"Ogg sounds better, but I can't go to walmart and buy a portable
Ogg player."
My thoughts exactly. I'm as generally as happy with OGG
at 128 or 160 as I am with MP3 at 192, but then I wouldn't be able to use my
music in a car-based MP3 player...
Bah. You want to see ogg in commercial players? Use it then dammit and
stop using mp3. Stop whining about lack of commercial support; it's a kind
of Catch-22 see? If no one uses ogg because it isn't popular then of course it
won't get commercial support. It's gonna take an initial sacrifice (so grow a
spine and give up your precious mp3) so that ogg can become popular. Only then
will we all reap the benifits (ubiquitous Ogg Vorbis).
Also, read this fascinating interview
from early this year with Jack Moffitt and Christopher Montgomery, the two
head guys behind Xiph and ogg. They discuss many things including the Iomega
HipZip, which does support Ogg Vorbis.
Absolutely. We can also take advantage of any new advances that might
allow us to study the rocks better. IIRC, the rocks (from mars originally)
that were studied a few years ago that some believed showed evidence of
bacteria had been dug up long ago and had been sitting in a storage
somewhere.
You have valid misgivings, but keep in mind that the NSA is not one
homogenous organization (indeed, no organization of any size is completely
homogenous). Calls for crypto backdoors are simply backlash from the
tragedy. They cannot possibly reflect the desires of the entire NSA.
My university's chapter of the ACM hosts presentations given often by Microsoft. These presentations usually end with the Microsoft rep. giving away expensive software packages (in shrink wrapped boxes) to people whose names have been drawn from a hat.
The wise and common thing to do is to immediately sell the product on ebay for significant profit. I imagine this scenario is common to many universities.
Can slashdot not report on these types of projects until they
start producing somethings besides vapor. It just causes people to think that
something is already being done and people who otherwise would create their
own projects move onto other things.
I enjoy these reports on projects. I hope that if a developer was
thinking of starting a similar project he would at least look into these
projects that get an article on slashdot. If the developer sees good ideas
or something he likes, then I'd hope he would join said project instead of
starting his own, hopefully making better software faster in the process.
With that said I was/am part of a project which hasn't done
anything for quite some time, but we don't bury our code in much marketing
hype, so I think it is pretty clear to anyone who is interested to see what
progress is or isn't being made.
I'm not sure if I follow you here. Certainly there is room for
improvement in slashdot reporting. Perhaps if these projects want help, they
could explicitly request it and have slashdot mention it. I believe,
however, that it is important for a developer to be aware of other projects
that are potentially similar to those that the developer wants to start on
his own.
So now that Berlin is a heavyweight replacement for X, with
obviously different goals, what else is out there that's
lightweight?
Somewhere on the website (can't seem to locate it now) is stated
that "Berlin" is not necesarily the only display server possible. One
could write a more lightweight server for a pda for example that
perhaps doesn't support all or Berlin's features. After all, the API
is high level, so the display server can do whatever it wants when a
client requests that it draw a button.
Me, I was in a state that was going to Bush no matter what,
so I voted for the first time ever...for Nader.
I feel the need to respond to this. Now, I get the impression from
this statement that one of your reasons for voting Nader was the fact
that your state was going to Bush "no matter what". Whether or not you
actually meant this is beside the point. The point is that it is
absurd, for example, to vote for Gore while really wanting Nader in a
state with a close race (Florida) for the simple fact that a single
vote makes no difference whatsoever. The events in the 2000 election
in Florida are a great example to help prove this point.
I remember watching the news and hearing then President Clinton say
something like "Now that this happened in Florida, no one can say 'My
vote doesn't matter'". Well, guess what Mr. Clinton? One vote does
indeed not matter. Large elections never (for all practical
purposes) come down to a single vote. Furthermore, our tallying
process is not acurate enough to decide the winner in such a case,
so the case is mute anyway.
Vote for whom, in your opinion, is the best candidate regardless of
party, popularity, or delusions of allowing a lesser candidate to steal
the election. Votes in large numbers do matter though, so
campaign for whomever you want. Convince your friends to vote for
whomever you want. But when you are in the election box, remember that
a single vote is absolutely meaningless.
How do you resolve the problem where a binary looks in a specific place
for its own data files? Or, let's say some game is compiled to save
its high scores to/var/games/name-of-game/scores. There is no way to
change this after compilation. And if every program can be easily told
to look elsewhere for files, it seems that one would have a security
problem. --
HTML, as it was originally designed, is great. It allows the
browser a lot of control about where to put and how to format the
content (since when did "content" come to mean "flashiness"?). Flash,
Java, Javascript, etc (anyhting that doesn't work in a text based
browser) are what make most web sites suck.
More bandwidth shouldn't lead to more bloated web sites. It should
make browsing faster.
And yes, it is possible to make beatuiful websites that are text
browser friendly.
No, I don't think I will. Perhaps snail mail should be censored and
monitored to prevent potential criminals from conversing through snail
mail? Maybe we should tap all phone conversations to prevent
possible conspiritory activities. Hell, why don't we implant a device
in every person that transmits every word spoken to the proper
authorities so that criminals won't be able to converse.
"But our children will be drawn to porn!" Well, as a 13 year old, I
was not drawn to porn. I don't look at porn now. Maybe my parents
raised me correctly (and no, I didn't live in a censored police state
of a home), maybe I just got lucky. Anyway, I learned more dirty
words/jokes/stuff from the other 13 year old boys than all those nasty
porn sites that [failed to] suck me in. Maybe it's time to stop
conversations in grade school and even high school too?
Can't you realize that anything can be used as a tool of
criminals/terrorists/groupofpeoplethatscaresyou?
This reminds of a story I heard (can't remember where). Anyway, some
people were discussing privacy and one person said just what you said
"What are you trying to hide?"
Another person, whom she was arguing with, picked up her purse and
begin looking through it. She immediately snatched it back.
The person who took her purse said "Get the point?" She did.
Well, that depends on what you belive. Personaly, I believe that
"being human" is one of the major points of existence. Freedom is a
necessary ingredient to "being human". Communism would therefore be
seen as inherently evil.
I used to believe that communism would be ok if people were perfect.
Then I realized that it still took away freedom. I never believed
communism could be good with imperfect people.
Imagine sitting around your coffe table with the guys, watching the
superbowl as if you were there... I guess you'd want more than 8 colors,
but I think what would be worth paying for.
I think any sportscast would be enhaced by 3d, but I wonder how sitcom's
would look?
Video games, of course, would also sell for a 3d display.
Re:You can't ambush somebody with a contract.
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It depends where how you look at it. The earth, being in free fall around
the sun, weighs nothing. It is quite massive, however, when compared to
average mass of items sent through the postal service. Unfortunately, the
post office weighs letters instead of massing them:(
Weighed with respect to the:CueCat, the earth weighs only several
ounces.
Either way, it won't cost much to ship the earth anywhere.
We won't object to commercial software that is intended to run on Debian
systems, and we'll allow others to create value-added distributions
containing both Debian and commercial software, without any fee from us.
I am backing up my post with information I found online from an elctrical engineer. Turns out I was right though (not that I had any doubt:) I thank the person who emailed me and made me back my comment up.
and I quote: Re:The internet is the next generation of cockroac (Score:1) by fossa (pat7@gmx.net) on 9 514709 EST (#390) (User #212602 Info) http://www.crosswinds.net/~sideways/
Actually, electrons themselves don't travel very fast. It's what they pass between themselves that travels at the speed of light. Nothing with mass can reach the speed of light according to the General Theory of Relativity.
Okay, so what is it that they pass between each other??? Einstein was not entirely right...
Damn, I'm not an electrical engineer... I do remember reading that somewhere however. Hang on while I search for some info... Searched Google for "electricity." I am now reading http://www.amasci.com/ele-edu.html... Aha! Click on "Barriers to Understanding Electricity," and then "ELECTONS FLOW AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT," to come to http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/miscon/eleca.html#lig ht. Read this paragraph, from that website:
THE "ELECTRICITY" INSIDE OF WIRES MOVES AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT? Wrong. In metals, electric current is a flow of electrons. Many books claim that these electrons flow at the speed of light. This is incorrect. Electrons actually flow quite slowly, at speeds on the order of centimeters per minute. It's the energy in the circuit which flows fast, not the electrons. When the electrons at one point in the circuit are pumped, electrons in the entire loop of the circuit are forced to flow, and energy spreads almost instantly throughout the entire circuit. This happens even though the electrons move very slowly.
Thank you for calling my semi-bluff and making me actually prove what I said. I actually enjoyed looking this up and learned a couple things:)
Actually, electrons themselves don't travel very fast. It's what they pass between themselves that travels at the speed of light. Nothing with mass can reach the speed of light according to the General Theory of Relativity.
That sounds interesting, but how do you get your hands on a powerful enough radio transmitter? Are radio signals traceable? Can't you triangulate the signal and find the point of origin?
Obviously, I have no idea what I'm talking about, but couldn't we set up some sort of network of those $50 2-mile range walkie-talkies that would be similar to the concept of the Internet. Getting across the ocean or to rural areas would require more power...
You could also use the mail system as a means of code distribution. You could mail CD's or the text of the code or some sort of bar-code version that could be easily converted to source code without the errors of OCR.
The mail would be slower, but it could be a start to get the code out to several hundred people anyway. If you don't put a return address and use public mailboxes I can't see how this could be traceable unless return addresses become mandatory or the FBI or whoever starts watching mails without return addresses. Of course, you should start sending all your non-important mail without return addresses as an added smoke signal.
Slashdot Mirror
Bah. You want to see ogg in commercial players? Use it then dammit and stop using mp3. Stop whining about lack of commercial support; it's a kind of Catch-22 see? If no one uses ogg because it isn't popular then of course it won't get commercial support. It's gonna take an initial sacrifice (so grow a spine and give up your precious mp3) so that ogg can become popular. Only then will we all reap the benifits (ubiquitous Ogg Vorbis).
Also, read this fascinating interview from early this year with Jack Moffitt and Christopher Montgomery, the two head guys behind Xiph and ogg. They discuss many things including the Iomega HipZip, which does support Ogg Vorbis.
With the SSSCA, these alternative solutions will be illegal (in the US).
As someone else pointed out, "Free-net" is apparently a registered trademark. And of course there's Freenet (potential problem with Free-net's TM?).
Anyone have any good ideas? (none below are good...)
TagNet's not so bad...
Absolutely. We can also take advantage of any new advances that might allow us to study the rocks better. IIRC, the rocks (from mars originally) that were studied a few years ago that some believed showed evidence of bacteria had been dug up long ago and had been sitting in a storage somewhere.
You have valid misgivings, but keep in mind that the NSA is not one homogenous organization (indeed, no organization of any size is completely homogenous). Calls for crypto backdoors are simply backlash from the tragedy. They cannot possibly reflect the desires of the entire NSA.
My university's chapter of the ACM hosts presentations given often by Microsoft. These presentations usually end with the Microsoft rep. giving away expensive software packages (in shrink wrapped boxes) to people whose names have been drawn from a hat.
The wise and common thing to do is to immediately sell the product on ebay for significant profit. I imagine this scenario is common to many universities.
A: If you've got nothing to hide, what are you worried about?
B picks up A's purse and begins rummaging through it.
A snatches purse back; glares at B.
B: get it?
I enjoy these reports on projects. I hope that if a developer was thinking of starting a similar project he would at least look into these projects that get an article on slashdot. If the developer sees good ideas or something he likes, then I'd hope he would join said project instead of starting his own, hopefully making better software faster in the process.
I'm not sure if I follow you here. Certainly there is room for improvement in slashdot reporting. Perhaps if these projects want help, they could explicitly request it and have slashdot mention it. I believe, however, that it is important for a developer to be aware of other projects that are potentially similar to those that the developer wants to start on his own.
From the article (emphasis mine):
Hm...
Read this reply to a post I made. It is quite true.
And, I can't seem to avoid the lameness filter so blah blah blah.
Somewhere on the website (can't seem to locate it now) is stated that "Berlin" is not necesarily the only display server possible. One could write a more lightweight server for a pda for example that perhaps doesn't support all or Berlin's features. After all, the API is high level, so the display server can do whatever it wants when a client requests that it draw a button.
I feel the need to respond to this. Now, I get the impression from this statement that one of your reasons for voting Nader was the fact that your state was going to Bush "no matter what". Whether or not you actually meant this is beside the point. The point is that it is absurd, for example, to vote for Gore while really wanting Nader in a state with a close race (Florida) for the simple fact that a single vote makes no difference whatsoever. The events in the 2000 election in Florida are a great example to help prove this point.
I remember watching the news and hearing then President Clinton say something like "Now that this happened in Florida, no one can say 'My vote doesn't matter'". Well, guess what Mr. Clinton? One vote does indeed not matter. Large elections never (for all practical purposes) come down to a single vote. Furthermore, our tallying process is not acurate enough to decide the winner in such a case, so the case is mute anyway.
Vote for whom, in your opinion, is the best candidate regardless of party, popularity, or delusions of allowing a lesser candidate to steal the election. Votes in large numbers do matter though, so campaign for whomever you want. Convince your friends to vote for whomever you want. But when you are in the election box, remember that a single vote is absolutely meaningless.
a hyphen perhaps...
--
How do you resolve the problem where a binary looks in a specific place for its own data files? Or, let's say some game is compiled to save its high scores to /var/games/name-of-game/scores. There is no way to
change this after compilation. And if every program can be easily told
to look elsewhere for files, it seems that one would have a security
problem.
--
HTML, as it was originally designed, is great. It allows the browser a lot of control about where to put and how to format the content (since when did "content" come to mean "flashiness"?). Flash, Java, Javascript, etc (anyhting that doesn't work in a text based browser) are what make most web sites suck.
More bandwidth shouldn't lead to more bloated web sites. It should make browsing faster.
And yes, it is possible to make beatuiful websites that are text browser friendly.
--
No, I don't think I will. Perhaps snail mail should be censored and monitored to prevent potential criminals from conversing through snail mail? Maybe we should tap all phone conversations to prevent possible conspiritory activities. Hell, why don't we implant a device in every person that transmits every word spoken to the proper authorities so that criminals won't be able to converse.
"But our children will be drawn to porn!" Well, as a 13 year old, I was not drawn to porn. I don't look at porn now. Maybe my parents raised me correctly (and no, I didn't live in a censored police state of a home), maybe I just got lucky. Anyway, I learned more dirty words/jokes/stuff from the other 13 year old boys than all those nasty porn sites that [failed to] suck me in. Maybe it's time to stop conversations in grade school and even high school too?
Can't you realize that anything can be used as a tool of criminals/terrorists/groupofpeoplethatscaresyou?
--
This reminds of a story I heard (can't remember where). Anyway, some people were discussing privacy and one person said just what you said "What are you trying to hide?"
Another person, whom she was arguing with, picked up her purse and begin looking through it. She immediately snatched it back.
The person who took her purse said "Get the point?" She did.
--
Why wait for AOL to release a linux client when there's gaim, everybuddy, kit(kde)...
--
Well, that depends on what you belive. Personaly, I believe that "being human" is one of the major points of existence. Freedom is a necessary ingredient to "being human". Communism would therefore be seen as inherently evil.
I used to believe that communism would be ok if people were perfect. Then I realized that it still took away freedom. I never believed communism could be good with imperfect people.
--
Imagine sitting around your coffe table with the guys, watching the superbowl as if you were there... I guess you'd want more than 8 colors, but I think what would be worth paying for.
I think any sportscast would be enhaced by 3d, but I wonder how sitcom's would look?
Video games, of course, would also sell for a 3d display.
It depends where how you look at it. The earth, being in free fall around the sun, weighs nothing. It is quite massive, however, when compared to average mass of items sent through the postal service. Unfortunately, the post office weighs letters instead of massing them :(
Weighed with respect to the :CueCat, the earth weighs only several
ounces.
Either way, it won't cost much to ship the earth anywhere.
We won't object to commercial software that is intended to run on Debian systems, and we'll allow others to create value-added distributions containing both Debian and commercial software, without any fee from us.
I am backing up my post with information I found online from an elctrical engineer. Turns out I was right though (not that I had any doubt :) I thank the person who emailed me and made me back my comment up.
Actually, electrons themselves don't travel very fast. It's what they pass between themselves that travels at the speed of light. Nothing with mass can reach the speed of light according to the General Theory of Relativity.
Okay, so what is it that they pass between each other??? Einstein was not entirely right...
Damn, I'm not an electrical engineer... I do remember reading that somewhere however. Hang on while I search for some info... Searched Google for "electricity." I am now reading http://www.amasci.com/ele-edu.html... Aha! Click on "Barriers to Understanding Electricity," and then "ELECTONS FLOW AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT," to come to http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/miscon/eleca.html#li
Thank you for calling my semi-bluff and making me actually prove what I said. I actually enjoyed looking this up and learned a couple things
Actually, electrons themselves don't travel very fast. It's what they pass between themselves that travels at the speed of light. Nothing with mass can reach the speed of light according to the General Theory of Relativity.
That sounds interesting, but how do you get your hands on a powerful enough radio transmitter? Are radio signals traceable? Can't you triangulate the signal and find the point of origin?
Obviously, I have no idea what I'm talking about, but couldn't we set up some sort of network of those $50 2-mile range walkie-talkies that would be similar to the concept of the Internet. Getting across the ocean or to rural areas would require more power...
You could also use the mail system as a means of code distribution. You could mail CD's or the text of the code or some sort of bar-code version that could be easily converted to source code without the errors of OCR.
The mail would be slower, but it could be a start to get the code out to several hundred people anyway. If you don't put a return address and use public mailboxes I can't see how this could be traceable unless return addresses become mandatory or the FBI or whoever starts watching mails without return addresses. Of course, you should start sending all your non-important mail without return addresses as an added smoke signal.