First, the english requirement is retarded. How long do you think it will be before Gold Farmer's improve their english? A week? A year? All you need is a couple of staff english speakers and you are set. So your security is at best racist and at least ineffective.
Furthermore it sounds a lot like a free market to me. Once you established a global network, and started charging, that was where this was headed.
Second, I have noticed that some MMORPG players blame everything on someone else. As with any online game, having your ass handed to you is because the other guy is clearly glitching, cheating, or somehow buying his success. It has nothing to do with their failing marriage, dropping out of college, losing their job, and their new found digital crack habit. Let's face it, It's Better Than Life(tm).
First the Google Pack is a brilliant bit of marketing. My guess is the Google Desktop hasn't been the fastest installed bit of software ever devised even though it is an excellent edition for windows. Let's call it Mac OS X Spotlight for Windows. They can now slip it in by trading on the positive Google image, an image that is trusted by the public. Now that is smooth.
While some of the product choices are weak, partly because they needed something to round out the offering, in the long term this could be how Google influences the Windows environment directly. For example now that they employ the primary Gaim developer we can be sure that Trillian will eventually fall to the way side as Gaim becomes ready for prime time. Think about it. If enough people use the convenience and trust of Google to maintain a lot of the software they just want to work, Google can decide who wins and who loses. We can only hope they use this as a vehicle to promote open source projects when they are ready for the mainstream like firefox.
You are right. DVD drives typically access DVD movies through a playback mechanism that has the hardware do the CSS decryption and region enforcement. VLC accesses the disk as if it is a raw data disk and does the decryption in software. So DVD playback should be available with RPC1 drives on Vista using VLC.
One caveat is some drives are doing region checking in data mode now. The Apple powerbook superdrive does region checking on data mode and VLC could not playback non-Region 1 disks. I had to load firmware that removed the 'feature' and now the drive is region free. Funny the Apple DVD Player software still does an additional software region check so even though the drive is region free the software won't allow playback until you switch regions.
In this country, with two choices for president, can anything really be decided by election with such low voter turnout? Maybe what the voters said was "None of the above."
I know that it is typical for the Slashdot libertarian crowd to have an aversion, almost knee-jerk reaction, to any privacy related issue, we Slashdot liberals feel the same. Bush has once again crossed the line, but as a neo-pinko liberal I am not surprised, I am not even particularly annoyed. My disgust with the United States and its inability to provide an open inclusive society runs far deeper than this single incident. I am annoyed with Missle Defense, drilling in ANWR, Intelligent Design, pro-life, pro-death penalty, secret prisons, prisoner abuse, tying iraq to terror, no child left behind, get tough on immigration, get tough on crime, christian coalition, anti-welfare, anti-healthcare, anti-gun control, pro-business, anti-environment, crap. Really the entire political dialogue of the so-called United States has been broken for years, and Bush certainly doesn't see anything less than absolute god-granted carte blanche on the war on terror. Remember this guy doesn't answer to the voter, he answers to god. So my question is when can we vote on the new constitution, because I feel that I am the one living in Iraq, but I don't have the excuse of invasion?
When iTunes first came out I bought a song out of novelty, but I already had such a substantial music selection on CD it seemed rather pointless. I primarily listen to indie rock, but recently I have been buying a lot more classical. iTunes is really the only good way to buy classical. Going into Best Buy to discuss Brahms and his Hungarian Dances is pointless, and you can't tell if they are of very good quality until you get them home. In addition to the ability to listen to the music in advance the prices are much better. If you go into a shop with a decent selection of classical music everything starts at $30. I get albums for $9.99 on iTMS. I really hope iTunes becomes more successful because music sales have been something of a racket for so long.
One of our newest buildings on campus (1998) is the EESAT (Environmental Education, Science and Technology) Building. There is a picture of the building at http://www.ias.unt.edu/about/. It is generally a favorite building on campus to have classes in, with a giant earth population clock, all native plants landscape the facility, and other conservation and science exhibits exist in and around the building.
The mens, can't speak to the womens, have urinals that are the flushless type described and there is a plaque above them indicating that they save water and trap odors. However the contractor went ahead a outfit the urinals with a water pipe in case they didn't work out. It stops short where an L shaped pipe would normally connect to a standard handle flushed or motion activated unit.
They have been there for several years without complaints, and they don't smell, so in this instance they are a success.
Sony's brilliant new Blu-Ray disc DRM protection scheme, Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle. Make the content so bad that nobody would care to copy it. On the horizon expect other classics like Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines, and a box set of Best of Slashdot Dupes. Whoops, in a way Best of Slashdot Dupes have already been copied...
You know maybe CowboyNeal just sat down with bagel and coffee, and wanted to feel productive before doing some amazon.com christmas shopping. So he sees a nifty article on cell phone traffic monitoring, and says hey this is a good article let's post it. But oh wait?! I should check for dupes.
DING-DONG!
Must be UPS or FedEx. COMING! Wow my shipment of shirts from ThinkGeek are here. Tears open box. Decides to try on the shirt.
Then suddenly the cat strolls in and decides to step on the mouse. Accidentally submitting the duplicate post. So really we should blame the cat.
Really it is a logical use for technology. If you can read a license plate, which can be captured by any carbon based unit already, why shouldn't you automate the task of doing the police officers job? The question for me is not if this can happen, it is about limiting the use of the information to traffic related behavior. I think that allowing this to be introduced in the USA is OK, but it needs laws to limit the information to the cars behavior on the road, as opposed to being used as a tracking device, and limit the storing of the data until the violations are cleared.
I am sure that this will be modded down, but I for one welcome our new traffic controlling overlords.
I agree with the articles premise that most of the early adopters have been converted. The rest will be slow going but I believe Firefox can still achieve at least 25% of the browser market.
At UNT College of Business, my school job, the lab group is just now rolling out firefox to all the lab computers. This represents a sizeable exposure for Firefox in a demographic that may soon make personal or corporate decisions about open source and browsers. I think it could be a good idea if the Mozilla foundation worked to get Universities offering Firefox as an alternative on every lab or kiosk machine on campus.
I would also venture to believe lots of large corporate IT departments are just as slow to adopt new software, even when it works. I have also wondered how thorough the enterprise deployment software is for Firefox. Does firefox have adequate support for corporate or large scale installations?
SVG is built into 1.5 beta 1! There are a number of samples that you can check out at http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples. I especially like the SVG Tetris game.
Here are my positions up front: I think Sandra Day stepping down is a bad thing during this administration.
I don't think the eminent domain ruling was a particularly bad one.
Here is why: Sandra Day is the swing vote, and a voice of 'moderation.' Unbalancing the supreme court like this will likely lead to some polarizing decisions in this country. First against the wall will be Roe v. Wade.
In this modern world, a world some people want to fight kicking and screaming, abortion is a reality. It will happen regardless of the legality of it. Any many ways like other prohibitions. Further I find Andrew Leigh and Justin Wolfers contention that the legalization of abortion can be tied to the post 1990 reduction in crime. This makes me very concerned about any potential appointee that will work with the Bush administration to strip the right to privacy from women.
As for eminent domain. I'm not as up in arms. To me property is not sacred, nor was it to our founding fathers. It is something that one is allowed to own for a period but by no means an inalienable right. It can be removed from you for any number of reasons including non-payment of taxes, drug charges, a legal process and eminent domain to name a few. As I have heard it interpreted, the ruling allows cities with a planning process to exercise a right they always had, to reclaim property and use it for what is considered a common or public good. Splitting hairs over the word public is pointless, much of the constitution is vague. They didn't want to or couldn't hash out contentious issues so they just left blanks to be filled in later. The government clearly has the right to reclaim land, and without that right individuals can halt the progress of society or a city as a whole. I guess that my view on physical property is similar to that on intellectual property. Individuals can unjustly hold property over the rest of the world's head without consideration for the consequences, or how the property was acquired.
Based upon the specs and pictures of the box the Intel PowerMac it is most likely an Intel Desktop Board D915GUX. This has the GMA900 onboard graphics adapter and DDR-2 memory that xlr8yourmac.commentioned. It also has the same layout as the photos of the PowerMac board.
I read the xlr8yourmac.com article and immediately started looking for a candidate motherboard from Intel that would probably be what the Intel PowerMac is based upon. I found the Intel® Desktop Board D915GUX which has the GMA 900 graphics adapter and the DDR2 support. Now all I need is a copy of Mac OSX Intel edition and I can make my own developer kit.
Well that seems to be the 'common sense' argument. However that isn't the practical reality of driving or automobile science. Gasoline price, and gasoline tax does very little to curb driving behavior. Limiting speed, improving automobile efficiency, and pay-as-you-go road use are the only tools available to a US state. I think RFID is the easiest way forward for a state to more directly regulate the roadways, since mandating fuel economy and politely asking people to observe the traffic laws is heresy.
In my text book for college American Gov't. Page 84 - American Government - Continuity and Change - 2004 Texas Edition
The MADD 'loonies' actually lobbied and along with others got the Surface Transportation Act of 1982 revised to tie 5% of road monies to a higher drinking age (18 to 21). Only 16 senators voted against it. Later they raised this to 10%. The Bill was signed by Reagan. Later MADD lobbied unsuccessfully to get the BAC lowered to.08.
The 55mph speed limit, as I understand it, was a safety issue, but not one of MADD. However, there are plenty of good reasons to enforce a speed limit. 65 mph is as fast as you want to go for fuel economy.
Special Interest Groups are the people that I don't like, Public Interest Groups are the people I do like. cameronpalmer.com
People are probably right that this isn't going to produce a 6800 Ultra graphics card rendering 100 FPS in CounterStrike, but they will learn a lot about what really is needed by their customer(s). Learn the level of complexity and revise much of their design in the second revision. I don't see this project producing a graphics card tomorrow, but it could start putting pressure on these manufacturers. Maybe they will realize if they don't give us what we want then in the future they are going to have to deal with a cheap graphics card with an open design. I would venture to say that one of the most costly components of a PC is the graphics card if you are talking high end performance, and this is a way to start chipping away at that cost.
I have been using iTunes on Linux since the earliest betas. To be a little less cautious than Codeweavers it works well. It plays music, music shares work, iTMS works, iPod sync works. I would say that is is rock solid. What is annoying is the lack of CD support which is planned in an upcoming release. The only other hassle is they need to support the latest Windows Media Player so people that have WMA files can convert them to AAC or MP3.
Please note the quote in the article from Codeweaver's is part of their REAL DIRT policy. They are cautious in making claims about the software working perfectly on every system, in every circumstance.
There isn't any discussion of politics as they relate to people. Whenever I bring up politics here (Texas) it is immediately met with, "I hate politics", "politicians are corrupt", "let's talk football".
This disinterest in politics ensures that the voter is informed by rumor, innuendo, and electoral noise. People still believe we found WMDs in Iraq, Al-Qaida and Saddam kicked it at his palace, and poor people are poor because they are lazy. It is no wonder that Americans are left with Abortion and Gay Marriage, the two most unimportant topics, as major campaign issues.
Actually I think you are missing something... NASA was is space in the 60's. Private enterprise only made it in '04 because someone was willing to throw a lot of money at a prize. In fact NASA works with private enterprise on almost everything it does,,, it just happens to be very expensive doing it first.
I accompanied my girlfriend, a Cal grad, to the school for a free consulation. As the Dr put it the higher the number of diopters you require the less likely, statistically, the outcome will be perfect. That said, your vision will improve. Also the technology/science has dramatically improved for both PRK and Lasik. Which procedure you get depends on your evaluated situtation. Even if you don't get the procedure there are lots of cool machines that map your eye that you get to try out. For my girlfriend, her eyes' corneas are too thin for Lasik. Instead she would get the chemical (alcohol) PRK procedure.
I have perfect vision and went to the school after her visit for my first eye checkup. I couldn't read for hours after having my eyes dialated and can now say if I lived with what I experienced that day, I would accept even a partial improvement in vision. I couldn't even read the form I had to fill out!
The worst part of the whole corrective eye surgery industry is the commercialization. I hate the stupid ads on the radio that make it sound like you are having a radio installed in your car. The Cal school of optometry was not like that, it was very professional which I liked.
Slashdot Mirror
First, the english requirement is retarded. How long do you think it will be before Gold Farmer's improve their english? A week? A year? All you need is a couple of staff english speakers and you are set. So your security is at best racist and at least ineffective.
Furthermore it sounds a lot like a free market to me. Once you established a global network, and started charging, that was where this was headed.
Second, I have noticed that some MMORPG players blame everything on someone else. As with any online game, having your ass handed to you is because the other guy is clearly glitching, cheating, or somehow buying his success. It has nothing to do with their failing marriage, dropping out of college, losing their job, and their new found digital crack habit. Let's face it, It's Better Than Life(tm).
First the Google Pack is a brilliant bit of marketing. My guess is the Google Desktop hasn't been the fastest installed bit of software ever devised even though it is an excellent edition for windows. Let's call it Mac OS X Spotlight for Windows. They can now slip it in by trading on the positive Google image, an image that is trusted by the public. Now that is smooth.
While some of the product choices are weak, partly because they needed something to round out the offering, in the long term this could be how Google influences the Windows environment directly. For example now that they employ the primary Gaim developer we can be sure that Trillian will eventually fall to the way side as Gaim becomes ready for prime time. Think about it. If enough people use the convenience and trust of Google to maintain a lot of the software they just want to work, Google can decide who wins and who loses. We can only hope they use this as a vehicle to promote open source projects when they are ready for the mainstream like firefox.
You are right. DVD drives typically access DVD movies through a playback mechanism that has the hardware do the CSS decryption and region enforcement. VLC accesses the disk as if it is a raw data disk and does the decryption in software. So DVD playback should be available with RPC1 drives on Vista using VLC.
One caveat is some drives are doing region checking in data mode now. The Apple powerbook superdrive does region checking on data mode and VLC could not playback non-Region 1 disks. I had to load firmware that removed the 'feature' and now the drive is region free. Funny the Apple DVD Player software still does an additional software region check so even though the drive is region free the software won't allow playback until you switch regions.
In this country, with two choices for president, can anything really be decided by election with such low voter turnout? Maybe what the voters said was "None of the above."
Actually I am on a strict no death platform. I will never have an abortion, and I will never put another to death.
I know that it is typical for the Slashdot libertarian crowd to have an aversion, almost knee-jerk reaction, to any privacy related issue, we Slashdot liberals feel the same. Bush has once again crossed the line, but as a neo-pinko liberal I am not surprised, I am not even particularly annoyed. My disgust with the United States and its inability to provide an open inclusive society runs far deeper than this single incident. I am annoyed with Missle Defense, drilling in ANWR, Intelligent Design, pro-life, pro-death penalty, secret prisons, prisoner abuse, tying iraq to terror, no child left behind, get tough on immigration, get tough on crime, christian coalition, anti-welfare, anti-healthcare, anti-gun control, pro-business, anti-environment, crap. Really the entire political dialogue of the so-called United States has been broken for years, and Bush certainly doesn't see anything less than absolute god-granted carte blanche on the war on terror. Remember this guy doesn't answer to the voter, he answers to god. So my question is when can we vote on the new constitution, because I feel that I am the one living in Iraq, but I don't have the excuse of invasion?
When iTunes first came out I bought a song out of novelty, but I already had such a substantial music selection on CD it seemed rather pointless. I primarily listen to indie rock, but recently I have been buying a lot more classical. iTunes is really the only good way to buy classical. Going into Best Buy to discuss Brahms and his Hungarian Dances is pointless, and you can't tell if they are of very good quality until you get them home. In addition to the ability to listen to the music in advance the prices are much better. If you go into a shop with a decent selection of classical music everything starts at $30. I get albums for $9.99 on iTMS. I really hope iTunes becomes more successful because music sales have been something of a racket for so long.
So they have the regular flushing kind?
One of our newest buildings on campus (1998) is the EESAT (Environmental Education, Science and Technology) Building. There is a picture of the building at http://www.ias.unt.edu/about/. It is generally a favorite building on campus to have classes in, with a giant earth population clock, all native plants landscape the facility, and other conservation and science exhibits exist in and around the building.
The mens, can't speak to the womens, have urinals that are the flushless type described and there is a plaque above them indicating that they save water and trap odors. However the contractor went ahead a outfit the urinals with a water pipe in case they didn't work out. It stops short where an L shaped pipe would normally connect to a standard handle flushed or motion activated unit.
They have been there for several years without complaints, and they don't smell, so in this instance they are a success.
Sony's brilliant new Blu-Ray disc DRM protection scheme, Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle. Make the content so bad that nobody would care to copy it. On the horizon expect other classics like Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines, and a box set of Best of Slashdot Dupes. Whoops, in a way Best of Slashdot Dupes have already been copied...
You know maybe CowboyNeal just sat down with bagel and coffee, and wanted to feel productive before doing some amazon.com christmas shopping. So he sees a nifty article on cell phone traffic monitoring, and says hey this is a good article let's post it. But oh wait?! I should check for dupes.
DING-DONG!
Must be UPS or FedEx. COMING! Wow my shipment of shirts from ThinkGeek are here. Tears open box. Decides to try on the shirt.
Then suddenly the cat strolls in and decides to step on the mouse. Accidentally submitting the duplicate post. So really we should blame the cat.
Really it is a logical use for technology. If you can read a license plate, which can be captured by any carbon based unit already, why shouldn't you automate the task of doing the police officers job? The question for me is not if this can happen, it is about limiting the use of the information to traffic related behavior. I think that allowing this to be introduced in the USA is OK, but it needs laws to limit the information to the cars behavior on the road, as opposed to being used as a tracking device, and limit the storing of the data until the violations are cleared.
I am sure that this will be modded down, but I for one welcome our new traffic controlling overlords.
I agree with the articles premise that most of the early adopters have been converted. The rest will be slow going but I believe Firefox can still achieve at least 25% of the browser market.
At UNT College of Business, my school job, the lab group is just now rolling out firefox to all the lab computers. This represents a sizeable exposure for Firefox in a demographic that may soon make personal or corporate decisions about open source and browsers. I think it could be a good idea if the Mozilla foundation worked to get Universities offering Firefox as an alternative on every lab or kiosk machine on campus.
I would also venture to believe lots of large corporate IT departments are just as slow to adopt new software, even when it works. I have also wondered how thorough the enterprise deployment software is for Firefox. Does firefox have adequate support for corporate or large scale installations?
SVG is built into 1.5 beta 1! There are a number of samples that you can check out at http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples.
I especially like the SVG Tetris game.
Here are my positions up front:
I think Sandra Day stepping down is a bad thing during this administration.
I don't think the eminent domain ruling was a particularly bad one.
Here is why:
Sandra Day is the swing vote, and a voice of 'moderation.' Unbalancing the supreme court like this will likely lead to some polarizing decisions in this country. First against the wall will be Roe v. Wade.
In this modern world, a world some people want to fight kicking and screaming, abortion is a reality. It will happen regardless of the legality of it. Any many ways like other prohibitions. Further I find Andrew Leigh and Justin Wolfers contention that the legalization of abortion can be tied to the post 1990 reduction in crime. This makes me very concerned about any potential appointee that will work with the Bush administration to strip the right to privacy from women.
As for eminent domain. I'm not as up in arms. To me property is not sacred, nor was it to our founding fathers. It is something that one is allowed to own for a period but by no means an inalienable right. It can be removed from you for any number of reasons including non-payment of taxes, drug charges, a legal process and eminent domain to name a few. As I have heard it interpreted, the ruling allows cities with a planning process to exercise a right they always had, to reclaim property and use it for what is considered a common or public good. Splitting hairs over the word public is pointless, much of the constitution is vague. They didn't want to or couldn't hash out contentious issues so they just left blanks to be filled in later. The government clearly has the right to reclaim land, and without that right individuals can halt the progress of society or a city as a whole. I guess that my view on physical property is similar to that on intellectual property. Individuals can unjustly hold property over the rest of the world's head without consideration for the consequences, or how the property was acquired.
I saw this. But the video card is wrong. That is why I thought it must be the 915 chipset.
Based upon the specs and pictures of the box the Intel PowerMac it is most likely an Intel Desktop Board D915GUX. This has the GMA900 onboard graphics adapter and DDR-2 memory that xlr8yourmac.commentioned. It also has the same layout as the photos of the PowerMac board.
I read the xlr8yourmac.com article and immediately started looking for a candidate motherboard from Intel that would probably be what the Intel PowerMac is based upon. I found the Intel® Desktop Board D915GUX which has the GMA 900 graphics adapter and the DDR2 support. Now all I need is a copy of Mac OSX Intel edition and I can make my own developer kit.
Well that seems to be the 'common sense' argument. However that isn't the practical reality of driving or automobile science. Gasoline price, and gasoline tax does very little to curb driving behavior. Limiting speed, improving automobile efficiency, and pay-as-you-go road use are the only tools available to a US state. I think RFID is the easiest way forward for a state to more directly regulate the roadways, since mandating fuel economy and politely asking people to observe the traffic laws is heresy.
Page 84 - American Government - Continuity and Change - 2004 Texas Edition
The MADD 'loonies' actually lobbied and along with others got the Surface Transportation Act of 1982 revised to tie 5% of road monies to a higher drinking age (18 to 21). Only 16 senators voted against it. Later they raised this to 10%. The Bill was signed by Reagan. Later MADD lobbied unsuccessfully to get the BAC lowered to
The 55mph speed limit, as I understand it, was a safety issue, but not one of MADD. However, there are plenty of good reasons to enforce a speed limit. 65 mph is as fast as you want to go for fuel economy.
Special Interest Groups are the people that I don't like, Public Interest Groups are the people I do like.
cameronpalmer.com
People are probably right that this isn't going to produce a 6800 Ultra graphics card rendering 100 FPS in CounterStrike, but they will learn a lot about what really is needed by their customer(s). Learn the level of complexity and revise much of their design in the second revision. I don't see this project producing a graphics card tomorrow, but it could start putting pressure on these manufacturers. Maybe they will realize if they don't give us what we want then in the future they are going to have to deal with a cheap graphics card with an open design. I would venture to say that one of the most costly components of a PC is the graphics card if you are talking high end performance, and this is a way to start chipping away at that cost.
I have been using iTunes on Linux since the earliest betas. To be a little less cautious than Codeweavers it works well. It plays music, music shares work, iTMS works, iPod sync works. I would say that is is rock solid. What is annoying is the lack of CD support which is planned in an upcoming release. The only other hassle is they need to support the latest Windows Media Player so people that have WMA files can convert them to AAC or MP3.
Please note the quote in the article from Codeweaver's is part of their REAL DIRT policy. They are cautious in making claims about the software working perfectly on every system, in every circumstance.
There isn't any discussion of politics as they relate to people. Whenever I bring up politics here (Texas) it is immediately met with, "I hate politics", "politicians are corrupt", "let's talk football".
This disinterest in politics ensures that the voter is informed by rumor, innuendo, and electoral noise. People still believe we found WMDs in Iraq, Al-Qaida and Saddam kicked it at his palace, and poor people are poor because they are lazy. It is no wonder that Americans are left with Abortion and Gay Marriage, the two most unimportant topics, as major campaign issues.
Actually I think you are missing something... NASA was is space in the 60's. Private enterprise only made it in '04 because someone was willing to throw a lot of money at a prize. In fact NASA works with private enterprise on almost everything it does,,, it just happens to be very expensive doing it first.
I have perfect vision and went to the school after her visit for my first eye checkup. I couldn't read for hours after having my eyes dialated and can now say if I lived with what I experienced that day, I would accept even a partial improvement in vision. I couldn't even read the form I had to fill out!
The worst part of the whole corrective eye surgery industry is the commercialization. I hate the stupid ads on the radio that make it sound like you are having a radio installed in your car. The Cal school of optometry was not like that, it was very professional which I liked.