thats not ANSI, thats ASCII... damnit, trolls are bad enough, but dumb trolls... ANSI is a standards group that creates standards for things like C++ (which, of course, no compiler actually follows...)... anyway, this is offtopic, but i could not allow the idiocy to exist..
I cant wait to see what the gui for v2os is going to be like. Maybe I'll join up, and help out a little...
an OS written in pure assembler.. hehehe, that OS sounds like a speed demon, I'm going to be looking into it from now on.
Alas, I have no floppy drive, so I will have to wait a bit... The little gumby looking mascot is a little odd, my favorite OS mascot is always the BSD devil. Tux is fat, someone tell him to lose some weight...
It's a KVM switch that uses ethernet... As a previous poster pointed out, what is so good about having multiple things to fail? I'd much rather use real PCS...
What about the Jehovah's Witness protection system. Protect them from getting their ass kicked by moving them politely (or impolitely) out of the way. Not to be confused with the previously mentioned life insurance man removal service (TM).
I would imagine they could use subsonic sound, but still it doesn't say if it will damage thing, i.e. breaking glass is first on my mind. No, sound doesnt have to be high pitched to break glass, just a certain freqeuncy. But its a neat idea...
...as I have no time to clean my house. This would be even better than having a house cleaning robot, with an even better wow factor. Of course, I could be wrong, if you get hit by dishes trying to set themselves or something. Could you imagine the chicks when you show them your self cleaning house?
Yeah, if it was a windows convention, how would you find all the good linux software, amid all the MS shitware. There are MS only conventions, but less alternative only conventions, so its always good to have another...
Some of that stuff was interesting, especially about QNX running nuclear reactors. Maybe it's worth a look for my simple PC? Oh well, all this anti MS talk gets me hoping about the future of alternative OSes. They were missing my personal favorite, BeOS, but what can you do? And where can i get one of those souped up amigas?
hehehehe, it specificly mentions him on the summercon page...
Who's Invited:
Calling all hackers, phreakers, phrackers, feds,
2600 kids, cops, security professionals, Y-WiND0z3,
r00t kids club, press, groupies, chicks, conf whores
and k0d3 kids. And everyone else.
Anyway, this stuff is interesting, kinda like ancient history for me, I was actually probably one of the lamers that bugged you guys so much, but IANALA (I am not a lamer anymore).
What if you get a virus.... All the sudden you're naked in a crowd of people... That could get quite embarassing. Or better yet, scipt kiddies NDoS (naked denial of service) attacking people. Everyone would need a CFD (clothing firewall device)
I saw an article on sciencedaily here. It basicly says that co2 levels and methanes levels balance each other out, or something to the like. I wouldnt worry too much about global warming though, at least not in the sense of 'we're going to turn earth into venus, and have to move to mars' kinda way. The article says that studies that take into account that urban areas are where most measurements occur disprove rapid global warming.
and about that article, how the hell do they know CO2 levels from 20 million years ago?
As far as the 'royalty' goes... kind of hard to fathom how much money the RIAA would actually get when buying a 50 pack spindle for $15 means each blank only costs $0.30 each. Then again, it probably adds up. Like someone else said, distribution/shipping probably makes up for more than the majority of the sale price of such blanks. I wonder if anyone has any information at all as to how much of each blank goes to where. From the looks of it, manufacturers are making very little profit nowadays if we're working it out to under a half a buck for each disc.
The RIAA only gets rolayties on the special 'audio' cdrs(the only kind that work in the cd recorders by philips and stuff). The spindles you buy at staples aren't subject to the same royalties because PCs arent considered home audio recorders, YET....
Has no one heard of the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
Matter can be neither created or destroyed, only transformed. That said, I propose a new method to deal with the need for energy. We should research cheaper ways to make our own fuels if we even need too. Who says we are stuck with what nature gives us? Fusion is a good idea as well. My personal idea would be to hold it in a magnetic field in a vacuum, or in space, if creating such a vacuum on earth is counter productive. After all, that is how the sun works. Of course you'd still need a method for getting all the energy that fusion produces, but that's for another discussion...
Oil in shale is actually a very good source of oil, but the enviromentalists would never allow much mining of shale, as it is normally much too harmful to the local ecosystems, somewhat like strip mining...
These alarmists irritate me sometimes... I agree with Scott that earth will last more than 1,000. For one, Hawking doesnt take into the account that technology will probably solve its own problem. Secondly, there is no real proof of global warming, although I do agree it may be a risk factor. I think it's a bit arrogant to believe that we have that much of an effect on the atmosphere. Cows and volcanoes produce more CH4 and C02 than most industry together. I also think we should colonize other planets, because eventually the earth will die, whether it's in 1,000 years or 1,000,000 or even 1,000,000,000.
Besides, space is just damn cool...
also add a bill saying that patents can only be awarded to things that could have been kept as trade secrets, if the inventor had chose to not patent it.
I agree with this for software/internet type things. But for most physical things, it would be hard to keep a design a trade secret, even though I think the do deserver patent protection.
I think its a good idea that citizens can challenge stupid patents.
Boucher also said that the bill could amend application procedures by adding "new protections to the beginning and end of the current process," allowing the public to submit "evidence that the claimed invention is already in use."
The bill would also establish an "opposition procedure" at the conclusion of the process, "so that the public at large would have one additional opportunity to challenge the award of a business method patent short of having to file a lawsuit," said Boucher.
Note the part about claimed inventions already being in use. RAMBUS anyone?
This could help with alot of stupid patents, if it actually gets passed...
...that they couldnt even black out the review team's names.
In addition, Ms. Watney said the blacked-out information, including names, phone numbers, and security-clearance information, was not "sensitive law-enforcement information."
um, ok....
Security-clearance info and phone numbers are not sensitive info? I'd like to hear what is... Really, though, if they cant protect the privacy of their own (biased) review team, what are they going to do to the rest of the american people's privacy. Everyone needs to start using some 2048 bit encryption, see them try to crack that...
No, not the G400, unless youre talking about a linux card. The ATI Radeon is a great 2d card. But, alas, I am stuck with a oc'd voodoo 3 and a p3 450. I still get ok framerates in high res/normal detail and low res/highdetail. I alternate depending on how im feeling. I think UT is better than Q3a acutally...
They could probably 'coerce' Creative to fix that, but it will be much harder with software. How easy would it be to write a program the takes the windows waveout and writes it to a file, it can be done in beos too, and even though I am not too much of a linux hacker, I know its possible there too. What's the easiest way?
Yes, watermarking could work, but it won't. People will continue to use mp3 or vorbis or something else. The technology behind SDMI is all fine and good, but who's goona use it?
Not even the RIAA has the power to force everyone to switch from mp3 to SDMI encoding. People will continue to make and play mp3, and maybe vorbis now...:) Even if they get some people to switch, its simple to just write a program the captures output from the sound api, and records it into a wave file for later recompression. I refuse to buy a player that uses SDMI, so it wont be an issue for me...
They only gave about a month to hack it for the $10,000. Still, it could be done. It would be lots more fun just to bug the RIAA, and crack it the day it officially starts being used, or something.
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thats not ANSI, thats ASCII... damnit, trolls are bad enough, but dumb trolls... ANSI is a standards group that creates standards for things like C++ (which, of course, no compiler actually follows...)... anyway, this is offtopic, but i could not allow the idiocy to exist..
I cant wait to see what the gui for v2os is going to be like. Maybe I'll join up, and help out a little...
an OS written in pure assembler.. hehehe, that OS sounds like a speed demon, I'm going to be looking into it from now on.
Alas, I have no floppy drive, so I will have to wait a bit... The little gumby looking mascot is a little odd, my favorite OS mascot is always the BSD devil. Tux is fat, someone tell him to lose some weight...
I personally like Penguin Computing, cheaper than VA or IBM... still, all three are good choices...
It's a KVM switch that uses ethernet... As a previous poster pointed out, what is so good about having multiple things to fail? I'd much rather use real PCS...
What about the Jehovah's Witness protection system. Protect them from getting their ass kicked by moving them politely (or impolitely) out of the way. Not to be confused with the previously mentioned life insurance man removal service (TM).
I would imagine they could use subsonic sound, but still it doesn't say if it will damage thing, i.e. breaking glass is first on my mind. No, sound doesnt have to be high pitched to break glass, just a certain freqeuncy. But its a neat idea...
...as I have no time to clean my house. This would be even better than having a house cleaning robot, with an even better wow factor. Of course, I could be wrong, if you get hit by dishes trying to set themselves or something. Could you imagine the chicks when you show them your self cleaning house?
Yeah, if it was a windows convention, how would you find all the good linux software, amid all the MS shitware. There are MS only conventions, but less alternative only conventions, so its always good to have another...
did anyone think that was funny?
Some of that stuff was interesting, especially about QNX running nuclear reactors. Maybe it's worth a look for my simple PC? Oh well, all this anti MS talk gets me hoping about the future of alternative OSes. They were missing my personal favorite, BeOS, but what can you do? And where can i get one of those souped up amigas?
hehehehe, it specificly mentions him on the summercon page...
Who's Invited: Calling all hackers, phreakers, phrackers, feds, 2600 kids, cops, security professionals, Y-WiND0z3, r00t kids club, press, groupies, chicks, conf whores and k0d3 kids. And everyone else.
Anyway, this stuff is interesting, kinda like ancient history for me, I was actually probably one of the lamers that bugged you guys so much, but IANALA (I am not a lamer anymore).
Um, there is a 3d pong...
Ok, maybe not in this context, but still... I for one never liked pong. Legend of Zelda was what brought me into videogames, and Mario.
What if you get a virus.... All the sudden you're naked in a crowd of people... That could get quite embarassing. Or better yet, scipt kiddies NDoS (naked denial of service) attacking people. Everyone would need a CFD (clothing firewall device)
I saw an article on sciencedaily here. It basicly says that co2 levels and methanes levels balance each other out, or something to the like. I wouldnt worry too much about global warming though, at least not in the sense of 'we're going to turn earth into venus, and have to move to mars' kinda way. The article says that studies that take into account that urban areas are where most measurements occur disprove rapid global warming.
and about that article, how the hell do they know CO2 levels from 20 million years ago?
As far as the 'royalty' goes... kind of hard to fathom how much money the RIAA would actually get when buying a 50 pack spindle for $15 means each blank only costs $0.30 each. Then again, it probably adds up. Like someone else said, distribution/shipping probably makes up for more than the majority of the sale price of such blanks. I wonder if anyone has any information at all as to how much of each blank goes to where. From the looks of it, manufacturers are making very little profit nowadays if we're working it out to under a half a buck for each disc.
The RIAA only gets rolayties on the special 'audio' cdrs(the only kind that work in the cd recorders by philips and stuff). The spindles you buy at staples aren't subject to the same royalties because PCs arent considered home audio recorders, YET....
Has no one heard of the 2nd law of thermodynamics? Matter can be neither created or destroyed, only transformed. That said, I propose a new method to deal with the need for energy. We should research cheaper ways to make our own fuels if we even need too. Who says we are stuck with what nature gives us? Fusion is a good idea as well. My personal idea would be to hold it in a magnetic field in a vacuum, or in space, if creating such a vacuum on earth is counter productive. After all, that is how the sun works. Of course you'd still need a method for getting all the energy that fusion produces, but that's for another discussion...
Oil in shale is actually a very good source of oil, but the enviromentalists would never allow much mining of shale, as it is normally much too harmful to the local ecosystems, somewhat like strip mining...
These alarmists irritate me sometimes... I agree with Scott that earth will last more than 1,000. For one, Hawking doesnt take into the account that technology will probably solve its own problem. Secondly, there is no real proof of global warming, although I do agree it may be a risk factor. I think it's a bit arrogant to believe that we have that much of an effect on the atmosphere. Cows and volcanoes produce more CH4 and C02 than most industry together. I also think we should colonize other planets, because eventually the earth will die, whether it's in 1,000 years or 1,000,000 or even 1,000,000,000.
Besides, space is just damn cool...
also add a bill saying that patents can only be awarded to things that could have been kept as trade secrets, if the inventor had chose to not patent it.
I agree with this for software/internet type things. But for most physical things, it would be hard to keep a design a trade secret, even though I think the do deserver patent protection.
I think its a good idea that citizens can challenge stupid patents.
Boucher also said that the bill could amend application procedures by adding "new protections to the beginning and end of the current process," allowing the public to submit "evidence that the claimed invention is already in use." The bill would also establish an "opposition procedure" at the conclusion of the process, "so that the public at large would have one additional opportunity to challenge the award of a business method patent short of having to file a lawsuit," said Boucher.
Note the part about claimed inventions already being in use. RAMBUS anyone?
This could help with alot of stupid patents, if it actually gets passed...
...that they couldnt even black out the review team's names.
In addition, Ms. Watney said the blacked-out information, including names, phone numbers, and security-clearance information, was not "sensitive law-enforcement information."
um, ok....
Security-clearance info and phone numbers are not sensitive info? I'd like to hear what is... Really, though, if they cant protect the privacy of their own (biased) review team, what are they going to do to the rest of the american people's privacy. Everyone needs to start using some 2048 bit encryption, see them try to crack that...
No, not the G400, unless youre talking about a linux card. The ATI Radeon is a great 2d card. But, alas, I am stuck with a oc'd voodoo 3 and a p3 450. I still get ok framerates in high res/normal detail and low res/highdetail. I alternate depending on how im feeling. I think UT is better than Q3a acutally...
They could probably 'coerce' Creative to fix that, but it will be much harder with software. How easy would it be to write a program the takes the windows waveout and writes it to a file, it can be done in beos too, and even though I am not too much of a linux hacker, I know its possible there too. What's the easiest way?
Yes, watermarking could work, but it won't. People will continue to use mp3 or vorbis or something else. The technology behind SDMI is all fine and good, but who's goona use it?
Not even the RIAA has the power to force everyone to switch from mp3 to SDMI encoding. People will continue to make and play mp3, and maybe vorbis now... :) Even if they get some people to switch, its simple to just write a program the captures output from the sound api, and records it into a wave file for later recompression. I refuse to buy a player that uses SDMI, so it wont be an issue for me...
They only gave about a month to hack it for the $10,000. Still, it could be done. It would be lots more fun just to bug the RIAA, and crack it the day it officially starts being used, or something.