Sure, but most people don't use Konqueror remember, and dragging in the whole of kdelibs just to embed MPlayer is too heavyweight for most desktop users. I also can't really fathom how that works, unless you're using a much newer version of mplayer than me - I gave it the URL and it simply couldn't grok the reference media.
Works-for-me with Galeon 1.3.11a (should work in any Gecko-based browser), mplayerplug-in 1.0.0, MPlayer 1.0-pre3, Debian GNU/Linux.
"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
"We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear."
There is at least a comment on the hardware in TFA:
I actually find Power to be very interesting now that they've made the 9070. And you can actually buy them in reasonable machines. And you can buy a Macintosh G5 and get a real 64-bit CPU. And I think that may actually be enough, too. There is enough of a user base for normal people that I suspect a lot of Linux developers would love to have one of those. And are ready to switch away from X86 entirely. While I don't see that happening on IA64. Because there is not any nice boxes you'd switch away to, if you were to switch away from X86.
Oh man... I was looking a bit further, and the 8th most common query from Canada is fish oil. I don't understand, I'm Canadian, and I don't even know what fish oil is.
Neither do other Canadians. That's why they're searching for it. Duh.
Here we come, won't that be great. 10Mfps in Quake4D, milliseconds from start to crash in windows.
I'm sorry, but this is silly. Games and crashing Windows are not the only uses of computing power. There are lots of applications that require orders of magnitude more coputing power than what is readily available today.
Consider strong AI, for instance. It is assumed that the human brain has approximately nine orders of magnitude more computing power than your avarage $1000 PC of today. Unless we find some pretty good shortcuts (which we haven't really been able to, as of yet) we will probably need similar amounts of computing power to achieve real thinking machines.
I would recommend that you take a look at a plot of computing power as a function of price for the last century some time. It's an eye-opening experience. The exponential growth of computing power per monetary unit (commonly refered to as Moore's law) did not begin with the invention of the microchip. It has been going on for a lot longer than that and has continued through several paradigms of computation. Ray Kurzweil has investigated this phenomenon thoroughly. There are obviously more fundamental forces than development in desktop applications and gaming that are driving the increase of computing power.
But still connected to a low bandwidth connection (2Mbps) to an unreliable network with high contention rates and collisions.
Faster processors and memory means faster routers as well.
At the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden we have Macintosh Tetris, typically performed in the Sing Sing building (yes, it's named after the New York prison), which is similar, but requires more precision and a larger number of machines.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 woody contains 4579 packages for 11 different hardware architectures. Of these packages 0.3 % had security issues in August, some of which were not even remotely exploitable, and some of which were games, where the security implication is that you might be able to overwrite the high-scores of other players on the same system.
If you want to compare the entire Debian distribution to closed source software, you should compare it not only to Windows and Office, but include thousands of other closed source software packages.
The lesson is that as soon as you support somebody else's standard, then nobody has any reason to use your standard.
A standard does not belong to any particular entity. As long as you are refering to your or their standard, it is not a standard. You might want to talk about your (or their) protocol, API, file format or whatever, but then you're not talking about standards.
The fact that there is a formal specification of something does not make it a standard.
On the other hand, it would be interesting for somebody to write an API for proprietary drivers, such that they can run on a virtual machine on any platform. (This is actually not all that different from some aspects of ACPI, in that you end up running a bit of code sent from the hardware); then manufacturers could provide a driver which works on different platforms, is coded to a standard, and the system would be protected against bugs in the drivers (except for them locking the system bus or such).
Isn't that to some extent what OpenBoot/Open Firmware does, allowing the hardware to pass architecture-independant initialization code to a Forth interpretor?
1) You only get one, you pay 30 SEK for each additional IP
Yes, and that's 30 SEK/month (about US$ 3/month), which is clearly a violation of RIPE regulations. The ISPs are assigned IP addresses by RIPE free of charge and are not allowed to charge their customers for address space, except for an administrative fee.
2) Anyone who thinks it's possible to find the Xbox private key through brute force needs to learn some math. The universe will be long gone once you find it.
Someone who knows someone who knows someone who has access to the key might stumble on it by sheer luck, though.:)
Yes, LSD was synthesized by Dr Albert Hofmann in 1943, and he discovered its mind-altering properties while riding his bicycle on the way home. This is a quote from his laboratory notes:
I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain inrelief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing. Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing kaleidoscope. After a few hours, the not unpleasant inebriation, which had been experienced whilst I was fully conscious, disappeared. what had caused this condition?
#!/usr/bin/sh # Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T # All Rights Reserved
# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T # The copyright notice above does not evidence any # actual or intended publication of such source code.
Does anyone have any further information on what's happening to Ogg Tarkin? The Ogg Theora FAQ says the following:
Q: What about Tarkin?
A: Tarkin is essentially a proof-of-concept wavelet-based codec. Its experimental nature means it will not be ready for general use for some time. VP3 is a high-quality codec that can meet today's video needs now, so Xiph.org will be focusing its efforts on Theora for the near future.
I think that's pushing it a bit. Yes, you can play most quicktimes on Linux, but it has to jump through hoops to do it as (IIRC) it uses WINE to run the Windows quicktime codecs - hardly a robust solution.
Not any longer. Now there is reverse-engineered native code for the Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3) codecs.
Certianly, although I have managed to get quicktimes to work on Linux, I've not found it very stable.
I was with you until you started spewing this. To build on your anaology earlier: the design of gears is standard, the gears themselves cost money. Programming is just specialized manufacturing why should it be free?
You are confusing two orthogonal properties of software: that of cost and that of freedom. Free software can come with a price tag.
To quote the Free Software Definition: Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer.
There are huge class A network yet to be touched and more and more businesses are just finding NAT'ing is easier and more secure anyway.
NAT breaks end-to-end connectivity, which is the way the Internet is supposed to work. Every host should be reachable by every other host. Additionally, NAT by itself does not make a network more or less secure, though it may cause lazy sysadmins to believe they don't need to secure individual hosts because they are not on a publicly routed network. Remember that most attacks come from within your network!
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Works-for-me with Galeon 1.3.11a (should work in any Gecko-based browser), mplayerplug-in 1.0.0, MPlayer 1.0-pre3, Debian GNU/Linux.
It was a while ago, but the Cyberspace Independence Declaration remains a good read. Here is an excerpt:
"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
"We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear."
A Cyberspace Independence Declaration, John Perry Barlow, Cognitive Dissident
Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation
The way it works is probably the best. Let's not mess it up!
There is at least a comment on the hardware in TFA:
Neither do other Canadians. That's why they're searching for it. Duh.
I'm sorry, but this is silly. Games and crashing Windows are not the only uses of computing power. There are lots of applications that require orders of magnitude more coputing power than what is readily available today.
Consider strong AI, for instance. It is assumed that the human brain has approximately nine orders of magnitude more computing power than your avarage $1000 PC of today. Unless we find some pretty good shortcuts (which we haven't really been able to, as of yet) we will probably need similar amounts of computing power to achieve real thinking machines.
I would recommend that you take a look at a plot of computing power as a function of price for the last century some time. It's an eye-opening experience. The exponential growth of computing power per monetary unit (commonly refered to as Moore's law) did not begin with the invention of the microchip. It has been going on for a lot longer than that and has continued through several paradigms of computation. Ray Kurzweil has investigated this phenomenon thoroughly. There are obviously more fundamental forces than development in desktop applications and gaming that are driving the increase of computing power.
Faster processors and memory means faster routers as well.
Konqueror is not Mozilla-based. It uses its own rendering engine, KHTML. KHTML is also used by Safari.
The most interesting thing to me is this passage that I found here:
I suppose that means that Sun has written a Swing Look & Feel for GNOME, but I can't find anything about it. Does anyone have more information?
Another wireless access point that runs Linux is Netgear WG602. You can find some very limited information about it here.
Is anyone working on something similar for this device?
At the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden we have Macintosh Tetris, typically performed in the Sing Sing building (yes, it's named after the New York prison), which is similar, but requires more precision and a larger number of machines.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 woody contains 4579 packages for 11 different hardware architectures. Of these packages 0.3 % had security issues in August, some of which were not even remotely exploitable, and some of which were games, where the security implication is that you might be able to overwrite the high-scores of other players on the same system.
If you want to compare the entire Debian distribution to closed source software, you should compare it not only to Windows and Office, but include thousands of other closed source software packages.
Apples and oranges, indeed.
I have translated the FFII demo page to Swedish.
I also cleaned up the code somewhat and put an XHTML doctype on the page.
The patent may have expired in the US, but unfortunately it is still in force in Canada, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan.
But of course there are plenty of technical reasons for switching to PNG as well.
Burn all GIFs!
A standard does not belong to any particular entity. As long as you are refering to your or their standard, it is not a standard. You might want to talk about your (or their) protocol, API, file format or whatever, but then you're not talking about standards.
The fact that there is a formal specification of something does not make it a standard.
Isn't that to some extent what OpenBoot/Open Firmware does, allowing the hardware to pass architecture-independant initialization code to a Forth interpretor?
Just grab it here!
Yes, and that's 30 SEK/month (about US$ 3/month), which is clearly a violation of RIPE regulations. The ISPs are assigned IP addresses by RIPE free of charge and are not allowed to charge their customers for address space, except for an administrative fee.
Someone who knows someone who knows someone who has access to the key might stumble on it by sheer luck, though. :)
Yes, LSD was synthesized by Dr Albert Hofmann in 1943, and he discovered its mind-altering properties while riding his bicycle on the way home. This is a quote from his laboratory notes:
More information can be found here and here.
This is what it looks like in Solaris 8:
It's interesting how you can manage to update (and claim copyright on) what's basically the empty string (at least) five times.
It's a language alright, just not a programming language. It's a markup language.
Does anyone have any further information on what's happening to Ogg Tarkin? The Ogg Theora FAQ says the following:
Not any longer. Now there is reverse-engineered native code for the Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3) codecs.
Just give it some time to mature!
Well, now it's gone again. The entire content of the site is " ".
I was with you until you started spewing this. To build on your anaology earlier: the design of gears is standard, the gears themselves cost money. Programming is just specialized manufacturing why should it be free?
You are confusing two orthogonal properties of software: that of cost and that of freedom. Free software can come with a price tag.
To quote the Free Software Definition: Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer.
NAT breaks end-to-end connectivity, which is the way the Internet is supposed to work. Every host should be reachable by every other host. Additionally, NAT by itself does not make a network more or less secure, though it may cause lazy sysadmins to believe they don't need to secure individual hosts because they are not on a publicly routed network. Remember that most attacks come from within your network!