Who says you have to drop something off inside the post office? The big blue mailbins that are on just about every street corner are much more anonymous. I guess I should have made my point clear as to where to drop off the mail.
You can do the same thing with the prepaid credit cards. I've seen them at 7-11 and my bank, so I know they've got them everywhere. Plus, you've got the benefit of a credit card, as most places don't want to handle the hassle of a money order. If it ever gets to the point where you don't want the card anymore, then just toss it.
Though you have a point as to the anonymity of the post office, nobody ever remembers someone dropping off a letter in a big city. I guess an easy way to get a similar affect with a credit card is to register at a library or other public place with a lot of people milling about.
If it makes you nervous, then just get a prepaid credit card. All you have to do is use the card just to pay for your anonymizing service, and not give your real name. Or, you could also ensure that the anonymizing service has a good privacy policy, so that you can sue if they sell your info. Yeah, if takes a bit more effort, but the people running the anonymizers have to eat, too.
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No, I'm talking about a completely independant port of Linux to the original Playstation put out by Ru.nix. Sony had nothing to do with this project whatsoever, except build the hardware.
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Isn't the xbox arch x86? So I think you owe Linus a dollar.
Nope, the poster gets to keep the dollar for a bit longer. From all the reports I've heard, the XBox has some fairly nasty protection routines to ensure that MS gets their cut from any software run on the XBox. Before anyone can think about porting Linux, which will be admittedly fairly easy, one has to first circumvent the protection routines, which means stepping through the minefield which is the DMCA.
Still, it'll probably be done eventually. They've gotten Linux on a Playstation, and IIRC, an N64. Getting it on an XBox ought to be trivial.
Digital had already announced the end-of-life for VMS when Compaq bought them, hadn't they? Or am I mis-remembering that?
I think you mistook their discontinuing the VAX line, the hardware that originally ran VMS. VMS also runs on the Alphas, and is still very much actively supported. Though the spirit of both is somewhat the same; the high end non-unix hardware is obsoleted because the performance reasons of having a much less intuitive system are lessened by newer, faster hardware.
It looks like its still farily loud. It's got two fans on it, so it's going to make a good amount of noise. Unfortunately, it's not the fanless system I was hoping for when I checked it out.
Plus, it looks like its not good for OCers. The device is very poorly designed, and busted caused damage to both the CPU and Mobo.
then back down due to the awesome powers of the/. effect.
I was able to check out a bit of this site; looks like it'll be pretty interesting once it gets done being hammered. Though I must say, it's great to see that someone who was truly screwed by the copyright fascists receive justice in the end. Score one for the good guys.
All I want to know is when I can get my color-changing shirt. Wearable computers may be cool, but I want to be able to pull on a chameleon shirt at the beginning of the day, and have it able to change colors at a whim. Even better, set it up to loop through a color changing routine. I'd love to be able to have my shirt create a color pattern based upon my mood.
This tech may be mediocre for fully immersive computing, but it would kick ass for personal style. Of course, the fashion industry would probably hate it for the same reason; the "new color" would simply mean having to put in a new color scheme, not buying hundreds, maybe thousands of dolars worth of clothes. OTOH, the industry would probably do like they do anyways, and simply change the cuts ever so slightly. Any way you look at it though, this stuff is cool, if you have a slight immunity to fashion
Who cares what photographers like? I just want a fucking picture of what the story's about, mmmkay?
As one of those photographers you seem to like disparaging, I have a little project for you. Go out to the store and buy an entry-level SLR camera. It shouldn't cost you more than a few hundred dollars. Pick up a couple rolls of black and white film, and a couple rolls of color film. Play around with both your digital camera and your SLR. Take day shots, night shots, city shots, country shots. Play with the focus; take a picture of someone using a soft focus and another with a very hard focus. Develop your stuff.
Chances are, you'll fall in love with a few of those "hated" black and white shots. Photography is an art form, black and white film is a tool in that art form, digital has another place in that art form. Sometimes, a stark black and white picture catches the mood of a situation much better than any color camera ever could.
After that, begin the second phase of the experiment. Throw both the compact flash card and the negatives up in your attic for a couple decades. Let me know how successful you are at reading both of them, mmmkay?
You make some good points here and some not so good points. First problem is that CDR media does degrade. Most estimates I've heard say that CDR media's lifespan is about a decade or so. After that, things get shaky. With film, I've seen color negatives that are about 40 years old which still look pretty decent. Yeah the color's not quite as sharp as when the negs were new, but these were just snapshots, not professional quality by any means. It's much easier to restore a degraded negative, than it is to restor a degraded jpeg
You do have a great point about the costs, though. Developing film is MUCH more expensive than storing digital images. Even doing it in-house, with all the developing equipment would be more than the quarter of a cent it takes to store a digital image onto a CD.
I'll agree with you that most of the points that the author makes are moot. Having the photographer cull what they consider the bad shots is silly. But there are still several areas where standard photography is a better tool for recording a moment than digital photography. You can still view photographs which are almost two hundred years old. Will you be able to read that CF card 200 years from now, even if you keep it in perfect condition?
Simplicity and variety, my friend. Instead of having to boot to another OS, you just have to fire up gnome. Plus, there are a few apps, such as the kickass Galeon, which don't run under OSX. More programs is always a good thing.
And the 20 second rule is to try to discourage crapflooders and trolls. Not very effective, but its something most regular users don't come across (I haven't, at least).
The first word that comes to mind when I see a system with a 134 day uptime is not "stability". The word that comes to mind is "insecure", from the patches you've had to skip to get that uptime.
Not neccesarily. Depending on the role that box is in, and the software installed on that box, 134 days could be nothing. The poster could be running such secure software as Postfix, where security flaws are rare, or could be running a fairly well locked down desktop box, with all the unneeded services turned off. Besides, few software upgrades in Linux require a reboot. Anything short of installing a new kernel or C library, can be done on the fly, with no rebooting needed.
Dunno about the shuttle's comp systems, but i remember reading that the ISS's life support system is running on a rad-hardened 386. Though any way you look at it, much of the syncing code is going to be unusable, because of the simple fact that its fairly hard-coded to what it does. Yeah, you'll probably get some good ideas about how to go about syncing the code, but the code itself is probably in some horribly ugly language like ADA.
Though the syncing code may exist. I was just able to poke around the tiniest of amounts before the site was slashed out. Soon as things settle down a bit, I'm checking out the parallel computing stuff myself. Probably a few interesting tidbits in there.
Problem is, you can cheat at polygraphs. Given enough training, you can train your body to respond such that polygraphs can't be reliable at all. Plus, under stressful conditions, it can give a lot of false positives. The actual unreliability of polygraphy is why very few courts will recognize a polygraph test as evidence. You can use them all you want in preparing your case, but polygraphs can't be used for anything you'd give to a judge
There once was a man named Bill,
His fortune was the size of a hill.
But along came Linus,
Along with a program called Linux.
Now Bill with the hill is feeling ill.
I know, silly little doggerel. Bad Chakat! No treat for you!
I know you're no longer involved with the company, but you got me thinking. What if ATI were to create a "hardcore" driver, one which has all of the speedups in exchange for a non-WHQL certification. I'm sure that most gamers wouldn't care if their driver is blessed by microsoft if it meant that they get a few extra FPS in their favorite game.
Check the link a few posts up to the German article. Even if you don't speak German, you can still get enough from the context of the article to tell you that ATI's doing some serious cheating here. To extend your analogy, they're not fine-tuning the engine to give it a few extra horsepower, they're fogging up the windows so it just seems like you're going faster. ATI's got some 'splaining to do
As a previous poster has mentioned, this thing could in the future be modified to play.oggs. It already can play wavs and aiffs as well as the MP3 feature that everyone's commenting about, so I'd imagine that Ogg Vorbis support wouldn't be too far off.
Personally, I can personally think of a much cooler hack, though its probably much less probable. Throw a firewire-ethernet converter (they exist, they're just hard to find). Then, throw a hacked version of apache on there (they mention that it runs a tweaked version of OSX, so its not too difficult to believe). Badda boom, you've got one tiny network storage box.
i don't know what you're talking about, but nvidia's cards are well-supported under Linux. Yeah, the drivers aren't open source, but they do exist; either that, or i'm just imagining typing this message (always a possibility with me =3).
As far as Linux on the X-Box, don't hold your breath. From all the accounts i've heard, the X-Box has some pretty nasty DRM stuff built in so that you can't run "unauthorized" software, and the first thing that'll need to happen is for that to be cracked before a port could even be considered. Once the DRM stuff is cracked, however, a port'll be fairly straightforward and simple.
i'll give you one word for the best reason for this port. Mozilla. By porting Linux to the PS2, a port of Mozilla becomes trivial, and Sony doesn't have to spend the mega bucks to create a web browser. You just have to create a skin which looks decent on a TVs limited resolution, maybe an image proxy which downsamples the pics so they're viewable on a TV.
As for your question about expandablity, remember those USB ports. USB is fairly well supported on Linux, so pretty much any supported Linux device, such as storage controller, network card, input device, etc suddenly becomes a PS2 device.
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Who says you have to drop something off inside the post office? The big blue mailbins that are on just about every street corner are much more anonymous. I guess I should have made my point clear as to where to drop off the mail.
Though you have a point as to the anonymity of the post office, nobody ever remembers someone dropping off a letter in a big city. I guess an easy way to get a similar affect with a credit card is to register at a library or other public place with a lot of people milling about.
If it makes you nervous, then just get a prepaid credit card. All you have to do is use the card just to pay for your anonymizing service, and not give your real name. Or, you could also ensure that the anonymizing service has a good privacy policy, so that you can sue if they sell your info. Yeah, if takes a bit more effort, but the people running the anonymizers have to eat, too.
No, I'm talking about a completely independant port of Linux to the original Playstation put out by Ru.nix. Sony had nothing to do with this project whatsoever, except build the hardware.
But, I'm gonna do it anyways. It's wrong; you really want to go to http://www.asus.com.tw/Products/Notebook/B1000/ind ex.html
Nope, the poster gets to keep the dollar for a bit longer. From all the reports I've heard, the XBox has some fairly nasty protection routines to ensure that MS gets their cut from any software run on the XBox. Before anyone can think about porting Linux, which will be admittedly fairly easy, one has to first circumvent the protection routines, which means stepping through the minefield which is the DMCA.
Still, it'll probably be done eventually. They've gotten Linux on a Playstation, and IIRC, an N64. Getting it on an XBox ought to be trivial.
I think you mistook their discontinuing the VAX line, the hardware that originally ran VMS. VMS also runs on the Alphas, and is still very much actively supported. Though the spirit of both is somewhat the same; the high end non-unix hardware is obsoleted because the performance reasons of having a much less intuitive system are lessened by newer, faster hardware.
Yep, it's called Festival, and the results are pretty decent. Became free as in speech a couple minor versions back, too.
Plus, it looks like its not good for OCers. The device is very poorly designed, and busted caused damage to both the CPU and Mobo.
I was able to check out a bit of this site; looks like it'll be pretty interesting once it gets done being hammered. Though I must say, it's great to see that someone who was truly screwed by the copyright fascists receive justice in the end. Score one for the good guys.
This tech may be mediocre for fully immersive computing, but it would kick ass for personal style. Of course, the fashion industry would probably hate it for the same reason; the "new color" would simply mean having to put in a new color scheme, not buying hundreds, maybe thousands of dolars worth of clothes. OTOH, the industry would probably do like they do anyways, and simply change the cuts ever so slightly. Any way you look at it though, this stuff is cool, if you have a slight immunity to fashion
As one of those photographers you seem to like disparaging, I have a little project for you. Go out to the store and buy an entry-level SLR camera. It shouldn't cost you more than a few hundred dollars. Pick up a couple rolls of black and white film, and a couple rolls of color film. Play around with both your digital camera and your SLR. Take day shots, night shots, city shots, country shots. Play with the focus; take a picture of someone using a soft focus and another with a very hard focus. Develop your stuff.
Chances are, you'll fall in love with a few of those "hated" black and white shots. Photography is an art form, black and white film is a tool in that art form, digital has another place in that art form. Sometimes, a stark black and white picture catches the mood of a situation much better than any color camera ever could.
After that, begin the second phase of the experiment. Throw both the compact flash card and the negatives up in your attic for a couple decades. Let me know how successful you are at reading both of them, mmmkay?
You do have a great point about the costs, though. Developing film is MUCH more expensive than storing digital images. Even doing it in-house, with all the developing equipment would be more than the quarter of a cent it takes to store a digital image onto a CD.
I'll agree with you that most of the points that the author makes are moot. Having the photographer cull what they consider the bad shots is silly. But there are still several areas where standard photography is a better tool for recording a moment than digital photography. You can still view photographs which are almost two hundred years old. Will you be able to read that CF card 200 years from now, even if you keep it in perfect condition?
And the 20 second rule is to try to discourage crapflooders and trolls. Not very effective, but its something most regular users don't come across (I haven't, at least).
Not neccesarily. Depending on the role that box is in, and the software installed on that box, 134 days could be nothing. The poster could be running such secure software as Postfix, where security flaws are rare, or could be running a fairly well locked down desktop box, with all the unneeded services turned off. Besides, few software upgrades in Linux require a reboot. Anything short of installing a new kernel or C library, can be done on the fly, with no rebooting needed.
Though the syncing code may exist. I was just able to poke around the tiniest of amounts before the site was slashed out. Soon as things settle down a bit, I'm checking out the parallel computing stuff myself. Probably a few interesting tidbits in there.
Problem is, you can cheat at polygraphs. Given enough training, you can train your body to respond such that polygraphs can't be reliable at all. Plus, under stressful conditions, it can give a lot of false positives. The actual unreliability of polygraphy is why very few courts will recognize a polygraph test as evidence. You can use them all you want in preparing your case, but polygraphs can't be used for anything you'd give to a judge
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Not! I'm using the lizard version zero point nine point five, motherfucker!)
No javascript involved. After I threw in my string, msn loaded just fine.
There once was a man named Bill,
His fortune was the size of a hill.
But along came Linus,
Along with a program called Linux.
Now Bill with the hill is feeling ill.
I know, silly little doggerel. Bad Chakat! No treat for you!
I know you're no longer involved with the company, but you got me thinking. What if ATI were to create a "hardcore" driver, one which has all of the speedups in exchange for a non-WHQL certification. I'm sure that most gamers wouldn't care if their driver is blessed by microsoft if it meant that they get a few extra FPS in their favorite game.
Check the link a few posts up to the German article. Even if you don't speak German, you can still get enough from the context of the article to tell you that ATI's doing some serious cheating here. To extend your analogy, they're not fine-tuning the engine to give it a few extra horsepower, they're fogging up the windows so it just seems like you're going faster. ATI's got some 'splaining to do
Personally, I can personally think of a much cooler hack, though its probably much less probable. Throw a firewire-ethernet converter (they exist, they're just hard to find). Then, throw a hacked version of apache on there (they mention that it runs a tweaked version of OSX, so its not too difficult to believe). Badda boom, you've got one tiny network storage box.
As far as Linux on the X-Box, don't hold your breath. From all the accounts i've heard, the X-Box has some pretty nasty DRM stuff built in so that you can't run "unauthorized" software, and the first thing that'll need to happen is for that to be cracked before a port could even be considered. Once the DRM stuff is cracked, however, a port'll be fairly straightforward and simple.
i'll give you one word for the best reason for this port. Mozilla. By porting Linux to the PS2, a port of Mozilla becomes trivial, and Sony doesn't have to spend the mega bucks to create a web browser. You just have to create a skin which looks decent on a TVs limited resolution, maybe an image proxy which downsamples the pics so they're viewable on a TV.
As for your question about expandablity, remember those USB ports. USB is fairly well supported on Linux, so pretty much any supported Linux device, such as storage controller, network card, input device, etc suddenly becomes a PS2 device.