at first glance (from the title of the post) i thought you were going to ask if software should be burned in, and then i would have to slap you... but you didn't.
Some good burn-in software... continuously compile your linux kernel, that will keep your CPU pretty busy, and provide errors if something doesn't work.
I'm sure as soon as these things start getting popular, someone will make a line of oversized ones for absolutely no particular reason other than to consume more fuel and take up more space... oh yeah, and to look butt ugly!
I'll just stick to my Vespa, land scooter for now.
I've wondered the same thing before. I don't think RealAudio wants you to be able to save streams for liability reasons. And i just did some tinkering with winamp's writing capabilities... It appears that broadcasts using SHOUTcast (streaming MP3 ala live365) also do not allow you to record streams due to "copyright issues".
RIAA and associates, do not read below: If you are using windows, there's a piece of software called Stream Save that lets you save a SHOUTcast stream to disk (still in MP3 format). If you are running Linux there's a program called paudio that lets you capture and save raw audio data being written to the soundcard. You might be able to mod it to compress it to mp3/vorbis/whetever before it hits the disk with a little tinkering.
A company called Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp. makes a couple of cool products that would also help out in a situation like this. Oxygent is a blood substitute that transfers oxygen in the blood stream more efficiently. LiquiVent is an Oxygen rich liquid that they pump into your lungs that allows you to not have to breathe (like that mouse in the Movie Abyss).
They even have 3-D images... look. It makes me wish i had a pair of those red/blue glasses to see what it looks like (as if i can't guess). Don't get too excited now... you aren't really there... it's just an optical illusion.
And you thought your post would be anonymous under AC, but little do you know... i have already ordered a supeona in order to reveal your true identity!
If you want to get those 120x120 pics out of the watch you gots to have a Windoze boxen.
"Data Communication Specifications: Infrared Protocol: Casio original"
And to top it off it's not standard IR hardware either, they supply (read: you buy) a serial cable that has an IR port on the other end.
"Use only the separately available infrared adapter for the infrared data communication with a computer.
Data communication with an infrared port built into a computer is not supported." "Computer System Requirements
The following are the computer systems requirements for running the PC Link Software.
Computer: IBM PC/AT compatible
Operating System: Windows 95/87, Windows NT 4.0 (Mac OS not supported)
Port: 9-pin communication port only
Keyboard
Display: Resolution 800 x 600, 16-bit color or greater (recommended)
CD-ROM drive
Mouse or other equivalent pointing device"
I like how they require a mouse...
My review: Nothing more than a $200 conversation starter, and a cool toy.
Aparently you weren't reading close enough... From the referenced article (5th paragraph):
..." Australian-based Nautronix Ltd., which developed the computer with the Australian Institute of Marine Science and WetPC."
In other words the Aussies developed this computer for the Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center.
From the source: "So if one of the most important scientific discoveries has been made, why has there been so little news about it? The answer is that because of its great importance, experimentalists must be sure of the result before announcing it. There are four experimental detectors at CERN. Of these four, only Aleph is seeing convincing evidence of Higgs production. That detector sees three Higgs-candidate events. Another detector, Delphi, also thinks that it has produced one Higgs in a single positron-electron collision. Although Aleph states that the Higgs has been seen with better than 99% confidence, no strong claims can be made with so few events. CERN has decided to run its LEP experiment an extra month or so to try to produce more Higgs particles. If successful, an important announcement on the Higgs discovery will be made near the end of this year. "
Does anyone else find it odd how all the "detectors" are refered to? Are they automated somehow? they each have names, but they refer to 'it thinks it has discovered' etc.. is there some algorithm for it to determine whether it (the detector) discover's something?
It's pretty cool that presence of this particle IS mass. I wonder if too many of these in one place would cause a black hole? I'm always amused by the thought that someday science will advance to the point where they discover how to create black holes, and the black hole of the lab consumes all mankind...
or does the format of the PDF version look like an 8th grade research paper (tiny margins, large font, and double spaced)? I remember doing that to turn 3-4pgs of text into a 10pg paper. I wasn't aware of a page length requirement for bills;)
This is very pleasing to see some effort put forth by politicians to help stop the ludicrous 'let's patent everything' attitude people (large companies) have these days.
The patent system was set up to help spread knowledge and also to protect the originator's ideas (so a smart one man show doesn't get put out of business because a company with more money steal's his/her idea). And the knowledge part is simple: patents are there so people can SEE how you did something so that new ways to improve it can be thought up and new advancements can me made (almost open source that way, except the originator owns the rights... i guess it would just be 'read-only source').
It was a decent system until stingy businessmen and lawyers went and messed it up. The entire 'Net' needs it's own set of laws made up by the community that uses it (not some consortium of politicians/companies). This bill appears to be a reasonable beginning.
Univac was America's first commercial computer, released in 1951. Univac and it's non-commercial predecessor binac (1949) were both stored-program computers, which allowed them to make conditional branches (unlike the colossus).
Here's a passage (from the "A machine with all the answers" link at the bottom of the Colossal code article linked in the/. post, damn href won't link properly) that i found amusing:
The following year, univac was used to predict the outcome of the US presidential elections, but its human operators refused to believe its prediction of a landslide for Eisenhower and reprogrammed it to come up with a more "sensible" result. The actual result was indeed a landslide, prompting one wit to proclaim, "The trouble with machines is people."
Back to the topic of this/. article... in order to say "it's the first computer" we must say what it was the first for... the first mechanical computer(more like calculators), first electrical computer: decimal or binary, stored-instruction, etc.
Unlike Intel's processor with 3 i's, maybe Sun's WILL actually make the internet faster (from the server side of course, to reduce the "demands of the Net Effect" i.e./.)
for one thing the PIII-800 has been out longer than a month (which is when you got it). Secondly, the 1.6GHz is achieved through overclocking which leads to my last point: Moore's law (observation) refers to the number of transistors in a given die size will double in 18 months... which may or may not mean that the processor is twice as fast.
It appears that the link does not contain the same description as the Satire wire article... is somebody trying to sell the internet out from under Al Gore? I can't read the ebay item number from the graphic on their website to tell for sure.
If you're quick you can also get an Al Gore voodoo doll. Aparently you can also get Al Gore's driver's license.
This is true. (after reading your bio i realized this a good topic for you). I think what the x86-*nix community is really looking for is the new GUI that Mac has developed on top of the posix-compatible/bsd core. I don't know how much of the UI is built into the kernel, but if they could port the UI to x86 and run it on top of your favorite distro, you could have the nice fluffy mac interface (which the masses seems to like so much) and the tweakable core for the variations of x86 hardware.
I personaly think the X interface is what is killing linux from being more popular to the masses. The trick is having good default configurations such that to normal users it seems just like the older mac OSes, but to those who know you can open up a terminal and tweak to your hearts desire. Mac could easily get away with it because of the whole 'most people will never know the difference under the covers' of OS-X.
The biggest issue for mac porting darwin/os-x to the x86 would be the loss of their hardware market. As of now, macintosh is entirely a hardware manufacturer (like dell/gateway/etc. except they don't use x86) where they put their own operating system and software on that hardware. They do not make a single piece of silicon in the computers, and do not sell much of anything that benefits the x86 community hardware wise so porting to x86 would allow current mac harware buyers to get the same operating system they love on cheaper hardware. Given this, steve jobs will most likely kill the efforts for a port (i've heard rumors that darwin/os-x has been ported and is sitting/tied-down in a lab somewhere, screaming to be released).
Yes they might already have a DVD drive, but they most likely don't have a DVD-R/ram, which is the point of the article: MPEG-4 allowing the possibility of compressing a DVD onto a CD-R.
The most likely outcome of this would be renting/borowing a DVD and copying it to a CD-R to watch as many times as your heart desires.
Not to mention the compression inherent in the.jpgs that they use. Just look at the menu bar... with that kind of compression it's hard to tell by the stills which artifacts are due to the jpg, and which are due to the mpeg. Notice also that the player is in Stop mode for all the pics, which will not allow you to compare inter-frame problems. It'd be better if they had downloadable clips from a royalty free source (yeah right... royalty free comming from a DVD?)
And a note for the above comment: the analogy of DVD to divx isn't entirely correct... CD is pure PCM uncompressed where as DVD's are compressed to begin with... but your point is understood which is all that really matters.
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at first glance (from the title of the post) i thought you were going to ask if software should be burned in, and then i would have to slap you... but you didn't.
Some good burn-in software... continuously compile your linux kernel, that will keep your CPU pretty busy, and provide errors if something doesn't work.
I'm sure as soon as these things start getting popular, someone will make a line of oversized ones for absolutely no particular reason other than to consume more fuel and take up more space... oh yeah, and to look butt ugly!
I'll just stick to my Vespa, land scooter for now.
I've wondered the same thing before. I don't think RealAudio wants you to be able to save streams for liability reasons. And i just did some tinkering with winamp's writing capabilities... It appears that broadcasts using SHOUTcast (streaming MP3 ala live365) also do not allow you to record streams due to "copyright issues".
RIAA and associates, do not read below:
If you are using windows, there's a piece of software called Stream Save that lets you save a SHOUTcast stream to disk (still in MP3 format). If you are running Linux there's a program called paudio that lets you capture and save raw audio data being written to the soundcard. You might be able to mod it to compress it to mp3/vorbis/whetever before it hits the disk with a little tinkering.
A company called Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp. makes a couple of cool products that would also help out in a situation like this. Oxygent is a blood substitute that transfers oxygen in the blood stream more efficiently. LiquiVent is an Oxygen rich liquid that they pump into your lungs that allows you to not have to breathe (like that mouse in the Movie Abyss).
Are we going to have to feed the computers of the future?
They even have 3-D images... look. It makes me wish i had a pair of those red/blue glasses to see what it looks like (as if i can't guess). Don't get too excited now... you aren't really there... it's just an optical illusion.
And you thought your post would be anonymous under AC, but little do you know... i have already ordered a supeona in order to reveal your true identity!
If you want to get those 120x120 pics out of the watch you gots to have a Windoze boxen.
"Data Communication Specifications: Infrared Protocol: Casio original"
And to top it off it's not standard IR hardware either, they supply (read: you buy) a serial cable that has an IR port on the other end.
"Use only the separately available infrared adapter for the infrared data communication with a computer.
Data communication with an infrared port built into a computer is not supported."
"Computer System Requirements
The following are the computer systems requirements for running the PC Link Software.
Computer: IBM PC/AT compatible
Operating System: Windows 95/87, Windows NT 4.0 (Mac OS not supported)
Port: 9-pin communication port only
Keyboard
Display: Resolution 800 x 600, 16-bit color or greater (recommended)
CD-ROM drive
Mouse or other equivalent pointing device"
I like how they require a mouse...
My review: Nothing more than a $200 conversation starter, and a cool toy.
Aparently you weren't reading close enough...
..." Australian-based Nautronix Ltd., which developed the computer with the Australian Institute of Marine Science and WetPC."
From the referenced article (5th paragraph):
In other words the Aussies developed this computer for the Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center.
I thought that was the funniest thing in the whole quickies... i busted out laughing when the Mr. T van jumped the building tops.
From the source:
"So if one of the most important scientific discoveries has been made, why has there been so little news about it? The answer is that because of its great importance, experimentalists must be sure of the result before announcing it. There are four experimental detectors at CERN. Of these four, only Aleph is seeing convincing evidence of Higgs production. That detector sees three Higgs-candidate events. Another detector, Delphi, also thinks that it has produced one Higgs in a single positron-electron collision. Although Aleph states that the Higgs has been seen with better than 99% confidence, no strong claims can be made with so few events. CERN has decided to run its LEP experiment an extra month or so to try to produce more Higgs particles. If successful, an important announcement on the Higgs discovery will be made near the end of this year. "
Does anyone else find it odd how all the "detectors" are refered to? Are they automated somehow? they each have names, but they refer to 'it thinks it has discovered' etc.. is there some algorithm for it to determine whether it (the detector) discover's something?
It's pretty cool that presence of this particle IS mass. I wonder if too many of these in one place would cause a black hole? I'm always amused by the thought that someday science will advance to the point where they discover how to create black holes, and the black hole of the lab consumes all mankind...
or does the format of the PDF version look like an 8th grade research paper (tiny margins, large font, and double spaced)? I remember doing that to turn 3-4pgs of text into a 10pg paper. I wasn't aware of a page length requirement for bills ;)
This is very pleasing to see some effort put forth by politicians to help stop the ludicrous 'let's patent everything' attitude people (large companies) have these days.
The patent system was set up to help spread knowledge and also to protect the originator's ideas (so a smart one man show doesn't get put out of business because a company with more money steal's his/her idea). And the knowledge part is simple: patents are there so people can SEE how you did something so that new ways to improve it can be thought up and new advancements can me made (almost open source that way, except the originator owns the rights... i guess it would just be 'read-only source').
It was a decent system until stingy businessmen and lawyers went and messed it up. The entire 'Net' needs it's own set of laws made up by the community that uses it (not some consortium of politicians/companies). This bill appears to be a reasonable beginning.
a breif post for a short article which will lead to lots of meaningless posts like this one.
new slahsdot pole:
under my pants i wear:
[]briefs
[]shorts(boxers)
[]nothing
[x]bill gates
forces Taco to produce two grammatical errors in the same post!
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"...releases have been historically been pretty bad
"...over the years, so I the only thing..."
Back to the topic of this
Actually that's how it looked when i saw it originally:
(Score:)
by on (#)
i did say they took away the privilege, not that they abused it.
...that they also took away the privilege of first post: http://slashdot.o rg/comm ents.pl?sid=00/09/29/0231248&cid=1
and also that the sid uses tomorrow's date.
Unlike Intel's processor with 3 i's, maybe Sun's WILL actually make the internet faster (from the server side of course, to reduce the "demands of the Net Effect" i.e. /.)
for one thing the PIII-800 has been out longer than a month (which is when you got it). Secondly, the 1.6GHz is achieved through overclocking which leads to my last point: Moore's law (observation) refers to the number of transistors in a given die size will double in 18 months... which may or may not mean that the processor is twice as fast.
It appears that the link does not contain the same description as the Satire wire article... is somebody trying to sell the internet out from under Al Gore? I can't read the ebay item number from the graphic on their website to tell for sure.
If you're quick you can also get an Al Gore voodoo doll. Aparently you can also get Al Gore's driver's license.
This is true. (after reading your bio i realized this a good topic for you). I think what the x86-*nix community is really looking for is the new GUI that Mac has developed on top of the posix-compatible/bsd core. I don't know how much of the UI is built into the kernel, but if they could port the UI to x86 and run it on top of your favorite distro, you could have the nice fluffy mac interface (which the masses seems to like so much) and the tweakable core for the variations of x86 hardware.
I personaly think the X interface is what is killing linux from being more popular to the masses. The trick is having good default configurations such that to normal users it seems just like the older mac OSes, but to those who know you can open up a terminal and tweak to your hearts desire. Mac could easily get away with it because of the whole 'most people will never know the difference under the covers' of OS-X.
The biggest issue for mac porting darwin/os-x to the x86 would be the loss of their hardware market. As of now, macintosh is entirely a hardware manufacturer (like dell/gateway/etc. except they don't use x86) where they put their own operating system and software on that hardware. They do not make a single piece of silicon in the computers, and do not sell much of anything that benefits the x86 community hardware wise so porting to x86 would allow current mac harware buyers to get the same operating system they love on cheaper hardware. Given this, steve jobs will most likely kill the efforts for a port (i've heard rumors that darwin/os-x has been ported and is sitting/tied-down in a lab somewhere, screaming to be released).
Yes they might already have a DVD drive, but they most likely don't have a DVD-R/ram, which is the point of the article: MPEG-4 allowing the possibility of compressing a DVD onto a CD-R.
The most likely outcome of this would be renting/borowing a DVD and copying it to a CD-R to watch as many times as your heart desires.
Not to mention the compression inherent in the .jpgs that they use. Just look at the menu bar... with that kind of compression it's hard to tell by the stills which artifacts are due to the jpg, and which are due to the mpeg. Notice also that the player is in Stop mode for all the pics, which will not allow you to compare inter-frame problems. It'd be better if they had downloadable clips from a royalty free source (yeah right... royalty free comming from a DVD?)
And a note for the above comment: the analogy of DVD to divx isn't entirely correct... CD is pure PCM uncompressed where as DVD's are compressed to begin with... but your point is understood which is all that really matters.