Hopefully all these computer case and peripheral companies will have a standard black. On all the computers I own I have every single beige in the spectrum from dark to almost off-white. Almost none of the parts, from CD drives to case share the same "standard color." I also think I remember that Ford used black on its Model T's because it made production faster, being that the color black dried quicker than other colors, and I believe is cheaper to produce. Is this a way for companies to increase production and lower costs as well?
Umm, what about the dose of radiation comming from the Television screen? Would that not cause DNA changes albeit small? You could argue how much safer new televisions are, but I am still using my old 1970's Zenith with the wooden cabnet that burns my shadow on the oposing wall.
Perhaps we are putting our resources out to the wrong people? Who are we actually mad at? What we should be doing is stopping people from creating the tools that these "script kiddies" are using. Take that away and those lame unknowledged kids will be helpless. Not to mention if you are hosting a site that is giving these programs away or if you give internet service to those who compromise systems then you are partly to blame as well. Its time that we take responsibility for our little islands in the Internet and discipline those who live there.
I always compare cracking/bad hacking to graffiti. You have those who do it just for the shear art of the thing, as an attempt to brighten up or send a message to the public. When you have someone without artistic talent doing graffiti it ends out being for the purpose of vandalism. I find that those with more talent and knowledge in computers are less inclined to wreak havoc and more focused on finding out how to fix compromises to systems.
How about to compete in the internet apliance market by using "Red Hat Embedded Linux" merged with AOL internet service. This then benefits both companies and keeps an open road for growth for AOL sence their original money maker (introducing new users to the internet) seems to be slowly decreasing.
Okay so when can I expect my video camera to mosaic out advertisements and mosaic out the television screen if the person I am video tapeing walks infront of my television which is playing "Star Wars Episode 1"?
Okay so the question becomes which eyes would you rather have? You could go with artificial eyeballs (Artificial Eyeballs) or upgrade to Bionic eyes (see Bionic Eyes). My choice would go to the first one that gives me an X-ray vision option.
Okay what is with MS and their naming schemes? Doesn't it seem pretty convenient that the names of their products are remarkably similar to others? If you don't know what I mean let me point out that I know at least 5 sets of parents who asked me what toy their children wanted for Christmas "the game box thing?" I can almost guarantee to you that a good percentage of sales this Christmas for the Xbox was due to misunderstandings to the similar names of the Xbox and the Game Cube. (you could argue the same on Nintendo but from what I understand GameCube was announced first) Now this thing is going to be called the Home Station (pretty similar to PlayStation)? Okay is it just me, or does that seem pretty underhanded and sneaky? Maby I am makeing too much of it but how many of your parents would make the same mistake?
This brings up the old debate, if you make encryption without backdoors for govt illeagle, then only the criminals will have the securest encryption. I simply do not understand why we cannot have means to protect ourselves using, for example pgp. I would not have a problem, as I would guess anyone here, that if served with a warrant that I would not decode the messages for the goverenment officials. I don't give the government keys to my house or my car, but if I am served with a warrant, I sure as hell would unlock the doors and let them in and let them look around because I have nothing to hide. If we make it illegal, what is that going to help when the terrorists are using the encryption outside of the US? If there was a www.ArabHotmail.com (located of course physically outside of the US) what is going to stop some terrorist in America using it?
I know about the problems with the previous kernels 2.4.* - 2.4.8, but resources got better in 2.4.9 and now with an uptime of so far 4+ hours i am seeing increadible performance with the new 2.4.10. VM rules in this rewrite. Keep up the supurb work guys...
What I thought was interesting when I saw the great episode on DS1 on "The Discovery Channel" was the navigation system. Aparently DS1 does most of the decision processes by iteself, and I might add that is quite a task when you think about it. After all there are no real landmarks or other solid navigational aids in space so it uses picture comparision on where it is and where to go next. This AI allows minimal amounts of people required to keep her running and if I remember right they only had about 7-10 guys in this room watching and codeing on Sun workstations. Sun?! No wonder all the manuvers they made were "risky" and no wonder they ran out of funds to keep her going. I wonder why they didn't use linux, or if they plan to in the future.
I would like to reply to your comment about "ease of use" being the turn of the tide. I believe the open source movement should not waste its resources towards making its software "easier." For starters, isn't the whole open source movement about sharing and innovation for free? Why then do we waste our time arguing when MS does something in the market place. We are creating this software for those few enlightened and educated individuals who strive to learn and do more. By adding ease of use to the operating system to account for those who "just don't get computers" like my grand father we are contradicting this procession. Simply put, adding ease of use means adding restrictions in that you are only able to do what you should be "allowed" to do. Hasn't that been our major argument against MS? We have set our sites to "competeing against MS" (or other OS's) but to me from the very beginnings I always viewed open source as a "key" to the hungry for knowledge and creativity, not for makeing a buck. We can achieve much more than making a simple portal to the internet in order to buy and sell things; the internet has changed from pure access to knowledge to a big shopping mall. While that may be good to some, to me I believe its a waste of the potential for the internet. I am sorry if I went on a rant, but I hope you would agree, at least on most of my points.
I don't really know how much they expect DS1 to retrieve getting in such proximity to the commet. I remember when 4 or so minutes into the start of the mission a single spec of space dust prevented the ion drive from working. Now they expect it to pass through a commets coma which is filled with all kinds of particles? I expect it will be yet another failure to rack up on the DS1 as soon as it gets within range of the commet. I wouldn't hold my breath, after all look at what happened when they tried to get the picture of asteroid Braille (just a bunch of black pics). I would also like to ask why the heck they couldn't have put more than one camera and in addition a light source to enhance the pictures?
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I will not ever sit back and haplessly allow my company to abandon the things that make it unique, the individuals that have brought it to where it is, in order to pursue stupid figures such as yearly profit.
The first time you sell a piece of stock, you don't have any more say about your corporation. Your responsibility is to your share holders and they are the ones who but the value in such stupid figures as yearly profit. Do you think stock holders give a damm how much of your soul you put in the company? Heh, welcome to the real world...
Is it me or is this a bad move on the part of Microsoft to not sell to Japan until after the Christmass season? First off this gives Sony Playstation 2 and the makers of the Nintendo GameCube the power to use its financial backing in japan to slash prices in the USA. After all the biggest amount of buyers of consoles and games are in Japan. Did anyone else notice that on ebworld the GameCube comes out a full 10 days after the projected date of the Xbox? It used to be that the GameCube was comming out 5 days earlier than the Xbox, guess Microsoft felt the competition eh. I wonder if that time difference will make a difference.
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Oh God dude, thanks so much for putting that tune back into my head, it took years of therapy to get rid of it. If I remember correctly after begging my mom to get the cereal, I remember it was the ABSOLUTE WORST cereal I had ever eaten in my entire life!
First off I dont' think anyone posted the subtile differences in the two demos from http://cube.ign.com/news/37692.html and http://cube.ign.com/previews/14914.html. The first demo, talks about the fight between Ganondorf and Link and how "These are all things we can expect in the final version, and probably something even more brilliant." The subtile difference is that in the second article they say "The trailer kicks off with a shot of a black, pig-like soldier, who is no doubt a minion of Ganon himself, bursting through a wooden door." Okay people is it just me or does this sound like two different stories? If what I am reading, and hopeing, they are doing is releasing two new titles of The Legend of Zelda saga. I don't believe that Nintendo would release this new system without some really killer titles from the getgo becuase they are going to be in strict competition with the Xbox. I think it would be very unlikely they would wait a whole year without some killer title such as TLOZ. After all the other highly anticipated title, Metroid Prime, doesn't look like its going to be finished anytime soon.
(Did anyone notice that the GameCube is released 5 days before the Xbox according to preordering on ebworld.com? I for one hope the 5 days helps to get the Xbox out of the market in order to keep Microsoft from takeing over yet another market.)
How much longer are people going to sit back and watch this corporation continually partake in these increadibly outrageous activities. If for a moment we suspend the talks about Linux vs MS Windows and focus on business practicies of MS alone, MS has got to be one of the most dirtiest I have ever heard of and its shocking that still they get away with doing these actions every time. I hope they finnally get the punishment they deserve.
I love how I submitted this information about the GameBoy Advance on
2001-02-02 16:23:38 Game Boy Gets Advance (articles,games) (rejected)
which was totally rejected, nice scoup guys, you just a tad behind tho, been there done that...
I think though as I said before its a smart marketing and production act to rerelease old games, not only for us who remember the titles, but those like my sister who may never have experienced great games like "Pilot Wings", "Super Mario Bros. 2", and "F-Zero" etc etc. In order to truely apreciate games you must play the past realize it takes much more than graphics it takes STORY and these old games really had that going on, so cudos to Nintendo for bringing back great memories.
"Why do I need a girlfriend when I got women I don't even know yelling at me!?" -- roomate
So I suppose next Microsoft will patent the name "windows", "window", and "win". After all I don't know about you guys but when instructions call to open a new window it always confuses me with Microsoft Windows 9X. *grin*
I personally think that SSH was a bad name for a product anyways, of course if you name your product what it is instead of something else there will be confusion. ie nameing your toaster, "Toaster" etc. OpenSSH is a "Secure Shell" what else do you want to call it then? "Mickeys Proctecto Interface"? What a load of symantic legistical crap. IMHO
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Terribly sorry about the mistake. You are correct, my appologies. 15K jobs however is still a large number even if it is spread out over 2 years.
Samsung also makes linux friendly laser printers with included with linux drivers. Price aint too bad either I paid 200 bucks for a ML-4500 Samsung.
Hey I have no problem running apt-get on RH. If you cared to search enough you would have found you can get apt-get for Red Hat 7.X from:
http://freshrpms.net/apt/
Hopefully all these computer case and peripheral companies will have a standard black. On all the computers I own I have every single beige in the spectrum from dark to almost off-white. Almost none of the parts, from CD drives to case share the same "standard color." I also think I remember that Ford used black on its Model T's because it made production faster, being that the color black dried quicker than other colors, and I believe is cheaper to produce. Is this a way for companies to increase production and lower costs as well?
Umm, what about the dose of radiation comming from the Television screen? Would that not cause DNA changes albeit small? You could argue how much safer new televisions are, but I am still using my old 1970's Zenith with the wooden cabnet that burns my shadow on the oposing wall.
Perhaps we are putting our resources out to the wrong people? Who are we actually mad at? What we should be doing is stopping people from creating the tools that these "script kiddies" are using. Take that away and those lame unknowledged kids will be helpless. Not to mention if you are hosting a site that is giving these programs away or if you give internet service to those who compromise systems then you are partly to blame as well. Its time that we take responsibility for our little islands in the Internet and discipline those who live there.
my 2 cents,
I always compare cracking/bad hacking to graffiti. You have those who do it just for the shear art of the thing, as an attempt to brighten up or send a message to the public. When you have someone without artistic talent doing graffiti it ends out being for the purpose of vandalism. I find that those with more talent and knowledge in computers are less inclined to wreak havoc and more focused on finding out how to fix compromises to systems.
How about to compete in the internet apliance market by using "Red Hat Embedded Linux" merged with AOL internet service. This then benefits both companies and keeps an open road for growth for AOL sence their original money maker (introducing new users to the internet) seems to be slowly decreasing.
Okay so when can I expect my video camera to mosaic out advertisements and mosaic out the television screen if the person I am video tapeing walks infront of my television which is playing "Star Wars Episode 1"?
Okay so the question becomes which eyes would you rather have? You could go with artificial eyeballs (Artificial Eyeballs) or upgrade to Bionic eyes (see Bionic Eyes). My choice would go to the first one that gives me an X-ray vision option.
Okay what is with MS and their naming schemes? Doesn't it seem pretty convenient that the names of their products are remarkably similar to others? If you don't know what I mean let me point out that I know at least 5 sets of parents who asked me what toy their children wanted for Christmas "the game box thing?" I can almost guarantee to you that a good percentage of sales this Christmas for the Xbox was due to misunderstandings to the similar names of the Xbox and the Game Cube. (you could argue the same on Nintendo but from what I understand GameCube was announced first) Now this thing is going to be called the Home Station (pretty similar to PlayStation)? Okay is it just me, or does that seem pretty underhanded and sneaky? Maby I am makeing too much of it but how many of your parents would make the same mistake?
This brings up the old debate, if you make encryption without backdoors for govt illeagle, then only the criminals will have the securest encryption. I simply do not understand why we cannot have means to protect ourselves using, for example pgp. I would not have a problem, as I would guess anyone here, that if served with a warrant that I would not decode the messages for the goverenment officials. I don't give the government keys to my house or my car, but if I am served with a warrant, I sure as hell would unlock the doors and let them in and let them look around because I have nothing to hide. If we make it illegal, what is that going to help when the terrorists are using the encryption outside of the US? If there was a www.ArabHotmail.com (located of course physically outside of the US) what is going to stop some terrorist in America using it?
I know about the problems with the previous kernels 2.4.* - 2.4.8, but resources got better in 2.4.9 and now with an uptime of so far 4+ hours i am seeing increadible performance with the new 2.4.10. VM rules in this rewrite. Keep up the supurb work guys ...
What I thought was interesting when I saw the great episode on DS1 on "The Discovery Channel" was the navigation system. Aparently DS1 does most of the decision processes by iteself, and I might add that is quite a task when you think about it. After all there are no real landmarks or other solid navigational aids in space so it uses picture comparision on where it is and where to go next. This AI allows minimal amounts of people required to keep her running and if I remember right they only had about 7-10 guys in this room watching and codeing on Sun workstations. Sun?! No wonder all the manuvers they made were "risky" and no wonder they ran out of funds to keep her going. I wonder why they didn't use linux, or if they plan to in the future.
I would like to reply to your comment about "ease of use" being the turn of the tide. I believe the open source movement should not waste its resources towards making its software "easier." For starters, isn't the whole open source movement about sharing and innovation for free? Why then do we waste our time arguing when MS does something in the market place. We are creating this software for those few enlightened and educated individuals who strive to learn and do more. By adding ease of use to the operating system to account for those who "just don't get computers" like my grand father we are contradicting this procession. Simply put, adding ease of use means adding restrictions in that you are only able to do what you should be "allowed" to do. Hasn't that been our major argument against MS? We have set our sites to "competeing against MS" (or other OS's) but to me from the very beginnings I always viewed open source as a "key" to the hungry for knowledge and creativity, not for makeing a buck. We can achieve much more than making a simple portal to the internet in order to buy and sell things; the internet has changed from pure access to knowledge to a big shopping mall. While that may be good to some, to me I believe its a waste of the potential for the internet. I am sorry if I went on a rant, but I hope you would agree, at least on most of my points.
-- Wait for my sig, then release HELL
I don't really know how much they expect DS1 to retrieve getting in such proximity to the commet. I remember when 4 or so minutes into the start of the mission a single spec of space dust prevented the ion drive from working. Now they expect it to pass through a commets coma which is filled with all kinds of particles? I expect it will be yet another failure to rack up on the DS1 as soon as it gets within range of the commet. I wouldn't hold my breath, after all look at what happened when they tried to get the picture of asteroid Braille (just a bunch of black pics). I would also like to ask why the heck they couldn't have put more than one camera and in addition a light source to enhance the pictures?
I will not ever sit back and haplessly allow my company to abandon the things that make it unique, the individuals that have brought it to where it is, in order to pursue stupid figures such as yearly profit.
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The first time you sell a piece of stock, you don't have any more say about your corporation. Your responsibility is to your share holders and they are the ones who but the value in such stupid figures as yearly profit. Do you think stock holders give a damm how much of your soul you put in the company? Heh, welcome to the real world
Is it me or is this a bad move on the part of Microsoft to not sell to Japan until after the Christmass season? First off this gives Sony Playstation 2 and the makers of the Nintendo GameCube the power to use its financial backing in japan to slash prices in the USA. After all the biggest amount of buyers of consoles and games are in Japan. Did anyone else notice that on ebworld the GameCube comes out a full 10 days after the projected date of the Xbox? It used to be that the GameCube was comming out 5 days earlier than the Xbox, guess Microsoft felt the competition eh. I wonder if that time difference will make a difference.
Oh God dude, thanks so much for putting that tune back into my head, it took years of therapy to get rid of it. If I remember correctly after begging my mom to get the cereal, I remember it was the ABSOLUTE WORST cereal I had ever eaten in my entire life!
- No one does mario like Captain Lou !
First off I dont' think anyone posted the subtile differences in the two demos from http://cube.ign.com/news/37692.html and http://cube.ign.com/previews/14914.html. The first demo, talks about the fight between Ganondorf and Link and how "These are all things we can expect in the final version, and probably something even more brilliant." The subtile difference is that in the second article they say "The trailer kicks off with a shot of a black, pig-like soldier, who is no doubt a minion of Ganon himself, bursting through a wooden door." Okay people is it just me or does this sound like two different stories? If what I am reading, and hopeing, they are doing is releasing two new titles of The Legend of Zelda saga. I don't believe that Nintendo would release this new system without some really killer titles from the getgo becuase they are going to be in strict competition with the Xbox. I think it would be very unlikely they would wait a whole year without some killer title such as TLOZ. After all the other highly anticipated title, Metroid Prime, doesn't look like its going to be finished anytime soon.
(Did anyone notice that the GameCube is released 5 days before the Xbox according to preordering on ebworld.com? I for one hope the 5 days helps to get the Xbox out of the market in order to keep Microsoft from takeing over yet another market.)
How much longer are people going to sit back and watch this corporation continually partake in these increadibly outrageous activities. If for a moment we suspend the talks about Linux vs MS Windows and focus on business practicies of MS alone, MS has got to be one of the most dirtiest I have ever heard of and its shocking that still they get away with doing these actions every time. I hope they finnally get the punishment they deserve.
sure but not as legal =) there is also something a bit more satisfying stuffing a big plastic cartridge into a consul
I love how I submitted this information about the GameBoy Advance on
2001-02-02 16:23:38 Game Boy Gets Advance (articles,games) (rejected)
which was totally rejected, nice scoup guys, you just a tad behind tho, been there done that...
I think though as I said before its a smart marketing and production act to rerelease old games, not only for us who remember the titles, but those like my sister who may never have experienced great games like "Pilot Wings", "Super Mario Bros. 2", and "F-Zero" etc etc. In order to truely apreciate games you must play the past realize it takes much more than graphics it takes STORY and these old games really had that going on, so cudos to Nintendo for bringing back great memories.
"Why do I need a girlfriend when I got women I don't even know yelling at me!?" -- roomate
Is it just me or is that Jesus hitting a snake with an ax? What the heck does the logo mean?
Well at any rate, I have used the betas of the past from Ogg Vorbis and they work quite well. Keep up the good work guys.
"I am sorry, I switched to a new ISP becuase you guys dont offer Yahoo like AOL does!" - annonymous customer
So I suppose next Microsoft will patent the name "windows", "window", and "win". After all I don't know about you guys but when instructions call to open a new window it always confuses me with Microsoft Windows 9X. *grin*
I personally think that SSH was a bad name for a product anyways, of course if you name your product what it is instead of something else there will be confusion. ie nameing your toaster, "Toaster" etc. OpenSSH is a "Secure Shell" what else do you want to call it then? "Mickeys Proctecto Interface"? What a load of symantic legistical crap. IMHO
The secret to all life's problems envolves a law suit.