IANALNDIPOOTV, but I have a feeling MTV could sue these people for "misrepresentation" or something like that. If this story gets beyond slashdot and out into popular media, I don't think MTV is going to be able to ignore the issue. I see two possible responses from MTV:
If you are doing anything useful, they don't show you anything fancy on the screen. Despite what people say, the number one use of computers is still pushing around text. We don't have fancy 3d oses because there's no real need for one. How many of you program with just a bunch of xterms?
And cracking is another area that is even more internal to the computer, and has nothing to do with what's on-screen.
I've decided that computers will _never_ be portrayed correctly in movies, simply because people can't bear to think that most people still use _windows_, or worse yet some other WIMP interface like CDE. People see movies for something cool and fantastic, not what they see all day every day.
And what about _Sneakers_? They used a minimum of macs and flashy graphics and made cracking look cool!
This is the TV I have at home. It has three modes:
1. 4:3 compatibility. Uses gray bars to cover the sides of the screen so you can watch tv just fine
2. 4:3 zoom. For letterboxed movies and non-anamorphic (or "16x9 enhanced") dvds. Zooms the 4:3 picture, losing the top and bottom edges somewhat. For letterboxed stuff, this is only the black bars
3. TRUE 16x9, or 720x480, as opposed to 4:3's 640x480. Only DVDs support this, but man it looks beeeeeeautiful!
The best way to impress your friends is to just build a random program. All you typed was "make", but they think you actually have to pay attention to all the gobbledy-gook on the screen.
For twice the fun, open two xterms and compile two things at once!
The last thing we need is another show that perpetuates the stereotype of computer users (who do call themselves 'hackers') as lowlifes with nothing better to do than break into banks. The actual definition of 'hacker' is someone who enjoys using their computer, and enjoys programming ('hacking') computer code. A person who breaks into computer systems is called a 'cracker.' The difference is quite significant.
Examples: "I hacked out 1000 lines of code yesterday" "I took the source code to this program and hacked in a new feature"
versus:
"I dare you to crack into this PC" "A bunch of lowlifes said they had cracked into a satellite."
By putting on this show you merely show how out of touch MTV really is with the segment of the population they claim to be portraying.
I think the biggest lesson we have learned from Mozilla is that it is very hard to write a large Applications from scratch with the OSS model. Most of the big OSS projects that exist now (Linux, The Gimp, GNOME) start with a few dedicated souls churning out 90% of the code, until there is a useable foundation for others to build on. For instance, the reason there is no free word processor yet is people have written little pieces of them, but not a real, useable, 50% featured application. Once that happens, the community will add its little patches.
OSS projects grow with little patches, but they can't start out that way.
Perhaps, but while the deficiancies of Windows are well-documented, the evidence that QWERTY is deficiant is less scientific and less definite. If someone produces a study that proves that DVORAK is _significantly_ faster or more accurate than QWERTY, maybe then it will be time to reconsider
There was an article very very recently on just this subject. Basically, the tests that proved that the Dvorak system was superior were performed by Mindcraft, or if not them, Dvorak himself. Also, it's been discovered that the alternate-hand version of typing is actually very speedy. While one finger is whacking one key, the other is moving into position. Conclusion: just stick with QWERTY. It works, everyone uses it, and it's a headache to learn a new system for a mere 4 WPM gain. The reason your friend showed such improvement is probably because he learned to type correctly on that system, instead of a bastardized typing scheme that many people learn on their own. For instance, I hit the y key with my left hand as opposed to my right, and I don't use my right pinky except to use the shift key. If I learned DVORAK, I would learn it correctly, and gain some speed.
Anyone who thinks they can get decent video editing quality on this machine is kidding themselves. For base-level quality, MJPEG requires 80kb/ FRAME. That's 2.5 megs a second (sustained, not that bullshit 40 mb/s that people quote, which is burst rate), and 25 megs for a ten second clip. Wanna edit a 20 minute movie? That's 3 gigabytes of data that you need to throw around at will. And remember, the amount of source material is always much more than the final length.
I think the point is that a redhat doesn't know if there _are_ updates, unless (a) they look, or (b) they have autorpm, a tool I'd never heard of. Windows 98's autoupdate feature is actually very useful and helpful to keep users up to date. Is there a friendly GNOME tool that checks for updates? Does gnorpm do that?
That's the version 5 player, which doesn't play 80% of today's real content, which uses the G2 method. I'm going to use the G2 player by changing the date for now:P
It's a side-effect of using microsoft software to write the text. If he used notepad or linux, they wouldn't show up. I've gotten to the point where I don't even notice ?'s any more, because so many pages have them.
He seems to toss aside the possibility of Linux taking on office desktops. Why? The graphical environments are much farther along than he gives credit, and products like Applixware, Star Office, and soon Corel Office Suite will give users real choice for office software.
Yes, linux will be present in embedded or low cost machines (empeg car) and your local mom 'n' pop ISP, but there's no good reason it can't take over at the office.
Actually, I'm about to attempt this soon (tomorrow), with two ISA ne2000s. My only fear is, how will I know which card is eth0 and which is eth1? I plan to install one, get it working, and then the other, but how does linux decide which is which? This only applies to ISAPnP, naturally, because with specified info I can just say:
alias eth0 ne2000 [card0 info] alias eth1 ne2000 [card1 info]
Luckily these cards come with dos utils (boot to floppy, run utils...) so I can fall back on specified vals, but I would prefer to figure out the PnP solution.
Is this why a lot of sites, slashdot included, are really really slow right now? I'm on New England's Mediaone. I'm not clear as to what this outage affects.
Slashdot Mirror
IANALNDIPOOTV, but I have a feeling MTV could sue these people for "misrepresentation" or something like that. If this story gets beyond slashdot and out into popular media, I don't think MTV is going to be able to ignore the issue. I see two possible responses from MTV:
1) Ignore the problem, shrug it off
2) Sue.
If you are doing anything useful, they don't show you anything fancy on the screen. Despite what people say, the number one use of computers is still pushing around text. We don't have fancy 3d oses because there's no real need for one. How many of you program with just a bunch of xterms?
And cracking is another area that is even more internal to the computer, and has nothing to do with what's on-screen.
I've decided that computers will _never_ be portrayed correctly in movies, simply because people can't bear to think that most people still use _windows_, or worse yet some other WIMP interface like CDE. People see movies for something cool and fantastic, not what they see all day every day.
And what about _Sneakers_? They used a minimum of macs and flashy graphics and made cracking look cool!
This is the TV I have at home. It has three modes:
1. 4:3 compatibility. Uses gray bars to cover the sides of the screen so you can watch tv just fine
2. 4:3 zoom. For letterboxed movies and non-anamorphic (or "16x9 enhanced") dvds. Zooms the 4:3 picture, losing the top and bottom edges somewhat. For letterboxed stuff, this is only the black bars
3. TRUE 16x9, or 720x480, as opposed to 4:3's 640x480. Only DVDs support this, but man it looks beeeeeeautiful!
This is a great TV!
The best way to impress your friends is to just build a random program. All you typed was "make", but they think you actually have to pay attention to all the gobbledy-gook on the screen.
For twice the fun, open two xterms and compile two things at once!
The last thing we need is another show that perpetuates the stereotype of computer users (who do call themselves 'hackers') as lowlifes with nothing better to do than break into banks. The actual definition of 'hacker' is someone who enjoys using their computer, and enjoys programming ('hacking') computer code. A person who breaks into computer systems is called a 'cracker.' The difference is quite significant.
Examples:
"I hacked out 1000 lines of code yesterday"
"I took the source code to this program and hacked in a new feature"
versus:
"I dare you to crack into this PC"
"A bunch of lowlifes said they had cracked into a satellite."
By putting on this show you merely show how out of touch MTV really is with the segment of the population they claim to be portraying.
Owen Williams
I'm at Madison. Which prof is this?
I think the biggest lesson we have learned from Mozilla is that it is very hard to write a large Applications from scratch with the OSS model. Most of the big OSS projects that exist now (Linux, The Gimp, GNOME) start with a few dedicated souls churning out 90% of the code, until there is a useable foundation for others to build on. For instance, the reason there is no free word processor yet is people have written little pieces of them, but not a real, useable, 50% featured application. Once that happens, the community will add its little patches.
OSS projects grow with little patches, but they can't start out that way.
Perhaps, but while the deficiancies of Windows are well-documented, the evidence that QWERTY is deficiant is less scientific and less definite. If someone produces a study that proves that DVORAK is _significantly_ faster or more accurate than QWERTY, maybe then it will be time to reconsider
There was an article very very recently on just this subject. Basically, the tests that proved that the Dvorak system was superior were performed by Mindcraft, or if not them, Dvorak himself. Also, it's been discovered that the alternate-hand version of typing is actually very speedy. While one finger is whacking one key, the other is moving into position. Conclusion: just stick with QWERTY. It works, everyone uses it, and it's a headache to learn a new system for a mere 4 WPM gain. The reason your friend showed such improvement is probably because he learned to type correctly on that system, instead of a bastardized typing scheme that many people learn on their own. For instance, I hit the y key with my left hand as opposed to my right, and I don't use my right pinky except to use the shift key. If I learned DVORAK, I would learn it correctly, and gain some speed.
Anyone who thinks they can get decent video editing quality on this machine is kidding themselves. For base-level quality, MJPEG requires 80kb/ FRAME. That's 2.5 megs a second (sustained, not that bullshit 40 mb/s that people quote, which is burst rate), and 25 megs for a ten second clip. Wanna edit a 20 minute movie? That's 3 gigabytes of data that you need to throw around at will. And remember, the amount of source material is always much more than the final length.
I think the point is that a redhat doesn't know if there _are_ updates, unless (a) they look, or (b) they have autorpm, a tool I'd never heard of. Windows 98's autoupdate feature is actually very useful and helpful to keep users up to date. Is there a friendly GNOME tool that checks for updates? Does gnorpm do that?
This is the one feature I was missing from the previous release, and I'm glad they included it. Now I can watch my South Park episodes!
Is Hall vs the World , with Tom Hall of ION Storm. A much more fun and humorous game, and not Microsoft sponsored.
That's the version 5 player, which doesn't play 80% of today's real content, which uses the G2 method. I'm going to use the G2 player by changing the date for now :P
It's a side-effect of using microsoft software to write the text. If he used notepad or linux, they wouldn't show up. I've gotten to the point where I don't even notice ?'s any more, because so many pages have them.
He seems to toss aside the possibility of Linux taking on office desktops. Why? The graphical environments are much farther along than he gives credit, and products like Applixware, Star Office, and soon Corel Office Suite will give users real choice for office software.
Yes, linux will be present in embedded or low cost machines (empeg car) and your local mom 'n' pop ISP, but there's no good reason it can't take over at the office.
Which "hurtful" comment is he referring to in this article?
Yay capitalism!
How does the tv output quality of this board compare to the Creative Encore kit?
Actually, I'm about to attempt this soon (tomorrow), with two ISA ne2000s. My only fear is, how will I know which card is eth0 and which is eth1? I plan to install one, get it working, and then the other, but how does linux decide which is which? This only applies to ISAPnP, naturally, because with specified info I can just say:
alias eth0 ne2000 [card0 info]
alias eth1 ne2000 [card1 info]
Luckily these cards come with dos utils (boot to floppy, run utils...) so I can fall back on specified vals, but I would prefer to figure out the PnP solution.
Is this why a lot of sites, slashdot included, are really really slow right now? I'm on New England's Mediaone. I'm not clear as to what this outage affects.
Doesn't the Bible say PI equals 3?
using altavista:
+G: 25,848,206
+E: 149,211,983
winner: E!
I have redhat 6.0 (upgraded from 5.2), and when I went to 2.2.11, sendmail takes a long time (2 mins) to start up. Time to downgrade I guess.
kickstart does not work with an ftp install