Actually, the real problem with AIDS relief is that patents make the pharmacudical industry a profiteering venture, to the point of disallowing affordable alternatives to such a degree that the Gates Foundation's donations would amount to a few drops in the bucket compared to the savings that a true free market would allow.
The kicker is that BillG is a proponent of the situation that puts AIDS care out of reach for millions so that pharmacudical companies can maintain their profits from disabling fair competition. This is a complete exploitation of the necessity for AIDS treatment made possible by our wonderful patent system.
And owners of modded XBox's tend not to buy games.
Funny that, after I modded my xbox, I found myself buying *more* games.
Of course, they are for PC/PS2/GC/GBA
On a more serious note, the xbox games I choose are mostly those that support online play, and the original media is required for those because you must disable your unsigned bios to access Live.
Otherwise, I mostly use my modded xbox for emulation and storage/playback of video files.
I like to "vote with my wallet" and I enjoy financially supporting good games and the middlemen attached to them like symbiotic parasites.
I would be curious to know if it's any easier to install than the old whole day or more nightmare where it seemed like you needed every library on the planet to get the thing working.
You could always let your package manager handle the dependencies. Let's see:
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies \ !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "x11-themes/ethemes" have been masked. !!! possible candidates are: - x11-themes/ethemes-0.16.7 (masked by: ~keyword)
Alternatively, the enlightened populous could maintain accurate information through a communal reporting/moderation system. Just let the truth be its own excitement and make it more accessible than television.
Free Speech Radio News gets pretty good coverage: http://www.fsrn.org/
Although I gotta say you make an eloquent argument for pushing corporate media overboard.
"HD TeAm has a solution prepared and authorizes it's distribution via ddb once $1,000 has been collected. We request that all proceeds be donated to the EFF so that research of this nature remains legal in the future."
"It is our position that if the community, particularly the minority with the disposable income for hd-units, is unwilling to come together & donate this token sum to a worthy organization the hack is probably better kept private"
I use MapInfo at work, and was toying with a custom alternative using SVG output of the image_gis php module. More info here
I didn't get very far as the documentation is pretty light, and I have a hard time coming up with info in the Arcinfo/E00 format or finding a decent converter.
At work (only place I use windows enough to want gnu software on it), I just use the cygwin setup utility. Lots of GNU software, painless install. The interface could be better, but it works well. Sorry, don't have time to dig for links.
I just started a job in a technologically impaired real estate company. Not everyone is allowed to run the version of office they desire, and a lot of people just want to be able to work with excel files they've created at home. So I try recommending OO.o feeling confident about the impression the beautiful photograph with the little smiley face will make.
So instead I see a goofy seagull that looks like it was drawn by some bored high school student.
Brilliant, fucking brilliant.
Yes *that* will draw in the skeptical business minded folks in droves Seriously, make a separate page for stuff like that. Some of us are trying to promote the excellent work of OO.o in the MS dominated workplace where image counts far more than it should.
Read the news of the day that goes along with the next comic. Tim Roberts posted this on his forum, then retraceted after a PA reader grabbed a screenshot.
"Actually, that is not what the comic portrayed. It actually meant they were upset that we wouldn't sue them and they ended with outright slander saying that I can only have an orgasm if I kill a dog.... very funny... love it... they want the publicity and traffic driven to there website like is happening to hardocp...
The Penny Arcade guys were nice enough to call us in the beginning and tell us they didn't mean any harm and would be putting us through the gaming console initiation process that all of the past consoles have gone through with the hard core techies.
I really want a decent means for connecting things like games consoles to my PC monitor. All the VGA boxes out there just give horrid blurry pictures because they double the scanlines of the picture.
With an inexpensive BT8xxx card and a decent linux box, you can use tvtime to watch beautifully scaled and deinterlaced video in realtime. I use it with my gamecube and it's absolutely fantastic!
That movie rocked. The david spade character was great, and the traditional art styles used in the characters and setting was impressive. It had a very good message about the pointlessness of materialism and the songs were actually cool for a disney flick.
Richard Forno is a security technologist, author, and the former Chief Security Officer at Network Solutions.
Remember when everyone's domains (including aol.com) were getting hijacked because the default security was so laughable? (sarcasm)Network Solutions, now there's some credentials.
In speaking of the DMCA "...without protection, American companies would unfairly lose technology advantages to companies in other countries through piracy, as had happened in the 1970's.
I was hoping those things would be fixed. It was nice, but the flaws I experienced were too much to bear. When I got mine, new Rio devices were showing up in stores, but only a handful of stores in the nation were actually stocking the karma. I had to order it to be shipped. I found out why they weren't in stores yet.
They were also priced differently at the time, and I'm glad to see that this has changed. I was confused when I said the karma was heavier. It's actually.2 oz lighter. I was thinking it had a larger overall size, which it does by over a cubic inch. And the thickness account for much of that, and I think makes for a weaker design while holding it in your hand. I kept wanting to use two hands with the karma and it still never felt right.
As long as we're doing a comparison, I should point out that the karma also has a longer battery life. rated at 15 hours compared to 8.
And I think it's incorrect to call an ipod mac-centric. With the right software, you can use it on mac,linux, and pc interchangably. I use mine with win XP most of the time.
As for the lack of decent built-in server software, I still think it sucks to have to use some proprietary softare to access the device's contents. At least with an ipod hooked up to a computer you can share its files in any method the computer allows, and even share streams over itunes for novices.
I shoulda done a little more research before posting, and thanks for clearing it up.
I got one of these a month ago, and after trying so hard over a couple days to want to keep it, I had to take it back in exchange for an ipod.
After spending weeks deciding in the back of my mind, these are the features that sold me on the Karma:
Small size (although I decided the thickness made a huge difference)
Ogg support. This was a big factor in my decision.
Cool dock with ethernet
Nice display, 'analog' level dials were cool
And I found the following to be critical flaws:
Bugs! Too many inconveniences made it feel like it was rushed to market without sufficient QA. Songs would start over around 90 seconds into a track, or skip to another track altogether.
The management software (a java version is available to run on any platform) is crappy. No progress meters, lame compared to itunes or musicmatch or even windows explorer. This is the only way to transfer music or files.
Ethernet doesn't run at full duplex. WTF!?
Nothing esepcially useful about ethernet connectivity like a web server, ftp server, or smb. You might as well just hook it up over usb2 to avoid shitty transfer rates.
The physical controls on the device suck. It's awkward to use with one hand, especially if you wish to look at the screen and not your thumb/fingers. Some buttons are redundant, and it's not especiially clear at first how the scroll wheel will fuck up whatever you're listing to. It has separate volume buttons, but they're not exactly convenient.
It's physical presence is very... present. It's thicker in real life than I wanted to believe. It's also a little heavy. Ipod rules this comparison.
So, I just got an ipod instead. Same price and features, less annoyances, better support/accessories, iTunes isn't too bad. I like the 1394 better than usb2 for recharging it with the data cable. I'm sure there are a few other reasons to go with an ipod. I just figure it's no comparison with the karma, except that current lack of ogg support is kind of weak. I wish apple would pull their head out of their asses on this issue.
Short version. The Karma is crap unless it can get some major annoyances resolved.
And my users would be grousing that they lost 5 minutes of productivity.
5 minutes?! Your company sucks! And without a laser corridor (y'know, the one in the resident evil movie?) to deal with axe wielding maniacs in the server room, your company obviously shows a lack of dedication to their users' productivity.
Having seen pirates of silicon valley and read much of the surrounding history from various sources, bill gates started doing his thing with the closed source philosophy of accusing computer enthusiasts of theft for (gasp!) trying to build off of previous work (a BASIC interpreter) and drive computing further with innovation. It then became an art in slimy business deals that allowed bill to capitalize off the hard work of others.
Now take linux. Open source, sharing, not out to exploit contributors to the project but embracing them in a global community of developers have always been at the heart of linux's philosophy.
As a result, Linux+GNU has surpassed the quality of competing MS products in the server market while making everything freely available and driving a new culture of sharing ideas.
Microsoft seen as the little guy back then? Like seeing two cockroaches and thinking the smaller one is more tolerable to be climbing into your ear. Back then, MS was insignificant to me since their "operating system" was just a program launcher and the only things I gave two shits about were BBS's and PC games.
I can see how his style of reasoning by backing his claims with assumptions might be a useful skill for a leafblower salesman, but for the manager of technology strategy and outreach at Princeton University?
Check out some of these brilliant quotes: We may have to give up project planning, quality control, coding standards, accountability, version control, and support, but it's FREE and we get the ability to modify the source code ourselves, something that is extremely dangerous to do, was discredited decades ago, and few people do anyway.
And as an argument dispelling the "myth" of free labor: You can also get free software developed by having your users develop it for you. It really goes downhill from there trying to comparatively illustrate the "ridiculousness" of open source developers as a concept.
The most "innovative" hacks I've seen are like the freaking bathroom/laundry monitors, and those aren't really that impressive
(who gives a shit anyway.)
And thus the utility of the bathroom monitor.
Stall, user, duration, TP used...
logging all this (huhuh, I said 'log'), would tell you who gave various shits with all the ease of your favorite rdbms
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I'm not trolling (seriously) but I'd rather see my tax dollars paying for takedowns in more serious crime.
You mean like DEA funding to counter the "hippie threat"?
Actually, the real problem with AIDS relief is that patents make the pharmacudical industry a profiteering venture, to the point of disallowing affordable alternatives to such a degree that the Gates Foundation's donations would amount to a few drops in the bucket compared to the savings that a true free market would allow.
A IDS.asp
The kicker is that BillG is a proponent of the situation that puts AIDS care out of reach for millions so that pharmacudical companies can maintain their profits from disabling fair competition. This is a complete exploitation of the necessity for AIDS treatment made possible by our wonderful patent system.
You can read more about all this here:
http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/Population/
And owners of modded XBox's tend not to buy games.
Funny that, after I modded my xbox, I found myself buying *more* games.
Of course, they are for PC/PS2/GC/GBA
On a more serious note, the xbox games I choose are mostly those that support online play, and the original media is required for those because you must disable your unsigned bios to access Live.
Otherwise, I mostly use my modded xbox for emulation and storage/playback of video files.
I like to "vote with my wallet" and I enjoy financially supporting good games and the middlemen attached to them like symbiotic parasites.
I would be curious to know if it's any easier to install than the old whole day or more nightmare where it seemed like you needed every library on the planet to get the thing working.
/usr/portage/x11-wm/enlightenment/enlightenment-0. 16.7.ebuild
You could always let your package manager handle the dependencies. Let's see:
emerge -p
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies \
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "x11-themes/ethemes" have been masked.
!!! possible candidates are:
- x11-themes/ethemes-0.16.7 (masked by: ~keyword)
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
So yeah, pain in the ass. I tried 0.16.6, and that worked okay. Anyone know how to tell emerge to ignore masking crapola?
Alternatively, the enlightened populous could maintain accurate information through a communal reporting/moderation system. Just let the truth be its own excitement and make it more accessible than television.
Free Speech Radio News gets pretty good coverage:
http://www.fsrn.org/
Although I gotta say you make an eloquent argument for pushing corporate media overboard.
This ferret needs to be rasta-fied by 10%
I bet they hit that mark easily by tomorrow.
"HD TeAm has a solution prepared and authorizes it's distribution via ddb once $1,000 has been collected. We request that all proceeds be donated to the EFF so that research of this nature remains legal in the future."
"It is our position that if the community, particularly the minority with the disposable income for hd-units, is unwilling to come together & donate this token sum to a worthy organization the hack is probably better kept private"
I use MapInfo at work, and was toying with a custom alternative using SVG output of the image_gis php module. More info here
I didn't get very far as the documentation is pretty light, and I have a hard time coming up with info in the Arcinfo/E00 format or finding a decent converter.
From the article:
"... the MVP is attracting attention from people who want to alter its firmware.
This is a very different device from the wireless router. For one thing, it has hardware MPEG video encoding and decoding."
There's no mention of video encoding on the official product site. Is this an error, or is there a hack that allows for it?
At work (only place I use windows enough to want gnu software on it), I just use the cygwin setup utility. Lots of GNU software, painless install. The interface could be better, but it works well. Sorry, don't have time to dig for links.
I just started a job in a technologically impaired real estate company. Not everyone is allowed to run the version of office they desire, and a lot of people just want to be able to work with excel files they've created at home. So I try recommending OO.o feeling confident about the impression the beautiful photograph with the little smiley face will make.
So instead I see a goofy seagull that looks like it was drawn by some bored high school student.
Brilliant, fucking brilliant.
Yes *that* will draw in the skeptical business minded folks in droves Seriously, make a separate page for stuff like that. Some of us are trying to promote the excellent work of OO.o in the MS dominated workplace where image counts far more than it should.
Read the news of the day that goes along with the next comic. Tim Roberts posted this on his forum, then retraceted after a PA reader grabbed a screenshot.
"Actually, that is not what the comic portrayed. It actually meant they were upset that we wouldn't sue them and they ended with outright slander saying that I can only have an orgasm if I kill a dog.... very funny... love it... they want the publicity and traffic driven to there website like is happening to hardocp...
The Penny Arcade guys were nice enough to call us in the beginning and tell us they didn't mean any harm and would be putting us through the gaming console initiation process that all of the past consoles have gone through with the hard core techies.
Tim"
Gabe claims they've never spoken with him.
See for yourself
I really want a decent means for connecting things like games consoles to my PC monitor. All the VGA boxes out there just give horrid blurry pictures because they double the scanlines of the picture.
With an inexpensive BT8xxx card and a decent linux box, you can use tvtime to watch beautifully scaled and deinterlaced video in realtime. I use it with my gamecube and it's absolutely fantastic!
That movie rocked. The david spade character was great, and the traditional art styles used in the characters and setting was impressive. It had a very good message about the pointlessness of materialism and the songs were actually cool for a disney flick.
Assuming you live in portland, OR not ME...
There's one on Jantzen beach, and you can take the 5 right to it. And you can buy a nice set of bolt cutters for around $25.
Richard Forno is a security technologist, author, and the former Chief Security Officer at Network Solutions.
Remember when everyone's domains (including aol.com) were getting hijacked because the default security was so laughable? (sarcasm)Network Solutions, now there's some credentials.
It's called the bystander effect, and has been shown in a labratory and studied since 1968.
In speaking of the DMCA
"...without protection, American companies would unfairly lose technology advantages to companies in other countries through piracy, as had happened in the 1970's.
This statement offers no explanation, whatsoever.
I was hoping those things would be fixed. It was nice, but the flaws I experienced were too much to bear. When I got mine, new Rio devices were showing up in stores, but only a handful of stores in the nation were actually stocking the karma. I had to order it to be shipped. I found out why they weren't in stores yet.
.2 oz lighter. I was thinking it had a larger overall size, which it does by over a cubic inch. And the thickness account for much of that, and I think makes for a weaker design while holding it in your hand. I kept wanting to use two hands with the karma and it still never felt right.
They were also priced differently at the time, and I'm glad to see that this has changed. I was confused when I said the karma was heavier. It's actually
As long as we're doing a comparison, I should point out that the karma also has a longer battery life. rated at 15 hours compared to 8.
And I think it's incorrect to call an ipod mac-centric. With the right software, you can use it on mac,linux, and pc interchangably. I use mine with win XP most of the time.
As for the lack of decent built-in server software, I still think it sucks to have to use some proprietary softare to access the device's contents. At least with an ipod hooked up to a computer you can share its files in any method the computer allows, and even share streams over itunes for novices.
I shoulda done a little more research before posting, and thanks for clearing it up.
After spending weeks deciding in the back of my mind, these are the features that sold me on the Karma:
Small size (although I decided the thickness made a huge difference)
Ogg support. This was a big factor in my decision.
Cool dock with ethernet
Nice display, 'analog' level dials were cool
And I found the following to be critical flaws:
Bugs! Too many inconveniences made it feel like it was rushed to market without sufficient QA. Songs would start over around 90 seconds into a track, or skip to another track altogether.
The management software (a java version is available to run on any platform) is crappy. No progress meters, lame compared to itunes or musicmatch or even windows explorer. This is the only way to transfer music or files.
Ethernet doesn't run at full duplex. WTF!?
Nothing esepcially useful about ethernet connectivity like a web server, ftp server, or smb. You might as well just hook it up over usb2 to avoid shitty transfer rates.
The physical controls on the device suck. It's awkward to use with one hand, especially if you wish to look at the screen and not your thumb/fingers. Some buttons are redundant, and it's not especiially clear at first how the scroll wheel will fuck up whatever you're listing to. It has separate volume buttons, but they're not exactly convenient.
It's physical presence is very... present. It's thicker in real life than I wanted to believe. It's also a little heavy. Ipod rules this comparison.
So, I just got an ipod instead. Same price and features, less annoyances, better support/accessories, iTunes isn't too bad. I like the 1394 better than usb2 for recharging it with the data cable. I'm sure there are a few other reasons to go with an ipod. I just figure it's no comparison with the karma, except that current lack of ogg support is kind of weak. I wish apple would pull their head out of their asses on this issue.
Short version. The Karma is crap unless it can get some major annoyances resolved.
AT&T has tried to screw the american public since it's inception
In answer to your question (what's next?), here's what they're working on now:
Click for the funny
And my users would be grousing that they lost 5 minutes of productivity.
5 minutes?! Your company sucks! And without a laser corridor (y'know, the one in the resident evil movie?) to deal with axe wielding maniacs in the server room, your company obviously shows a lack of dedication to their users' productivity.
And on a serious note, your post was great.
Having seen pirates of silicon valley and read much of the surrounding history from various sources, bill gates started doing his thing with the closed source philosophy of accusing computer enthusiasts of theft for (gasp!) trying to build off of previous work (a BASIC interpreter) and drive computing further with innovation. It then became an art in slimy business deals that allowed bill to capitalize off the hard work of others.
Now take linux. Open source, sharing, not out to exploit contributors to the project but embracing them in a global community of developers have always been at the heart of linux's philosophy.
As a result, Linux+GNU has surpassed the quality of competing MS products in the server market while making everything freely available and driving a new culture of sharing ideas.
Microsoft seen as the little guy back then? Like seeing two cockroaches and thinking the smaller one is more tolerable to be climbing into your ear. Back then, MS was insignificant to me since their "operating system" was just a program launcher and the only things I gave two shits about were BBS's and PC games.
I can see how his style of reasoning by backing his claims with assumptions might be a useful skill for a leafblower salesman, but for the manager of technology strategy and outreach at Princeton University?
Check out some of these brilliant quotes:
We may have to give up project planning, quality control, coding standards, accountability, version control, and support, but it's FREE and we get the ability to modify the source code ourselves, something that is extremely dangerous to do, was discredited decades ago, and few people do anyway.
And as an argument dispelling the "myth" of free labor: You can also get free software developed by having your users develop it for you.
It really goes downhill from there trying to comparatively illustrate the "ridiculousness" of open source developers as a concept.
The most "innovative" hacks I've seen are like the freaking bathroom/laundry monitors, and those aren't really that impressive
(who gives a shit anyway.)
And thus the utility of the bathroom monitor.
Stall, user, duration, TP used...
logging all this (huhuh, I said 'log'), would tell you who gave various shits with all the ease of your favorite rdbms