The TLD that we really need is a.home or something similar.me would have been better but some country already has that (I'm too lazy to look it up) It should be used ONLY for personal home pages and shouldn't cost any more than $5/year to register under.
now that I think of it.us (pronounce it "dot us" not "dot u-s") would be ok, it's already there as the USA country code and nobody is using it. Why oh why is such a resource being allowed to go to waste? It would be cool to have ourfamily.us
Damn, I wish I had known about the Andover standard for citations when I was still in school. It would have made essay writing a breeze. No need to keep track of what book/magazine etc. you used and who said what just label it "anonymous" Hell you don't even have to type up a bibliography, if everything is anonymous because you lifted it from a source that was freely available and the topic was contraversial.
I doubt anything I said made the book, and I could care less if it did, but I would certainly like to be credited (just as "Aonaran, a slashdot user" would be fine) if my words were used. I'm not saying that they should have looked up every one's name and contacted them (though that would have been thoughtful) and I certainly don't think that anyone sould get paid for being quoted in the book, as some others here have suggested, but a simple attibution wouldn't hurt.
I could almost understand seeing this question here about this time last year (I say almost because even then I thought people who believed that DVD was going to be another minidisc or worse, digital compact cassette were just a little strange) DCC and even mini disc, which is now, 6 years later, beginning to make a market for itself as a recording only medium, nevere had anywhere near the market penetration that DVD has. Yes, the stories you have heard are true, DVD has beat VHS in first and second year market penetration. And, because there is currently no competeing format that can give better quality and convenience, I think DVD will be around for a VERY long time. Pay perview is cool, PPV on demand is even cooler, but I still would rather have those shelves of movies lining the wall that I can point to and say "... and there's my movie collection"
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I can verify that the raq2 is mips based. I run three of them at work.
Telnet to ns3.compton.net, the banner says it all.
I find this one to be the biggest factor. There is a rule I read some where, that for a recent grad, or any person who is currently unemployed, it takes at least one month of searching for every $10,000 you wish to make.
For me it was also what type of environment I was willing to work in. I refused to apply to a certain company because I didn't want to wear a suit nor did I feel it was within the company's rights to do drug tests on employees. Not that it would have been a problem, I just don't like those kinds of invasions of privacy.
On the other hand the job I did end up in is the "data tech" for a small cable TV company I do everything from installing cable modems to network admin duties, to abuse@, to fibre optic based network design. I don't make as much as I might have in some other jobs, but the benefits I get are great and I can truely say I love my job. (just not getting up in the morning to get to it)
MIT isn't the only one. Microsoft and Netscape both had a reverse DNS lookup to determine if you were connected through a northamerican ISP before allowing you to down load 128 bit encryption until the regulations were lifted recently. (I know this because the ISP I work for had trouble with this on one of the/24's we were using)
I'm deeply offended by the moderation scre of -1 offtopic.
I merely comment (on topic!) that it's strange how this story seemed to have generated far less interest in the slashdot community than the Aibo.
Is there an auto moderator that gives minus one to any post containing the dreaded phrase "first post"?? I don't mind if you moderate this down as off topic, it is, but the original comment was right on topic.
Could this be? a first post ?? I thought I'd see all sorts of wild discussion and carrying on when I clicked this link.. there was for Aibo, but over 10 minutes after the story was posted, and I see nothing. hmm.
The only thing I can think of that would be able to make use of colour (and be actually useful) on a palm device is if someone wrote a network monitoring tool (or something similar) that used line graphs (like MRTG)
Web surfing is pretty useless on such low res, unless the page is all text anyway.
The colour screen might give better contrast though, I don't know I haven't seen it.
Here I was all set to download 6.1 to set up a little firewall for the office on one of the surplus machines and now the site's going to be slashdotted. I better find a good mirror before I lose access to the site altogether
Your long antenna cable is narrowcasting to you alone.
This business is broadcasting to the public.
There is a significant difference.
Now think of a Cable TV co as a guy who owns the towns biggest antenna and lets everyone run a wire to it.
Now you are starting to get the picture, so add to that the idea that the government lets him charge rent on connections to his antenna. This is Canadian cable TV (in an over simplified form) There is NO fee to be negotiatied with broadcasters for anything he picks up off his antenna, not even if he lets all the neighbors hook up to it, or even when he starts charging for that service.
The difference with iCraveTV is the size of the neighborhood and the fact he adds advertisements to the outside of the picture. (and that last one is where he risks losing the lawsuit)
(assuming, of course, the broadcast is carried in its entirety)... ...and it is. ICrave picks up the stations off air, converts them to realvideo and adds thier own advertisements around the edge of the realplayer screen, outside of the original image. The thing that upsets the originating networks is not so much that he's rebroadcasting the off air signal, but that he's attaching his own ads (albeit in addition to their ads) to their signals. Just straight re-broadcasting he would probably get away with, but instead of charging a subscription fee like a cable co would he added his own advertisements and that is what triggered the reaction. He has a good chance of winning this as this is very close to what canadian cable co.s do already for local stations, but the networks are keen to test the boundries if it means that they can keep tight control of the use of their programs.
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bullshit Uxbridge has cable modems!
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Doesn't matter, I'm 99% positive there is no such law in Uxbridge. (I'm the guy who installs their cable modems)
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I'm pretty certain that one is made up. (I install cable modems in Uxbridge)
I don't even have a floppy drive in my latest machine.. I never need to use one. I have a CD-RW drive and a CD-boot option in bios. If I REALLY need to write a file to floppy (hasn't happened yet, but who knows) I'd send it to another machine's drive.
I don't know about the rest of you, but in my experience most geeks are no better at rote memorization than the rest of society.
A strange ability to memorize arcane facts? There is no strange ability. I know people who could tell you off the top of their head what team won the suerbowl in 1974, who was the MVP and what was the final score... most people call them jocks. I can tell you the first 20 elements even though I haven't done any chem in 5 years, and I know the names of most of the casts of Star Wars and Star Trek. I'm called a geek... I don't see any difference in ability, only in area of interest.
Sony's reportedly leaving the dual-focusing laser out of the PSX2 so as to avoid setting it up to compete directly with their home theater components. This means that the PSX2 will not play dual-layered discs. So just don't get too excited to play your new Titanic, The Mummy,The Matrix, Terminator 2, the future Star Wars, or any other DVD that has two layers (aka RSDL).
Are you sure that is what it means? Isn't "dual focus laser" Sony jargon for a single laser that does CD (including CD-R) and DVD pickup (rather than a two laser system)?
Don't forget PS 1 came out much later than the other players in it's league and with poorer graphics performance than N64 but still ended up kicking butt. The reason? TITLES! Lots of titles to choose from. Right now Dream cast has only a handful of games, and if Sega plays this they way they did with the saturn or even the genesis (where their real advantage was being the first to market with 16bit... by a long shot) the number of titles isn't going to increase very soon. PS2 on the other hand will likely enter the market with a lot more titles available (especially now that it isn't coming out till Feb) AND it has all the old catalog of PS1 titles to play with too.
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The TLD that we really need is a .home or something similar .me would have been better but some country already has that (I'm too lazy to look it up) It should be used ONLY for personal home pages and shouldn't cost any more than $5/year to register under.
.us (pronounce it "dot us" not "dot u-s") would be ok, it's already there as the USA country code and nobody is using it. Why oh why is such a resource being allowed to go to waste? It would be cool to have ourfamily.us
now that I think of it
Damn, I wish I had known about the Andover standard for citations when I was still in school. It would have made essay writing a breeze. No need to keep track of what book/magazine etc. you used and who said what just label it "anonymous" Hell you don't even have to type up a bibliography, if everything is anonymous because you lifted it from a source that was freely available and the topic was contraversial.
I doubt anything I said made the book, and I could care less if it did, but I would certainly like to be credited (just as "Aonaran, a slashdot user" would be fine) if my words were used. I'm not saying that they should have looked up every one's name and contacted them (though that would have been thoughtful) and I certainly don't think that anyone sould get paid for being quoted in the book, as some others here have suggested, but a simple attibution wouldn't hurt.
"...httpd does this every time someone clicks 'reload' (well, ok, not resell, but for ad profit), and I hope you agreed to that."
Yes, but you know before you even hit that submit button that what you submit will be displayed on a page that also displays ads for the purpose of making money for the site owner. You know that, and it is your choice to post it or not based on the knowledge that it will be displayed in this manner. What you didn't know was that a year from now that site owner was going to take that post and sell it as part of a book without giving you credit or even asking your permission to do so.
You didn't know that, in fact you were assured by that site owner that this sort of thing would not happen. The little copyright statement at the bottom of the page "All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2000 Andover.Net." reassured you if you were unsure. But you were betrayed. Your copyrighted work stolen and republished without attibution.
I don't care who you are, or what your motivation that's just plain WRONG!
Well I guess that just means that if you use Netscape then Microsoft doesn't want your business
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I could almost understand seeing this question here about this time last year (I say almost because even then I thought people who believed that DVD was going to be another minidisc or worse, digital compact cassette were just a little strange) DCC and even mini disc, which is now, 6 years later, beginning to make a market for itself as a recording only medium, nevere had anywhere near the market penetration that DVD has. Yes, the stories you have heard are true, DVD has beat VHS in first and second year market penetration. And, because there is currently no competeing format that can give better quality and convenience, I think DVD will be around for a VERY long time. Pay perview is cool, PPV on demand is even cooler, but I still would rather have those shelves of movies lining the wall that I can point to and say "... and there's my movie collection"
I can verify that the raq2 is mips based.
I run three of them at work.
Telnet to ns3.compton.net, the banner says it all.
3. How much pay you are looking for.
I find this one to be the biggest factor.
There is a rule I read some where, that for a recent grad, or any person who is currently unemployed, it takes at least one month of searching for every $10,000 you wish to make.
For me it was also what type of environment I was willing to work in. I refused to apply to a certain company because I didn't want to wear a suit nor did I feel it was within the company's rights to do drug tests on employees. Not that it would have been a problem, I just don't like those kinds of invasions of privacy.
On the other hand the job I did end up in is the "data tech" for a small cable TV company I do everything from installing cable modems to network admin duties, to abuse@, to fibre optic based network design. I don't make as much as I might have in some other jobs, but the benefits I get are great and I can truely say I love my job. (just not getting up in the morning to get to it)
Funny how one year 3com buys up companies like USR and Palm and then seemingly the next tehy turn around and spin them off.
I wonder what the execs are making on these IPO deals.
MIT isn't the only one. Microsoft and Netscape both had a reverse DNS lookup to determine if you were connected through a northamerican ISP before allowing you to down load 128 bit encryption until the regulations were lifted recently. (I know this because the ISP I work for had trouble with this on one of the /24's we were using)
I'm deeply offended by the moderation scre of -1 offtopic.
I merely comment (on topic!) that it's strange how this story seemed to have generated far less interest in the slashdot community than the Aibo.
Is there an auto moderator that gives minus one to any post containing the dreaded phrase "first post"?? I don't mind if you moderate this down as off topic, it is, but the original comment was right on topic.
Could this be? a first post ?? I thought I'd see all sorts of wild discussion and carrying on when I clicked this link.. there was for Aibo, but over 10 minutes after the story was posted, and I see nothing. hmm.
Try #4f4f4f Greys should be equal on all three primary colors
The only thing I can think of that would be able to make use of colour (and be actually useful) on a palm device is if someone wrote a network monitoring tool (or something similar) that used line graphs (like MRTG)
Web surfing is pretty useless on such low res, unless the page is all text anyway.
The colour screen might give better contrast though, I don't know I haven't seen it.
Here I was all set to download 6.1 to set up a little firewall for the office on one of the surplus machines and now the site's going to be slashdotted. I better find a good mirror before I lose access to the site altogether
Wrong. Completely wrong.
Your long antenna cable is narrowcasting to you alone.
This business is broadcasting to the public.
There is a significant difference.
Now think of a Cable TV co as a guy who owns the towns biggest antenna and lets everyone run a wire to it.
Now you are starting to get the picture, so add to that the idea that the government lets him charge rent on connections to his antenna. This is Canadian cable TV (in an over simplified form) There is NO fee to be negotiatied with broadcasters for anything he picks up off his antenna, not even if he lets all the neighbors hook up to it, or even when he starts charging for that service.
The difference with iCraveTV is the size of the neighborhood and the fact he adds advertisements to the outside of the picture. (and that last one is where he risks losing the lawsuit)
(assuming, of course, the broadcast is carried in its entirety)... ...and it is. ICrave picks up the stations off air, converts them to realvideo and adds thier own advertisements around the edge of the realplayer screen, outside of the original image. The thing that upsets the originating networks is not so much that he's rebroadcasting the off air signal, but that he's attaching his own ads (albeit in addition to their ads) to their signals. Just straight re-broadcasting he would probably get away with, but instead of charging a subscription fee like a cable co would he added his own advertisements and that is what triggered the reaction. He has a good chance of winning this as this is very close to what canadian cable co.s do already for local stations, but the networks are keen to test the boundries if it means that they can keep tight control of the use of their programs.
bullshit
Uxbridge has cable modems!
Doesn't matter, I'm 99% positive there is no such law in Uxbridge. (I'm the guy who installs their cable modems)
I'm pretty certain that one is made up.
(I install cable modems in Uxbridge)
I niticed that too.
Even mentioned it to my brother "since when do macs have c: drives?"
I don't even have a floppy drive in my latest machine..
I never need to use one. I have a CD-RW drive and a CD-boot option in bios. If I REALLY need to write a file to floppy (hasn't happened yet, but who knows) I'd send it to another machine's drive.
I don't know about the rest of you, but in my experience most geeks are no better at rote memorization than the rest of society.
A strange ability to memorize arcane facts?
There is no strange ability. I know people who could tell you off the top of their head what team won the suerbowl in 1974, who was the MVP and what was the final score... most people call them jocks. I can tell you the first 20 elements even though I haven't done any chem in 5 years, and I know the names of most of the casts of Star Wars and Star Trek. I'm called a geek... I don't see any difference in ability, only in area of interest.
Sony's reportedly leaving the dual-focusing laser out of the PSX2 so as to avoid setting it up to compete directly with their home theater components. This means that the PSX2 will not play dual-layered discs. So just don't get too excited to play your new Titanic, The Mummy,The Matrix, Terminator 2, the future Star Wars, or any other DVD that has two layers (aka RSDL).
Are you sure that is what it means?
Isn't "dual focus laser" Sony jargon for a single laser that does CD (including CD-R) and DVD pickup (rather than a two laser system)?
Don't forget PS 1 came out much later than the other players in it's league and with poorer graphics performance than N64 but still ended up kicking butt. The reason? TITLES! Lots of titles to choose from. Right now Dream cast has only a handful of games, and if Sega plays this they way they did with the saturn or even the genesis (where their real advantage was being the first to market with 16bit... by a long shot) the number of titles isn't going to increase very soon. PS2 on the other hand will likely enter the market with a lot more titles available (especially now that it isn't coming out till Feb) AND it has all the old catalog of PS1 titles to play with too.
is fine by me!