Oh, I was aware LDs are analog. However, you addressed two points I was wondering about (AC3, capture device) so that is really helpful input. When I get started to convert all my stuff I will let you know!
Speaking of Max Headroom, I have the really splendid British pilot episode of this series on LaserDisk. Does anyone have experience with transfering this stuff to digital? And I mean better than just connecting it to Video-In...
Microsoft and Apple go back a loooong way. I can remember Excel 1.0, on two 400k Floppies for a FatMac (Macintosh 512k). There was nothing like it for the PC, hell, there was not even windows.
has anyone here received spam with a "remove" link that actually did anything but attract more spam?
Actually, me.
I received quite a bunch of stuff from one particular re-mailer, and - how much worse could it get? - followed the instructions given for removal. At least in the last four weeks no more mail from that site. When I am home I will gladly post the URL in a follow-up.
"He thought the characters had come out of the game and were chasing him," Parker said. "He was running through his neighborhood having hallucinations. I can't think of a drug he could have taken where he would have disintegrated in 15 weeks."
Puh-leaze... who of you fellow first-person gamers did NOT suspect an alien/terrorist/nazi/etc. behind that dark corner one day or the other? Similar to what was said in the post I am replying to, I think this is because such games build (besides high-tech 3d cards) on the human imagination. Sorry to the mother, but while I admit any game can be addictive, this goes too far.
Indeed, the empty space is a nice place to hide things, but just one among very many, and obviously not specific to Linux.
There is a wide variety of unused space on file systems in general, and media files for music, images and the like make a perfect hiding spot. Or am I missing something here about the importance of this issue?
I saw the "Forbidden Love" trailer in a cinema with my little sister (21 yrs)... She wondered who was to be attracted by this: "Boys surely don't go for that love story stuff. Maybe its for girls. Well, not for me, but possibly others"
That is a very good point. The spam is not spam for its own sake, it tries to promote something. And if that "something" (site, phonenumber, P.O.Box etc) is in the US, the chances might be substantial.
McWhortle is actually listed in an SEC Press Release, so it's not only slashdotters... Where are the other sites though?
Alex
Human Interface Design
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Electronic Paper
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Do you ever get the feeling that electronic paper is going to be just around the corner for a long, long time?
I have the feeling that the development will be around for a long, long time. Real paper has evolved now for more than 2,000 years (correct me if I'm wrong), electronic paper will have some catching up to do. Granted, today things develop faster, but the overall user interface of books and paper is pretty witty.
Alex
I can see the "Flamebait" rating...
"Indeed it is America's(emphasis added) different way of thinking about freedom that ensure... but without freedom of speech they cannot achieve that"
Don't get me wrong: I am an real anglophile, I loved to live in the US, and I would like to live there again. But exactly this "it is AMERICA that keeps the world going, and the rest of the world has to follow OUR ways to live in happyness" that drives me up the wall. I doubt that the US is paradise on earth, and there surely are some quirks in American society. And are things like slander really OK in the US? Are there NO laws infringing my right to say WHATEVER I want. Again, I think the way the local authorities acted in this case is plain wrong, but please, I refuse to simply follow the American way of live just because.
Maybe this is an askslashdot thing, but: "How do I make sure my domain belongs to me?"
And if it does, how do I claim it if it was unjustly taken away, but I guess that is exactly the question we are debating here.
Maybe some/.ers would be interested, that while of course the "Return to Wolfenstein" storyline is fictional, there is a grain of truth to it.
Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuehrer SS, was drawn to - if not obsessed with - the mystical and supernatural. While I would have to research this thesis, Himmler may really have believed (Sorry, German) to be an incarnation of Herny the Lion (1133-1189). A fact is, that H. wanted to turn the SS into a quasi religious order, based on germanic mythology.
Maybe the most interesting piece here, is that H. installed the "H-Sonderkommando" (German), which was a well funded research project on witch hunts. Himmler viewed the witch hunts as a kind of early modern holocaust inflicted upon the Germanic race... At the same time, researchers say, Himmler was hoping to find among the old records "the remains of the heathen, Old Germanic folk culture that one assumed was meant to be wiped out along with the witches." ( Der Spiegel (English) To find out more about the guys you're shooting in Wolfenstein, read Himmler's Pozen speech.
The point about Mt. Rainier is that it move defect management and other things into the hardware, rather than having software handle it. It essentially turns the CD-RW into a kind of harddisk, which also does its own defect mgmt.
OK, Mount Rainier is a hardware command specification, not a file format. Mt. Rainier is geared towards the UDF file format, but other file formats could be used. The key point was, that Mt. Rainier would allow the OS to see a MR CD-RW as a block-addressable (rather than a packet-addressable) device. An OS can just write a file system onto a MR CD-RW on the dics without having to worry about packet sizes or bad-block mapping.
The big point here really is: This would have created a lucrative business for Mount Rainier licensees in selling preformatted MR media
So in any case, any OS could have operated on MT CD-RW (as far as I understood that), but it was the formatting that was blocked.
Not to offend anyone...
Programs which try to help those who have "fallen" to get up on their feet again have been around for quite some time, in various areas and countries. Some organized by gouvernments, some by charities. What is the point exactly, that now people are learning the (excuse me, but questionable) qualification of WebDesigner?
I sincerely hope that it's not that slashdot readers are only aware of social issues when they become "geek-compatible".
Blaming the messenger has been the weapon of choice for a number of people and institutions. I would like to throw in the following story about the German Newsmagazin Der Spiegel:
"The SPIEGEL affair of 1962 remains unforgotten. The arrest of the publisher, the business director and several reporters as well as the occupation of the SPIEGEL offices over a period of several weeks set off a storm of indignation in the German public. The government declaration that the cover story "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ('limited defense readiness') about the NATO maneuver "Fallex" constituted treason proved to be unfounded. All of the imprisoned were released. Then Minister of Defense Franz Josef Straua, deeply involved in the affair, finally had to resign and the Adenauer era drew to an end."
Here, the German gouverment simply declared an article on the state of the forces "high treason". A wonderful quote...
Adenauer (head of gouvernment) "High Treason has been committed here"
Someone from the audience "Who says so?"
Adenauer "I say so!"
I am waiting for Microsoft to say something similar...
I work for a non-open source company. We want money for every piece of software we sell.
Many moons ago, we used to copy protect our software in the most sophisticated way. Guess what? It was a lot of work and did not really help, thus we abandoned it.
I think we sell good software at reasonable prices, and we are making good revenues. The software industry knows for years that there is piracy, and most of us learned to live with it one way or the other.
Excuse me, but the music labels do not get it...
A dark cellar, somewhere in the world. One man - 1 - is examining goods in the cellar. A second man - 2 - enters... 2: FREEZE, thief! What mischief are you up to?
1: No mischief, Sir. My biclycle was stolen yesterday, and I am just looking to see if it is in your cellar.
2: You smashed a window to do this!
1: I had reasonable cause. I saw bicycles in your cellar, and you, Sir, look pretty thieverish yourself...
Coming to think of it, I want this law to be passed. The nights would be exiting again!
Polaroid still serves some purpose that only polaroid technologies can address
The chemical process in polaroids enabled some interesting art projects, too.
For an example of the technique can be found at Pola-Art. Unfortunately it's in German, but you will surely find the pictures.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, I was aware LDs are analog. However, you addressed two points I was wondering about (AC3, capture device) so that is really helpful input. When I get started to convert all my stuff I will let you know!
Alex
Speaking of Max Headroom, I have the really splendid British pilot episode of this series on LaserDisk. Does anyone have experience with transfering this stuff to digital? And I mean better than just connecting it to Video-In...
Alex
Microsoft and Apple go back a loooong way. I can remember Excel 1.0, on two 400k Floppies for a FatMac (Macintosh 512k). There was nothing like it for the PC, hell, there was not even windows.
Just my 0.02
Alex
has anyone here received spam with a "remove" link that actually did anything but attract more spam?
Actually, me.
I received quite a bunch of stuff from one particular re-mailer, and - how much worse could it get? - followed the instructions given for removal. At least in the last four weeks no more mail from that site. When I am home I will gladly post the URL in a follow-up.
So, anyone else?
Alex
"all that's happening is they're getting /.ed by a bunch of people at work not working."
Oops, I almost collapsed laughing. Back to work, I should say...
Alex
There is more:
"He thought the characters had come out of the game and were chasing him," Parker said. "He was running through his neighborhood having hallucinations. I can't think of a drug he could have taken where he would have disintegrated in 15 weeks."
Puh-leaze... who of you fellow first-person gamers did NOT suspect an alien/terrorist/nazi/etc. behind that dark corner one day or the other? Similar to what was said in the post I am replying to, I think this is because such games build (besides high-tech 3d cards) on the human imagination. Sorry to the mother, but while I admit any game can be addictive, this goes too far.
Alex
Let's be honest here: QuickTime Pro ($19.95 or something) has full-screen, where it comes free with WinMedia (AFAICR).
Alex
I try to keep out of these "Slashdot is evil" frenzies, but must agree this newsitem was not up to what used to be put on the frontpage.
O tempora, O mores
Alex
Good point.
Indeed, the empty space is a nice place to hide things, but just one among very many, and obviously not specific to Linux.
There is a wide variety of unused space on file systems in general, and media files for music, images and the like make a perfect hiding spot. Or am I missing something here about the importance of this issue?
Alex
I saw the "Forbidden Love" trailer in a cinema with my little sister (21 yrs)... She wondered who was to be attracted by this: "Boys surely don't go for that love story stuff. Maybe its for girls. Well, not for me, but possibly others"
To me, that pretty much sums it up...
Alex
That is a very good point. The spam is not spam for its own sake, it tries to promote something. And if that "something" (site, phonenumber, P.O.Box etc) is in the US, the chances might be substantial.
Just my 0.02
Alex
McWhortle is actually listed in an SEC Press Release, so it's not only slashdotters... Where are the other sites though? Alex
Do you ever get the feeling that electronic paper is going to be just around the corner for a long, long time?
I have the feeling that the development will be around for a long, long time. Real paper has evolved now for more than 2,000 years (correct me if I'm wrong), electronic paper will have some catching up to do. Granted, today things develop faster, but the overall user interface of books and paper is pretty witty. Alex
I can see the "Flamebait" rating...
"Indeed it is America's(emphasis added) different way of thinking about freedom that ensure... but without freedom of speech they cannot achieve that"
Don't get me wrong: I am an real anglophile, I loved to live in the US, and I would like to live there again. But exactly this "it is AMERICA that keeps the world going, and the rest of the world has to follow OUR ways to live in happyness" that drives me up the wall. I doubt that the US is paradise on earth, and there surely are some quirks in American society. And are things like slander really OK in the US? Are there NO laws infringing my right to say WHATEVER I want. Again, I think the way the local authorities acted in this case is plain wrong, but please, I refuse to simply follow the American way of live just because.
Alex
Maybe this is an askslashdot thing, but: "How do I make sure my domain belongs to me?"
And if it does, how do I claim it if it was unjustly taken away, but I guess that is exactly the question we are debating here.
Strange World
Alex
That would have been my question: Why "used to own", what happened?
Alex
Maybe some /.ers would be interested, that while of course the "Return to Wolfenstein" storyline is fictional, there is a grain of truth to it.
... At the same time, researchers say, Himmler was hoping to find among the old records "the remains of the heathen, Old Germanic folk culture that one assumed was meant to be wiped out along with the witches." ( Der Spiegel (English)
Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuehrer SS, was drawn to - if not obsessed with - the mystical and supernatural. While I would have to research this thesis, Himmler may really have believed (Sorry, German) to be an incarnation of Herny the Lion (1133-1189). A fact is, that H. wanted to turn the SS into a quasi religious order, based on germanic mythology.
Maybe the most interesting piece here, is that H. installed the "H-Sonderkommando" (German), which was a well funded research project on witch hunts. Himmler viewed the witch hunts as a kind of early modern holocaust inflicted upon the Germanic race
To find out more about the guys you're shooting in Wolfenstein, read Himmler's Pozen speech.
Apart from this, happy gaming
Alex
The point about Mt. Rainier is that it move defect management and other things into the hardware, rather than having software handle it. It essentially turns the CD-RW into a kind of harddisk, which also does its own defect mgmt.
Alex
OK, Mount Rainier is a hardware command specification, not a file format. Mt. Rainier is geared towards the UDF file format, but other file formats could be used. The key point was, that Mt. Rainier would allow the OS to see a MR CD-RW as a block-addressable (rather than a packet-addressable) device. An OS can just write a file system onto a MR CD-RW on the dics without having to worry about packet sizes or bad-block mapping.
The big point here really is: This would have created a lucrative business for Mount Rainier licensees in selling preformatted MR media
So in any case, any OS could have operated on MT CD-RW (as far as I understood that), but it was the formatting that was blocked.
Hope that helps,
Alex
Not to offend anyone...
Programs which try to help those who have "fallen" to get up on their feet again have been around for quite some time, in various areas and countries. Some organized by gouvernments, some by charities. What is the point exactly, that now people are learning the (excuse me, but questionable) qualification of WebDesigner?
I sincerely hope that it's not that slashdot readers are only aware of social issues when they become "geek-compatible".
Just my weird mind speaking,
Alex
Blaming the messenger has been the weapon of choice for a number of people and institutions. I would like to throw in the following story about the German Newsmagazin Der Spiegel:
"The SPIEGEL affair of 1962 remains unforgotten. The arrest of the publisher, the business director and several reporters as well as the occupation of the SPIEGEL offices over a period of several weeks set off a storm of indignation in the German public. The government declaration that the cover story "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ('limited defense readiness') about the NATO maneuver "Fallex" constituted treason proved to be unfounded. All of the imprisoned were released. Then Minister of Defense Franz Josef Straua, deeply involved in the affair, finally had to resign and the Adenauer era drew to an end."
Here, the German gouverment simply declared an article on the state of the forces "high treason". A wonderful quote...
Adenauer (head of gouvernment) "High Treason has been committed here"
Someone from the audience "Who says so?"
Adenauer "I say so!"
I am waiting for Microsoft to say something similar...
Alex
I work for a non-open source company. We want money for every piece of software we sell.
Many moons ago, we used to copy protect our software in the most sophisticated way. Guess what? It was a lot of work and did not really help, thus we abandoned it.
I think we sell good software at reasonable prices, and we are making good revenues. The software industry knows for years that there is piracy, and most of us learned to live with it one way or the other.
Excuse me, but the music labels do not get it...
Alex
Excuse me, I must be halluzinating...
...
A dark cellar, somewhere in the world. One man - 1 - is examining goods in the cellar. A second man - 2 - enters...
2: FREEZE, thief! What mischief are you up to?
1: No mischief, Sir. My biclycle was stolen yesterday, and I am just looking to see if it is in your cellar.
2: You smashed a window to do this!
1: I had reasonable cause. I saw bicycles in your cellar, and you, Sir, look pretty thieverish yourself
Coming to think of it, I want this law to be passed. The nights would be exiting again!
Alex
Is the interview on BBSpot for real or was that a BBSpot spoof?
Alex
Polaroid still serves some purpose that only polaroid technologies can address
The chemical process in polaroids enabled some interesting art projects, too.
For an example of the technique can be found at Pola-Art. Unfortunately it's in German, but you will surely find the pictures.
Alex