Slashdot Mirror


User: lo_fye

lo_fye's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
90
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 90

  1. Props! on Penny Arcade vs. American Greetings Revisited · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Props to Gabe and Tycho for puttin' up their dukes!

  2. Lindows' Future on Talk With Michael Robertson · · Score: 1

    1) 99% of Microsoft's goodness is in its usability & design. What percentage of Lindows development budget goes toward usability? How high is usability on Lindows list of priorities?

    2) 99% of teens' love the internet for 2 reasons, the first being free music, and the second being instant messaging. Is Lindows doing anything to ensure that it is a forerunner in this emergent mega-niche? (Microsoft is beta-testing 3Degrees, are you testing anything?)

    3) A hefty percentage of computers enter households due to teen demands, and then the adults don't know how to use them. Plug N Play has helped this dramatically, but that's largely in the MS-world. For example, when I installed Lindows, my NIC was not identified, and I STILL can't get online without booting to WindowsXP. Does Lindows have plans to significantly increase it's Plug N Playability?

    4) A huge Killer App on Windows is Outlook (even with all its bugs/base). Does Lindows plan to integrate the opensource Chandler into its package?

    5) PVRs are increasingly popular. Has Lindows thought about selling a "Media Centre" version of its Wal-Mart Machines?

  3. Re:Resource on Preventing the NT Messenger From Use as a Spam Portal? · · Score: 1

    What a useless reply!
    Everyone knows Google.

    The other day I asked a mailing list I'm on to summarize Extreme Programming in a sentence or two.

    All the replies I got were pretty much the same "Try searching Google"

    Reallly? I can find stuff on Google?

    Jeezus!

    The whole reason for asking is that you CAN'T FIND INFO ON IT!

    Please, if someone asks a question that you could give a useful answer to, DO SO.

    If you can't give a useful answer, just don't answer!

  4. Re:NOT the economy... on Shift Calls it Quits · · Score: 1

    i have/had a subscription.
    and they threw really kickass parties in Toronto.
    their website is still up -- check it out at shift.com

  5. bahhh on Shift Calls it Quits · · Score: 1

    i posted this story when it broke on Tuesday or Wednesday, and it was rejected :(

  6. screw cablecasting on Community Wifi Feeds Community Cable in NYC · · Score: 2, Interesting

    bah! cablecasting!
    you wanna be a media-consumer, that's fine... but there will be commercials involved.
    I suggest you download something like andromeda and stream your own content to yourself!
    It can stream video and audio files that you have to any PC on your LAN. My setup is that I have a 300GB server in my bedroom which has TV-out. This is hooked up to a cheap wireless audio/video transmitter (2Ghz)(available at x10.com) which sends the signal clearly to my TV & Surround system in the living room. Even the crappiest DivX looks unbelievably crisp at TV resolution!

  7. real ET life on Ask William Shatner · · Score: 1

    a) Do you believe that extra-terrestrial life exists? b) If they landed tomorrow and (officially) made 'first contact' - how do you think the world would react? Would we take a Roddenberrian stance, and welcome them, and explore the universe together? Would we shoot'em up? How would you like the world to react?

  8. I have Beta Version on Operating Systems Are Irrelevant · · Score: 5, Interesting

    His product is called Scopeware.
    I am a beta tester.
    It is kinda cool. Basically it turns your personal computer, or all the computers in an enterprise into a searchable internet. It indexes everything -- documents, powerpoints, email, mp3, jpg, etc etc.
    You can search once, and it'll bring up all the results in order of time created, or relevance. So, you can see email that are related to documents and powerpoints -- and they are related by the search term.
    HOWEVER, the index file takes up to 1/3 of the original filesize!!!
    To index my 300 Gig home network could take up to 100 Gig.
    Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  9. works using pogo proxy :( on Pogo No Longer Vaporware · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The compression technology that allows full web browsing over a gsm network is contained on pogo's proxy servers and not the device itself. Therefore to access the internet you need to pay the £7.99 monthly charge. Have a look at the pay thread for more details of what this covers
    From the pogo board

  10. Re:FuseBox? Blech. on ColdFusion Programming Methodologies? · · Score: 1

    Fuxebox doesn't organize or change the code, per se. It is a *way of coding* and structuring sites, so that everyone codes the same way. Thus, any member joining the team, or joining a project half way through can just pick it up and immediately understand the architecture and logic, because it is the standard fusebox architecture and logic.

    Yes, fusebox is imposing order on the chaos of scripting languages, but I'm betting that it doesn't impose nearly as much on neat/tidy coders as it does on sloppy coders.

    The problem with developing your own 'in house' rules is that no one on the outside knows them... so you can't hire someone who already knows 'your' rules.

  11. US forces world so suck the ... on Kazaa And Exportation of U.S. Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    Unless the world agrees to let the US's copyright laws rule the net, there's a big roadbump...

    Either the world must agree on some copyright laws (requires new global governance structure), or companies like KaZaa can continue merrily...

    Example: Just because a catholic town banns earth-based religions doesn't mean the entire world should, especially towns whose primary religion is earth-based.

  12. x10 + andromeda on Component MP3/OGG Players? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd recommend keeping your current setup, getting a mouse-remote from x10, and using a web-based app (1 file!) called Andromeda which dynamically creates playlists of audio & video files and streams them to your default player. It's awesome! This whole setup will cost you like $30 or so, and you'll be able to control your music with a remote :)

  13. 1 environment to rule them all on The Future of Game Dev (Except in St. Louis) · · Score: 1

    i believe that once we have video cards that can all render scenes fsaa4x with *actual photo-realistic detail*, kind of like the NV30 but better... THEN we'll get standardized development environments & tools. THEN the crux of game development will be character development, art direction, and plot-related. The engine and graphics will be the easiest part. Developers will be able to focus on the game, and will not have to worry about framerates or physics engines, or light mapping techniques anymore.... it'll all be about developing a better story.... and OHHH THE FUN WE'LL HAVE THEN!

  14. Re:not a film on Review: Spirited Away · · Score: 1

    lies, all lies!
    Feature-length has every bit as much right to call itself a 'film' as does anything by, say, the Coen Brothers, or Spielberg, or Lucas.
    It has art direction.
    It has set design.
    In many cases it has more plot & character development than live-action films.

  15. saw it Yesterday in Toronto!~ on Review: Spirited Away · · Score: 4, Informative

    Saw it at the Paramount in downtown Toronto yesterday at a Matinee. The dubbing was *superb* Great work, Disney! Thanks for bringing this to N.America I'll wait and buy the sub-titled version with Disney-dub option :)

  16. workaround on Fighting Music Piracy with Glue · · Score: 2, Funny

    cut headphone cord
    expose the 2 wires
    attach standard line-out connector
    plug into line-in on soundcard
    Voila!

  17. Humber College - Toronto on USC To Students: No Sharing Files · · Score: 1

    At Humber College the residence is on the same network as the actual school -- and this year they installed a BIG PHAT FIREWALL. Now students cannot do anything that doesn't use port 80. No IM, No FTP, No VOIP, No streaming, No File-sharing. Are they happy? Oh my.

  18. Re:Sad news - Stephen King, dead at 54 on One Year After September 11 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember you posting this LAST YEAR! You, sir, have a very wierd SK Death Fetish.

  19. $50 DIY dual mobo case on Cases That Can House Multiple Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    1) get a cheap bookshelf from ikea or soemthing 2) hack the top & sides off of it, leaving it a bit taller than the mobos (room for PS). Reinforce the corners with $0.25 l-brackets. 3) cut some drinking straws into 1/8 inch lengths, and cut up the side of them so they can have a smaller diameter 4) put them inside the screw holes in your mobos 5) screw the mobos directly to some plywood, which you can then use for the sides of the case. Yes, they'll be permanently affixed. 6) find a 486 on the side of the road, and swipe the drive mounts. Put'em in your new case. 7) when you affix the plywood mobo sides to the (book)case, do it with hinges from Home Hardware, and just toss the drives inside. Then if you need to access them, swing the side open. You don't need external drive access for a server. 8) cut some holes and mount case fans. Voila. Cheeeeeeeeap dual mobo case.

  20. idiot on Debunking (some) DMCA Myths · · Score: 1

    What a numbnut. EFF HAS to cause a lot of noise No other legal entity is going to fight for the rights of the little guy: the average consumer They MUST emphasize the negative aspects of the DCMA, otherwise they'll be overlooked, and our freedoms ever so easily compromised.

  21. FHM Magazine on IMAX Develops Movie Transfer Technology · · Score: 1

    This month's FHM mentions a 40 foot screen set up beside a lake, a remastered version of Jaws, and a bunch of very lucky/scared people watching from their seats (floating innertubes) on the lake! They also said there will be some actual underwater effects to accompany the movie. I can't imagine much that would be scarier than that at night.

  22. in my day... on Iowa College Goes Paperless · · Score: 1

    at my university (Trent University in Peterborough Ontario) the physical holdings were horrible! The most recent psychology journals were from the 1970s... and I studied there in 2000 as a Comp/Psy major. They were so bad in fact that we had to regularly rent school buses to take us to the University of Toronto library, 1.5 hours away. The great thing about digital books is that universities can subscribe to volumes on an "as needed" basis, or a per article basis -- pay for what you use, and not for the whole collection. Also, have you ever tried to look through the volumes upon volumes of abstracts manually, in paper form? Sooooooooo much better is the digital format. I love it. I think iowa is being brave, and moving in the right direction -- the thought of going 100% paperless in one fell swoop is a little daunting though.

  23. students on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i teach at a community college and i must say that students by and large only know how to use a floppy. burning cds is too compliated for some. FTP is beyond the capabilities of most. for this market I believe USB keychain drives could take over thanks to their ease of use... but anything more technical than that will not.

  24. Be Careful!!! on PHP Vulnerability Announced · · Score: 1

    I upgraded to 4.2.2 in the middle of developing a site for a client (I know - big "No No") and it was TOTAL BADNESS My login procedure and several sections fo the site just stopped working. Apparently 4.2.2 configures the system such that redirects do not work the same. Needless to say this turned my dev server upsidedown in a mad rain of chaos. Had to do a rollback and just forget about it for now. Once the site works I'll reinstall and debug. caveat emptor.

  25. Voices in My Head: A Paid Presentation on Voices in Your Head · · Score: 1

    ok - this audio beam inspired me to expand on the predictions a bit... show the potential for good, and evil... Voices in my Head: A Paid Presentation Have you ever tried listening to 2 notes at the same time using headphones - 1 note in the right ear and 1 in the left? If you have, you'd know that with both headphones on at once, the sounds overlap in your head and you can only hear 1 note, at a pitch exactly between the actual 2 notes coming out of the headphones. In this case it's your brain integrating & re-interpreting signals - but now two companies are taking this premise and turning it into products. The idea is this: take two super-high frequencies of sound (beyond human hearing range) and pump them out - high frequencies have very small wavelengths and so the sound is very concentrated, more like a beam than a wave. When these two frequencies hit each other, the overlapping parts cancel each other out, and you only hear the difference between the two (called Tartini Tones). Now, regular music and voices are just a series of frequencies we hear through the air... so Norris' idea was to take any audio source, like a microphone, or stereo and reverse-engineer the frequency from say 440 Hz to two separate ultra-sonic frequencies (say 20,000 Hz and 20,440 Hz) and then to re-broadcast those two separate frequencies - and this is the cool part - when re-broadcast, they are in their focused, concentrated, narrow wavelength form which is "directable" like a beam of light. **Only the person you are shining this beam on can hear the sound** As you can imagine, this has wild implications. Some of the best of which include the ability to do things like have 4 bands playing at 1 club, and you just have to stand under the "audio beam" of the band you want to hear - the others will be silent to you, or at least as quiet as their un-amplified instruments. At the less social end of this spectrum are niceties such as separate audio channels for each passenger in a minivan - without the need for headphones. The dashboard and back of each seat could broadcast an audio-beam into the head of the person facing it, and no one else would hear that audio. This could be a boon for the radio-tuner industry as a need would arise for tuners capable of receiving multiple stations at once to ensure maximum listener pleasure. That's all very nice and mundane, but doesn't seem very profitable. Well, everything's profitable when the military gets involved, and this is one technology they are very interested in. Diversion is a tried and true tactic, and audio beam technology will enable them to project the sound of a large platoon approaching the left side of a city - while simultaneously deploying troops to right side. They could theoretically do tricks such as cut a phoneline, and beam their audio feed to your head - making you believe that you were still talking with your trusted friend, while in fact is was a pre-fab military soundtrack, or voice actor. Even more frightening than that though is that audio beam technology will allow them to broadcast ear-piercing sounds into the heads of their enemies mid-battle, while sparing the ears of allies. Hard to fight when your eardrums feel like they're about to burst. Luckily most of us are not wanted by the military; unluckily, we are all wanted by many other entities. Imaging you are walking down the street on a beautiful sunny day, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere you hear "chssk - gulp, gulp - ahhhh, that ice cold Coca Cola sure was refreshing - want one?" You stop and look around, but no one's there. No, wait - there is a coke machine about 50 yards in front of you... and it has an audio beam on it. Bastards. You keep walking down the street, past lingerie stores where then mannequins somehow talk to you through the glass, into the mall where every square foot of floorspace has now been sold to audio advertisers. Every step you take makes you the next victim of an aural advertisement - beamed directly from Disney into your head! Who owns what you hear? Who gets to decide? The Opera browser lets us turn off javascript pop-up ads, but how can we turn off audio beams whose messages penetrate our very minds? This technology has some devastating potential from a "rights management" perspective - all we have to do is twist the words of a few recent music and movie industry pundits to see the future - "By coming into our mall in the first place, consumers are implicitly agreeing to have our advertising beamed into their heads. How else are we supposed to survive as corporate entities if they are allowed to wear audio-beam prevention devices? These should be made illegal in capitalist spaces as they prevent the generation of revenue from audio beams. We must be allowed into people's heads." The only way we'll be safe from this is for legislation to be put into place banning the broadcast of unsolicited audio materials from any focusable audio source. If this is not done before the technology becomes widespread we *will* be hearing arguments exactly like the one above, and we may lose the right to decide whose voices live inside our own heads. by Derek Martin --------------- Some of the companies already using these audio-beam technologies include: Alma Media American Greetings British Airways British Telecom Creative Labs Daimler Chrysler Eastman Kodak General Motors Hewlett-Packard Jack Morton Worldwide Johnson & Johnson Kaiser Permanente Kraft Foods Marks & Spencer Motorola Newseum NCR Corporation Orange Procter & Gamble SEGA Steelcase Symbol Technologies Time Warner Toyota Walt Disney Imagineering ACMI at Federation Square PGA European Tour, 2002 Adelaide Festival, 2002 Australia American Loudspeaker Manufacturer's Assoc. Audio Engineering Society Boston Museum of Science List Visual Arts Centre, Boston, MA Northwestern University Media Lab Europe, Dublin, Ireland Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC Sega Joypolis, Tokyo Japan Symphony Hall, Boston, MA Potomac Institute, Arlington, Virginia Thomson, Dolby, and Harman Sources: http://www.discover.com/awards/arc97/9707-7G.html http://www.locationsound.com/96winter/hyper.html http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/27/151022 5&tid=141 http://www.msnbc.com/news/786016.asp http://www.elwoodnorris.com/interview.htm