Pricing sucks! I have to pay $40 just because I'm in Canada? Come on... shipping to Canada can't be $15 extra! I'm affraid but you've just lost a customer.
MERGER MADNESS: TIMEWARNER HEAD WARNS OF 'AMERICAN CULTURAL IMPERIALISM'; SEES CORPORATIONS TAKING 'GOVERNMENT ROLES'
AOL chief executive Steve Case and TIME WARNER chief executive Gerald Levin testified Thursday before a complete panel at the Federal Communications Commission.
But it is candid comments made by Levin earlier this year during a media roundtable that have some lawmakers in Congress concerned that something is foul with the latest greatest media marriage.
Levin recently warned in the post-Cold War era there is only "American cultural imperialism."
"There's no countervailing force, that's a significant problem," declared the man who will become the most powerful media executive in history if the AOL/TIME WARNER merger is approved by federal regulators.
Levin sees a future where major media corporations take on responsibilities currently administered by governments.
"We're going to need to have these corporations redefined as instruments of public service because they have the resources, they have the reach, they have the skill base, and maybe there's a new generation coming up that wants to achieve meaning in that context and have an impact, and that may be a more efficient way to deal with society's problems than governments," predicted Levin.
A summary of Levin's past comments circulated behind committee doors this week, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, including Levin's belief that an "old-fashioned regulatory system" has to give way to a new "global concern."
"It does appear that Mr. Levin has greater designs than simply running an entertainment conglomerate," said one Republican lawmaker, who would like to question Levin on his fellings about "American cultural imperialism."
At the TIMEWARNER Global Forum gathering in Shanghai last year, Levin introduced China's Communist President President Jiang Zemin , calling him "my good friend."
Levin presented him with a bust of Abraham Lincoln. Levin, who refused to meet with human rights representatives, told vaunted visitors that Jiang can reel off the Gettysburg address from memory.
But can Jiang - or Gerry, for that matter - recite Lincoln's reported letter to William F. Elkins, November 21, 1864?
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country...corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
Anyone remember Steve Gibson's ClearType demo? Steve says that Apple invented this tech looong time ago (so long that patent already expired). I'm hoping that he will re-check facts and tech again and see if MS really did innovate something this time. I still think that this is old Apple's tech that Woz discovered some time ago. If anyone has a LCD pannel handy I recommend you check MS samples and Steve's ClearType app and see that the results really are similar.
Someone should ask Steve Gibson to opensource his app so that we can incorporate this tech into X display server (it's written in ASM so it's very fast to).
yep... I got the same impression. Cavemen were able to make these blades for chrissake... He's coming up with these lame excuses to keep his monopoly or something.... he should be straightforward and say that he doesn't wanna teach anyone.
I wanna get a glass knife (single atom width) that Raven from Stephenson's book Snow Crash uses. Anyone know when will something like that be possible?
If you don't want to read through specs and prefer a down-to-earth explanation of features etc, check this Designer article on JPEG2K and what it will mean to web design of future. Excellent stuff.
Mavica SUCKS bad! I had it for 3 weeks... Picture quality is pisspoor and you can only store several pictures at high quality. Go for Kodak DC290 or DC275 instead. MUCH MUCH MUCH better. Anything that has flashcards is MUCH better
This new 'graffiti' from NYU is done by Ken Perlin (fron Perlin Noise fame) and it's absolutely fabulous. It's called Quikqriting. Can't wait to use it. Check it here: http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/perlin/ demos/quikwriting.html
Well... the specs certainly look impressive and the feature list is many times better than that of Palm. This will definetely give Palm run for its money.
However... "Handwriting Recognition" really worries me. I used it in Apple's Newton and was not impressed at all with it. I don't think MS' HW recognition works any better (I haven't tried it yet though but I draw this from my experiences with lots of HW Recognition packages). Graffiti will be more reliable at the long run since it is very easily recognizable by the software and mismatch rate (i.e. recognizing 8 when you wrote B) is extremely low.
Also, what is the stability of this new MS operating system (which is nothing but new WinCE)? If it crashes a lot... forget it. I prefer having less but more stable set of features.
Why doesn't/. take some of it's own advice and burn some of it's GIFs?;)
GIFs from the front page: http://images.slashdot.org/title.gif http://images.slashdot.org/greendot.gif http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicmozilla.g if http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topichumor.gif http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicprivacy.g if http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicbe.gif etc...
... at least some @home mail servers.. my mail goes through 24.2.9.40 relay and it gets bounced from a ton of sites that use ORBS. Anyone else's @home e-mail got bounced so far?
I just read this interview with Kevin Lawton (author of Bochs and Plex86) and he mentions several things... First of all, he implies (indirectly) that VMWare folks (who are from Stanford) actually used his Bochs code as a starting point! That's a very serious charge and I think I believe him. Here's what he says:
The second is that long ago, I received a request from people at Stanford to use Bochs for free for "educational" use. Given that I like to help out educational causes, I of course obliged. Check out where VMWare got its start. Enough said.
Why doesn't Kevin take this through the legal channels? He should! He'd get some funding for Plex86 at least.
If anyone has seen Mendel Rosenblum's (main guy behind VMWare and also a Stanford grad) Stanford lecture on VMWare you'd have to agree that he acted little like a scrouge. He wouldn't even answer some simple questions by saying: "Ooooo... I can't tell you that... we spent a lot of time thinking about that and I don't wanna give it away" etc...
In any case... FreeMWare (now Plex86) will rock.. I tried some dev code and it's a great start. Give it another 6-8 months and it'll be competitive with VMWare.
I know very well what XFCom means. I did say: The driver is also present in lastest XFree as well.. Since I didn't know off hand what version of XFree did it appear I said *I think it appears in the lates one*. XFree is always opensource. I also didn't ask any questions:)
ATi has _the_ best integrated DVD decoding of any multifunction card on the market right now. I own an ATi 128 All-in-Wonder card and its a very good card for my Linux machine. It is lacking an opensource driver but the binary one from SuSE works great. (http://www.suse.de/en/support/xsuse/). The driver is also present in lastest XFree as well (I think it's also opensourced).
... is so soft on a sitting president. Never in history have journalists been so complementary of the prez. Almost like the editor expects positive stories about Clinton and censors bad ones. Just look what happened to Paul Sperry (journalist who asked Clinton about that China scandal) -- he was banned from Whitehouse for even asking something like that. Ludicrous!
About time he got heckled a bit...
BTW: Sperry was hired by the last bastillion of the (big corporate)free press: WorldNetDaily. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/200002 08_xex_wnd_hires_pa.shtml
The network of silicon filaments should be very flexible and move wherever air moves. So if air can get through a crack as a draught, the ball should be able to squeeze through, and then rearrange itself on the other side.
Does this remind you of that liquid robot (T1000) from Terminator 2? heheh
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Pricing sucks! I have to pay $40 just because I'm in Canada? Come on... shipping to Canada can't be $15 extra! I'm affraid but you've just lost a customer.
Flashback from JULY 27, 2000....
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MERGER MADNESS: TIMEWARNER HEAD WARNS OF 'AMERICAN CULTURAL IMPERIALISM'; SEES CORPORATIONS TAKING 'GOVERNMENT ROLES'
AOL chief executive Steve Case and TIME WARNER chief executive Gerald Levin testified Thursday before a complete panel at the Federal Communications Commission.
But it is candid comments made by Levin earlier this year during a media roundtable that have some lawmakers in Congress concerned that something is foul with the latest greatest media marriage.
Levin recently warned in the post-Cold War era there is only "American cultural imperialism."
"There's no countervailing force, that's a significant problem," declared the man who will become the most powerful media executive in history if the AOL/TIME WARNER merger is approved by federal regulators.
Levin sees a future where major media corporations take on responsibilities currently administered by governments.
"We're going to need to have these corporations redefined as instruments of public service because they have the resources, they have the reach, they have the skill base, and maybe there's a new generation coming up that wants to achieve meaning in that context and have an impact, and that may be a more efficient way to deal with society's problems than governments," predicted Levin.
A summary of Levin's past comments circulated behind committee doors this week, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, including Levin's belief that an "old-fashioned regulatory system" has to give way to a new "global concern."
"It does appear that Mr. Levin has greater designs than simply running an entertainment conglomerate," said one Republican lawmaker, who would like to question Levin on his fellings about "American cultural imperialism."
At the TIMEWARNER Global Forum gathering in Shanghai last year, Levin introduced China's Communist President President Jiang Zemin , calling him "my good friend
Levin presented him with a bust of Abraham Lincoln. Levin, who refused to meet with human rights representatives, told vaunted visitors that Jiang can reel off the Gettysburg address from memory.
But can Jiang - or Gerry, for that matter - recite Lincoln's reported letter to William F. Elkins, November 21, 1864?
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country...corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
Anyone remember Steve Gibson's ClearType demo? Steve says that Apple invented this tech looong time ago (so long that patent already expired). I'm hoping that he will re-check facts and tech again and see if MS really did innovate something this time. I still think that this is old Apple's tech that Woz discovered some time ago. If anyone has a LCD pannel handy I recommend you check MS samples and Steve's ClearType app and see that the results really are similar.
Someone should ask Steve Gibson to opensource his app so that we can incorporate this tech into X display server (it's written in ASM so it's very fast to).
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yeah... i think they use something similar to cut tissue samples for microscopy etc. I don't think that the blade is atom wide though
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yep... I got the same impression. Cavemen were able to make these blades for chrissake... He's coming up with these lame excuses to keep his monopoly or something.... he should be straightforward and say that he doesn't wanna teach anyone.
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I wanna get a glass knife (single atom width) that Raven from Stephenson's book Snow Crash uses. Anyone know when will something like that be possible?
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If you don't want to read through specs and prefer a down-to-earth explanation of features etc, check this Designer article on JPEG2K and what it will mean to web design of future. Excellent stuff.
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This article on Katz is rather interesting.
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Wow... they actually mentioned Dr. Nikola Tesla in the 1st section, "Electrification". Not bad. I'm glad he's finally getting some recognition.
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Mavica SUCKS bad! I had it for 3 weeks... Picture quality is pisspoor and you can only store several pictures at high quality. Go for Kodak DC290 or DC275 instead. MUCH MUCH MUCH better. Anything that has flashcards is MUCH better
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I'd really like to see a PDA with Quickwriting from Ken Perlin.
Check the Java demo of how it works here.
Also, check this picture of an addon to Palm VII!
Damn cool!
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This new 'graffiti' from NYU is done by Ken Perlin (fron Perlin Noise fame) and it's absolutely fabulous. It's called Quikqriting. Can't wait to use it. Check it here: http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/perlin/ demos/quikwriting.html
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Well... the specs certainly look impressive and the feature list is many times better than that of Palm. This will definetely give Palm run for its money.
However... "Handwriting Recognition" really worries me. I used it in Apple's Newton and was not impressed at all with it. I don't think MS' HW recognition works any better (I haven't tried it yet though but I draw this from my experiences with lots of HW Recognition packages). Graffiti will be more reliable at the long run since it is very easily recognizable by the software and mismatch rate (i.e. recognizing 8 when you wrote B) is extremely low.
Also, what is the stability of this new MS operating system (which is nothing but new WinCE)? If it crashes a lot... forget it. I prefer having less but more stable set of features.
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Imagine if it could make a double espresso AND browse the web at the same time. Now that'd be perfect PC for caffeine addicts like me.
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Why doesn't /. take some of it's own advice and burn some of it's GIFs? ;)
g if f g if
GIFs from the front page:
http://images.slashdot.org/title.gif
http://images.slashdot.org/greendot.gif
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicmozilla.
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topichumor.gi
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicprivacy.
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicbe.gif
etc...
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... at least some @home mail servers.. my mail goes through 24.2.9.40 relay and it gets bounced from a ton of sites that use ORBS. Anyone else's @home e-mail got bounced so far?
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If anyone has seen Mendel Rosenblum's (main guy behind VMWare and also a Stanford grad) Stanford lecture on VMWare you'd have to agree that he acted little like a scrouge. He wouldn't even answer some simple questions by saying: "Ooooo... I can't tell you that... we spent a lot of time thinking about that and I don't wanna give it away" etc...
In any case... FreeMWare (now Plex86) will rock.. I tried some dev code and it's a great start. Give it another 6-8 months and it'll be competitive with VMWare.
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Go check it here: http://helixcode.com/desktop/faq.php3
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I know very well what XFCom means. I did say: The driver is also present in lastest XFree as well .. Since I didn't know off hand what version of XFree did it appear I said *I think it appears in the lates one*. XFree is always opensource. I also didn't ask any questions :)
Cheers,
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ATi has _the_ best integrated DVD decoding of any multifunction card on the market right now. I own an ATi 128 All-in-Wonder card and its a very good card for my Linux machine. It is lacking an opensource driver but the binary one from SuSE works great. (http://www.suse.de/en/support/xsuse/). The driver is also present in lastest XFree as well (I think it's also opensourced).
The only other thing you need to make your ATi complete is the TV.... get gatos (General ATI TV and Overlay Software ATI-TV) at http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~ins omnia/gatos/
With this SDK we'll be able to combine all these features + DVD into one driver.
Awesome! I only wish other comps. did this... (*cough* nVidia *cough*)
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They never said which version they'll opensource! Imagine if its Windows 1.1 or Windows 3.1 :) hehehe
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... is so soft on a sitting president. Never in history have journalists been so complementary of the prez. Almost like the editor expects positive stories about Clinton and censors bad ones. Just look what happened to Paul Sperry (journalist who asked Clinton about that China scandal) -- he was banned from Whitehouse for even asking something like that. Ludicrous!
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About time he got heckled a bit...
BTW: Sperry was hired by the last bastillion of the (big corporate)free press: WorldNetDaily. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/20000
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I was under an impression that spooks did this ;) They are the only ones who will profit from this (security companies as well).
There's no way that "script kiddies" did this.
This reminds me of the virii... who makes them? Anti virii companies of course =)
nick
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I agree with your assesment however... 65K of these bugs? There's gotta be some that are not cosmetic in nature. What does MS have to say about those?
;)
Maybe they are "features and NOT bugs!"
nick
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The network of silicon filaments should be very flexible and move wherever air moves. So if air can get through a crack as a draught, the ball should be able to squeeze through, and then rearrange itself on the other side.
Does this remind you of that liquid robot (T1000) from Terminator 2? heheh
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