Am I being paranoid^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hconcerned that MSs "theft" could be their carefully orchestrated, poorly disguised effort to
discredit/destroy Open Source through oppresive application of litigation?
I completely agree. But that is why the Sun executive George Paolini made this statement:
"There will be some magic point in the future I believe, where we'll reach critical mass. When we reach that point at Sun, you'll see us go to a much more open source."
How many forks are there in the Linux kernel? Linux is under GPL, but Linus is still regarded as the central authority for maintaining the main kernel releases. Once Java reaches the critical mass that Sun is waiting for, the advantages to forking over the source code to create an incompatible Java instance will be overridden by the momentum of general public using Java.
First, I have to remind all of you that HongKong is under the control of China. And they are one of the worst violators of the human rights. So having ID cards with biometrics could
lead to even more policing by the state.
First, I have to remind ignorant Americans that Hong Kong (two words, not one) is under the control of China, but it is governed as a Special Administrative Region. That means we have our own government, we vote for our own politicians, we don't have a large controlling communistic party, and we have a freedom to travel as much as when Hong Kong was still a British colony.
Finally, for someone spreading FUD like you, your last sentence
"This is not america and they do not give a shit about human rights, rights to privacy..."
should be
"This is not america and i do not know what i am talking about, i will regurgitate human rights, privacy concerns from the media...
When I said that a benefit is that this hasn't been done in years, it means, if someone *wants* to do this, now they have a
nice, open way to do so. Is that not a benefit?
Fallacy in your logic. You ASSUME as a premise that people want to go back to the 5 1/2 inch floppy "bootable games" era is a "good thing", so you conclude that having an open way it's a benefit.
Can you name any much much richer benefits bootable games will provide, considering all the disadvantages and inconvenience it will bring?
If not, your statement simply wasn't right.
When I said it was enabled because of linux.. well, WASN'T IT?
I'm sorry, I think you're skimming the point again. How is that a benefit? Because it was enabled by linux that it's a benefit? You say the fact it was linux it's a benefit, but you can't even describe how or WHY it's a benefit (which is independent of why you think bootable games are a benefit).
For fuck sakes, all I said was it was *neat* that someone did this, so why is everyone so fucking bitchy about it?
Uh, no you didn't. Let me quote you on what you really said:
I'm amazed at how many people are slamming this like it's a crappy idea. Shame on you!
It seems you're just condescendingly amazed at how you think you're better than the rest of us because we happen to think it's "a crappy idea." Shame on us indeed!
The only 'idea' I'm selling is that people are being overcritical of something that was simply 'neat'.
And how is it 'neat'? There's barely any practical use for it (it goes back to the "benefits" question you can't answer above)
The benefit here is that a) it's something that hasn't been done on home cmoputers in years (bootable games)
The benefit is that it hasn't been done in years? Puhleeaze. Maybe the next objective in the internary is to make bootable DOS games that runs in extended mode.
and b)was
enabled because of linux.
Linux is not the be all end all of everything. Just because the kernel and most of what makes a Linux distro is open sourced and free doesn't mean you should get pumped up over such a stupid idea.
Think of it as... you are a game developer.. you want a completely
open API for games.. you write your game for linux..
No, if I'm a game developer, I want the most extensive feature set of APIs that matches the most current and cutting edge video cards, in order to maximize the graphics detail and performance of my game. Kindly point to me to the free and open-sourced 3d API available on linux that's not available on windows, and actually performs magnitudes better to justify the need to FORCE the user to reboot the machine just to play the game?
Shame on you to let your zealotry cloud your mind enough to sell such a ridiculous idea.
And think about it, how many things to you multi-task while playing TFC, SPACECRAFT, or Q3?...
No, but I would hate to force myself to go take a piss or twiddle my thumbs everytime I'm done with a game and I have to wait for the computer to *boot up* again.
Bush got higher grades at Yale while partying than Al Gore got at Harvard while being his stiff self.
What an urban legend. Bush was shooting crack and barely getting a straight C all through Yale. His father had to get him out of expulsion a couple of times.
I guess there are always people that seem to believe if the product isn't tailored for them or a general audience, it should head for the "bad ideas" pile, or *ignor* pile as jonfromspace would like to call it (Hey, I think that nick is really self explantory).
Although I don't have a use for it, there are certainly enough jobs out there would can use a tool like this. A real estate agent, or a consultant, landscape or a news reporter, can take quick shots of places they go to, wihtout the extra bulk of a notebook AND a digital camera. Mind you, when you havea notebook and a digital camera, you're also carrying double the accesories.
Too big for every day use
Actually, it would fit into a shoulder-strapped bag just fine. The screen is 6.4 inches! How much smaller do you want?
too pricy for casual carrying around
I don't think they intended this for high school or college, whichever you're from.
too crappy battery life for extended use
Actually battery life is 5/10/17 hours depending on what kind of battery you're using (according to the page). That seems pretty adequate for a days amount of work. Not sure what you mean by "extended."
too small for real data entry.
Hah. hahahahahaha. hahahahaah. you're kidding right? Don't expect IT departments to switch to the Sony PCG-GT1 any time soon...
"Malk-a-mite was one of the first to e-mail about the announcement from AMD..."
Folks, now you know what to do if you want your news submitted. It's easy to get rejected on the submission queue, but apparently if you e-mail an editor, even redundant articles will get posted!
Do keep in mind though that e-mails from a large group of people might cause too much junk in the mailbox, but if e-mail is a good way to punish redundant posts or get higher priority than in a submission queue, by all means e-mail is the way to go!
PALO ALTO, CA (Routers) - Professors at the User Interface Group at Xerox PARC is introducing a new wireless input interface that replaces the mouse and keyboard altogether. The apparatus involves a pair of tap dancing shoes, and wearing a 10-pound "wearable PC" white underwear briefs, which wirelessly connects to the computer and shoes.
The user can create keyboard events by tap dancing predefined sequences on the floor with the shoe. Mouse clicks and movement is created by sticking the two index fingers up each nostril, and pointing the palm of the right hand at the screen allows for the positioning of the mouse pointer, and wiggling each index finger in the nose simulates mouse clicks.
"This new interface is intuitively easy to use for users that have never used a computer before," said Roozbeh Ghaffari, PHD Atomic Microscope scientist at Xerox PARC. "We are currently exploring ways to simulate the third mouse button, possibly by creating a hoola-hoop motion with the user's behind."
Hi. What separation of drug users is this you're talking about? Your "underground drug use" masses is an interesting
concept, what exactly do you mean by this? What is the difference between a regular and an underground drug user? And
are you really implying that these Silicon Valley types fall into the underground drug use group?
Actually, "regular" in this context means someone who performs an action on a fixed basis. Your confusion seems to lie in the fact that you think I'm saying regular == normal.
Oh really? Out of the three chemicals that you mention, nicotene is the most addictive, and even then a single hit won't get
you addicted. Mild use without addiction can be acheived for all of these drugs. The myth of instant addiction is just that, a
myth. Some drugs are more addictive than others sure, but there is no "take it once, you're doomed to be an addict" truth as
you say.
And hence my point. Can you point me to the paragraph in the article that has the myth about "take once, you're doomed to be an addict"? If they want to use it enough, eventually they will have to. Don't assume that everyone is taking drugs as "responsible" as you are.
As someone who regularly uses various chemicals (although not nearly as much as I used to) I can confidently state so what? I
very much doubt that drug use is any higher amongst technically orientated people than any other sector where people are
earning a decent wage. If drug use is booming then it's because wages are rising, not because of any other reasons. Most of the
people I know who do take aren't in the computing industry, no particular field is any more likely to have users amongst it, it's an
extremely widespread thing nowadays.
Another "regular drug user" who tries to speak for the "underground drug use" masses. A pretty good sign is usually opinions such as "Most of the people I know" or "I can confidently state" that are tried to be spun as facts.
Almost all
people fall into the category of users - they might take a hell of a lot, but it's because they want to, not because they have to.
And you might want to know that addictive substances such as nicotine, heroin, and cocaine leads users to become abusers, because they eventually have to use it.
The parent post is no different than posts which whine about Linux's lack of unified GUI overhyped because everyone he knows (and himself, as a "regular Linux user") only uses the command-line. The dot-com world these days demand high hours, and with their pretty high disposable income, why isn't it suprising that drug use is on the rise? No one is saying that drug use isn't prevalent across other industries. They're simply pointing out that drug use is increasing in the tech sector.
As you can probably tell I'm sick of these scare stories taking a complete non-event and trying to turn them into news.
Yo yoyoyo G, thanks for the insight from the underground. Wanna go light a K bud?
I wish I can moderate articles on slashdot. In fact, I wish there are little radio buttons next to each article that says:
I don't want to see this article again and again
or
Please post this article again and again and again
so CmdrTaco and his very diligent team will know which articles we want to see redundantly.
Slashdot - News for Attention Deficit Disorder. Stuff you saw yesterday.
On a slightly more serious note - surely Slashdot must be getting very uninteresting for the Slashdot admins if they arent' reading their own site. What does that say about quality control?
Bah, who needs to interview Goldstein
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Just read the Hacker's Manifesto (w3 0wn j00!!!!!!):
This is our world now, the world of
the electron and the switch,
the beauty of the baud.
We make use of a service already
existing without paying for what
could be dirt-cheap if it weren't
run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us animals.
We explore - and you call us criminals.
We seek after knowledge - and you
call us criminals.
We exist without skin color, without
nationality, without religious bias - and
you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars,
you murder, cheat and lie to us and
try to make us believe it is for our
own good - yet we are the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal.
My crime is that of curiousity.
My crime is that of judging people by what
they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something
that you will never forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.
You may stop me, but you can't stop us all.
Oh, pleeease. Will the real script kiddie please stand up, please stand up.....
And I understand that some of the neo-l33t h4x0r folks might not be able to read the orginal script kiddie's manifesto. Here's the same manifesto in your language:
We didn't get enough page hits from that Sony webpad article last night. In fact, it was pretty damn pathetic. You guys better do something about this. Otherwise I might have to write that scathing article about VA Linux, Andover.net, and CowboyNeal being in bed with Scott McNealy.
That's a very ignorant statement. Linux, and many web sites such as the one I administer, encrypt password using a one-way hash, so they cannot be decrypted. When a user tries to
authenticate, you encrypt their input'ed password and see if that matches the encrypted password in the database, or in/etc/passwd (such as Linux does).. This way you cannot
decrypt the passwords, and yet you can still use them for authentication.
it's hard to say it's "pirated", since it's free with the Media Player 6.x and 7.x (although I guess it is pirated since it doesn't come with the EULA).
It's definitely hacked. The rationale for DivX is that ever since AVIs have been disabled to use MS-MPEG4, DivX unlocks that hack (among other things), and renames it to a different FOURCC code, so the divx dll won't conflict with your Media Player codecs. That way, Microsoft can stealthy update your codecs all they want, but divx codecs will not be overwritten.
Of course the problem here is that you need to install the DivX codec in order to watch DivX, and that new tweaks in the MS-MPEG4 doens't get rolled in automatically (DivX updates are usually newer hacked versions of MS-MPEG4 codecs).
As far as I know, DivX is just a simple hack of Microsoft's MS-MPEG4 codec (V3, I think). What Gej and Maxmorice has done was nothing much than hacking the encoding and decoding dlls of MS-MPEG4 to encode movies with a DIV3 and DIV4 FOURCC code.
The reason why DivX got so popular is that it was the right thing at the right time. There was no technical wizardry involved, relative to projects such as LAME or Ogg Vorbis. I doubt Maxmorice or Gej can even explain the whole MPEG4 spec.
It's almost akin to someone telling you that they hacked a Palm V to have 8mb instead of 2mb, and now they have decided to make their own PDA. Hmm?
My question is - given that "An early version of DivX;-) Deux is complete," did they hack another MS-MPEG4 codec, or are they coding something from scratch? It's been only a short time period since they announced the project, so I hope it's not just another hack (which brings to another question - how can they expect investors to put money in a company that illegally binary hacks some other companies' software?)
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ssshhhh. What was that sound?
"There will be some magic point in the future I believe, where we'll reach critical mass. When we reach that point at Sun, you'll see us go to a much more open source."
How many forks are there in the Linux kernel? Linux is under GPL, but Linus is still regarded as the central authority for maintaining the main kernel releases. Once Java reaches the critical mass that Sun is waiting for, the advantages to forking over the source code to create an incompatible Java instance will be overridden by the momentum of general public using Java.
First, I have to remind ignorant Americans that Hong Kong (two words, not one) is under the control of China, but it is governed as a Special Administrative Region. That means we have our own government, we vote for our own politicians, we don't have a large controlling communistic party, and we have a freedom to travel as much as when Hong Kong was still a British colony.
Finally, for someone spreading FUD like you, your last sentence
"This is not america and they do not give a shit about human rights, rights to privacy..."
should be
"This is not america and i do not know what i am talking about, i will regurgitate human rights, privacy concerns from the media...
Sorry, that was too tempting.
hurray! will more conversative moderators please mod me down?
Ok.
When I said that a benefit is that this hasn't been done in years, it means, if someone *wants* to do this, now they have a nice, open way to do so. Is that not a benefit?
Fallacy in your logic. You ASSUME as a premise that people want to go back to the 5 1/2 inch floppy "bootable games" era is a "good thing", so you conclude that having an open way it's a benefit.
Can you name any much much richer benefits bootable games will provide, considering all the disadvantages and inconvenience it will bring?
If not, your statement simply wasn't right.
When I said it was enabled because of linux.. well, WASN'T IT?
I'm sorry, I think you're skimming the point again. How is that a benefit? Because it was enabled by linux that it's a benefit? You say the fact it was linux it's a benefit, but you can't even describe how or WHY it's a benefit (which is independent of why you think bootable games are a benefit).
For fuck sakes, all I said was it was *neat* that someone did this, so why is everyone so fucking bitchy about it?
Uh, no you didn't. Let me quote you on what you really said:
I'm amazed at how many people are slamming this like it's a crappy idea. Shame on you!
It seems you're just condescendingly amazed at how you think you're better than the rest of us because we happen to think it's "a crappy idea." Shame on us indeed!
The only 'idea' I'm selling is that people are being overcritical of something that was simply 'neat'.
And how is it 'neat'? There's barely any practical use for it (it goes back to the "benefits" question you can't answer above)
The benefit is that it hasn't been done in years? Puhleeaze. Maybe the next objective in the internary is to make bootable DOS games that runs in extended mode.
and b)was enabled because of linux.
Linux is not the be all end all of everything. Just because the kernel and most of what makes a Linux distro is open sourced and free doesn't mean you should get pumped up over such a stupid idea.
Think of it as... you are a game developer.. you want a completely open API for games.. you write your game for linux..
No, if I'm a game developer, I want the most extensive feature set of APIs that matches the most current and cutting edge video cards, in order to maximize the graphics detail and performance of my game. Kindly point to me to the free and open-sourced 3d API available on linux that's not available on windows, and actually performs magnitudes better to justify the need to FORCE the user to reboot the machine just to play the game?
Shame on you to let your zealotry cloud your mind enough to sell such a ridiculous idea.
No, but I would hate to force myself to go take a piss or twiddle my thumbs everytime I'm done with a game and I have to wait for the computer to *boot up* again.
What an urban legend. Bush was shooting crack and barely getting a straight C all through Yale. His father had to get him out of expulsion a couple of times.
Although I don't have a use for it, there are certainly enough jobs out there would can use a tool like this. A real estate agent, or a consultant, landscape or a news reporter, can take quick shots of places they go to, wihtout the extra bulk of a notebook AND a digital camera. Mind you, when you havea notebook and a digital camera, you're also carrying double the accesories.
Too big for every day use
Actually, it would fit into a shoulder-strapped bag just fine. The screen is 6.4 inches! How much smaller do you want?
too pricy for casual carrying around
I don't think they intended this for high school or college, whichever you're from.
too crappy battery life for extended use
Actually battery life is 5/10/17 hours depending on what kind of battery you're using (according to the page). That seems pretty adequate for a days amount of work. Not sure what you mean by "extended."
too small for real data entry.
Hah. hahahahahaha. hahahahaah. you're kidding right? Don't expect IT departments to switch to the Sony PCG-GT1 any time soon...
No doot aboot it!
Folks, now you know what to do if you want your news submitted. It's easy to get rejected on the submission queue, but apparently if you e-mail an editor, even redundant articles will get posted!
Do keep in mind though that e-mails from a large group of people might cause too much junk in the mailbox, but if e-mail is a good way to punish redundant posts or get higher priority than in a submission queue, by all means e-mail is the way to go!
The user can create keyboard events by tap dancing predefined sequences on the floor with the shoe. Mouse clicks and movement is created by sticking the two index fingers up each nostril, and pointing the palm of the right hand at the screen allows for the positioning of the mouse pointer, and wiggling each index finger in the nose simulates mouse clicks.
"This new interface is intuitively easy to use for users that have never used a computer before," said Roozbeh Ghaffari, PHD Atomic Microscope scientist at Xerox PARC. "We are currently exploring ways to simulate the third mouse button, possibly by creating a hoola-hoop motion with the user's behind."
Timothy doesn't read Slashdot
Posted by timothy on 04:20 AM April 1st, 2001
from the at-least-read-the-front-page dept.
Frac writes: "It seems rather obvious that timothy doesn't read Slashdot, considering that the an article still on the main page mentions the exact same news." Interesting stuff. And in other news, there are now proton polymer batteries available, results from ICANN elections, and a really interesting article at ZDNET on reverse-engineering.
Linux - 0 dollars
G4 Cube - 3000 dollars
GeForce2 GTS - $300 dollars
CmdrTaco not displaying Alzheimer symtoms when posting new articles - priceless.
Actually, "regular" in this context means someone who performs an action on a fixed basis. Your confusion seems to lie in the fact that you think I'm saying regular == normal.
Oh really? Out of the three chemicals that you mention, nicotene is the most addictive, and even then a single hit won't get you addicted. Mild use without addiction can be acheived for all of these drugs. The myth of instant addiction is just that, a myth. Some drugs are more addictive than others sure, but there is no "take it once, you're doomed to be an addict" truth as you say.
And hence my point. Can you point me to the paragraph in the article that has the myth about "take once, you're doomed to be an addict"? If they want to use it enough, eventually they will have to. Don't assume that everyone is taking drugs as "responsible" as you are.
speaking of security (or lackof) - click here to marry CmdrTaco!
I'll link those two sites to each other to make things even more convenient - how's that?
Another "regular drug user" who tries to speak for the "underground drug use" masses. A pretty good sign is usually opinions such as "Most of the people I know" or "I can confidently state" that are tried to be spun as facts.
Almost all people fall into the category of users - they might take a hell of a lot, but it's because they want to, not because they have to.
And you might want to know that addictive substances such as nicotine, heroin, and cocaine leads users to become abusers, because they eventually have to use it.
The parent post is no different than posts which whine about Linux's lack of unified GUI overhyped because everyone he knows (and himself, as a "regular Linux user") only uses the command-line. The dot-com world these days demand high hours, and with their pretty high disposable income, why isn't it suprising that drug use is on the rise? No one is saying that drug use isn't prevalent across other industries. They're simply pointing out that drug use is increasing in the tech sector.
As you can probably tell I'm sick of these scare stories taking a complete non-event and trying to turn them into news.
Yo yoyoyo G, thanks for the insight from the underground. Wanna go light a K bud?
I don't want to see this article again and again
or
Please post this article again and again and again
so CmdrTaco and his very diligent team will know which articles we want to see redundantly.
Slashdot - News for Attention Deficit Disorder. Stuff you saw yesterday.
On a slightly more serious note - surely Slashdot must be getting very uninteresting for the Slashdot admins if they arent' reading their own site. What does that say about quality control?
This is our world now, the world of
the electron and the switch,
the beauty of the baud.
We make use of a service already
existing without paying for what
could be dirt-cheap if it weren't
run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us animals.
We explore - and you call us criminals.
We seek after knowledge - and you
call us criminals.
We exist without skin color, without
nationality, without religious bias - and
you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars,
you murder, cheat and lie to us and
try to make us believe it is for our
own good - yet we are the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal.
My crime is that of curiousity.
My crime is that of judging people by what
they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something
that you will never forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.
You may stop me, but you can't stop us all.
Oh, pleeease. Will the real script kiddie please stand up, please stand up.....
And I understand that some of the neo-l33t h4x0r folks might not be able to read the orginal script kiddie's manifesto. Here's the same manifesto in your language:
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In the world of /. editors, EVERYDAY is a Groundhog day.
To: malda@slashdot.org
From: marketing@cnet.com
Subject: Low banner views
----------------------------
We didn't get enough page hits from that Sony webpad article last night. In fact, it was pretty damn pathetic. You guys better do something about this. Otherwise I might have to write that scathing article about VA Linux, Andover.net, and CowboyNeal being in bed with Scott McNealy.
Respectfully yours,
CNET Editors
That was a very ignorant post.
It's definitely hacked. The rationale for DivX is that ever since AVIs have been disabled to use MS-MPEG4, DivX unlocks that hack (among other things), and renames it to a different FOURCC code, so the divx dll won't conflict with your Media Player codecs. That way, Microsoft can stealthy update your codecs all they want, but divx codecs will not be overwritten.
Of course the problem here is that you need to install the DivX codec in order to watch DivX, and that new tweaks in the MS-MPEG4 doens't get rolled in automatically (DivX updates are usually newer hacked versions of MS-MPEG4 codecs).
The reason why DivX got so popular is that it was the right thing at the right time. There was no technical wizardry involved, relative to projects such as LAME or Ogg Vorbis. I doubt Maxmorice or Gej can even explain the whole MPEG4 spec.
It's almost akin to someone telling you that they hacked a Palm V to have 8mb instead of 2mb, and now they have decided to make their own PDA. Hmm?
My question is - given that "An early version of DivX ;-) Deux is complete," did they hack another MS-MPEG4 codec, or are they coding something from scratch? It's been only a short time period since they announced the project, so I hope it's not just another hack (which brings to another question - how can they expect investors to put money in a company that illegally binary hacks some other companies' software?)