I think they should shut down all fan-sites.. Actually I think they should shut the whole net down -It draws viewers away from television and everybody knows it full of Piracy and Pr0n.. -
I'm working on a digital film right now.. It's low-rez -The frames are 1k images (roughly 2 megs a frame) this is far lower than standard film rez.. By my math:
2 megs a frame x 24 = 48 megs a second/2,880 megs a minute
- so unless this film is just over 17 minutes long, it must be compressed- I'm just wondering what kind of compression they are using, and what the hit to quality is like - Unless my math is way off.. -
Ok -I'll admit 'innovation' sounds more exciting, but it seems to me that what the general public gets excited about is the refinement of 'new' technologies -MP3, Voice over IP, desktop PC with simple UI's... In general people want things that they can use simply -this is MS's big 'innovation' -'refinement' of existing technology-
I hardly think that this means the art of research is gone- there will always be wild-eyed geniuses that create things that are truely new, just for the love of it (not the 'market' of it). This is the way it has always been. -
While nearly all laptop computers today use chips from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices, Transmeta hopes to make inroads with Crusoe, a chip the company says can dramatically cut power consumption, potentially paving the way for a computer that could run all day on a single battery.
has anyone seen a demo of any Crusoe based devices? At what cost does that battery life come? I sure would love it if my laptop ran more than a couple of hours on a full charge, but I have a hard time giving up speed - so. How fast does that chip go? -
..but then again I'm from a semi-socialist country (Canada)..
"Today we become the first society in the world in which email is free and open to all," the Costa Rican president said in a speech at the headquarters of the state-run Costa Rican Postal Service, which together with the state-run Radiografica Costarricense (Racsa) will be implementing the program, dubbed Punto.com.
Um.. This sounds a bit like hype.. I don't know about the States, but up in the frozen north we can walk into a public library, or the occasional coffee shop and use any one of the 'free' web based mail services... -
Interfering with a computer, system, or network or giving out a password or other confidential information about a system is a misdemeanor of the first degree, with a maximum penalty of five years and $10,000 fine.
OK. So we all know about "bad" viruses -Mellisa, etc, and "trojans" -but what I want to know is how this legislation can be used to keep Large Corporations from digging around in my HardDrive..
When RealNetworks or Aureate/Radiate add "special features" to their software to profile my music listening habits, or track my web access from within, rather than from accessed pages- does that count as "Interfering, or giving out confidential information". -
Until there are cross platform players and encoders I don't see it making each inroads, and there still are some compression issues (but then again, a 128kb/s MP3 wacks out music's treble and bass pretty badly too and that hasn't slowed down its acceptance).
In general people will choose convenience over quality to a certain threshold. The main problem here is that an hours worth of MP4 video (350 megs) is not something many people would want to attempt on a slow net connection - I imagine this would then be most usefull for distribution of small clips, or large clips on CD/DVD. -
Based on the obvious double standard shown in the Peacefire bait and switch experiment - how can someone determine if their own websites have been blocked by these products, without using the products?
I know PopeAlien.com has been placed on a List of potentially offensive webcomics based on the domain name.. (funny 'cause it's so innoffensive) How can I tell if filters are blocking any of my sites? -especially with 'closed list' filters like Mattels?
My brother is a project manager for a Game Developer- he just had a meeting with the "evil empire" last week to pitch a project for the Xbox- It sounds like they have some definate advantages. Apparently the PS2 is *not nice* to develop for, and they have a ways to go before the games will live up to all the hype- One of the major problems is that (apparently) PS2 has NO antialiasing capability.. I find this hard to believe, but from what he was saying a lot of the PS2 stuff looked "worse" than the dreamcast. If this is the case, the PS2 may not be the console champ it looked like it would be.
Since the Xbox is just a PC box, MS has a lot of muscle to get PC games ported (very simple) to the Xbox as well as creating new games, and Dreamcast now has the Playstation emulator, so there goes the backwards compatibility argument for the PS2. Apparently no console has maintained market lead when jumping to next generation - it'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out. -
Hey this is cool- It looks like they are making all the source code, hardware specs, and other information availiable for download -I'm impressed! Does anybody out there have the time/resources to put one of these together? -
But hey- they just 'neutralized' the comments- that means they balanced them out right? I mean there must have been tons of positive user comments as well right?
I like this bit from the Ebay User Agreement: Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will remain private .
It's always nice to see reassurance that "industry standard" means that your personal info or private communication need not remain private.
Even the RIAA is not going after people selling used or shrinkwrapped CD's.. Gah. -
I've filed a defensive patent covering certain methods of 'surfing' information using a 'mouse'- and certain methods of retrieving information from a collection of printed papers arranged in a bundle with easily flippable 'pages'.. You are currently infringing on said patent by 'browsing' information on slashdot. Please adjust your current habits, and send a check post-haste to avoid further legal problems. -
Everytime people at work want faster machines, they ask "can't we just put more ram in it?".. I have to explain that doubling the ram in that p100 running win95 is just not going to double their performance..
That said, I have one reason to use over 128 megs of ram -AfterEffects. I use AfterEffects daily, and it uses a 'ram preview' function that stores as much of your video comp in a ram buffer as possible, then lets you view it playing back smoothly with sound - This is such an important tool to me at work, my G3 there has 768 megs. (this also lets me be lazy about running multiple apps at the same time). -
I have discovered a massive conduit for stolen intellectual material. They call it 'email', but beneath it's innocuous sounding name hides a great evil. As I write this, there are potentially gigs and gigs of illegal material flowing all around the world.. entire chapters of books, song lyrics, and the misuse of corporate trademarks are all taking place - but that's not the worst of it! Using a technology called "attachments" actual songs, TV shows, and stolen software can be exchanged along with the plain-text.
I have done a little research, and it appears that the major ring-leaders are a company going by the name of 'MicroSoft' with their 'hotmail' service (even in the name they are brazen about the 'hot' or 'stolen' nature of the contents!) and a company that goes by the name of 'Time/Warner/AOL' operating under the alias 'Netscape Webmail' (Which I assume relates to the web of lies and trickery that the service enables).. I have heard that there may be some other software that make use of this 'email' technology, but I think we have to go after the biggest most brazen CopyRight Theft Enablersto send a message to the internet community at large: 'Sharing is bad! Communication is Sharing!'.. We must get congress to ACT NOW and stop these 'ringleaders' while we can..
This would be lovely for Instant on boot disk, but the price would have to drop by leaps and bounds.. I could never get by with only 8gigs.. (doing graphics & video work, and being lazy about cleaning up old versions).. I am somehow out of space here with 160 gigs of HD space - just picked up a 40 gig drive for under $400 canadian.. For me the main thing is having enough *reliable* space to store my digi-junk.. -
I'm actually a bit suprised that this is 'newsworthy'.. I would think that by now a lot of homes should be built with some sort of consideration toward a high speed connection - apparently this is not the case.
According to Jo Chapman, director of surveys at the National Association of Home Builders, only 5 percent of new homes come with "structured" wiring, the fatter in-home pipe needed to get the most from broadband service.
And just how 'fat' are those pipes anyways? I always thought that if I built a house I would do the basic ethernet cabling, but I would also put in some sort of open-ducting in the walls so that 'fatter' cable for other purposes could be run from room to room fairly simply in the future. -
Try BigPanda.net for a shifting list of almost all independent web-comics.. and if you want to customize a page to view some of your favorites try Mycomix.Toonscape.com.. -They have permission from a lot of online cartoonists (independent) to post strips.. including PopeAlien.Comics -
-Agreed.. (are we completely off-topic yet?).. this is not such a good thing(tm).. I am a bit flabbergasted that they could claim the domain-name infringed on their identity.. it has nothing whatsoever to do with them, and is essentially nonsensical.. I can't see how they have a legal leg to stand on. -I was simply glad (after reading your communication) to see some sort of conciliation from the CM folk.. You can probably see the hesitation in my post (i.e -solved? and 'allowed')- I dont think that the ChunkyMunky folk should give in to this agreement, mainly due to the terms"This does not include using the name Chunky Monkey or chunkymunky or any other version of the name in any commercial or marketing manner, such as tee shirts or any other product." So they cant print up shirts and give them away promotionally? The whole thing is ridiculous.. I'm just waiting for someone to claim Trademark rights for PopeAlien.com... I'm sure common sense will prevail. -
If you were to settle for an uglier case.. you could probably get the same functionality for a lot cheaper.. I know of one package (sharethenet)which is aiming for the some similar functionality.. Has anyone used this.. or has anyone used any other products/distros that are basically made to be set up on an old "headless" machine and simply administered through a browser?.. -
Uh.. I don't get it.. How can you not have root on a box that you own? Is this like a service agreement where you pay them to admin your box?..are they going to throw you in jail for hacking into your own box under the DMCA?
Hm.. do you have to pay extra for root access to your own box.. "Thats 'proprietary' technology.. You're going to have to buy an additional licence to get full access to your box." -
Slashdot Mirror
I think they should shut down all fan-sites.. Actually I think they should shut the whole net down -It draws viewers away from television and everybody knows it full of Piracy and Pr0n..
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Boy.. I bet that thing gets hot..
ACME currently consists of sixteen Pentium class computers, each with 450 MHz AMD K6/2 processors and at least 32 MB of memory.
I have two 450 Mhz Amd boxes in a small room, and they sure pump the heat up there..
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I'm working on a digital film right now.. It's low-rez -The frames are 1k images (roughly 2 megs a frame) this is far lower than standard film rez.. By my math:
2 megs a frame x 24 = 48 megs a second/2,880 megs a minute
- so unless this film is just over 17 minutes long, it must be compressed- I'm just wondering what kind of compression they are using, and what the hit to quality is like - Unless my math is way off..
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Ok -I'll admit 'innovation' sounds more exciting, but it seems to me that what the general public gets excited about is the refinement of 'new' technologies -MP3, Voice over IP, desktop PC with simple UI's... In general people want things that they can use simply -this is MS's big 'innovation' -'refinement' of existing technology-
I hardly think that this means the art of research is gone- there will always be wild-eyed geniuses that create things that are truely new, just for the love of it (not the 'market' of it). This is the way it has always been.
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While nearly all laptop computers today use chips from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices, Transmeta hopes to make inroads with Crusoe, a chip the company says can dramatically cut power consumption, potentially paving the way for a computer that could run all day on a single battery.
has anyone seen a demo of any Crusoe based devices? At what cost does that battery life come? I sure would love it if my laptop ran more than a couple of hours on a full charge, but I have a hard time giving up speed - so. How fast does that chip go?
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..but then again I'm from a semi-socialist country (Canada)..
"Today we become the first society in the world in which email is free and open to all," the Costa Rican president said in a speech at the headquarters of the state-run Costa Rican Postal Service, which together with the state-run Radiografica Costarricense (Racsa) will be implementing the program, dubbed Punto.com.
Um.. This sounds a bit like hype.. I don't know about the States, but up in the frozen north we can walk into a public library, or the occasional coffee shop and use any one of the 'free' web based mail services...
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Interfering with a computer, system, or network or giving out a password or other confidential information about a system is a misdemeanor of the first degree, with a maximum penalty of five years and $10,000 fine.
OK. So we all know about "bad" viruses -Mellisa, etc, and "trojans" -but what I want to know is how this legislation can be used to keep Large Corporations from digging around in my HardDrive..
When RealNetworks or Aureate/Radiate add "special features" to their software to profile my music listening habits, or track my web access from within, rather than from accessed pages- does that count as "Interfering, or giving out confidential information".
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How do you *prove* the "intention" to spread the virus?
Are we going to throw a lot of clueless people in jail?
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Until there are cross platform players and encoders I don't see it making each inroads, and there still are some compression issues (but then again, a 128kb/s MP3 wacks out music's treble and bass pretty badly too and that hasn't slowed down its acceptance).
In general people will choose convenience over quality to a certain threshold. The main problem here is that an hours worth of MP4 video (350 megs) is not something many people would want to attempt on a slow net connection - I imagine this would then be most usefull for distribution of small clips, or large clips on CD/DVD.
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From: John Schultz[johnschultz@mindspring.com]
.. Did they just need to fill up paper?
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 12:45 PM
To: hotline@mpaa.org
Subject: DeCSS
Shame on you. you jack-booted thugs. The lies you're telling to the ignorant courts will come back to haunt you when the public catches on.
OK - some of the other notes were 'threatening', but this one?
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It better have more caffeine than Jolt..
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Based on the obvious double standard shown in the Peacefire bait and switch experiment - how can someone determine if their own websites have been blocked by these products, without using the products?
I know PopeAlien.com has been placed on a List of potentially offensive webcomics based on the domain name.. (funny 'cause it's so innoffensive) How can I tell if filters are blocking any of my sites? -especially with 'closed list' filters like Mattels?
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My brother is a project manager for a Game Developer- he just had a meeting with the "evil empire" last week to pitch a project for the Xbox- It sounds like they have some definate advantages. Apparently the PS2 is *not nice* to develop for, and they have a ways to go before the games will live up to all the hype- One of the major problems is that (apparently) PS2 has NO antialiasing capability.. I find this hard to believe, but from what he was saying a lot of the PS2 stuff looked "worse" than the dreamcast. If this is the case, the PS2 may not be the console champ it looked like it would be.
Since the Xbox is just a PC box, MS has a lot of muscle to get PC games ported (very simple) to the Xbox as well as creating new games, and Dreamcast now has the Playstation emulator, so there goes the backwards compatibility argument for the PS2. Apparently no console has maintained market lead when jumping to next generation - it'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out.
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Hey this is cool-
It looks like they are making all the source code, hardware specs, and other information availiable for download -I'm impressed! Does anybody out there have the time/resources to put one of these together?
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But hey- they just 'neutralized' the comments- that means they balanced them out right? I mean there must have been tons of positive user comments as well right?
I like this bit from the Ebay User Agreement:
Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will remain private .
It's always nice to see reassurance that "industry standard" means that your personal info or private communication need not remain private.
Even the RIAA is not going after people selling used or shrinkwrapped CD's.. Gah.
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I've filed a defensive patent covering certain methods of 'surfing' information using a 'mouse'- and certain methods of retrieving information from a collection of printed papers arranged in a bundle with easily flippable 'pages'.. You are currently infringing on said patent by 'browsing' information on slashdot. Please adjust your current habits, and send a check post-haste to avoid further legal problems.
-
Everytime people at work want faster machines, they ask "can't we just put more ram in it?".. I have to explain that doubling the ram in that p100 running win95 is just not going to double their performance..
That said, I have one reason to use over 128 megs of ram -AfterEffects. I use AfterEffects daily, and it uses a 'ram preview' function that stores as much of your video comp in a ram buffer as possible, then lets you view it playing back smoothly with sound - This is such an important tool to me at work, my G3 there has 768 megs. (this also lets me be lazy about running multiple apps at the same time).
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I have discovered a massive conduit for stolen intellectual material. They call it 'email', but beneath it's innocuous sounding name hides a great evil. As I write this, there are potentially gigs and gigs of illegal material flowing all around the world.. entire chapters of books, song lyrics, and the misuse of corporate trademarks are all taking place - but that's not the worst of it! Using a technology called "attachments" actual songs, TV shows, and stolen software can be exchanged along with the plain-text.
I have done a little research, and it appears that the major ring-leaders are a company going by the name of 'MicroSoft' with their 'hotmail' service (even in the name they are brazen about the 'hot' or 'stolen' nature of the contents!) and a company that goes by the name of 'Time/Warner/AOL' operating under the alias 'Netscape Webmail' (Which I assume relates to the web of lies and trickery that the service enables).. I have heard that there may be some other software that make use of this 'email' technology, but I think we have to go after the biggest most brazen CopyRight Theft Enablersto send a message to the internet community at large: 'Sharing is bad! Communication is Sharing!'.. We must get congress to ACT NOW and stop these 'ringleaders' while we can..
This would be lovely for Instant on boot disk, but the price would have to drop by leaps and bounds.. I could never get by with only 8gigs.. (doing graphics & video work, and being lazy about cleaning up old versions).. I am somehow out of space here with 160 gigs of HD space - just picked up a 40 gig drive for under $400 canadian.. For me the main thing is having enough *reliable* space to store my digi-junk..
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I'm actually a bit suprised that this is 'newsworthy'.. I would think that by now a lot of homes should be built with some sort of consideration toward a high speed connection - apparently this is not the case.
According to Jo Chapman, director of surveys at the National Association of Home Builders, only 5 percent of new homes come with "structured" wiring, the fatter in-home pipe needed to get the most from broadband service.
And just how 'fat' are those pipes anyways? I always thought that if I built a house I would do the basic ethernet cabling, but I would also put in some sort of open-ducting in the walls so that 'fatter' cable for other purposes could be run from room to room fairly simply in the future.
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.. The obligitory link without login
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Try BigPanda.net for a shifting list of almost all independent web-comics.. and if you want to customize a page to view some of your favorites try Mycomix.Toonscape.com.. -They have permission from a lot of online cartoonists (independent) to post strips.. including PopeAlien.Comics
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-Agreed.. (are we completely off-topic yet?).. this is not such a good thing(tm).. I am a bit flabbergasted that they could claim the domain-name infringed on their identity.. it has nothing whatsoever to do with them, and is essentially nonsensical.. I can't see how they have a legal leg to stand on. -I was simply glad (after reading your communication) to see some sort of conciliation from the CM folk.. You can probably see the hesitation in my post (i.e -solved? and 'allowed')- I dont think that the ChunkyMunky folk should give in to this agreement, mainly due to the terms"This does not include using the name Chunky Monkey or chunkymunky or any other version of the name in any commercial or marketing manner, such as tee shirts or any other product."
So they cant print up shirts and give them away promotionally? The whole thing is ridiculous.. I'm just waiting for someone to claim Trademark rights for PopeAlien.com... I'm sure common sense will prevail.
-
If you were to settle for an uglier case.. you could probably get the same functionality for a lot cheaper.. I know of one package (sharethenet)which is aiming for the some similar functionality.. Has anyone used this.. or has anyone used any other products/distros that are basically made to be set up on an old "headless" machine and simply administered through a browser?..
-
Uh.. I don't get it.. How can you not have root on a box that you own? Is this like a service agreement where you pay them to admin your box? ..are they going to throw you in jail for hacking into your own box under the DMCA?
Hm.. do you have to pay extra for root access to your own box.. "Thats 'proprietary' technology.. You're going to have to buy an additional licence to get full access to your box."
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