According to the Register article, this exchange occurred last week, so he probably heard about the same time we did.
"I can't believe it's Gnome you're talking about but if it is, I wouldn't like that," Stallman told an audience at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil last week."
Very true, and what if the cleaning lady came in one morning and sucked up half the autoloader! All that ingenuity (and lego pieces) gone, and I'm not sure insurance would even cover it.
Yeah, but that one is a DDS-2 and it is limited to a 4 tape cartridge. His is scalable as far as he wishes to go with it. He can change the tape drive (go for a DDS3)or number of tape drives without any concern for the size of a cartridge for tapes, or the type of tape that it takes given it is 4mm and can be hooked the way he's grabbing tapes.
That said, I know some idiot will probably trip over his autoloader one day and he'll have to answer for the downtime to put the lego system back together. That will be one impressive interoffice memo (yes, our data recovery system is crippled until we can bring in some third graders to reassemble it...).
This document, Protection For Coin-Operated Games is pretty interesting. Looks like copy protection was a worry for Atari in 1980. The memo discusses how to handle copy protection issues of PCB's and ROM's. In particular it mentions using checksums to detect violations and then put in unexpected events. It mentions giving away free credits (that'll put someone outta business:P) and causing the graphics to go screwy. The funny thing it says is to wait until later in the game before you start messing it up. Everyone really gets pissed when just before you blow up the death star the game resets!
Even worse, this guy is probably wondering why his server is feeling the Slashdot effect again 11 months after the first time. Watching the hits rise screaming NOT AGAIN!!!!
Reading through that I noticed one important thing. This will only run under Windows and not under IRIX as a lot of the CAVE systems have SGI's hooked to them. The system is "BNAVE a PC-based CAVE-like display". I got all excited when I saw this posting. I'll have to stick to CaveQuake for the moment I guess. Still though it is very nice to see.
Here is a link to Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Playstation 2. I'm not sure about the pricing, but there is a pricing link there where you can send a request for pricing on it. There is also a datasheet, FAQ, etc.. there. Definitely a place to start.
Those numbers are highly speculative I would have to say. Energia is saying they can have it in orbit by 2004 at a cost of around 100 million dollars. If this was the case, instead of buying a trip on Mir (ended up being ISS) for 20 million I think Tito and a few friends simply would have bought there own space station in the sky. I remember Hilton Hotels were backing there own initiative to build there own hotel in space. Maybe these folks could get together and buy one together. Heres a link about Hilton Hotels discussing building a hotel in space.
All that said, when the opportunity presents itself, I'll be up there!
I don't see the real importance of whether it is 1.0 or 0.9.xxx etc.. I have tried the different Mozilla milestones in the past and thought this is way too buggy to be usable, but around 0.9.2 it really stabilized to the point where it has become quite usable and worth the effort of using and filing talkbacks when there is a problem. The speed has increased dramatically and the crashes are pretty rare. I believe that is progress, so I don't really care about what number is placed on it, as long as they are moving forward, I don't see how you can complain. You make the following comment in the article:
To the Mozilla Organization's and Mozilla Project's credit they almost have a darn nice browser suite. But they will not have a nice browser suite until they get it right (to-wit, get rid of the bugs and release Mozilla 1.0).
To get it right, its gonna take time. I believe the reason there are so many more bug reports are because people like myself and many others have noticed the improvements made to Mozilla and have actually started using it again. With more users comes more bug reports, which will create more debug data which will help the Mozilla crew squash bugs a lot faster. Be patient, there is progress being made.
I've now actually switched to using IMAP with Mozilla 0.9.3 and it finally works really nice since the 0.9.x series. I noticed one bug that caused a crash in 0.9.2, filed several talkbacks, and the problem was gone in 0.9.3. Visible progress, just the way I like it.
"Google became a huge Web favorite because it's simple and it works."
Most technologies usually fall down because they become irrelevant or don't do the job anymore. But for the moment, Google works a lot better than most. I don't expect to see Google fall anytime soon, and WiseNut is a pretty stupid name anyway.... (Yahoo, Google, ok maybe that statement was unfair...).
Very true, I purchased the last copy of Heroes of Might and Magic III and Quake 3 Arena that the Electronic Boutique had in my town. When I asked them when they were going to get in new Linux games they looked at me and asked, "We sell Linux games?". I found the two games in the Macintosh section, and I never saw any new Linux games there again. For my entertainment, I usually ask the Best Buy folks where the Linux games are, but they just look at me stupid also. One can wish I guess.... I won't be getting rid of the Windows partition any day soon though:(
Does anyone actually know the way that Loki actually makes its money. I wonder why Loki owes money to Activision? I would have thought that the company with the game gets a company like Loki to create the port of there game, then gives a cut to Loki if a profit is made, or a cut per unit sold? Do they actually pay to purchase the rights to port the game? That seems very strange. Does anyone have any insight on this? This does truly suck.
I own Q3 Arena (the tin box) and Heroes of Might and Magic III. I played through Heroes of Might and Magic III, it played really well, installed first time no problems, and was entertaining. I never played it under windows, but the quality of it under Linux meant I had no need to get it under Windows. I hope they can pull out of this, and maybe come up with a better business model.
Here is a little further information about Henrietta Lacks and George Gey. The Henrietta Lacks article is from John Hopkins Magazine and the Gey article is from a University of Pittsburgh article. The Gey article gives a littl more info about his attempts at setting up cell lines and his life, etc.. The Lacks article talks about the family, how they first found out 25 years later that there mothers cells were used and ethical issues, etc..
A number of storage manufacturers have been working on holographic storage along with DARPA and many universities. DARPA has the the Holographic Data Storage System (HDSS) consortium and the PhotoRefractive Information Storage Materials (PRISM) consortium, and IBM, Rockwell and another companies have been working on this. Here is a Scientific American blurb about it:
Slashdot Mirror
According to the Register article, this exchange occurred last week, so he probably heard about the same time we did.
"I can't believe it's Gnome you're talking about but if it is, I wouldn't like that," Stallman told an audience at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil last week."
KDE probably isn't looking so bad to RMS right now.....
Sure glad I use KDE! GNOME sucks!
that was number 1...
Just kiddin, you made me do it! I love and respect all desktops equally.
bbh
Very true, and what if the cleaning lady came in one morning and sucked up half the autoloader! All that ingenuity (and lego pieces) gone, and I'm not sure insurance would even cover it.
bbh
Ok, so there are some things that can't be built with legos. :(
Yeah, but that one is a DDS-2 and it is limited to a 4 tape cartridge. His is scalable as far as he wishes to go with it. He can change the tape drive (go for a DDS3)or number of tape drives without any concern for the size of a cartridge for tapes, or the type of tape that it takes given it is 4mm and can be hooked the way he's grabbing tapes.
That said, I know some idiot will probably trip over his autoloader one day and he'll have to answer for the downtime to put the lego system back together. That will be one impressive interoffice memo (yes, our data recovery system is crippled until we can bring in some third graders to reassemble it...).
bbh
This document, Protection For Coin-Operated Games is pretty interesting. Looks like copy protection was a worry for Atari in 1980. The memo discusses how to handle copy protection issues of PCB's and ROM's. In particular it mentions using checksums to detect violations and then put in unexpected events. It mentions giving away free credits (that'll put someone outta business :P) and causing the graphics to go screwy. The funny thing it says is to wait until later in the game before you start messing it up. Everyone really gets pissed when just before you blow up the death star the game resets!
bbh
Even worse, this guy is probably wondering why his server is feeling the Slashdot effect again 11 months after the first time. Watching the hits rise screaming NOT AGAIN!!!!
So sad.
ichBIN mit diesem Pfosten einverstanden
:P Cute!
means "I Agree With This Post", which happens to be the posters name
I'm writing a legal article on jurisdiction and defamation via the web
Bernie again?????
Not sure about not being able to just hop on the Internet. Check this out:
IP In Space FAQ
Sounds like NASA is already thinking about how its folks will be able to hop on IRC when they get bored or send email to the family.
-bbh
Reading through that I noticed one important thing. This will only run under Windows and not under IRIX as a lot of the CAVE systems have SGI's hooked to them. The system is "BNAVE a PC-based CAVE-like display". I got all excited when I saw this posting. I'll have to stick to CaveQuake for the moment I guess. Still though it is very nice to see.
bbh
Dude, he won't even know what DHCP is probably, he'll just be mad cause it doesn't work.. :(
-bbh
Noticed a long time back that www.sourcefourge.net is one of these sites. Is nothing sacred!
bbh
Here is a link to Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Playstation 2. I'm not sure about the pricing, but there is a pricing link there where you can send a request for pricing on it. There is also a datasheet, FAQ, etc.. there. Definitely a place to start.
bbh
Clearly not all Anonymous folks are grandmasters in disguise...
Those numbers are highly speculative I would have to say. Energia is saying they can have it in orbit by 2004 at a cost of around 100 million dollars. If this was the case, instead of buying a trip on Mir (ended up being ISS) for 20 million I think Tito and a few friends simply would have bought there own space station in the sky. I remember Hilton Hotels were backing there own initiative to build there own hotel in space. Maybe these folks could get together and buy one together. Heres a link about Hilton Hotels discussing building a hotel in space.
All that said, when the opportunity presents itself, I'll be up there!
bbh
I don't see the real importance of whether it is 1.0 or 0.9.xxx etc.. I have tried the different Mozilla milestones in the past and thought this is way too buggy to be usable, but around 0.9.2 it really stabilized to the point where it has become quite usable and worth the effort of using and filing talkbacks when there is a problem. The speed has increased dramatically and the crashes are pretty rare. I believe that is progress, so I don't really care about what number is placed on it, as long as they are moving forward, I don't see how you can complain. You make the following comment in the article:
To the Mozilla Organization's and Mozilla Project's credit they almost have a darn nice browser suite. But they will not have a nice browser suite until they get it right (to-wit, get rid of the bugs and release Mozilla 1.0).
To get it right, its gonna take time. I believe the reason there are so many more bug reports are because people like myself and many others have noticed the improvements made to Mozilla and have actually started using it again. With more users comes more bug reports, which will create more debug data which will help the Mozilla crew squash bugs a lot faster. Be patient, there is progress being made.
I've now actually switched to using IMAP with Mozilla 0.9.3 and it finally works really nice since the 0.9.x series. I noticed one bug that caused a crash in 0.9.2, filed several talkbacks, and the problem was gone in 0.9.3. Visible progress, just the way I like it.
bbh
"Wonder how SGI feels about that."
Checking Yahoo finance today, SGI's stock is at 60 cents today. In 12 to 18 months, IBM may own SGI. The best of both worlds maybe....
bbh
"Google became a huge Web favorite because it's simple and it works."
Most technologies usually fall down because they become irrelevant or don't do the job anymore. But for the moment, Google works a lot better than most. I don't expect to see Google fall anytime soon, and WiseNut is a pretty stupid name anyway.... (Yahoo, Google, ok maybe that statement was unfair...).
Very true, I purchased the last copy of Heroes of Might and Magic III and Quake 3 Arena that the Electronic Boutique had in my town. When I asked them when they were going to get in new Linux games they looked at me and asked, "We sell Linux games?". I found the two games in the Macintosh section, and I never saw any new Linux games there again. For my entertainment, I usually ask the Best Buy folks where the Linux games are, but they just look at me stupid also. One can wish I guess.... I won't be getting rid of the Windows partition any day soon though :(
bbh
Does anyone actually know the way that Loki actually makes its money. I wonder why Loki owes money to Activision? I would have thought that the company with the game gets a company like Loki to create the port of there game, then gives a cut to Loki if a profit is made, or a cut per unit sold? Do they actually pay to purchase the rights to port the game? That seems very strange. Does anyone have any insight on this? This does truly suck.
I own Q3 Arena (the tin box) and Heroes of Might and Magic III. I played through Heroes of Might and Magic III, it played really well, installed first time no problems, and was entertaining. I never played it under windows, but the quality of it under Linux meant I had no need to get it under Windows. I hope they can pull out of this, and maybe come up with a better business model.
bbh
I actively use Mozilla 0.9.2 for IMAP, works just fine for me, no problem. -bbh
Here is a little further information about Henrietta Lacks and George Gey. The Henrietta Lacks article is from John Hopkins Magazine and the Gey article is from a University of Pittsburgh article. The Gey article gives a littl more info about his attempts at setting up cell lines and his life, etc.. The Lacks article talks about the family, how they first found out 25 years later that there mothers cells were used and ethical issues, etc..
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http://www.univ-relations.pitt.edu/pittmag/cultur
http://www.jhu.edu/%7ejhumag/0400web/01.html
A number of storage manufacturers have been working on holographic storage along with DARPA and many universities. DARPA has the the Holographic Data Storage System (HDSS) consortium and the PhotoRefractive Information Storage Materials (PRISM) consortium, and IBM, Rockwell and another companies have been working on this. Here is a Scientific American blurb about it:
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http://sciam.com/2000/0500issue/0500toigbox5.html
Also here is IBM's page about it:
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/st/projects/holography
bbh