I don't know why they're even bothering trying this... the only way to secure streaming media from being copied is to use 100% proprietary hardware, right down to the speakers. As it is now anyone can hook up the audio out of their sound card to the audio in of another computer and record to their heart's content.
I'm not advocating proprietary hardware, of course, but MS trying to make it secure at the OS level won't change anything; it's like if you put bars on the window of your house if it doesn't have a functional front door lock.
With this example I predict the US would never go for it like this; we'd rather let people break the law but catch them doing it (like cameras at traffic lights). But GPS in a car could report when someone was speeding, running a red light, even driving in a break-down or HOV lane!
Oh well, people will accept it because they think it doesn't affect them, only the poeple that break the law (little do they realize THEY break the law)
According to the UN regulation passed a few years ago, human cloning is ILLEGAL on an international scale. I don't have a link, but I distinctly remember that resolution being passed.
So wehat's with this? Did they repeal the decision? Is it taking place in Yugoslavia? What are they doing?
It's not that he's obsessed with it; I think he has to keep with the model because it's something that Mac users can point out as different/better. To get rid of them would be like getting rid of all the transparent cases.
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He didn't almost die from the failed glove, but of course it's dangerous. I would not want to jump out of an airplane either, for that matter.
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First, NASA didn't come up with that, the Air Force did in Project Manhigh.
Second, it's not far-fetched, it worked! Twice! both paticipants survived the incident unharmed, and had NASA had chosen to inherit the technology it might have saved Challenger.
Measuring computing time in years doesn't mean anything; these "years" are mostly being done on slow, outdated machines like at my school, where the average time is about 26 hours (that includes some G4 cubes, Blue G3's, but mostly really old all-in-ones from 5 years ago). Some of the machines like Sun's team does one every five hours or so along with SGI, but most of the time is from us slowpokes, it doesn't track any real data analysis or progress.
The technology is called either neurofeedback or biofeedback (I forget which one); it's based on allowing someone who has trouble concentrating to improve by learning how to control their alpha and beta brain wave patterns.
Right now there are many centers that have started to use this technology to treat children with ADD; it works like how one learns motor control, since with that one gets visual feedback by seeing one's arm move when directed. The only difference here is that normally one cannot tell what their brain waves are doing while they are doing something; this just maps the brain waves and gives visual and auditory feedback to train someone to control their alpha and beta waves.
I imagine the video game part has something to do with This old article, just a guess though.
"Corel was one of the very few companies to actually have a native linux wordprocessor (wordperfect 8). Why ditch that and go with wine?"
I don't know what you saw in wordprefect 8, but I hated it. It had bad printer support (used native drivers like DOS wordperfect used to) and bad font support (I could never get it to find any of my own fonts, just the ones it had in there).
If you want to get picky about 8, it had a terrible toolkit that was probably Motif, had a security flaw involving a symlink attack in/tmp, and when I tried to change around the toolbars it crashed and I had to wipe my prefs for it. There's probably more.
I liked 2000 until i switched to playing with LaTeX and I don't think it's perfect (far from it mostly because of wine), but it was better than 8. And porting the whole application suite to Linux is way too much work for any company no matter how large; they had no choice but to use wine. And they couldn't just imporve 8 since that was more like WordPerfect 6.
This has probably been said months before, but this could mean that WordPerfect is about to get new foster parents; it's like a haunted office suite, whenever a company gets it they have to sell it off eventually. I know they have not yet, but it's coming... too bad, I kinda liked that feature-rich suite before discovering LaTeX...
All I can say is that an idiotic company better not get it and ruin it like how Novell killed its market share.
Wow, one of the reasons I never liked RDRAM was the seemingly universal concept of only two memory module slots; this is just terrible for expandibility. I'm glad to see a board that can go with four, my favorite number of them.
Maybe it will work, maybe not. Maybe this will lead to one linux. If there's one apt, there's one Debian. Thus perhaps this would make Red Hat people point their sources.list to SuSE's repository as well, or Mandrake's.
Speaking of mandrake, keep in mind not all distros offer an online download of individual packages. So this may also filter out these pseudo-free distributions.
But this is a giant leap forward for RPM-based distributions everywhere; I'm still not using them though:-)
- Linux users (there's no other suitable choices for browsers w/GUI, although this may change in the next few months)
i agree with the "this may change"; several new alternatives have popped up recently that in the near fututre might become really good. The best has to be BrowseX (www.browsex.com); it's written entirely in tcl, very light-weight, and supports most commonly used internet standards (no CSS, no Java, but animated GIFs and they don't take a huge chunk of load, images, tables are good) the only problems with it at this time are: you can't compile it (it's under the Artistic license, but the build process is too convoluted; a binary is available for Linux/x86 and Windows), and it can't load pages very dynamically. There are occaisional crashes too, but no more than in Mozilla, I'm sure (it freezes instead of crashing). But I think it's much farther ahead than other browsers like Opera and skipstone.
back in 1997 the Pentium II had just come out, and standard RAM size was 32MB. netscape 6 would not run on that. DOn't get me started on the first Macintoshes:-)
I agree here completely. The problem is that as apps are improved more and more, they become an all-in-one giant hunk of code that does everything. Examples of this are emacs, Star Office, and Netscape 6. All of these are ridiculously large for what they do (read: what 95% of people use them for). The problem is that people improve on programs too far; once they have amassed reasonable features, leave the program be and just make a new program to integrate with the first. This way you get an office suite as opposed to a one-binary mammoth program. If Netscape was split into an HTML renderer/browser, news reader, mail client, etc. as opposed to having it all in one binary, it would take less memory to run the parts people actually use; no one uses 100% of a software's available features.
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Take out java support. I never use it and it only slows me down.
Just delete the java libraries and use navigator ("lite"), I think. I'm running 4.75 on about 7 Megs of RAM, good for someone stuck on 32.
The reviewer didn't mention this in his review (probably because it's a manual hack) but it really makes a contrast between Netscape 6 without java and Netscape 4 without java.
One thing I would like to see though is for netscape to open-source version 4. Then I can trimm it down even more to get rid of extra features I never use. Unlike most people (apparently), I DO care about buying more RAM; I have better hardware to buy, like a bigger monitor or faster video card that has a native framebuffer driver in the kernel.
Debian has all the beowulf stuff you need prepackaged, like MPI and I think it has some batch programs. Just makes it easier to maintain if you ask me.
this is why my sources.list is pointed to 'stable' and 'proposed-updates'.
I'll admit sometimes the package maintainers screw up and install a package into 'proposed-updates' that breaks the system (like lprng 3.6.12-7 with buggy setuid kernel bug-check) but overall you get the same important package upgrades without the risk to production or important systems.
When X4 has support for the Savage4 chipsets (and it better be free) and it's in proposed, I'll upgrade, but horror stories I've seen and heard with X4 will keep my system in 3.3.6 for a while.
they don't even know how big it is! They can't predict the movement of an asteroid thrity years from now, including how it will interact with any as-of-yet undiscovered objects that may cross its path, like comets and the like.
Next thing we hear is all the presidential candidates saying: "Look, we need to develop an asteroid defense system in forty years or we're toast! Vote for me!" (or are they already saying that?)
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I don't know why they're even bothering trying this... the only way to secure streaming media from being copied is to use 100% proprietary hardware, right down to the speakers. As it is now anyone can hook up the audio out of their sound card to the audio in of another computer and record to their heart's content.
I'm not advocating proprietary hardware, of course, but MS trying to make it secure at the OS level won't change anything; it's like if you put bars on the window of your house if it doesn't have a functional front door lock.
With this example I predict the US would never go for it like this; we'd rather let people break the law but catch them doing it (like cameras at traffic lights). But GPS in a car could report when someone was speeding, running a red light, even driving in a break-down or HOV lane!
Oh well, people will accept it because they think it doesn't affect them, only the poeple that break the law (little do they realize THEY break the law)
According to the UN regulation passed a few years ago, human cloning is ILLEGAL on an international scale. I don't have a link, but I distinctly remember that resolution being passed.
So wehat's with this? Did they repeal the decision? Is it taking place in Yugoslavia? What are they doing?
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unless they're surfing for pr0n while they're supposed to be working...
It's not that he's obsessed with it; I think he has to keep with the model because it's something that Mac users can point out as different/better. To get rid of them would be like getting rid of all the transparent cases.
Is this why moderators can't post to a discussion thread they moderate?
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Some people get lots of kharma and moderate; other people troll and get to keep posting
It's true of cigarettes...
He didn't almost die from the failed glove, but of course it's dangerous. I would not want to jump out of an airplane either, for that matter.
First, NASA didn't come up with that, the Air Force did in Project Manhigh.
Second, it's not far-fetched, it worked! Twice! both paticipants survived the incident unharmed, and had NASA had chosen to inherit the technology it might have saved Challenger.
It will probably be 3.0, if 1.2 -> 2.0 is any indication...
Is that part of the pool too? I think it should be included: what version you think it will be, and what release date you think it will be.
Measuring computing time in years doesn't mean anything; these "years" are mostly being done on slow, outdated machines like at my school, where the average time is about 26 hours (that includes some G4 cubes, Blue G3's, but mostly really old all-in-ones from 5 years ago). Some of the machines like Sun's team does one every five hours or so along with SGI, but most of the time is from us slowpokes, it doesn't track any real data analysis or progress.
Right now there are many centers that have started to use this technology to treat children with ADD; it works like how one learns motor control, since with that one gets visual feedback by seeing one's arm move when directed. The only difference here is that normally one cannot tell what their brain waves are doing while they are doing something; this just maps the brain waves and gives visual and auditory feedback to train someone to control their alpha and beta waves.
I imagine the video game part has something to do with This old article, just a guess though.
"Corel was one of the very few companies to actually have a native linux wordprocessor (wordperfect 8). Why ditch that and go with wine?"
/tmp, and when I tried to change around the toolbars it crashed and I had to wipe my prefs for it. There's probably more.
I don't know what you saw in wordprefect 8, but I hated it. It had bad printer support (used native drivers like DOS wordperfect used to) and bad font support (I could never get it to find any of my own fonts, just the ones it had in there).
If you want to get picky about 8, it had a terrible toolkit that was probably Motif, had a security flaw involving a symlink attack in
I liked 2000 until i switched to playing with LaTeX and I don't think it's perfect (far from it mostly because of wine), but it was better than 8. And porting the whole application suite to Linux is way too much work for any company no matter how large; they had no choice but to use wine. And they couldn't just imporve 8 since that was more like WordPerfect 6.
This has probably been said months before, but this could mean that WordPerfect is about to get new foster parents; it's like a haunted office suite, whenever a company gets it they have to sell it off eventually. I know they have not yet, but it's coming... too bad, I kinda liked that feature-rich suite before discovering LaTeX...
All I can say is that an idiotic company better not get it and ruin it like how Novell killed its market share.
Wow, one of the reasons I never liked RDRAM was the seemingly universal concept of only two memory module slots; this is just terrible for expandibility. I'm glad to see a board that can go with four, my favorite number of them.
sounds like they pulled a microsoft.
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How long did it take them to "fix" vb script holes in outlook again?
Maybe it will work, maybe not. Maybe this will lead to one linux. If there's one apt, there's one Debian. Thus perhaps this would make Red Hat people point their sources.list to SuSE's repository as well, or Mandrake's.
:-)
Speaking of mandrake, keep in mind not all distros offer an online download of individual packages. So this may also filter out these pseudo-free distributions.
But this is a giant leap forward for RPM-based distributions everywhere; I'm still not using them though
- Linux users (there's no other suitable choices for browsers w/GUI, although this may change in the next few months)
i agree with the "this may change"; several new alternatives have popped up recently that in the near fututre might become really good. The best has to be BrowseX (www.browsex.com); it's written entirely in tcl, very light-weight, and supports most commonly used internet standards (no CSS, no Java, but animated GIFs and they don't take a huge chunk of load, images, tables are good) the only problems with it at this time are: you can't compile it (it's under the Artistic license, but the build process is too convoluted; a binary is available for Linux/x86 and Windows), and it can't load pages very dynamically. There are occaisional crashes too, but no more than in Mozilla, I'm sure (it freezes instead of crashing). But I think it's much farther ahead than other browsers like Opera and skipstone.
back in 1997 the Pentium II had just come out, and standard RAM size was 32MB. netscape 6 would not run on that. DOn't get me started on the first Macintoshes :-)
I agree here completely. The problem is that as apps are improved more and more, they become an all-in-one giant hunk of code that does everything. Examples of this are emacs, Star Office, and Netscape 6. All of these are ridiculously large for what they do (read: what 95% of people use them for). The problem is that people improve on programs too far; once they have amassed reasonable features, leave the program be and just make a new program to integrate with the first. This way you get an office suite as opposed to a one-binary mammoth program. If Netscape was split into an HTML renderer/browser, news reader, mail client, etc. as opposed to having it all in one binary, it would take less memory to run the parts people actually use; no one uses 100% of a software's available features.
Take out java support. I never use it and it only slows me down.
Just delete the java libraries and use navigator ("lite"), I think. I'm running 4.75 on about 7 Megs of RAM, good for someone stuck on 32.
The reviewer didn't mention this in his review (probably because it's a manual hack) but it really makes a contrast between Netscape 6 without java and Netscape 4 without java.
One thing I would like to see though is for netscape to open-source version 4. Then I can trimm it down even more to get rid of extra features I never use. Unlike most people (apparently), I DO care about buying more RAM; I have better hardware to buy, like a bigger monitor or faster video card that has a native framebuffer driver in the kernel.
Debian has all the beowulf stuff you need prepackaged, like MPI and I think it has some batch programs. Just makes it easier to maintain if you ask me.
this is why my sources.list is pointed to 'stable' and 'proposed-updates'.
I'll admit sometimes the package maintainers screw up and install a package into 'proposed-updates' that breaks the system (like lprng 3.6.12-7 with buggy setuid kernel bug-check) but overall you get the same important package upgrades without the risk to production or important systems.
When X4 has support for the Savage4 chipsets (and it better be free) and it's in proposed, I'll upgrade, but horror stories I've seen and heard with X4 will keep my system in 3.3.6 for a while.
they don't even know how big it is! They can't predict the movement of an asteroid thrity years from now, including how it will interact with any as-of-yet undiscovered objects that may cross its path, like comets and the like.
Next thing we hear is all the presidential candidates saying: "Look, we need to develop an asteroid defense system in forty years or we're toast! Vote for me!" (or are they already saying that?)