If caring for the environment makes you an idiot, what does not caring make you?
An American?;-)
Consider the possibility that the potential threat of global warming has led to an increased understanding and awareness about our world and our interaction with it. It may even help stretch out our non-renewable resources for a bit longer.
You're forgetting that Australia is a nation that was founded by criminals. They are truly a nation where everyone was once a criminal.
Ummm...sorry to break it to you, the Aboriginies beat the POME's by a good 40,000 years.
Also, where I live in Australia, namely Adelaide, South Australia, wasn't setup by convicts at all, it was a free state. So even if you want to ignore the original owners, you're still wrong.
What is criminal is how our Australian government (much like I suspect the American government) seems fit to preach to our neighbours and the rest of the world. Our past and present treatment of the indigenous inhabitants, for example, the White Australia Policy is a shining example of not how to treat your fellow humans.
Anyway, Australian TV sucks ass, so this won't effect the digirati, since we snarf most of our shows from the US, Canada or the UK:)
As a cyclist, cell phone drivers are one of my pet hates, it scares the crap out of me seeing a P-Plater (probationary driver here in oz) punching out an SMS whilst driving along. I mean, sure, the odds are increased of being in a crash (stop calling them accidents) whilst using a mobile when driving, but I'd hate to think of the odds when you're not even looking at the road!
At least older drivers seem smarter hiding their mobile phone use when driving, last Friday I had to laugh when a P-plater was using his opposite hand to hold the phone (so his arms were crossed over on the steering wheel).
The insulation modern cars have also probably plays a part, regardless of whether you're on a mobile phone or not. Outside road noise and bumps are so well sheilded I think it's easier to get distracted or have the mind start wandering.
Sounds like convoluted logic and an excuse to drive an SUV.
Most modern 4 cylinder cars will transport 5 people + luggage and do it far more efficently than an SUV, with the added bonus of killing less people, consuming less resources and producing less pollution.
Most cars I see on the road are either solo drivers or a single passenger. I do see a few 4WD's/SUV's with Mum driving the kid to school though. Oh, and the parking lot at our local shopping centre seems a great meeting place for them.
Personally i've always owned small cars (in the past 2 honda civics, a mazda 808 and a toyota van to go travelling in), I went without a car for 2-3 years and was the fittest and most trim i've been for a long long time. We've recently bought a station wagon (2.0 litre subaru) as i've just become a dad and needed to get mum and little bubs around (oddly enough she wouldn't go for a dinky on my bike to the obstetrician:). I still do the 24km round trip to work on my bike and am quite happy to leave the car at home.
Either way I'll take active safety over passive safety anyday.
"...you will not get any respect from the non-Microsoft community."
Not true. The TortoiseSVN developers get respect from the broader community.
With Subversion being written on top of the Apache Portable Runtime, and examples like the upcoming 1.3 release (asp dot net hack) it's also clear that whilst (most) svn developers might have a Linux bias, a concerted effort has been made for the Windows platform. Something i'm very grateful of.
Feel free to rant and rave about open standards (I love'em too:) but in this case you're pissing into the wind. C# and the CLR are slick as, so what they're M$ designed, the main C# man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg) knows his stuff.
I agree $50 per year isn't expensive (think it's a bit more here in Australia), but the Xlink-Kai tunnelling service is free and runs on XBox, PS2 and PSP. It might also be the best option if you've got a chipped xbox with larger hard drive, as you may get kicked from Live.
Xlink-Kai certainly doesn't have the userbase of Live, but aside from having to have a PC on and the engine started, and a bit more work port-forwarding and opening firewalls when doing the preliminary setup, it's is similar, quick and easy, especially with XBMC integration.
I find it quite enjoyable to race against drunk germans on Moto GP 3, or the army of stoned aussies that frequent the halo 2 asia-oceania arena:)
Isn't this whole war on terror just to distract people from appreciating how stuffed the environment is? Better off spending money on your military so you can defend your (polluted) soil when the world goes completly to shit than worrying about trying to fix a global problem that won't be resolved (or fully exposed) until the present government is long out of office or dead.
We're getting WarOnTerror fever over here in Australia by the bucketload, we've had less than a hundred tourists killed in 3 years (in Bali), not a single terrorist action on our soil, yet we have earmarked tens of billions more for defense (dispite a shrinking defence force!), and yet we couldn't even lift our pathetic 2% minimum renewal energy target (Europe has set targets of 20%!). Why bother when you have plenty of coal and gas to burn.
The fallout from climate change is going to make the over-hyped terrorist activities look like a piss in the ocean. I cycle to work and am far more concerned about all the 4WD/SUV's on our road than any terrorist cell group that may be plotting to blow something up.
Actually, it would be nice if the terrorists could blow up a few more pipelines or oil refineries and spike the oil price some more...I enjoy laughing at all these clowns spending $100+ a week on fuel!
> Yeah free and there is no need for and xbox, mod chip and wireless network > adaptor. (cables look messy in your living room).
Already had an xbox in the lounge room, the adsl + router + wi-fi ap is also in the lounge room (close to phone outlet to reduce db), I have wi-fi from PC to AP and ethernet from xbox to router, cables don't have to look messy if you design your environment correctly.
So for me, yes the XBMC was free to get MP3,OGG,AVI,DVD,streaming content from PC (windows or linux), weather,xlink-kai(windows or linux),rss news feeds on my tv (./,etc)
> Bah some people should think before spouting random drivel.
Indeed, like why buy an xbox 360 when the xbox + xbmc already has everything a soccer mum would need. When the 360 comes out, the price of chipped xbox's will fall (probably a lot).
My apologies if I was terse in my response and didn't join the dots for you.
Ummm...I do that all the time, edit word documents using OOo, it's a nice way to shrink the.doc file size down by 30%! No-one else in the office has complained or had problems re-opening them, and I haven't used Word in 6+ months. *Shrug* Maybe i've been lucky?
Personally i'm waiting a while, probably until PS3 is released.
I'm sold on the XBMC, such a cool tool, and I seriously doubt the MS version will be as flexible in its capabilities, and taking that out of my loungeroom is not an option unless it can be replaced by something better.
Jeff Minter's Neon is a plus for the 360, and it will be interesting to see how long it takes to hack:)
XBMC is superb, streaming most things you'd want from windows or linux (ccXstream is easier than smb), I dumped my old dashboard ages ago, and aside from a dvd menu system (just the play the dvd doofus), is there much else you need it to do? plays ogg vorbis, xvid, xlink-kai integration, milkdrop visuals, all those python scripts for game and movie trailers, it's the bomb! M$ are going to have to do something pretty special to make me want to switch from XBMC.
If the games are great and XBMC makes it across, i'll probably get one, the 20GB HDD doesn't phase me, most of the 160GB my current Xbox has is full (can shift that to my PC), but the standard Xbox partition still has ~4GB left:) If the 360 games aren't that crash hot, the old xbox can be for media and the PS3 for games.
A lot of people operate under this assumption. Sadly they're just plain wrong, and here's why: If you have 1000 pieces of software that all claim to do roughly the same sort of thing, and 999 are hacks, finding that 1 good program is going to be an excercise in frustration.
I disagree. Those projects which have the greatest following will tend to attract more attention, and so are more likely to be found (google, blogs, word of mouth, Xforge rankings, reviews, etc).
IMHO so long as these projects have a following based on merit, and open source will more likely based on merit than marketing (although both doesn't hurt), then even if your requirements aren't met by the most popular project, chances are those who use that project will be able to point you in the right direction (if you ask the right question).
I agree with the grand parent, for the simple reason that knowing your code can be (potentially) viewed by others is a great incentive to think before you type, and to put more care into what you type. Closed-source software houses have a culture of who cares what the code is like so long as it does the job (badly, securely, whatever), my experience of open source is the opposite. I would love to say it's because of some moral high-ground ethos, but it's probably just an ego and vanity thang:)
If open source wants to survive, we need more focus on a narrower range of products as well as solid lobbying of politicians to keep open source legal.
Why not leave that to the corporate open source folks and leave us late night hackers to itch that scratch? IBM and Novell (amongst others) have a vested interest in a particular product range, let them focus on that and wooing the pollies!
Why? We're not in any more danger than anyone else on the net, as everyone gets probed, just check your logs:)
Bittorrent is a great idea, and it's also good for people learning about ports, port-forwarding and firewalls, since if you want it to work well, you need to get your router/firewall setup correctly.
So I think it's helping people become more aware, and bittorrent might actually increase* safety!
* Of course, if there was a way to exploit the protocol, or a bug in particular clients, then safety would be decreased.
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Maybe it's a Windows limitation?
Perhaps try running with Mono on windows and see how you go? Just a thought, worth what you paid for it:)
"Do you really want me to list all the billions in AID we give the rest of the world? It's convenient to leave that part out when you want to pillory the US, isn't it?"
Saw an interesting TV show on poverty (google "dollar a day dress") and America annually gives something like 50 billion in aid, but 300 billion in subsidies to it's farmers.
In a similar vein, I'm sure America is happy to spend billions and give billions in aid to Iraq, so long as there is a nice 30 year supply and 4 trillion odd worth of oil there (exported in U$ rather than EU currency).
Kinda like that old saying: you have to spend money to make money.
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Whats wrong with the XBMC? It handles pretty much everything I throw at it, and feeds media via Linux or Windows.
Modchips are cheap, XBox's will only get cheaper now the 360 is out.
If caring for the environment makes you an idiot, what does not caring make you?
;-)
An American?
Consider the possibility that the potential threat of global warming has led to an increased understanding and awareness about our world and our interaction with it. It may even help stretch out our non-renewable resources for a bit longer.
You're forgetting that Australia is a nation that was founded by criminals. They are truly a nation where everyone was once a criminal.
:)
Ummm...sorry to break it to you, the Aboriginies beat the POME's by a good 40,000 years.
Also, where I live in Australia, namely Adelaide, South Australia, wasn't setup by convicts at all, it was a free state. So even if you want to ignore the original owners, you're still wrong.
What is criminal is how our Australian government (much like I suspect the American government) seems fit to preach to our neighbours and the rest of the world. Our past and present treatment of the indigenous inhabitants, for example, the White Australia Policy is a shining example of not how to treat your fellow humans.
Anyway, Australian TV sucks ass, so this won't effect the digirati, since we snarf most of our shows from the US, Canada or the UK
Have you tried GMail? I find it far better than Hotmail for normal or spam mail. Holla if you'd like an invite.
Well said.
As a cyclist, cell phone drivers are one of my pet hates, it scares the crap out of me seeing a P-Plater (probationary driver here in oz) punching out an SMS whilst driving along. I mean, sure, the odds are increased of being in a crash (stop calling them accidents) whilst using a mobile when driving, but I'd hate to think of the odds when you're not even looking at the road!
At least older drivers seem smarter hiding their mobile phone use when driving, last Friday I had to laugh when a P-plater was using his opposite hand to hold the phone (so his arms were crossed over on the steering wheel).
The insulation modern cars have also probably plays a part, regardless of whether you're on a mobile phone or not. Outside road noise and bumps are so well sheilded I think it's easier to get distracted or have the mind start wandering.
Sounds like convoluted logic and an excuse to drive an SUV.
Most modern 4 cylinder cars will transport 5 people + luggage and do it far more efficently than an SUV, with the added bonus of killing less people, consuming less resources and producing less pollution.
Most cars I see on the road are either solo drivers or a single passenger. I do see a few 4WD's/SUV's with Mum driving the kid to school though. Oh, and the parking lot at our local shopping centre seems a great meeting place for them.
Personally i've always owned small cars (in the past 2 honda civics, a mazda 808 and a toyota van to go travelling in), I went without a car for 2-3 years and was the fittest and most trim i've been for a long long time. We've recently bought a station wagon (2.0 litre subaru) as i've just become a dad and needed to get mum and little bubs around (oddly enough she wouldn't go for a dinky on my bike to the obstetrician:). I still do the 24km round trip to work on my bike and am quite happy to leave the car at home.
Either way I'll take active safety over passive safety anyday.
I agree it's a common mistake, so how about something to help correct it?
If you say (and spray) you "affect the effect" enough times, maybe we will get it down to a 75% error rate?
> recommend it not only for the gaming but for the media features (i.e. streaming video, music, pics, etc.
So what does it do that the XBMC doesn't?
I'm only going to buy a 360 if the games are better than the ps3.
With all the reported isues with the 360 launch it's actually nice being in the arse end of the tech world for once (Australia)
"...you will not get any respect from the non-Microsoft community."
Not true. The TortoiseSVN developers get respect from the broader community.
With Subversion being written on top of the Apache Portable Runtime, and examples like the upcoming 1.3 release (asp dot net hack) it's also clear that whilst (most) svn developers might have a Linux bias, a concerted effort has been made for the Windows platform. Something i'm very grateful of.
All that being said, the article has some merit.
> Mono is not innovative. Mono is just a misguided open source implementation of proprietary crap.
False. http://mono-project.com/ECMA
Feel free to rant and rave about open standards (I love'em too:) but in this case you're pissing into the wind. C# and the CLR are slick as, so what they're M$ designed, the main C# man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg) knows his stuff.
I agree $50 per year isn't expensive (think it's a bit more here in Australia), but the Xlink-Kai tunnelling service is free and runs on XBox, PS2 and PSP. It might also be the best option if you've got a chipped xbox with larger hard drive, as you may get kicked from Live.
:)
Xlink-Kai certainly doesn't have the userbase of Live, but aside from having to have a PC on and the engine started, and a bit more work port-forwarding and opening firewalls when doing the preliminary setup, it's is similar, quick and easy, especially with XBMC integration.
I find it quite enjoyable to race against drunk germans on Moto GP 3, or the army of stoned aussies that frequent the halo 2 asia-oceania arena
http://www.teamxlink.co.uk
Isn't this whole war on terror just to distract people from appreciating how stuffed the environment is? Better off spending money on your military so you can defend your (polluted) soil when the world goes completly to shit than worrying about trying to fix a global problem that won't be resolved (or fully exposed) until the present government is long out of office or dead.
We're getting WarOnTerror fever over here in Australia by the bucketload, we've had less than a hundred tourists killed in 3 years (in Bali), not a single terrorist action on our soil, yet we have earmarked tens of billions more for defense (dispite a shrinking defence force!), and yet we couldn't even lift our pathetic 2% minimum renewal energy target (Europe has set targets of 20%!). Why bother when you have plenty of coal and gas to burn.
The fallout from climate change is going to make the over-hyped terrorist activities look like a piss in the ocean. I cycle to work and am far more concerned about all the 4WD/SUV's on our road than any terrorist cell group that may be plotting to blow something up.
Actually, it would be nice if the terrorists could blow up a few more pipelines or oil refineries and spike the oil price some more...I enjoy laughing at all these clowns spending $100+ a week on fuel!
> Yeah free and there is no need for and xbox, mod chip and wireless network
:p
> adaptor. (cables look messy in your living room).
Already had an xbox in the lounge room, the adsl + router + wi-fi ap is also in the lounge room (close to phone outlet to reduce db), I have wi-fi from PC to AP and ethernet from xbox to router, cables don't have to look messy if you design your environment correctly.
So for me, yes the XBMC was free to get MP3,OGG,AVI,DVD,streaming content from PC (windows or linux), weather,xlink-kai(windows or linux),rss news feeds on my tv (./,etc)
> Bah some people should think before spouting random drivel.
Indeed, like why buy an xbox 360 when the xbox + xbmc already has everything a soccer mum would need. When the 360 comes out, the price of chipped xbox's will fall (probably a lot).
My apologies if I was terse in my response and didn't join the dots for you.
Here, have a wollypop
I have a DVD player that cost me $30 that does all this.
:)
I have XBMC that cost me $0 that does all this...and more!
Ummm...I do that all the time, edit word documents using OOo, it's a nice way to shrink the .doc file size down by 30%! No-one else in the office has complained or had problems re-opening them, and I haven't used Word in 6+ months. *Shrug* Maybe i've been lucky?
as a Xlink Kai and XBMC user, i'm very satisfied with the service that I get for $0 a year :D
I heard March.
:)
Personally i'm waiting a while, probably until PS3 is released.
I'm sold on the XBMC, such a cool tool, and I seriously doubt the MS version will be as flexible in its capabilities, and taking that out of my loungeroom is not an option unless it can be replaced by something better.
Jeff Minter's Neon is a plus for the 360, and it will be interesting to see how long it takes to hack
-> but I've started playing around with .NET
Errr...why not Mono? That's what it's there for!
http://mono-project.com/
why bother?
:) If the 360 games aren't that crash hot, the old xbox can be for media and the PS3 for games.
XBMC is superb, streaming most things you'd want from windows or linux (ccXstream is easier than smb), I dumped my old dashboard ages ago, and aside from a dvd menu system (just the play the dvd doofus), is there much else you need it to do? plays ogg vorbis, xvid, xlink-kai integration, milkdrop visuals, all those python scripts for game and movie trailers, it's the bomb! M$ are going to have to do something pretty special to make me want to switch from XBMC.
If the games are great and XBMC makes it across, i'll probably get one, the 20GB HDD doesn't phase me, most of the 160GB my current Xbox has is full (can shift that to my PC), but the standard Xbox partition still has ~4GB left
Sad, in the time you took to write that message, you could have created and implemented a working repository using svnserve.
Perhaps spend more time reading and less time writing?
A lot of people operate under this assumption. Sadly they're just plain wrong, and here's why: If you have 1000 pieces of software that all claim to do roughly the same sort of thing, and 999 are hacks, finding that 1 good program is going to be an excercise in frustration. :)
I disagree. Those projects which have the greatest following will tend to attract more attention, and so are more likely to be found (google, blogs, word of mouth, Xforge rankings, reviews, etc).
IMHO so long as these projects have a following based on merit, and open source will more likely based on merit than marketing (although both doesn't hurt), then even if your requirements aren't met by the most popular project, chances are those who use that project will be able to point you in the right direction (if you ask the right question).
I agree with the grand parent, for the simple reason that knowing your code can be (potentially) viewed by others is a great incentive to think before you type, and to put more care into what you type. Closed-source software houses have a culture of who cares what the code is like so long as it does the job (badly, securely, whatever), my experience of open source is the opposite. I would love to say it's because of some moral high-ground ethos, but it's probably just an ego and vanity thang
If open source wants to survive, we need more focus on a narrower range of products as well as solid lobbying of politicians to keep open source legal.
Why not leave that to the corporate open source folks and leave us late night hackers to itch that scratch? IBM and Novell (amongst others) have a vested interest in a particular product range, let them focus on that and wooing the pollies!
Why? We're not in any more danger than anyone else on the net, as everyone gets probed, just check your logs :)
Bittorrent is a great idea, and it's also good for people learning about ports, port-forwarding and firewalls, since if you want it to work well, you need to get your router/firewall setup correctly.
So I think it's helping people become more aware, and bittorrent might actually increase* safety!
* Of course, if there was a way to exploit the protocol, or a bug in particular clients, then safety would be decreased.
Maybe it's a Windows limitation?
:)
Perhaps try running with Mono on windows and see how you go? Just a thought, worth what you paid for it
"Do you really want me to list all the billions in AID we give the rest of the world? It's convenient to leave that part out when you want to pillory the US, isn't it?"
Saw an interesting TV show on poverty (google "dollar a day dress") and America annually gives something like 50 billion in aid, but 300 billion in subsidies to it's farmers.
In a similar vein, I'm sure America is happy to spend billions and give billions in aid to Iraq, so long as there is a nice 30 year supply and 4 trillion odd worth of oil there (exported in U$ rather than EU currency). Kinda like that old saying: you have to spend money to make money.
STL?
:)
Perhaps i've been watching BattleStarGalatica too much, but I'd be okay with a Slower Than Light console...just so long as it wasn't too slow