Good point, but I think the online gaming cheaters have a different motivation. Where the Dads just wanted to build a great Pinewood car, the cheaters want to cheat to win, and given the choice between a straight environment and a 'please cheat' environment, they'll go to the straight version because it will be too hard to win against all the damn cheaters in the other place.
I agree with the poster who said to play with friends, that's the only way. Or play a moderated game where the administrator can spot and kick clients. I used to temporarily ban cheater's IP addresses from my firewall when running a Q3 server.
I thought the same about the hold function, but I just found a hold function in the menu. Not sure if this was added in the 1.80 firmware or not. It's a little awkward to activate (Menu, scroll-scroll-scroll, enter, etc.)
I've got an S35S too. Haven't had those static bursts you describe, and it's only done a hard reset once (which wiped out its memory). And while it has one of the nicest displays (IMHO) there are some serious shortcomings:
Can't upload from the unit. Must be an anti-sharing 'feature'. Deters illegal file sharing, but impinges on fair/legal use as well.
The non-standard USB cable and proprietary software are an inconvenience. If I'm on the road and want to download some mp3's from a friends collection, I would have to bring my special Rio USB cable and CDROM with their music manager software. I wish you could just plug the thing in with a standard USB cable and read/write files like a 'thumb drive'.
The 1.80 fireware revision sounded like a good deal, but the thing takes about 5 extra seconds to 'boot up' when you switch on the power. Bummer.
Plus, the mp3 decoding doesn't really sound that good. I have a ton of "professionally encoded" eMusic mp3's and they sound much worse on the S35S than on WinAMP or XMMS.
I wonder if I could claim that as a defect in workmanship under the 90-day warranty and exchange this for a solvent company's player?
Security-enhanced Linux is only a research prototype that is intended to demonstrate mandatory controls in a modern operating system like Linux and thus is very unlikely to meet any interesting definition of secure system.
and
Security-enhanced Linux is not part of any currently approved version of Linux and has no special or additional approval for government use over any other version of Linux.
So maybe NSA Linux isn't the answer, the NSA thing just seemed obvious since we're talking about government use. However, it almost sounds like they might have an approved version of Linux available. Wonder if they're experimenting with that...
"It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into computing networks," Allchin testified. "Computers, including many running Windows operating systems, are used throughout the United States Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United States in Afghanistan and elsewhere."
Then why isn't the military running NSA Linux? Because they don't like OpenOffice? Because they can't see Sorenson video in Quicktime? Because Opera borks their MSN page?
if it were this whole war business would be out the window
Well, according to Ari Fleischer, if the potential war with Iraq were about the oil then the administration would just lift the embargo and let the oil flow. (Time magazine, a week or two ago)
Apollo 13 was awesome! You hit the nail on the head. Better than that movie about the design and building of the atom bomb, where the engineers were manipulated.
So with cinematic success, why do we have "Magnum, PI" but not "Anderson, PE"? (professional engineer)
My friends (mostly engineers) and I were discussing the success of shows like ER, Law and Order, Ally McBeal, Scrubs, etc. It seems like the popular shows are based on doctors, lawyers, or police work.
"Why not a show about engineers?" someone asked.
"Yeah, we could call it 'CR' - Conference Room! They could show us sitting around at boring meetings, eating doughnuts, writing emails and stuff..."
That's when we realized why there are no shows about engineers.
You can find FSV (File System Visualizer) at Sourceforge. It's a take-off on fsn. Works pretty well but the field of view seems a little tighter. Still, it's great for finding the larger files/directories if you're running tight on space.
Yeah, maybe so. Still rubbed me the wrong way. When I see a movie, the time of payment is so close to the time of service that it seems immediate. But billing me for a month of service that I haven't yet used... that seemed wrong. Not granting a request to change it seemed wrong (many companies will grant a request to change the date on which the billing cycle starts).
Maybe as an 'insider' you can explain my other gripe. Why was it that every time the government made them lower the rates, their programming costs increased MORE than the rate cut? It's like the gas stations that were forbidden from charging extra for credit card use, so they raised their rates and gave a discount for cash payment!
Yeah, the "a la carte" option. We'd go for that. We really don't watch much TV to justify a huge platinum package, but I'd pay less for a few channel s (SciFi, CNN, Discovery/Nickelodeon for the kids, etc).
I'd be very surprised if they lack the technology to do this. They blanket the continent with their signal, adding subscribers costs next-to-nothing, it's just more money rolling in. So as long as the signal is still being transmitted, they may as well try to bargain SOMETHING out of me. They just don't want the general population catching on, or everyone will want to do it.
I enjoyed telling the cable people to screw off. They charged me in advance of services rendered (!) and everytime a legislated rate decrease was passed, they would somehow have in increase in operating costs that exceeded it (so rates would go up anyway).
But then I went to DirecTV, and it felt good to not be the hostage of the cable company... until I realized I was still a hostage.
I do have DSL, but we finally booted DirecTV. It was just too much money every month. I tried calling customer service to see if I could step down to a more economical package (maybe with the 10-15 channels I actually watch) but they told me I was already at the lowest level (which has seemingly hundreds of channels). The infuriating part: when I called to cancel they said I could switch to a cheaper package with less channels.
But anyway, this is about IP addresses and NAT; coudln't we have a kernel/netfilter module that will resequence all outgoing packets consecutively and reverse on the return?
No, there is a pervasive movement in corporate culture to push products out the door quickly to beat the competition. Everything is rushed, engineering is done from preliminary designs before the market research is back, and in the end you ship some ghastly product that's hard to use and misses the mark on key features, and might even be beta quality with tons of upcoming software updates courtesy of the "we'll fix it in firmware" mentality. It's like something straight out of a Dilbert comic.
The people whom you think are lazy just want things that work like they expect.
Touche. You're right, it's not infinite. But with the number of chess positions greater than the number of atoms in the universe, it's clearly impossible today, right? But you say that some future computer will SURELY be able to do it? Man, that's gutsy. Quantum computer, you think?
I see what you're saying, and I agree that it's finite. It's just such a staggeringly large problem; I'll stand by the idea that "theoretically possible" does not mean "will definitely happen someday."
I once estimated that you'd need around 60 MP to equal film. But the signal-to-noise is so low in some digital imaging sensors that you don't such extreme resolution to have comparable image quality. See the Digital Camera Image Quality page.
Also, check out the Canon EOS-1Ds review where this 11 MP camera's image quality comparable to 35 mm film.
I think $0.25 just like it used to be: nostalgic price for a nostalgic game. Yeah, there was inflation, but there's also Moore's law (meaning today's arcade games are much more sophisticated, even if they're not better for it).
Uh, no. Here they say "The preferred choice of independent professionals, enthusiasts, and students worldwide." (emphasis mine) Note they still have a 'personal' version. It's bad business to ignore a demographic, and how hard would it be to include some packages and add options under the "Multimedia" section of the installer? Isn't this sort of thing the reason why they developed RPM? So you can add/remove what you want from an installation? But I gripe too much, they did an awesome job.
The Red Hat Speaks on 8.0 and Multimedia page specifically mentions only mp3 audio. Even if MPEG-1 video is banned, they could still include kino and libdv.
That last link is a good one, though, they mention where to get Acrobat Reader, RealPlayer, Macromedia Flash, xine...
Ditto here! RH 8.0 is nice, and you hit the nail on the head:
Extras? (slaps forehead) So THAT'S where gftp, abiword, tux racer etc. went. What were they thinking? Half of the menu items removed and duplicated under "Extras"?
And although I can't knock them for the.mp3 support, I thought 'Psyche' was surprisingly weak on video tools. Why not include Kino, dvgrab, gscanbus, avifile, mjpegtools, mplayer, etc?
Silicon Film Technologies should be on there, hands down. They won in 2000 or so. You'd think after two more years they'd find a way to make this work.
It's vapor, but it could be the road to digital for people with high-quality 35mm SLR cameras. Everyone wants to go digital for the convenience, the instant feedback on the shot, the uh, privacy of not going through a photo lab, etc. There must be over a million people with SLR's of higher optical quality than most of today's point-and-shoot digitals.
In fact, I can't imagine why this hasn't flown. I don't think anyone else has beaten them to the punch, and it seems technically feasible. Maybe they can't get the sensor thin enough to close the camera back?
JEJones, you'll probably never see this since this post was from 12/5.
Anyway, we're on the same wavelength, I agree that Halle Berry totally wrong for the role, but my fear is that they'll screw up the whole thing and try to dress it up, make it something it's not. It deserves better.
Yeah, slick, but the Current Project Status lists "Recent" results from 1998 benchmarked against Linux kernel 2.0.34! The latest pre-release on the status page is EROS v0.8.3, but the link to release notes is for EROS v1.1!
How is a newcomer to the project supposed to find out what it's all about? That's like a sign that says "If you like your shit together, go away."
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Good point, but I think the online gaming cheaters have a different motivation. Where the Dads just wanted to build a great Pinewood car, the cheaters want to cheat to win, and given the choice between a straight environment and a 'please cheat' environment, they'll go to the straight version because it will be too hard to win against all the damn cheaters in the other place.
I agree with the poster who said to play with friends, that's the only way. Or play a moderated game where the administrator can spot and kick clients. I used to temporarily ban cheater's IP addresses from my firewall when running a Q3 server.
Agreed on the FF feature.
I thought the same about the hold function, but I just found a hold function in the menu. Not sure if this was added in the 1.80 firmware or not. It's a little awkward to activate (Menu, scroll-scroll-scroll, enter, etc.)
I've got an S35S too. Haven't had those static bursts you describe, and it's only done a hard reset once (which wiped out its memory). And while it has one of the nicest displays (IMHO) there are some serious shortcomings:
Can't upload from the unit. Must be an anti-sharing 'feature'. Deters illegal file sharing, but impinges on fair/legal use as well.
The non-standard USB cable and proprietary software are an inconvenience. If I'm on the road and want to download some mp3's from a friends collection, I would have to bring my special Rio USB cable and CDROM with their music manager software. I wish you could just plug the thing in with a standard USB cable and read/write files like a 'thumb drive'.
The 1.80 fireware revision sounded like a good deal, but the thing takes about 5 extra seconds to 'boot up' when you switch on the power. Bummer.
Plus, the mp3 decoding doesn't really sound that good. I have a ton of "professionally encoded" eMusic mp3's and they sound much worse on the S35S than on WinAMP or XMMS.
I wonder if I could claim that as a defect in workmanship under the 90-day warranty and exchange this for a solvent company's player?
OK, before I get flamed, yes I see in the FAQ:
Security-enhanced Linux is only a research prototype that is intended to demonstrate mandatory controls in a modern operating system like Linux and thus is very unlikely to meet any interesting definition of secure system.
and
Security-enhanced Linux is not part of any currently approved version of Linux and has no special or additional approval for government use over any other version of Linux.
So maybe NSA Linux isn't the answer, the NSA thing just seemed obvious since we're talking about government use. However, it almost sounds like they might have an approved version of Linux available. Wonder if they're experimenting with that...
If, according to Allchin:
"It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into computing networks," Allchin testified. "Computers, including many running Windows operating systems, are used throughout the United States Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United States in Afghanistan and elsewhere."
Then why isn't the military running NSA Linux? Because they don't like OpenOffice? Because they can't see Sorenson video in Quicktime? Because Opera borks their MSN page?
if it were this whole war business would be out the window
Well, according to Ari Fleischer, if the potential war with Iraq were about the oil then the administration would just lift the embargo and let the oil flow. (Time magazine, a week or two ago)
Anyone believe that?
Apollo 13 was awesome! You hit the nail on the head. Better than that movie about the design and building of the atom bomb, where the engineers were manipulated.
So with cinematic success, why do we have "Magnum, PI" but not "Anderson, PE"? (professional engineer)
My friends (mostly engineers) and I were discussing the success of shows like ER, Law and Order, Ally McBeal, Scrubs, etc. It seems like the popular shows are based on doctors, lawyers, or police work.
"Why not a show about engineers?" someone asked.
"Yeah, we could call it 'CR' - Conference Room! They could show us sitting around at boring meetings, eating doughnuts, writing emails and stuff..."
That's when we realized why there are no shows about engineers.
You can find FSV (File System Visualizer) at Sourceforge. It's a take-off on fsn. Works pretty well but the field of view seems a little tighter. Still, it's great for finding the larger files/directories if you're running tight on space.
Yeah, maybe so. Still rubbed me the wrong way. When I see a movie, the time of payment is so close to the time of service that it seems immediate. But billing me for a month of service that I haven't yet used... that seemed wrong. Not granting a request to change it seemed wrong (many companies will grant a request to change the date on which the billing cycle starts).
Maybe as an 'insider' you can explain my other gripe. Why was it that every time the government made them lower the rates, their programming costs increased MORE than the rate cut? It's like the gas stations that were forbidden from charging extra for credit card use, so they raised their rates and gave a discount for cash payment!
I guess I'm just in a ranting mood today.
Yeah, the "a la carte" option. We'd go for that. We really don't watch much TV to justify a huge platinum package, but I'd pay less for a few channel s (SciFi, CNN, Discovery/Nickelodeon for the kids, etc).
I'd be very surprised if they lack the technology to do this. They blanket the continent with their signal, adding subscribers costs next-to-nothing, it's just more money rolling in. So as long as the signal is still being transmitted, they may as well try to bargain SOMETHING out of me. They just don't want the general population catching on, or everyone will want to do it.
I enjoyed telling the cable people to screw off. They charged me in advance of services rendered (!) and everytime a legislated rate decrease was passed, they would somehow have in increase in operating costs that exceeded it (so rates would go up anyway).
But then I went to DirecTV, and it felt good to not be the hostage of the cable company... until I realized I was still a hostage.
I do have DSL, but we finally booted DirecTV. It was just too much money every month. I tried calling customer service to see if I could step down to a more economical package (maybe with the 10-15 channels I actually watch) but they told me I was already at the lowest level (which has seemingly hundreds of channels). The infuriating part: when I called to cancel they said I could switch to a cheaper package with less channels.
But anyway, this is about IP addresses and NAT; coudln't we have a kernel/netfilter module that will resequence all outgoing packets consecutively and reverse on the return?
No, there is a pervasive movement in corporate culture to push products out the door quickly to beat the competition. Everything is rushed, engineering is done from preliminary designs before the market research is back, and in the end you ship some ghastly product that's hard to use and misses the mark on key features, and might even be beta quality with tons of upcoming software updates courtesy of the "we'll fix it in firmware" mentality. It's like something straight out of a Dilbert comic.
The people whom you think are lazy just want things that work like they expect.
For example, Wisconsin's Do Not Call List affects out-of-state telemarketers, with exceptions for non-commercial, non-profit and a few other uses.
Touche. You're right, it's not infinite. But with the number of chess positions greater than the number of atoms in the universe, it's clearly impossible today, right? But you say that some future computer will SURELY be able to do it? Man, that's gutsy. Quantum computer, you think?
I see what you're saying, and I agree that it's finite. It's just such a staggeringly large problem; I'll stand by the idea that "theoretically possible" does not mean "will definitely happen someday."
You're forgetting how many chess board configurations there are. It may be theoretically finite, but practically speaking it's infinite.
And even if you only tabulate the endgame positions, it won't do you any good. You'll get shredded in the midgame.
I once estimated that you'd need around 60 MP to equal film. But the signal-to-noise is so low in some digital imaging sensors that you don't such extreme resolution to have comparable image quality. See the Digital Camera Image Quality page.
Also, check out the Canon EOS-1Ds review where this 11 MP camera's image quality comparable to 35 mm film.
I think $0.25 just like it used to be: nostalgic price for a nostalgic game. Yeah, there was inflation, but there's also Moore's law (meaning today's arcade games are much more sophisticated, even if they're not better for it).
Uh, no. Here they say "The preferred choice of independent professionals, enthusiasts, and students worldwide." (emphasis mine) Note they still have a 'personal' version. It's bad business to ignore a demographic, and how hard would it be to include some packages and add options under the "Multimedia" section of the installer? Isn't this sort of thing the reason why they developed RPM? So you can add/remove what you want from an installation? But I gripe too much, they did an awesome job.
The Red Hat Speaks on 8.0 and Multimedia page specifically mentions only mp3 audio. Even if MPEG-1 video is banned, they could still include kino and libdv.
That last link is a good one, though, they mention where to get Acrobat Reader, RealPlayer, Macromedia Flash, xine...
Ditto here! RH 8.0 is nice, and you hit the nail on the head:
.mp3 support, I thought 'Psyche' was surprisingly weak on video tools. Why not include Kino, dvgrab, gscanbus, avifile, mjpegtools, mplayer, etc?
Extras? (slaps forehead) So THAT'S where gftp, abiword, tux racer etc. went. What were they thinking? Half of the menu items removed and duplicated under "Extras"?
And although I can't knock them for the
Silicon Film Technologies should be on there, hands down. They won in 2000 or so. You'd think after two more years they'd find a way to make this work.
It's vapor, but it could be the road to digital for people with high-quality 35mm SLR cameras. Everyone wants to go digital for the convenience, the instant feedback on the shot, the uh, privacy of not going through a photo lab, etc. There must be over a million people with SLR's of higher optical quality than most of today's point-and-shoot digitals.
In fact, I can't imagine why this hasn't flown. I don't think anyone else has beaten them to the punch, and it seems technically feasible. Maybe they can't get the sensor thin enough to close the camera back?
JEJones, you'll probably never see this since this post was from 12/5.
Anyway, we're on the same wavelength, I agree that Halle Berry totally wrong for the role, but my fear is that they'll screw up the whole thing and try to dress it up, make it something it's not. It deserves better.
Plus, it will be hard to get that browser working in EROS when "There is currently no graphics support." Straight out of the FAQ.
I don't think this is the particular solution most people have in mind. Yeah, there may be a couple fanatic lynx users out there: not me.
I'll grant you that from a theoretical perspective, your argument might be sound. But no way in the near term.
Yeah, slick, but the Current Project Status lists "Recent" results from 1998 benchmarked against Linux kernel 2.0.34! The latest pre-release on the status page is EROS v0.8.3, but the link to release notes is for EROS v1.1!
How is a newcomer to the project supposed to find out what it's all about? That's like a sign that says "If you like your shit together, go away."
It depends, which is exactly the point of needing standards. I think with gdm you can configure it to restart the X-server between logins, or not.