What about the many, many movies that never actually get released where I live (likely 20% or more never get released here, as a way of "protecting" the domestic movie producing market here)? Oh, I get it, you want me to wait until they are released on DVD and have me import them, right? Too bad about region encoding, apparently I am a "thief" for wanting to buy & watch DVD's in a different region.
I am happy to pay for content, but don't make it impossible to do so and I'll stop circumventing. Hell, the money I pay for a VPN could go to the content provider instead.
GPS-based navigation? Hell, my girlfriend bought a Car Navi for her car (here in Japan); the map software revision is less than a year old. Yet, roads are changed and added so often, that the map shows us driving in places where we really have no business being (like, in the middle of parks, empty lots, driving through large buildings, etc). Also, her car is rather large (station wagon), and some streets in Tokyo are incredibly narrow. Yet the Navi has on many occasion led us into really snaky narrow "streets" with 90 degree turns and no place to go -- resulting in white knuckle backing up from where we just came from.:p Perhaps if maps would generated in real time by satellites or something this might work, but as it stands I wouldn't feel very comfortable relying on GPS-based navigation.;-)
I'm sure many minis and possibly fewer mainframes are sitting in storage and waiting for a trip to the dump. The companies waiting to dispose of these monsters would probably love for you to haul it away, rather than them discarding it and having to pay the tipping fees.
I could have gotten my hands on an old MicroVAX in this manner, but when I figured out the performance (or lack thereof) I would be getting, the lack of any real support resources when/if the thing broke, and most importantly -- the estimated electricity usage -- I smiled and declined.
Jesus Christ, a TROLL!?!?!? I posted my honest opinion of the SLC-760 after evaluating it seriously for several weeks, and slashbots mod me down.
Well fine. I hope you don't mind when you buy one, try to use it in the park, and find the battery life is only 90 minutes. Or try and load Slashdot and have it run out of memory.
> Hopefully we are going to see a zillion things running on the machine that Microsoft would only have dreamt of making (and selling)."
I hope so too, but I thought the same thing when I picked up my Sony PS2 Linux kit. Not too many useful projects have come out of THAT yet. (All I really wanted was the ability to play mpeg video on my TV at a decent speed...but SDL hasn't been optimized yet, so that's not yet possible.)
That urge can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers...but we're not going to kill...today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill...today!
I was under the (mistaken?) impression that the ATI drivers were released as open source? If so, wouldn't it make sense to produce a 3rd party patch against them to remove the check rather than get into flashing the bios on the card itself?
Unfortunately, all it takes is for one of your clueless yet well-meaning friends or relatives to send you a virtual greeting card from a disreputable site -- and then the spam begins.
There are lots of good options here now. Any number of cheap DSL (8 and 12Mb/s) providers, 56/128 Kb/s ISDN, 100 Mb/s fibre, 10 Mb/s wireless, and cellular network (56 Kb/s?). Most of this stuff is around 3000 to 4000 yen ($25-$35 USD) a month, flat rate.
Just incredible to think what I am getting now, when just 3 years ago I was averaging the equivalent of $250 to $300 USD a month for my dialup (local phone calls are tolled).
Something to be said for a high density population and competition.:-D
Why so many terminals? I use dozens of terminals at once myself, but only 3 are on my CRT at any time. (Hint: "screen")
The best thing about "screen" is, I can detach my sessions and reconnect to them exactly where I left off, from any other terminal in the world (any class of device, too).
That so-called "wireless adapter with external antenna" is actually a device to connect you via a cellular telephone service. Ie. take your hot chick to a hot spring in Hakone while you are technically on-call from work and can access your servers from anywhere in Japan.
Top ten ways Linux (and OSS) hackers can adapt to this keyboard:
10. Cut down on those Starbucks Venti Moccha Frappucinos 9. Make like a yakuza and chop-chop-chop your way to smaller fingers 8. Develop appropriate mouse-gestures for your favorite language keywords 7. Finger train to slim fingers with other than hjkl keys 6. Stop hacking with this keyboard. You're violating the DMCA anyway 5. Keyboard? Who needs a @#$(*& keyboard...it's an Apache server! 4. Don't buy it. Sony's the enemy this month. Er, I think. 3.... Profit!! 2. Ssh in from your desktop via your XBox Linux via your Sony PS2 Linux box
and the number one way Linux (and OSS) hackers can adapt to this keyboard: 1. Take your fat ass out for a walk instead of that debugging session
I have been reading the past 50 some odd comments, and I find it odd that nobody has asked the question: "How the _HELL_ did Italian authorities get the jurisdiction to put up a block on a site located in the U.S.?"
The fact that the material was offensive, or even illegal _in Italy_ should be immaterial. The real issue is how this censorship could have even taken place, and anybody who runs a web site should have their cackles up over this issue.
This is pretty cool, although I can think of a number of other things I would prefer to use the minimum $80,000 bid on.
I wonder about that stain on the base. Looks like coffee. It would be interesting if that was the result of an accident (on set, or after the chair was given to the collector), or was caused by Captain Kirk holding a drink which was dropped due to an incoming photon torpedo.:^D
Well sue me for not having had the time (YET) to update it. I do have a pre-release of the next version. Now I'll need to update it to 7.3, but one of these days...
It's considered bad form to complain about volunteer efforts, btw. Maybe if you pay me the salary I am earning at my full-time job I could quit it and devote more time on things like LAME.
By the way, a newbie guide written for Red Hat is considered "Off topic"? What moderator and what drug?
This will undoubtedly get modded down as a troll (KDE vs. GNOME, blah blah blah) but I wish the KDE developers would take a look at what Ximian has done with Red Carpet as far as installation and upgrading packages go. There really is nothing easier than getting GNOME installed and keeping it up to date than with Red Carpet (which also has a nice feature of including non-GNOME "channels" such as Red Hat, Evolution, etc., to keep a variety of software up to date).
I know that installation code is the least sexy piece of code to be working on, but the end result is definitely worth the pain involved.
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What about the many, many movies that never actually get released where I live (likely 20% or more never get released here, as a way of "protecting" the domestic movie producing market here)? Oh, I get it, you want me to wait until they are released on DVD and have me import them, right? Too bad about region encoding, apparently I am a "thief" for wanting to buy & watch DVD's in a different region.
I am happy to pay for content, but don't make it impossible to do so and I'll stop circumventing. Hell, the money I pay for a VPN could go to the content provider instead.
Huh? Discovery? I thought it was, "The EAGLE has landed"...
GPS-based navigation? Hell, my girlfriend bought a Car Navi for her car (here in Japan); the map software revision is less than a year old. Yet, roads are changed and added so often, that the map shows us driving in places where we really have no business being (like, in the middle of parks, empty lots, driving through large buildings, etc). Also, her car is rather large (station wagon), and some streets in Tokyo are incredibly narrow. Yet the Navi has on many occasion led us into really snaky narrow "streets" with 90 degree turns and no place to go -- resulting in white knuckle backing up from where we just came from. :p Perhaps if maps would generated in real time by satellites or something this might work, but as it stands I wouldn't feel very comfortable relying on GPS-based navigation. ;-)
I'm sure many minis and possibly fewer mainframes are sitting in storage and waiting for a trip to the dump. The companies waiting to dispose of these monsters would probably love for you to haul it away, rather than them discarding it and having to pay the tipping fees.
:)
I could have gotten my hands on an old MicroVAX in this manner, but when I figured out the performance (or lack thereof) I would be getting, the lack of any real support resources when/if the thing broke, and most importantly -- the estimated electricity usage -- I smiled and declined.
It _would_ have been cool, though.
Jesus Christ, a TROLL!?!?!? I posted my honest opinion of the SLC-760 after evaluating it seriously for several weeks, and slashbots mod me down.
Well fine. I hope you don't mind when you buy one, try to use it in the park, and find the battery life is only 90 minutes. Or try and load Slashdot and have it run out of memory.
> Hopefully we are going to see a zillion things running on the machine that Microsoft would only have dreamt of making (and selling)."
I hope so too, but I thought the same thing when I picked up my Sony PS2 Linux kit. Not too many useful projects have come out of THAT yet. (All I really wanted was the ability to play mpeg video on my TV at a decent speed...but SDL hasn't been optimized yet, so that's not yet possible.)
Er, I take it you haven't seen that particular episode of Star Trek. :p
That urge can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers...but we're not going to kill...today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill...today!
I was under the (mistaken?) impression that the ATI drivers were released as open source? If so, wouldn't it make sense to produce a 3rd party patch against them to remove the check rather than get into flashing the bios on the card itself?
Say what? Have you been in Japan _recently_? Unless you're in "Bumfuck Inaka" there are still broadband options for you.
Unfortunately, all it takes is for one of your clueless yet well-meaning friends or relatives to send you a virtual greeting card from a disreputable site -- and then the spam begins.
There are lots of good options here now. Any number of cheap DSL (8 and 12Mb/s) providers, 56/128 Kb/s ISDN, 100 Mb/s fibre, 10 Mb/s wireless, and cellular network (56 Kb/s?). Most of this stuff is around 3000 to 4000 yen ($25-$35 USD) a month, flat rate.
:-D
Just incredible to think what I am getting now, when just 3 years ago I was averaging the equivalent of $250 to $300 USD a month for my dialup (local phone calls are tolled).
Something to be said for a high density population and competition.
Huh? I'm on 12 Mb/s ADSL here in Tokyo. And it's reliable, unlimited, and cheap (3000 yen a month ... what's that, $25 USD?)
;-)
Things have changed here in the last couple of years.
Why so many terminals? I use dozens of terminals at once myself, but only 3 are on my CRT at any time. (Hint: "screen")
The best thing about "screen" is, I can detach my sessions and reconnect to them exactly where I left off, from any other terminal in the world (any class of device, too).
That so-called "wireless adapter with external antenna" is actually a device to connect you via a cellular telephone service. Ie. take your hot chick to a hot spring in Hakone while you are technically on-call from work and can access your servers from anywhere in Japan.
Top ten ways Linux (and OSS) hackers can adapt to this keyboard:
... Profit!!
10. Cut down on those Starbucks Venti Moccha Frappucinos
9. Make like a yakuza and chop-chop-chop your way to smaller fingers
8. Develop appropriate mouse-gestures for your favorite language keywords
7. Finger train to slim fingers with other than hjkl keys
6. Stop hacking with this keyboard. You're violating the DMCA anyway
5. Keyboard? Who needs a @#$(*& keyboard...it's an Apache server!
4. Don't buy it. Sony's the enemy this month. Er, I think.
3.
2. Ssh in from your desktop via your XBox Linux via your Sony PS2 Linux box
and the number one way Linux (and OSS) hackers can adapt to this keyboard:
1. Take your fat ass out for a walk instead of that debugging session
I have been reading the past 50 some odd comments, and I find it odd that nobody has asked the question: "How the _HELL_ did Italian authorities get the jurisdiction to put up a block on a site located in the U.S.?"
The fact that the material was offensive, or even illegal _in Italy_ should be immaterial. The real issue is how this censorship could have even taken place, and anybody who runs a web site should have their cackles up over this issue.
This is pretty cool, although I can think of a number of other things I would prefer to use the minimum $80,000 bid on.
:^D
I wonder about that stain on the base. Looks like coffee. It would be interesting if that was the result of an accident (on set, or after the chair was given to the collector), or was caused by Captain Kirk holding a drink which was dropped due to an incoming photon torpedo.
If my web hoster provided PostgreSQL, that would be my DB of choice. But they don't, so it's MySQL. :(
http://codingstyle.com/interviews/sonyps2-20020522 . tml is a static page of the interview.
Hopefully the site itself stays up. ;-)
Heh...it's being Slashdotted alright. :-)
I put a static page up: http://codingstyle.com/interviews/sonyps2-20020522 . tml
Sorry about that. :^)
Well sue me for not having had the time (YET) to update it. I do have a pre-release of the next version. Now I'll need to update it to 7.3, but one of these days...
It's considered bad form to complain about volunteer efforts, btw. Maybe if you pay me the salary I am earning at my full-time job I could quit it and devote more time on things like LAME.
By the way, a newbie guide written for Red Hat is considered "Off topic"? What moderator and what drug?
Just great, now my LAME Guide is even _MORE_ out of date. ;^)
Good point. I noticed this just yesterday, when packing up my box for the RMA trip. :-)
I hope it works better than the PS/2 Linux kit I just got and have to RMA back to Sony. ;-)
My tongue-in-cheek experiences are available her for your reading enjoyment.
This will undoubtedly get modded down as a troll (KDE vs. GNOME, blah blah blah) but I wish the KDE developers would take a look at what Ximian has done with Red Carpet as far as installation and upgrading packages go. There really is nothing easier than getting GNOME installed and keeping it up to date than with Red Carpet (which also has a nice feature of including non-GNOME "channels" such as Red Hat, Evolution, etc., to keep a variety of software up to date).
I know that installation code is the least sexy piece of code to be working on, but the end result is definitely worth the pain involved.