The only problem I ever ran into was that a lot of people seem to shebang #!/bin/sh on Linux systems, when in fact they're using Bash symantics. This confuses scripts trying to run on systems with a real bourne shell (e.g. Solaris). I don't mind that Linux doesn't have a proper Bourne shell, I just wish coders would properly acknowledge #!/bin/bash.
Re:Another overpriced system with overpriced games
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Gamecube Hits US Early
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Actually, the Dreamcast is one of the best values out there right now. Most people can't see the difference between a Dreamcast and a PS2 in graphic power, and at $79 for the console, you can't beat the price. The games are also 20-40% cheaper than other consoles' titles.
If you REALLY want a steal, go to eBay. People are dumping their old Dreamcast systems for dirt cheap to buy the newer systems. Plain silly, if you ask me. I just bought one with 25 games, 2 controllers and 2 VMUs for $200.
I had this argument with an old girlfriend of mine several years ago. She was an architecture major at our university, and I argued that Video Chess for the Atari 2600 was a work of art because of what it did in the limitations of the 2600. More in particular, the idea that the Video Chess game is a fantastic chess program (albeit simple graphics) and is written in only 4k with 128 bytes of memory. She didn't see things the same way.
I told her that anything can be art. Look across the street and observe that Wendy's restaraunt building.. it could be art.. you may not like it, but it is art nonetheless if someone deems it so.
I guess that is why the Critic was invented.. someone has to tell you whether or not you're full of shit, though there still might be someone out there that likes it regardless.
Cool hack.. a program by Muse Software called "The Voice" was a 1-bit sampler that allowed you to plug a microphone into the cassette in port. It worked rather well considering what the Apple had to work with. The technology was used for the sound effects in Castle Wolfenstein, so if you've played that on an Apple, you know what it sounded like.
I don't know the technical details, but thinking about the old Sony camcorder that had "night vision", couldn't this be done on the game boy?
The thing with the Sony camera was that it emitted an infrared light which was picked up by the camera and allowed some sort of night vision (or X-Ray through thin materials). They later crippled the feature so that it could only be used at night (thus no longer working "X-Ray").
Would this work here? I'm not going to run out and buy one, I'm just curious if it is something specific to infrared and cameras that detect infrared, or if Sony had a special CCD.
If the law is consistent with the FCC's law on radio transmissions, then it is perfectly legal to sniff these networks. The law, from fuzzy memory, simply states that it is legal to receive radiowaves, but can be illegal to transmit them without licenses. So you can sniff all you want, just don't try to hack in.
The problem I would have with a situation like this is that my battery life would suffer dramatically.
When your phone is idle, you don't use much battery life. My phone, for example, can last about a week with only a small number of calls and most of its time being idle. This is also in areas where the signal strength is at least 60%.
I'm sure many Slashdot readers know that modern cell phones increase their power when signal strength drops below a certain level. I'm sure you also know that when the transmitter is active, you use a lot of energy. So now that my phone is a node, not only is my transmitter probably constantly on (thanks to the people who can't live without talking on a cell phone), my battery will drain within a few days to hours, and to top it all off, making it more of an EMF hazard to me; the transmitter is what tauses dain bamage.
Cool idea, but I'd at least like the option to turn it off.
Some of the songs on the list are simply absurd. Sure, it isn't a bad idea to stop playing some of the songs that are "questionable", but to see people like Peter Gabriel on the list? Why don't they just put Genesis's Harold The Barrel on the list? It's about someone jumping off of a building...
Honestly, I think they're just trying to make a name for themselves in bad times. Some of the songs on there are fairly "slow and pop-music-ish", but then there is stuff like Metallica's Seek and Destroy and Sabbath's War Pigs. C'mon.. you're telling me that you play Sinead O'Connor and then segue into Master Of Puppets?
If anything Microsoft is not stupid. They are never going to make a piece of software that is a "all in one fix". Then they would
only sell one thing. They are never going to make something that they can't improve, that would be killing there money stream.
As long as there is something to fix, add, or tweak they have a reason to create a "new" os.
Funny, but you might be able to relate that to what people have said about the US Automobile manufacturing industry: they'll never make their cars fault-free because they would halt the revenue they generate from selling parts. It would put mechanics out of business (visions of the Maytag man..). Who knows if that is for real, but it is an idea...
Re:I guess this tragedy isn't open source...
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More WTC News
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No, I put the copyright on it TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM CASHING IN ON IT. I have NO intentions of making any kind of profit off of this story. This was a personal email to friends of mine. Public interest made it into a web page. I'm preventing people from making my personal account a money maker.
I simply put it there to prevent people from reprinting my story without my permission. I just don't want it to be used in the wrong way, and this is how I thought I could protect it.
You're entitled to your own thoughts, but if you think I'm doing this for money, you are quite wrong.
Ok, you write perfect grammar while your hands are shaking. I get enough kudos from people who are thankful that I wrote something so soon after the event.. it wasn't easy.
My counter blew up.. I adjusted for the number of hits. I'm not even sure that's right, but I will say that before I was hit by slashdot, it was over 2000.
Actually, he didn't "invent" pong, that was invented by Willy Higinbotham in 1958, though it is debatable if it can be considered a "video game". Otherwise, credit goes to Ralph Baer at Magnavox for creating the Odyssey 1 pong game.
Nolan's claim to fame (and importance here) is that he took the concept and put it in a quarter gobbling box that went into pubs and generated revenue.
I've been seeing the posters all around NYC lately; in the subway, on billboards, etc. They've put a bug in peoples asses to pay for their software. Microsoft's catch phrase over the last few years has been "innovation", but now it seems to be "licensed". Hmm, I guess their stock price is hurting a little, eh?
Anyway.. its not like they don't have the right to pursue this stuff, but at the same time, you should have heard how they were pulling out every trick in the book to cover up a false charge to my co-worker's credit card. C'mon.. they've got enough money..
This is a good thing that they have it available and running, however, I almost expect the modern consoles to run MAME anyway.
If you think about it, the last few major systems (save Nintendo) have been capable of running MAME simply because people have been able to hack the box. Since the X-BOX is basically an x86 box running some variation of Windows (read: not entirely difficult for the MAME32 development people to port), it would be surprising if it didn't work.
Regardless, not that I own any "modern" consoles (last one I bought was the NES), I am glad to see MAME available on it. Beats playing Zoo Keeper on my laptop screen:)
Cool.. soon I'll have a rainbow of technical manuals for my shelf.. Apple II's Red and Blue books, now the Purple book. O'Reilly helps matters with their colors, but...
"Uhm.. Mr. Bossman, can I get a new UltraSPARC III machine?"
'No! We're under budget cuts right now!'
"But c'mon! I really want one! They're s00pur c00l!"
'No! You'll stick to your microSPARC and like it!'
Kinda makes me wish I didn't transfer from my last job.. THEY would have gotten me one...:-(
Moral of the story: These things may be cool, but they're so expensive only your boss could buy one for you.
Hmm.. imagine that? My authentication service here says that my password for dubya@whitehouse.gov is correct.. why should I use the one housed by the government?
Microsoft plans on having.NET services available on other platforms, and I've even seen them running on Solaris and Linux with my own eyes (unless the uname -a just before the sample was bogus).
Remember.. it's all about the PASSPORT subscription that Microsoft really plans to get the stranglehold here.. They're promoting.NET as cross platform and open source.. the one key element, however, that is NOT free and open is the identification service (Passport).. that will have a massive stranglehold, and that will be required by any.NET service to identify who is who. If there is any place to make money in this scheme (or control the monopoly), it is this identification service.
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If anyone is familiar with the man Edgar Cayce (a.k.a. "The Sleeping Prophet"), you may have read about his readings on Atlantis. If the man's hit/miss ratio is keeping at the same phenominal rate and this is what I think it might be, then we've just stumbled across the power source for the population of Atlantis.
Basically, the source of electrical power for the people of Atlantis was a ruby-like gem housed in a tower that emitted some laser-like beam of energy. This energy was the source of all of the Atlantian technology.
While this gem was the source of all of their power, it was also the reason for their eventual destruction due to some kind of over use or abuse.
Regardless, this is not a fantasy that I've made up, this is actually what Edgar Cayce had told in one of his many readings on Atlantis. I don't have a URL for more information, but there are books on Edgar Cayce and his readings on Atlantis if you're interested. You may also want to check out the book "The Sleeping Prophet". This man was no joke (b. late 1800's, d. 1942?)
I see a lot of posts here raving about "Hey! This'll be on a Linux/Solaris/Windows box!". One thing that should be rememberered is that StarOffice has one neat little feature: full screen support. I find it annoying, but think about this: they basically mimic the Windows style start button and desktop in this mode and basically, they could install this program on ANY type of supported OS and just have StarOffice run in this mode. Who cares what is the OS behind the scenes? It will look the same across all platforms (save for file paths, but that can also be worked out).
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The only problem I ever ran into was that a lot of people seem to shebang #!/bin/sh on Linux systems, when in fact they're using Bash symantics. This confuses scripts trying to run on systems with a real bourne shell (e.g. Solaris). I don't mind that Linux doesn't have a proper Bourne shell, I just wish coders would properly acknowledge #!/bin/bash.
If you REALLY want a steal, go to eBay. People are dumping their old Dreamcast systems for dirt cheap to buy the newer systems. Plain silly, if you ask me. I just bought one with 25 games, 2 controllers and 2 VMUs for $200.
I told her that anything can be art. Look across the street and observe that Wendy's restaraunt building.. it could be art.. you may not like it, but it is art nonetheless if someone deems it so.
I guess that is why the Critic was invented.. someone has to tell you whether or not you're full of shit, though there still might be someone out there that likes it regardless.
Cool hack.. a program by Muse Software called "The Voice" was a 1-bit sampler that allowed you to plug a microphone into the cassette in port. It worked rather well considering what the Apple had to work with. The technology was used for the sound effects in Castle Wolfenstein, so if you've played that on an Apple, you know what it sounded like.
The thing with the Sony camera was that it emitted an infrared light which was picked up by the camera and allowed some sort of night vision (or X-Ray through thin materials). They later crippled the feature so that it could only be used at night (thus no longer working "X-Ray").
Would this work here? I'm not going to run out and buy one, I'm just curious if it is something specific to infrared and cameras that detect infrared, or if Sony had a special CCD.
If the law is consistent with the FCC's law on radio transmissions, then it is perfectly legal to sniff these networks. The law, from fuzzy memory, simply states that it is legal to receive radiowaves, but can be illegal to transmit them without licenses. So you can sniff all you want, just don't try to hack in.
When your phone is idle, you don't use much battery life. My phone, for example, can last about a week with only a small number of calls and most of its time being idle. This is also in areas where the signal strength is at least 60%.
I'm sure many Slashdot readers know that modern cell phones increase their power when signal strength drops below a certain level. I'm sure you also know that when the transmitter is active, you use a lot of energy. So now that my phone is a node, not only is my transmitter probably constantly on (thanks to the people who can't live without talking on a cell phone), my battery will drain within a few days to hours, and to top it all off, making it more of an EMF hazard to me; the transmitter is what tauses dain bamage.
Cool idea, but I'd at least like the option to turn it off.
Honestly, I think they're just trying to make a name for themselves in bad times. Some of the songs on there are fairly "slow and pop-music-ish", but then there is stuff like Metallica's Seek and Destroy and Sabbath's War Pigs. C'mon.. you're telling me that you play Sinead O'Connor and then segue into Master Of Puppets?
(turn off rant machine)
only sell one thing. They are never going to make something that they can't improve, that would be killing there money stream.
As long as there is something to fix, add, or tweak they have a reason to create a "new" os.
Funny, but you might be able to relate that to what people have said about the US Automobile manufacturing industry: they'll never make their cars fault-free because they would halt the revenue they generate from selling parts. It would put mechanics out of business (visions of the Maytag man..). Who knows if that is for real, but it is an idea...
I simply put it there to prevent people from reprinting my story without my permission. I just don't want it to be used in the wrong way, and this is how I thought I could protect it.
You're entitled to your own thoughts, but if you think I'm doing this for money, you are quite wrong.
Ok, you write perfect grammar while your hands are shaking. I get enough kudos from people who are thankful that I wrote something so soon after the event.. it wasn't easy.
My counter blew up.. I adjusted for the number of hits. I'm not even sure that's right, but I will say that before I was hit by slashdot, it was over 2000.
Nolan's claim to fame (and importance here) is that he took the concept and put it in a quarter gobbling box that went into pubs and generated revenue.
And that's all I've got to say about that...
Hmm, so does that mean that NASA would get an icon on the Windows desktop?
I have one guess who is behind it: Micro$oft.
I've been seeing the posters all around NYC lately; in the subway, on billboards, etc. They've put a bug in peoples asses to pay for their software. Microsoft's catch phrase over the last few years has been "innovation", but now it seems to be "licensed". Hmm, I guess their stock price is hurting a little, eh?
Anyway.. its not like they don't have the right to pursue this stuff, but at the same time, you should have heard how they were pulling out every trick in the book to cover up a false charge to my co-worker's credit card. C'mon.. they've got enough money..
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If you think about it, the last few major systems (save Nintendo) have been capable of running MAME simply because people have been able to hack the box. Since the X-BOX is basically an x86 box running some variation of Windows (read: not entirely difficult for the MAME32 development people to port), it would be surprising if it didn't work.
Regardless, not that I own any "modern" consoles (last one I bought was the NES), I am glad to see MAME available on it. Beats playing Zoo Keeper on my laptop screen
Cool.. soon I'll have a rainbow of technical manuals for my shelf.. Apple II's Red and Blue books, now the Purple book. O'Reilly helps matters with their colors, but ...
'No! We're under budget cuts right now!'
"But c'mon! I really want one! They're s00pur c00l!"
'No! You'll stick to your microSPARC and like it!'
Kinda makes me wish I didn't transfer from my last job.. THEY would have gotten me one...
Moral of the story: These things may be cool, but they're so expensive only your boss could buy one for you.
>nudge nudge< HEy! ReMamber the time when the MCP plaYed Moses on SouTH Park?! hyuk hyuk!
(sorry..)
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Remember.. it's all about the PASSPORT subscription that Microsoft really plans to get the stranglehold here.. They're promoting .NET as cross platform and open source.. the one key element, however, that is NOT free and open is the identification service (Passport).. that will have a massive stranglehold, and that will be required by any .NET service to identify who is who. If there is any place to make money in this scheme (or control the monopoly), it is this identification service.
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Basically, the source of electrical power for the people of Atlantis was a ruby-like gem housed in a tower that emitted some laser-like beam of energy. This energy was the source of all of the Atlantian technology.
While this gem was the source of all of their power, it was also the reason for their eventual destruction due to some kind of over use or abuse.
Regardless, this is not a fantasy that I've made up, this is actually what Edgar Cayce had told in one of his many readings on Atlantis. I don't have a URL for more information, but there are books on Edgar Cayce and his readings on Atlantis if you're interested. You may also want to check out the book "The Sleeping Prophet". This man was no joke (b. late 1800's, d. 1942?)
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Man, I loved those games.
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I think it's neat.
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