Some things in this world are worth fighting for. I know most of us geeks are too out of shape to put on a uniform (not to mention that many of the geeks will probably be glowing like neon lights in sunshine), but there's more than one way to fight evil in this world.
This is the time of year when one typically makes some resolutions. Let yours be: I'll leave SCO rather than support them.
Good luck to those of you who have the courage to stand up for your morals.
The reason I'm asking is because I saw that one member of the team has jumped over to a company called Coverity
If you had continued reading, you would have read further down (on Engler's page):
We have started a company, coverity.com, based on this work.
Such is academic life today. You are not only evaluated on the number of "P"s (publications, PhDs, etc.), but these days you also are evaluated on how many startups you have spawned from your research.
SCO's invoking the DMCA (everyone's favorite piece of legislation in these here parts). Here's a snippet from
their release:
DMCA Notification Letter
SCO has commenced providing notification to selected Fortune 1000 Linux end users outlining additional violations of SCO's copyrights contained in Linux. Certain copyrighted application binary interfaces have been copied verbatim from the UNIX System V code base and contributed to Linux without proper authorization and without copyright attribution. Any part of any Linux file that includes the copyrighted binary interface code must be removed. This ABI code was part of a 1994 settlement agreement involving the University of California at Berkeley and Berkeley Systems Development, Inc., (BSDI).
Their stupidity never ceases to amaze me. Well, if it "must be removed", then tell us what is it that "must be removed", dammit!
Also note that they claim that the ABI code was part of the settlement between UCB and BSDI (and SCO/ATT/Caldera/Novell are neither of those two...):-)
But as you can see it was rejected. I was particularly interested in the use of the GPU for cryptographic functions (e.g., with a loopback encrypted filesystem), to offload the processing from the main CPU.
I'd say it won't work. The AGP bus is slow at pushing data out.
First off, he's not a kernel hacker. He's a kernel developer.
Maybe you need to read the true definition of a "hacker", instead of the NYT definition?
Second, Linux Torvalds is by far not the largest OSS contributor in the world. First off, there are 100s of Kernel developers.
Linus' biggest contribution, IMHO, is coordinating the whole kernel thing. They should give him a f'in Nobel just for that. Don't believe me?
Try coordinating a small group of programmers in a company. See how difficult it is. Now, imagine doing the same with
100s of developers, each of whom has a sizable ego, and is a prima donna in his/her own mind (no offense meant)
100s of developers, who are spread out all over the world, each working at his/her own schedule
100s of developers, who aren't paid, which means you can't even hold the "you're fired" axe over their heads
just to name a few.
Believe me, managing hackers is quite hard. Someone once rightfully said, it is like herding cats. And Linus is the best damn cat-herder in the world today.
Why go to the trouble of reinstalling the machine, etc. etc., when Knoppix will do? Just boot Knoppix (now, with NTFS support!) from the CD and browse. When done, reboot into XP and let your 3-year-old nephew (or pet monkey, same thing) bang away at the keyboard...
From the article (yes, I actually read it) :
France Telecom uses Oracle Corp. as its DBMS, Hewlett-Packard Co. as its storage and system vendor, and employs an SMP (symbol manipulation program) architecture.
<grin>
Somebody give Mr. Fonseca a clue. With so many unemployed geeks running around, why can't eWeek find somebody who knows this stuff (even cursorily) to write?
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Alternately, sign on a white sheet of paper, scan it and keep it (secure). Just paste this "signature" onto the document. Voila!
j/k
Are there any cheap A/V "pen" cameras with a wide lens, that output to USB? I'd like to just record for now; having an over-the-eye small lcd display can come later..
He wore one to a high school dance.
Must've been quite the ladies' man...
(you can't install it on more than 2 machines?)
(you can't call the plugins via, say, mplayer?)
(DRM, yummy!)
WTF?
Note: you can't disable it: only change the frequency
No thank you.. I'll pass!
Your loss with the put options is limited to what you paid for them, plus the commission. Your gain, again, is limited to the the price of the stock itself (minus what you paid for the options and commission).
You can also get caught in a "short squeeze", which is when the person from whom you borrowed the stock decides to call in his loaned shares. If the stockprice is higher than what you short-sold it for, then you'll have to buy it back at the higher price and give him the borrowed shares, thereby losing money.
If many people start callling in their loans, then the number of shorts covering their positions grows, thereby creating a strong demand, increasing the share value, which in turn leads to more loans being called in, and you get into a positive feedback loop (control theory guys will understand).
In summary: shorting shares is very risky.
Did you RTFA, or did your trollbox just cough this up? "West", my ass. It is an Indian company doing this. Don't you think the locals there have some right to use this technology as they see fit?
Now, please allow me to rant.
Who the f*ck are you to sit in your comfy little chair (in, most probably, your parents' basement) and pass judgement on these people 9,000 miles away (from US)? Don't you think that the people in India care about poverty just a little bit more than you do? If the poverty in India does bother you so much, then sell your earthly possessions, take the first flight to India that you can get, and go live in a village and help them out, OK? Don't sit around outside, trying to lecture them.
India is not the US (nor is it UK, Australia, France, Germany, etc.). They have their own problems, and want to come up with their own solutions. LET THEM EXPERIMENT! Don't pass judgement; if you can help, then, by all means, please do so; if not, then S.T.F.U.!
Assuming you naysayers live in the USA, here are some statistics for you (from this site:
So, please tell me: why should the US be spending any money on weapons, Internet, Reality TV, etc. etc. when there is so much child poverty? Are you running around in your neighborhoods, telling poor folks not to spend any money on gifts/computers/TV, until they have gotten out of poverty? If not, then please start lecturing in your neighborhood first, before lecturing some people 9,000 miles away.
Thank you.
Assuming no overlap between the 8 base stations (i.e., maximal coverage), this works out to each AP having a range of 5 miles. That is a heck of a lot in an urban setting.
I, for one, welc^H^H^H^H would love to know the technical details behind this.
The chances of the OSS community getting any kind of a favorable law passed are zero. Period.
Assuming the submitter is talking about the USA, face it: corporations rule. Money talks. Does the OSS community have the money to hire lobbyists and spread some "cheer" around in time for the elections? No. But companies do: and thats why they win.
On top of this, you're wishing for a mandatory "tax" on for-profit organizations?? Dream on!
What is possible is some sort of a tax-writeoff for corporations that donate source to the OSS community. But this won't fly anyways. Why? Because corporations don't pay much taxes, thats why! Most of them register offshore, and on paper their profits are zero. Checkout the writings of Nader and others (here's such an article from a little Googling).
I seem to recall getting random crashes with cheapo memory, and it was a pain to track down the offending component. Of course, one would assume that IBM wouldn't go for cheapo components, but still: how does one point the finger at the software, instead of hardware? Is it just repeatability?
- He is 73
- He and his partially disabled wife needed the money
- He comes from a simpler time, a different era
Please don't be harsh on him.What if, 50 years from now, there's a scam going around , today, you won't in your wildest imagination consider possible? Would you fall for it? It is possible some of you would.
Please don't deride this old man, but feel sorry for him. He's ruined, with a disabled wife to take care of.
If anything, us young folks also have to share some of the blame in not spreading the message clearly that such things are scams.
Sometimes, just because you think you have no choice, it doesn't mean you have no choice.
If you chaps have a shred of decency in you, jump ship, even if it means a lower paying job.
Some things in this world are worth fighting for. I know most of us geeks are too out of shape to put on a uniform (not to mention that many of the geeks will probably be glowing like neon lights in sunshine), but there's more than one way to fight evil in this world.
This is the time of year when one typically makes some resolutions. Let yours be: I'll leave SCO rather than support them.
Good luck to those of you who have the courage to stand up for your morals.
If you had continued reading, you would have read further down (on Engler's page):
We have started a company, coverity.com, based on this work.
Such is academic life today. You are not only evaluated on the number of "P"s (publications, PhDs, etc.), but these days you also are evaluated on how many startups you have spawned from your research.
DMCA Notification Letter
SCO has commenced providing notification to selected Fortune 1000 Linux end users outlining additional violations of SCO's copyrights contained in Linux. Certain copyrighted application binary interfaces have been copied verbatim from the UNIX System V code base and contributed to Linux without proper authorization and without copyright attribution. Any part of any Linux file that includes the copyrighted binary interface code must be removed. This ABI code was part of a 1994 settlement agreement involving the University of California at Berkeley and Berkeley Systems Development, Inc., (BSDI).
Their stupidity never ceases to amaze me. Well, if it "must be removed", then tell us what is it that "must be removed", dammit!
Also note that they claim that the ABI code was part of the settlement between UCB and BSDI (and SCO/ATT/Caldera/Novell are neither of those two...) :-)
I'd say it won't work. The AGP bus is slow at pushing data out.
Maybe you need to read the true definition of a "hacker", instead of the NYT definition?
Second, Linux Torvalds is by far not the largest OSS contributor in the world. First off, there are 100s of Kernel developers.
Linus' biggest contribution, IMHO, is coordinating the whole kernel thing. They should give him a f'in Nobel just for that. Don't believe me? Try coordinating a small group of programmers in a company. See how difficult it is. Now, imagine doing the same with
- 100s of developers, each of whom has a sizable ego, and is a prima donna in his/her own mind (no offense meant)
- 100s of developers, who are spread out all over the world, each working at his/her own schedule
- 100s of developers, who aren't paid, which means you can't even hold the "you're fired" axe over their heads
just to name a few.Believe me, managing hackers is quite hard. Someone once rightfully said, it is like herding cats. And Linus is the best damn cat-herder in the world today.
So.. umm.... who gave you that gift, Taco?
France Telecom uses Oracle Corp. as its DBMS, Hewlett-Packard Co. as its storage and system vendor, and employs an SMP (symbol manipulation program) architecture.
<grin>
Somebody give Mr. Fonseca a clue. With so many unemployed geeks running around, why can't eWeek find somebody who knows this stuff (even cursorily) to write?