Newer versions of "Calc" were completely written behind the scenes to provide more accuracy (essentially infinite accuracy on simple arithmetic, explained above) while the interface remained the same. So the comparison is flawed.
It's not even funny any more how fast these sites go down. It doesn't do the site owner or us any good - once again, what will it take for Slashdot to implement a mirror system?
Paul Graham has an interesting essay on "What the Bubble Got Right". It's worth remembering that some of the companies that lost 90% of their value are still worth billions today - e.g. Yahoo.
Looks like the server's smoking already - you can at least get the text from Google's cache.
This reads more like a press release of an "amazing new product" that they haven't actually built yet than some concrete information. If mobile phones have voice control, and mobile phones can play MP3s, how is "a voice controlled MP3 player" suddenly an amazing new advance?
Of course you could just go out and buy one now if you actually wanted one for your car. There's even a funky flash demo.
The critical thing about the slimmed down version is that there doesn't appear to be anywhere to put a hard disk drive - which might well be a thinly veiled attempt by Sony to stop HDLoader or clones from being able to play copied games on newer consoles.
What about games that use or need the HDD? Final Fantasy XI in Europe? Hmm. The BBC and IGN are both running the story.
"At the same time, we will also change the "minimum" value in the.com and.net SOA records from its current value of 86400 seconds (one day) to 900 seconds (15 minutes). This change brings this value in line with the widely implemented negative caching semantics defined in Section 4 of RFC 2308."
Doesn't that mean they're updating every fifteen minutes, not every five?
StepMania is fantastic, and is open source. The only tricky thing is finding the songs to play on it, there are a few free ones and people have converted a lot of the (copyrighted) Dance Dance Revolution ones, but they're obviously of dubious legality. There are a few IRC channels around where you can download packs of all the songs.
It's a fantastic program, and there's even an Xbox port! Try it, I think you'll be surprised how polished it feels!
I don't have any experience of losing weight with it though - I kind of have the opposite problem.:-)
Does anyone know (can be bothered to work out) what else could have been done with all the CPU time they've been donated?
Don't get me wrong, I run SETI@home myself, I'm just wondering, say, how much of the 2048 bit keyspace needed for signing Xbox executables could have been searched? How far would the TivoCrack project have got if they'd had access to that amount of computing power? I'm just curious really.
One of the drivers I use - the tg3 Gigabit Ethernet driver - is affected by this. The driver currently contains non-free firmware that is uploaded to the card in a couple of cases.
An interesting thing about this driver is that it appears to work (to the extent that most people need) without the firmware. There has been some attempt on the linux-kernel mailing list to make the firmware part of the kernel optional. That way Debian can just turn that option off and presumably remove the associated firmware from their kernel. Anyone who needs the bug fixes/features provided by the firmware can use a non-Debian kernel.
Not everyone's in favour of this idea though. There's more about it on the mailing list if anyone's interested.
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How can they check that you're actually processing the spam? Sign up, block the outgoing non-meat product and take their money.
Well, it's a pretty outlandish, off the wall type idea, but perhaps maybe add a couple of their own addresses in there and see if they arrive?
The article doesn't mention the conversion of the technology demo'ed by Richard Marks into an actual product, which took place at Sony UK's Camden studio. That's where they added the fun gameplay that turned it into something worth buying. It's not a big deal, but it's strange that it's not mentioned at all in the original article.
It's quite cool reading about the initial presentation of the technology to a bunch of awestruck developers.:-)
I don't know whether it's around in the US, but my Nokia 6600 manages all that and more. You can install/uninstall applications, write them with the free SDK from Nokia and test them on their emulator.
It's got a full-blown Symbian multi-tasking OS, and you might even be able to do what you want with MiniGPS. It cost me the equivalent of about $180, with contract.
The important thing for me is that MAME runs on it.:-)
"Blinkenlights Reloaded uses the technology we have developed for Arcade in Paris last year. That means greyscales. Version 3 of BlinkenPaint supports this as well as our new movie file format BML."
Why not just put one together with a temperature sensor IC connected to your parallel port? I'm sure there are dozens of simple examples of how to wire them up around.
This site has schematics and the pros and cons of various sensors.
Just ensure that the DNS checks to see that the new file is actually a legal DNS zone file. I assume these things have a required format?
Why would anyone want to "combat" it?
Also, if you'd bothered to read the article (all one page of it) you'd have seen:
torrentToiZoneentries.py converts a torrent (or any file) to zonefile format (example : 0_1198_56633ab0d90f43c68ed1b47358eccfe7 IN TXT "64383a616e6e6f756e63653433...")
Sounds pretty much like putting it into the required format, doesn't it?
I don't know if I'm too keen to rent a little bike with an internet connection. I'd much rather have wireless connection points scattered over the festival terrain which would allow a PDA to connect - that way, I can even walk.
Did you actually read the article?
They describe setting up a number of wireless base stations using 802.11b to "ensure that the majority of wireless clients could connect to our network". They built the rickshaw as a moving terminal so that people without laptops/PDAs could have a chance to use the network.
You seem to think that everyone wants, or should want, what, and only what you want. It's not true, people have diverse needs.
I said: "These systems (Rendezvous, UPnP, etc.) seem to neglect one issue that's important to me personally.". How is that "thinking that everyone wants"?
These systems (Rendezvous, UPnP, etc.) seem to neglect one issue that's important to me personally.
If I plug something in to my network, I want to know exactly what it's doing and what it's not. Unless I tell it otherwise I want it to sit there and do absolutely nothing. Am I missing something here? The last thing I can imagine being useful is for "intelligent" devices to start making decisions about what they think I want them to do.
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It's not the same software.
When you change the insides, nobody notices
Newer versions of "Calc" were completely written behind the scenes to provide more accuracy (essentially infinite accuracy on simple arithmetic, explained above) while the interface remained the same. So the comparison is flawed.
Seriously: I wonder what criteria they'll use to decide if someone is "in" the UK or not?
It's not even funny any more how fast these sites go down. It doesn't do the site owner or us any good - once again, what will it take for Slashdot to implement a mirror system?
For example... this one.
Paul Graham has an interesting essay on "What the Bubble Got Right". It's worth remembering that some of the companies that lost 90% of their value are still worth billions today - e.g. Yahoo.
Looks like the server's smoking already - you can at least get the text from Google's cache.
... and ask them?
Or you could of course ask 100,000 other people who have no real idea what you're talking about, of course.
This reads more like a press release of an "amazing new product" that they haven't actually built yet than some concrete information. If mobile phones have voice control, and mobile phones can play MP3s, how is "a voice controlled MP3 player" suddenly an amazing new advance?
Of course you could just go out and buy one now if you actually wanted one for your car. There's even a funky flash demo.
The critical thing about the slimmed down version is that there doesn't appear to be anywhere to put a hard disk drive - which might well be a thinly veiled attempt by Sony to stop HDLoader or clones from being able to play copied games on newer consoles.
What about games that use or need the HDD? Final Fantasy XI in Europe? Hmm. The BBC and IGN are both running the story.
Doesn't that mean they're updating every fifteen minutes, not every five?
StepMania is fantastic, and is open source. The only tricky thing is finding the songs to play on it, there are a few free ones and people have converted a lot of the (copyrighted) Dance Dance Revolution ones, but they're obviously of dubious legality. There are a few IRC channels around where you can download packs of all the songs.
:-)
It's a fantastic program, and there's even an Xbox port! Try it, I think you'll be surprised how polished it feels!
I don't have any experience of losing weight with it though - I kind of have the opposite problem.
Does anyone know (can be bothered to work out) what else could have been done with all the CPU time they've been donated?
Don't get me wrong, I run SETI@home myself, I'm just wondering, say, how much of the 2048 bit keyspace needed for signing Xbox executables could have been searched? How far would the TivoCrack project have got if they'd had access to that amount of computing power? I'm just curious really.
One of the drivers I use - the tg3 Gigabit Ethernet driver - is affected by this. The driver currently contains non-free firmware that is uploaded to the card in a couple of cases.
An interesting thing about this driver is that it appears to work (to the extent that most people need) without the firmware. There has been some attempt on the linux-kernel mailing list to make the firmware part of the kernel optional. That way Debian can just turn that option off and presumably remove the associated firmware from their kernel. Anyone who needs the bug fixes/features provided by the firmware can use a non-Debian kernel.
Not everyone's in favour of this idea though. There's more about it on the mailing list if anyone's interested.
The article doesn't mention the conversion of the technology demo'ed by Richard Marks into an actual product, which took place at Sony UK's Camden studio. That's where they added the fun gameplay that turned it into something worth buying. It's not a big deal, but it's strange that it's not mentioned at all in the original article.
:-)
It's quite cool reading about the initial presentation of the technology to a bunch of awestruck developers.
I don't know whether it's around in the US, but my Nokia 6600 manages all that and more. You can install/uninstall applications, write them with the free SDK from Nokia and test them on their emulator.
:-)
It's got a full-blown Symbian multi-tasking OS, and you might even be able to do what you want with MiniGPS. It cost me the equivalent of about $180, with contract.
The important thing for me is that MAME runs on it.
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/media/Blinkenlights/
Damn cool.
So it'll look pretty similar, I imagine.
Why not just put one together with a temperature sensor IC connected to your parallel port? I'm sure there are dozens of simple examples of how to wire them up around.
This site has schematics and the pros and cons of various sensors.
I don't see why this is crazy... in fact, isn't it quite obviously true?
Why would anyone want to "combat" it?
Also, if you'd bothered to read the article (all one page of it) you'd have seen:
Sounds pretty much like putting it into the required format, doesn't it?
They describe setting up a number of wireless base stations using 802.11b to "ensure that the majority of wireless clients could connect to our network". They built the rickshaw as a moving terminal so that people without laptops/PDAs could have a chance to use the network.
I know it's a pain... more advertising revenue for them though I guess.
:-)
I always hit the printable version and cancel the print dialog. Plus that means modem users have a chance to read the article in less than a week.
You seem to think that everyone wants, or should want, what, and only what you want. It's not true, people have diverse needs.
I said: "These systems (Rendezvous, UPnP, etc.) seem to neglect one issue that's important to me personally.". How is that "thinking that everyone wants"?
These systems (Rendezvous, UPnP, etc.) seem to neglect one issue that's important to me personally.
If I plug something in to my network, I want to know exactly what it's doing and what it's not. Unless I tell it otherwise I want it to sit there and do absolutely nothing. Am I missing something here? The last thing I can imagine being useful is for "intelligent" devices to start making decisions about what they think I want them to do.
... not including "PRICELESS" in your list of prices: er, priceless. Right?
I know GNOME's in that list, but it's worth noting that as of today commits to the GNOME CVS server are output in #commits on GIMPnet.
#commits on irc.gnome.org