I just do a random sampling around the comments page until I've read about 5 different thoughts, 3 of which I developed myself when I read the article headline. Once I've seen 5 different thoughts, I go on to the next article because that's about all the insight one can expect to filter through slashdot mob rule.
FWIW, I wouldn't bother with the glue personally; I'd have those wires stripped, soldered, and heatshrunk to a stereo headphone jack in the back of my PC in five minutes.
A USB flash memory-based device, like the DiskOnKey (sold under multiple names, now) would seem ideal for this. They're solid state, fast, and the only hardware you have to install in a machine is the USB interface, which will probably already be there and is useful for other things once the machine is successfully running. Further, they aren't limited to 1.44 MB, which is a pathetic size; reading / writing them doesn't slow a Pentium-4 2.5 GHz to a crawl (which the floppy, because of real-time signal generation requirements, somehow seems to), and you don't have to install a huge chunk of hardware into every machine in case one of them needs it.
Is there some sort of disadvantage to SCSI going the way of the dinosaur as a standard if IDE moves in to accomodate the same featureset, give or take, as the customers request? There's nothing inherently special about SCSI except it has a shitty acronym.
I thought violation of the DMCA for reverse-engineering only happened if the person doing so bypassed a security method intended to protect a copyrighted work? Now, technically the DMCA gives copyright to so everything with as much creative input as a hearty fart, but the auto manufacturers would have to have some sort of copy protection mechanism on their codes to claim the DMCA violation. Again, the DMCA is so lame it doesn't take a particularly stout protection mechanism, but would the auto manufacturers bother? Would they implement public-key encryption between the OBD-II microprocessor and the error code display device? Would they say they use N-8-1 serial encoding to protect their copyright? Would a court fall for that?
Code-reading software these mechanics could use exists, and it's cheap, once you have a laptop. What is the precise complaint of the auto shops, I wonder? Because it can't simply be that there's no way for them to get the codes out without paying the manufacturer. Are they just bitching that they have to do work? That they have to have specialized tools (like that's new)? Or that they have to learn how to use PCs?
It's ugly. Gloves are coming off. Nobody tells me I can't uninstall software from my PC, ever. Anybody who does is going to go into the hurt locker for a long time.
Anyone besides me smell an arms race between ad-aware and these other guys?
Oh. And what if the ad-aware license text changes to say that other applications can't uninstall _it_? Will we have dueling license agreements?
Ah, GPS data that's within 15 meters of being correct and updated at 1 Hz. Or, presumably, it will get more accurate and use inertial sensing to perform more frequent position and angle adjustment. Another improvement over my current GPS, of course, is that it will actually work when hiking in the woods; currently I am careful to use my compass in tandem with my GPS to perform more accurate navigation in wooded areas.
Where I see this being most useful for me personally is gaming and eventually laptops, once a suitable replacement for the keyboard is found. For gaming, I see me kicking back in a la-z-boy in my sweats in a dark room with just keyboard and mouse, exploding my buddies into bits. And when the keyboard and mouse are replaced with a more direct, just-as-efficient, less space-hogging equivalent, if they ever are, I can finally have a PC to perform even the humblest of tasks anytime, anywhere, without having to choose between lugging and setting the laptop or squinting and poking at the handheld.
Hurrah for the cool dudes who live down the street from me in Bothell, though! Makes me want to ride my bicycle down and ask for a tour.
Those aren't even acronyms, they're initialisms. Acryonyms are pronounceable. 'Round these parts, PCMCIA isn't "pissemseeyuh," so it's not an acronym. But, hey, whatever.;)
That's good to solve a specific problem, and I appreciate that tactic. But for my own personal stuff, I prefer checkpointing based on the assumption that at any time the power or even critical hardware can fail without warning. It's overkill in terms of the scheduling, because technically I only _need_ to save right before the app encounters a fatal exception, the power blinks out, or the motherboard smokes, but the code to do the checkpointing is usually related to test code I write anyway to work with serialized test data when I'm developing the apps, so it's often relatively simple to add as I go if I remember.
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) is going to be my friend if I have to deal with this. Not my fault if all my cash somehow doesn't register in their readers. (Of course, it could get expensive if they decide not to honor my cash all of a sudden because it doesn't read.:G )
I second the concern about PERL. And I offer my advice as someone who has virtually no qualifications to talk about large systems of code. I just like Python better than PERL because it doesn't hurt my eyeballs like PERL.
Yeah, I guess this is a troll. But it's honest. I use Python like most people use toilet paper: several times a day, and for more things than it was originally intended.
When the next version of Windows comes out, I suspect a lot of people will be saying "all I want to know is when the Windows-?? drivers will be available for the audigy."
I've had enough pain and suffering from creative labs' prior driver support issues that I'm going to have to think long and hard about whether the price for this card is worth it, because I can't realistically expect the card to work past whatever version of Windows it supports now.
I don't disagree with any of the facts you present here because 1) I can't check on them, 2) I've seen stuff like this before on different games when I've examined it and 3) I have no reason to disagree.
However, why do you think the game should play fairly? The point of the game is to be challenging, not necessarily to be fair. Must the game designers necessarily make their game both?
On a separate note, how do you feel about games where the computer-controlled player-characters do intentionally worse than they could? Lots of FPSs are like this - if they were really sniping worth a damn, you wouldn't ever see them before they killed you. And their bullets do less damage in many cases than yours. And etc...
Well, I wanted to side with the "popular" and "common" being related guy, but Dictionary.com doesn't have much to support that in my reading. Maybe someone else sees something there I missed:
(Dictionary.com definitions page for popular)
Sounds like IPv6 and its massive address space may be something we want after all, huh?
And on another note, DoS works because it's really cheap for the client to make someone else do something expensive. Anything that increases the client's expense will at least help reduce DoS pain. Sure, maybe not by much at first, but that seems to be the right direction.
Yes, but Congress will simply pass a law making it a felony to perform the cutting. Not sure how they'd react to a web page showing how it was done. End result: dilemna whether to be a good citizen and risk getting pulled over or be a felon to protect your civil liberties.
_I_ humbly suggest we all get perfume sprayers and put Vodka in them. Then we give the sensor(s) a little puff before we take off. Too many false positives will crush any system. (Unless "tampering" with these devices is also made into a crime, for everyone's safety of course.)
And the bells want to improve sound quality so much because:
1. they have a bunch of competition all racing neck-and-neck to provide the best user experience possible, and
2. the customers continually complain about the lousy sound quality.
Actually, last time I asked my RBOC if I could get my phone service from someone else, they told me I could if I just moved to the next county - where the other RBOC has its turf.
And from the sound of my friends calling me on their cellphones, people will put up with some really lousy sound quality. I swear PCS phones use a 2-bit sample size. I hear three volume levels in everyones' voices: quiet, loud, and earsplitting (plus silence).
Darn tootin'! How many times I looked at the original Cap and thought "Gee, I wish I didn't have to pay them for the privilege of throwing away their overpriced RAM."
Gee, Ogg Vorbis plays on my copy of Winamp fine. I drop in in_vorbis.dll and Winamp support is magically installed.
I stayed away from MP3 completely for luddite and later patent reasons until I found out about Ogg. I ripped all my stuff with one of their later betas and it sounds great on my Grado headphones. Close enough to CD that the added convenience makes up for it.
It is at the MP3 patent holders' option (until patent expiry, natch) to require future players to pay royalties to play music encoded in MP3. That's why I went with OggSquish - the music I payed for on CD has less of a chance of suddenly costing me money to play it in the future. Whereas with MP3/MP3pro, I would have been depending on the kindheartedness of the patentholders. And don't even start with me on WMP - it's Microsoft.
What's to sue for in that picture? It's a picture of their product and a not-sign. Is this defamatory? Are they "using Hormel's good name" to somehow better their site? Or were you joking?
My objection to Laptops that I would hope to solve with a "medium-small desktop" is quality and price. I consider laptops to generally contain inferior quality components yet cost more. Before someone jumps in about "inferior quality", let me explain: the keyboard on a laptop is crap to use compared to US$ 15 101-key, and you can't replace it after its done its 6 months of hard use and become a little tetchy. And have you ever seen a pointing device on a laptop you could actually play Starcraft* or Diablo II with and not get 1) toasted or 2) massive hand-strain? If so, do you have the choice to include that exact pointing device on any new laptop you want?
Most vexxing is that for all the inferiority-of-use and non-replaceability and lack of choice in components like this, laptops cost a mint! And it doesn't get any better to say "well, it comes with USB ports, so you can use any peripherals you want", because that would basically be a (incredibly overpriced) mid-sized desktop.
I'm seriously thinking about the Nano-II: http://www.linux-works.com/html/nano_ii.html. The only thing it lacks is a real video card (which sucks for gaming, I know.:(
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I just do a random sampling around the comments page until I've read about 5 different thoughts, 3 of which I developed myself when I read the article headline. Once I've seen 5 different thoughts, I go on to the next article because that's about all the insight one can expect to filter through slashdot mob rule. FWIW, I wouldn't bother with the glue personally; I'd have those wires stripped, soldered, and heatshrunk to a stereo headphone jack in the back of my PC in five minutes.
A USB flash memory-based device, like the DiskOnKey (sold under multiple names, now) would seem ideal for this. They're solid state, fast, and the only hardware you have to install in a machine is the USB interface, which will probably already be there and is useful for other things once the machine is successfully running. Further, they aren't limited to 1.44 MB, which is a pathetic size; reading / writing them doesn't slow a Pentium-4 2.5 GHz to a crawl (which the floppy, because of real-time signal generation requirements, somehow seems to), and you don't have to install a huge chunk of hardware into every machine in case one of them needs it.
OK, so all your friends are thieves. How is this my problem?
Is there some sort of disadvantage to SCSI going the way of the dinosaur as a standard if IDE moves in to accomodate the same featureset, give or take, as the customers request? There's nothing inherently special about SCSI except it has a shitty acronym.
I thought violation of the DMCA for reverse-engineering only happened if the person doing so bypassed a security method intended to protect a copyrighted work? Now, technically the DMCA gives copyright to so everything with as much creative input as a hearty fart, but the auto manufacturers would have to have some sort of copy protection mechanism on their codes to claim the DMCA violation. Again, the DMCA is so lame it doesn't take a particularly stout protection mechanism, but would the auto manufacturers bother? Would they implement public-key encryption between the OBD-II microprocessor and the error code display device? Would they say they use N-8-1 serial encoding to protect their copyright? Would a court fall for that?
Code-reading software these mechanics could use exists, and it's cheap, once you have a laptop. What is the precise complaint of the auto shops, I wonder? Because it can't simply be that there's no way for them to get the codes out without paying the manufacturer. Are they just bitching that they have to do work? That they have to have specialized tools (like that's new)? Or that they have to learn how to use PCs?
It's ugly. Gloves are coming off. Nobody tells me I can't uninstall software from my PC, ever. Anybody who does is going to go into the hurt locker for a long time.
Anyone besides me smell an arms race between ad-aware and these other guys?
Oh. And what if the ad-aware license text changes to say that other applications can't uninstall _it_? Will we have dueling license agreements?
- I traded my sig for a glock.
Ah, GPS data that's within 15 meters of being correct and updated at 1 Hz. Or, presumably, it will get more accurate and use inertial sensing to perform more frequent position and angle adjustment. Another improvement over my current GPS, of course, is that it will actually work when hiking in the woods; currently I am careful to use my compass in tandem with my GPS to perform more accurate navigation in wooded areas.
Where I see this being most useful for me personally is gaming and eventually laptops, once a suitable replacement for the keyboard is found. For gaming, I see me kicking back in a la-z-boy in my sweats in a dark room with just keyboard and mouse, exploding my buddies into bits. And when the keyboard and mouse are replaced with a more direct, just-as-efficient, less space-hogging equivalent, if they ever are, I can finally have a PC to perform even the humblest of tasks anytime, anywhere, without having to choose between lugging and setting the laptop or squinting and poking at the handheld.
Hurrah for the cool dudes who live down the street from me in Bothell, though! Makes me want to ride my bicycle down and ask for a tour.
Wow. I'm impressed. How heavy is a 15-square-foot "module" computer? Or did you mean to use double-quotes?
Those aren't even acronyms, they're initialisms. Acryonyms are pronounceable. 'Round these parts, PCMCIA isn't "pissemseeyuh," so it's not an acronym. But, hey, whatever. ;)
That's good to solve a specific problem, and I appreciate that tactic. But for my own personal stuff, I prefer checkpointing based on the assumption that at any time the power or even critical hardware can fail without warning. It's overkill in terms of the scheduling, because technically I only _need_ to save right before the app encounters a fatal exception, the power blinks out, or the motherboard smokes, but the code to do the checkpointing is usually related to test code I write anyway to work with serialized test data when I'm developing the apps, so it's often relatively simple to add as I go if I remember.
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) is going to be my friend if I have to deal with this. Not my fault if all my cash somehow doesn't register in their readers. (Of course, it could get expensive if they decide not to honor my cash all of a sudden because it doesn't read. :G )
-Eugene
I second the concern about PERL. And I offer my advice as someone who has virtually no qualifications to talk about large systems of code. I just like Python better than PERL because it doesn't hurt my eyeballs like PERL.
Yeah, I guess this is a troll. But it's honest. I use Python like most people use toilet paper: several times a day, and for more things than it was originally intended.
When the next version of Windows comes out, I suspect a lot of people will be saying "all I want to know is when the Windows-?? drivers will be available for the audigy."
I've had enough pain and suffering from creative labs' prior driver support issues that I'm going to have to think long and hard about whether the price for this card is worth it, because I can't realistically expect the card to work past whatever version of Windows it supports now.
Eugene
From http://www.blinkenlights.de/: "... by arranging 144 lamps behind each of the windows." (emphasis mine.)
I don't disagree with any of the facts you present here because 1) I can't check on them, 2) I've seen stuff like this before on different games when I've examined it and 3) I have no reason to disagree.
However, why do you think the game should play fairly? The point of the game is to be challenging, not necessarily to be fair. Must the game designers necessarily make their game both?
On a separate note, how do you feel about games where the computer-controlled player-characters do intentionally worse than they could? Lots of FPSs are like this - if they were really sniping worth a damn, you wouldn't ever see them before they killed you. And their bullets do less damage in many cases than yours. And etc...
Well, I wanted to side with the "popular" and "common" being related guy, but Dictionary.com doesn't have much to support that in my reading. Maybe someone else sees something there I missed: (Dictionary.com definitions page for popular)
Sounds like IPv6 and its massive address space may be something we want after all, huh?
And on another note, DoS works because it's really cheap for the client to make someone else do something expensive. Anything that increases the client's expense will at least help reduce DoS pain. Sure, maybe not by much at first, but that seems to be the right direction.
Yes, but Congress will simply pass a law making it a felony to perform the cutting. Not sure how they'd react to a web page showing how it was done. End result: dilemna whether to be a good citizen and risk getting pulled over or be a felon to protect your civil liberties.
_I_ humbly suggest we all get perfume sprayers and put Vodka in them. Then we give the sensor(s) a little puff before we take off. Too many false positives will crush any system. (Unless "tampering" with these devices is also made into a crime, for everyone's safety of course.)
In that case, you should be able to demand some "learn to speak Korean" programming to get you started. :)
And the bells want to improve sound quality so much because:
1. they have a bunch of competition all racing neck-and-neck to provide the best user experience possible, and
2. the customers continually complain about the lousy sound quality.
Actually, last time I asked my RBOC if I could get my phone service from someone else, they told me I could if I just moved to the next county - where the other RBOC has its turf.
And from the sound of my friends calling me on their cellphones, people will put up with some really lousy sound quality. I swear PCS phones use a 2-bit sample size. I hear three volume levels in everyones' voices: quiet, loud, and earsplitting (plus silence).
Darn tootin'! How many times I looked at the original Cap and thought "Gee, I wish I didn't have to pay them for the privilege of throwing away their overpriced RAM."
Gee, Ogg Vorbis plays on my copy of Winamp fine. I drop in in_vorbis.dll and Winamp support is magically installed. I stayed away from MP3 completely for luddite and later patent reasons until I found out about Ogg. I ripped all my stuff with one of their later betas and it sounds great on my Grado headphones. Close enough to CD that the added convenience makes up for it.
It is at the MP3 patent holders' option (until patent expiry, natch) to require future players to pay royalties to play music encoded in MP3. That's why I went with OggSquish - the music I payed for on CD has less of a chance of suddenly costing me money to play it in the future. Whereas with MP3/MP3pro, I would have been depending on the kindheartedness of the patentholders. And don't even start with me on WMP - it's Microsoft.
What's to sue for in that picture? It's a picture of their product and a not-sign. Is this defamatory? Are they "using Hormel's good name" to somehow better their site? Or were you joking?
My objection to Laptops that I would hope to solve with a "medium-small desktop" is quality and price. I consider laptops to generally contain inferior quality components yet cost more. Before someone jumps in about "inferior quality", let me explain: the keyboard on a laptop is crap to use compared to US$ 15 101-key, and you can't replace it after its done its 6 months of hard use and become a little tetchy. And have you ever seen a pointing device on a laptop you could actually play Starcraft* or Diablo II with and not get 1) toasted or 2) massive hand-strain? If so, do you have the choice to include that exact pointing device on any new laptop you want? Most vexxing is that for all the inferiority-of-use and non-replaceability and lack of choice in components like this, laptops cost a mint! And it doesn't get any better to say "well, it comes with USB ports, so you can use any peripherals you want", because that would basically be a (incredibly overpriced) mid-sized desktop. I'm seriously thinking about the Nano-II: http://www.linux-works.com/html/nano_ii.html. The only thing it lacks is a real video card (which sucks for gaming, I know. :(