I always wanted one because of the hard drive and ethernet, I figured it would make a good divx player. Since it's essentially just a pentium anyway, I wouldn't imagine using the Win32 API emulation to get the windows codecs to work would be a problem either (as opposed to getting divx on a PS2, that'd be a pain in the butt from what I can tell). I'm not sure how good the linux code for divx is, I've always just used the windows ones with xine.
I'm not sure I'm really all too interested in being part of any prgorams..
is it a typo you made, or one on the site itself?:) Something that long would be rather annoying to retype, so I can't see why you wouldn't just copy and paste it, but of course.. (perhaps i'm wrong here), but I'd figure they'd spell check something like this.
The source code [for NeoNapster's softwares] has been at that exact same link since the story first hit slashdot front page. It's just some people are too quick to yell about violations, and not check what's actually going on. So yeah, it's good a "front page" story cleared up the issue, but it shouldn't make it sound like they just changed it, since it's been there the entire time.
Although I hate microsoft as much as anyone else (I use it as my main OS because VMWare refused to work, no matter what I tried, and I need IE working for web development, sad, but true), I can't say that DirectX now is all that bad. I personally find it much, much more difficult to code for than OpenGL, but the way it leads standards does seem (to me at least) to benefit everyone. I don't see standardized 3D Positional audio under linux. Until OGL 1.4 there weren't even standardized Pixel/Vertex shaders, were there? Yeah, Direct3D has different versions of them, but code for one and it will work on all cards claiming to support that version of DirectX. DX9 requires all floating point pipelines, etc. Which makes things look better. Yeah, maybe hardware vendors would eventually have done this on their own, but I don't see OpenGL leading them to do it NOW and not later.
DirectX is a horrible API, especially to program for, and definitely for cross-platform, but it at least gets new technology "standardized" quicker. That being said, I code only OpenGL, I like the portability:) Comments welcome, but this is how I personally see the situation.
yeah, i did that with my dlink card to impersonate someone to get through a college's computer registration system while I was visiting there for a couple days. However, it's better than nothing, because the computer I impersonated had to already be registered and everything, we just turned it off and made mine appear as it.
If you're doing it for wireless security, they could easily sniff a couple packets and get the MAC of a proper computer on the network I'm sure, but then they'd have to wait for it to not be on the network anymore before they got any usable access out of it by impersonating it, wouldn't they? What happens if there's two computers on a wireless with the same MAC?
And once they're older than 18 and want to have a life on their own (or even a job), they still can't. I'm in that situation right now, I'm 20 and just had to have my mom drive me to the mall, it's a fuckin pain in the ass.
Though I definitely like living here better than in a city. heh
weather is much, much worse any place Rochester on west (or even Syracuse) at about that latitude, or even down south in binghamton, one of the cloudiest places in the world:) (and I happen to go to Binghamton University, so I can attest to that.)
Actually, aren't libertarians the ones who think that government is bad? Republicans, if I remember correctly don't hate the government, just when the government tries to interfere with business and other things like that.
least likely to be used my ass.. I figured it was on every camera, and my kodak doesn't have it, I was quite pissed.. I was thinking about returning it, but decided that it wouldn't really be worth it explaining to the clerk that I fucked up on my research on the thing.
I would be quite impressed. As opposed to the gingerbread house witches and the swamp witches, the sand witches are the worst kind of all! They have the worst temper of any witch you'll ever hear about. Getting anything installed on them, especially when they're already covered in peanut butter AND jelly, would be quite a feat!
I think you replied to the wrong post. I know I'm no grammar master, but spelling I'm usually pretty good at, and there were no mistakes that I could catch in his entire post, let alone 5. Just to be sure, I ran a spell check on it, and it did not find any problems either. (Even with jillion, which kind of surprised me, but, whatever:))
So what you're saying is the key to acceptance of Linux is to make it have the ability to throw up a big blue screen during an error. Ingenious! I just sent in the patent:)
but NAI (Network Associated Inc. I assume, I dunno what the I stands for) at least used to own PGP. I guess they don't like the free versions being around, cuz then they can't sell it.
that's approx. 180,000 miles/second, not meters:) The light slowed down because it was in a medium, light only travels at c in a complete and total vacuum. If there's anything in it's way, it'll slow down, so even in the air here on earth, it's not traveling that fast. Through such a dense material as it describes in the article you link to in your reply to yourself, it's not surprising that it slows down that much..
for simple things like, oh, I dunno.. ip addresses, or anything with a database, etc..
kind of stupid to have signed variables for things that are NOT signed.
and no, not on a commodore 64 (man those things rocked), but network transmissions, disk space, etc.. though bandwidth and storage are getting better, that doesn't mean you can/should use it just becuase you, or your programming language sucks
message expiration? like, if you leave it in your mailbox for too long? I dunno, never had that problem, I always use pop3 for it.. just webmail when I'm not home. and no, I don't work for them:)
softhome provides free, non-commercial web-based and smtp/pop3 email services. You get some emails from them occasionally, or their advertising partners, but there's onyl a few and easy to filter.
Do you have a vaio desktop or laptop? I don't know, but I'd think powered firewire on a laptop would be rather stupid.. (at least if the laptop is running off batteries), but.. the desktop, I don't see the point in not including the power lines?
When installing office, you shouldn't download ANY of the components, otherwise it's probably illegal:) If they released it on CD, it'd be kinda odd to not have a somewhat decent installer. But here, the best they could/should do is a front end downloader.. or just expect people to wait til their distribution does it for them.
I'm sure i'm not the only one who realizes it won't work without legislation. What incentive could companies posisbly have to add this to their products? ("Hey, let's screw over our customers and take it up the a** for the MPAA by adding expensive copy controls and limiting their use!") All it takes is one hardware manufacturer to tell the MPAA to go f*ck itself, and this whole thing falls apart. They might get pre-built companies like dell, gateway, sony (Since part of it is in the MPAA board), but.. what about build your own?
Are the people at the MPAA really so stupid as to think that they can actually allow us to listen/watch stuff, but not copy it? It has to get decrypted somewhere..
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I always wanted one because of the hard drive and ethernet, I figured it would make a good divx player. Since it's essentially just a pentium anyway, I wouldn't imagine using the Win32 API emulation to get the windows codecs to work would be a problem either (as opposed to getting divx on a PS2, that'd be a pain in the butt from what I can tell). I'm not sure how good the linux code for divx is, I've always just used the windows ones with xine.
I'm not sure I'm really all too interested in being part of any prgorams..
:) Something that long would be rather annoying to retype, so I can't see why you wouldn't just copy and paste it, but of course.. (perhaps i'm wrong here), but I'd figure they'd spell check something like this.
is it a typo you made, or one on the site itself?
The source code [for NeoNapster's softwares] has been at that exact same link since the story first hit slashdot front page. It's just some people are too quick to yell about violations, and not check what's actually going on. So yeah, it's good a "front page" story cleared up the issue, but it shouldn't make it sound like they just changed it, since it's been there the entire time.
Although I hate microsoft as much as anyone else (I use it as my main OS because VMWare refused to work, no matter what I tried, and I need IE working for web development, sad, but true), I can't say that DirectX now is all that bad. I personally find it much, much more difficult to code for than OpenGL, but the way it leads standards does seem (to me at least) to benefit everyone. I don't see standardized 3D Positional audio under linux. Until OGL 1.4 there weren't even standardized Pixel/Vertex shaders, were there? Yeah, Direct3D has different versions of them, but code for one and it will work on all cards claiming to support that version of DirectX. DX9 requires all floating point pipelines, etc. Which makes things look better. Yeah, maybe hardware vendors would eventually have done this on their own, but I don't see OpenGL leading them to do it NOW and not later.
:) Comments welcome, but this is how I personally see the situation.
DirectX is a horrible API, especially to program for, and definitely for cross-platform, but it at least gets new technology "standardized" quicker. That being said, I code only OpenGL, I like the portability
yeah, i did that with my dlink card to impersonate someone to get through a college's computer registration system while I was visiting there for a couple days. However, it's better than nothing, because the computer I impersonated had to already be registered and everything, we just turned it off and made mine appear as it.
If you're doing it for wireless security, they could easily sniff a couple packets and get the MAC of a proper computer on the network I'm sure, but then they'd have to wait for it to not be on the network anymore before they got any usable access out of it by impersonating it, wouldn't they? What happens if there's two computers on a wireless with the same MAC?
And once they're older than 18 and want to have a life on their own (or even a job), they still can't. I'm in that situation right now, I'm 20 and just had to have my mom drive me to the mall, it's a fuckin pain in the ass.
Though I definitely like living here better than in a city. heh
weather is much, much worse any place Rochester on west (or even Syracuse) at about that latitude, or even down south in binghamton, one of the cloudiest places in the world :) (and I happen to go to Binghamton University, so I can attest to that.)
And I suppose you just put RAM memory and a NIC card into your computer last week too?
Actually, aren't libertarians the ones who think that government is bad? Republicans, if I remember correctly don't hate the government, just when the government tries to interfere with business and other things like that.
least likely to be used my ass.. I figured it was on every camera, and my kodak doesn't have it, I was quite pissed.. I was thinking about returning it, but decided that it wouldn't really be worth it explaining to the clerk that I fucked up on my research on the thing.
I would be quite impressed. As opposed to the gingerbread house witches and the swamp witches, the sand witches are the worst kind of all! They have the worst temper of any witch you'll ever hear about. Getting anything installed on them, especially when they're already covered in peanut butter AND jelly, would be quite a feat!
I think you replied to the wrong post. I know I'm no grammar master, but spelling I'm usually pretty good at, and there were no mistakes that I could catch in his entire post, let alone 5. Just to be sure, I ran a spell check on it, and it did not find any problems either. (Even with jillion, which kind of surprised me, but, whatever :))
So what you're saying is the key to acceptance of Linux is to make it have the ability to throw up a big blue screen during an error. Ingenious! I just sent in the patent :)
but NAI (Network Associated Inc. I assume, I dunno what the I stands for) at least used to own PGP. I guess they don't like the free versions being around, cuz then they can't sell it.
that's approx. 180,000 miles/second, not meters :) The light slowed down because it was in a medium, light only travels at c in a complete and total vacuum. If there's anything in it's way, it'll slow down, so even in the air here on earth, it's not traveling that fast. Through such a dense material as it describes in the article you link to in your reply to yourself, it's not surprising that it slows down that much ..
If someone cut me up, I'd be VERY angry as well!
a byte is 8 bits, and thus 255 only when unsigned. therefore, for easy conversion.. you'd need an unsigned data type. Read what I was replying to.
.. I don't do java :)
remember, chars can be signed or unsigned, at least in C/C++
for simple things like, oh, I dunno.. ip addresses, or anything with a database, etc..
kind of stupid to have signed variables for things that are NOT signed.
and no, not on a commodore 64 (man those things rocked), but network transmissions, disk space, etc.. though bandwidth and storage are getting better, that doesn't mean you can/should use it just becuase you, or your programming language sucks
message expiration? like, if you leave it in your mailbox for too long? I dunno, never had that problem, I always use pop3 for it.. just webmail when I'm not home. and no, I don't work for them :)
softhome provides free, non-commercial web-based and smtp/pop3 email services. You get some emails from them occasionally, or their advertising partners, but there's onyl a few and easy to filter.
Do you have a vaio desktop or laptop? I don't know, but I'd think powered firewire on a laptop would be rather stupid.. (at least if the laptop is running off batteries), but .. the desktop, I don't see the point in not including the power lines?
Just curious..
hmm, i'm in linux and just 'remote desktop'd in to a windows XP box.. the program to do so is called, remarkably, rdesktop .. works very nicely.
When installing office, you shouldn't download ANY of the components, otherwise it's probably illegal :) If they released it on CD, it'd be kinda odd to not have a somewhat decent installer. But here, the best they could/should do is a front end downloader.. or just expect people to wait til their distribution does it for them.
I'm sure i'm not the only one who realizes it won't work without legislation. What incentive could companies posisbly have to add this to their products? ("Hey, let's screw over our customers and take it up the a** for the MPAA by adding expensive copy controls and limiting their use!") All it takes is one hardware manufacturer to tell the MPAA to go f*ck itself, and this whole thing falls apart. They might get pre-built companies like dell, gateway, sony (Since part of it is in the MPAA board), but.. what about build your own?
Are the people at the MPAA really so stupid as to think that they can actually allow us to listen/watch stuff, but not copy it? It has to get decrypted somewhere..
As opposed to millions of people who are just dead (not VERY dead), or something similar?