while i enjoy cringley columns, his mangling of the bottom layers of the OSI model made me cringe (pun intended).
encoding systems are physical (layer 1) technologies, not 2nd layer like he claims. he further states that ethernet and token ring are layer 3 technologies, which is blatently false - they are both data link technologies.
well, palm kinda does this, as long as you have batteries to keep refreshing the dram. run out of batteries, and you lose everything.
i think he's talking something more like the win2k "hibernate" feature, something which is also done in hardware on a number of laptops (the thinkpad series for 1)
the tivo's a lot more hackable right now than you think. you want network support? go here: http://www.9thtee.com/tivonet.htm
and if you're looking to hack it for free service, that's been done too (for the directivo leastwise). link not provided, but if you were to search, try "60xtreme" or "25xtreme"
for what it's worth, i think you're confusing patent law with trademark law. trademarks need to be actively protected to remain valid, patents and copyrights don't.
this item looked interesting, but after looking into it (http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/html/wintv-d.pdf), i find a few problems. first off, it's a pci card, so you need a computer handy. that's not usually a problem if you're actually plugging into a vga monitor, but it might be if you're connecting to a data projector. the bigger problem however is that it downconverts ALL HD formats to 480i (check the link above) and displays them through your existing video card. 480i is good old NTSC, so you're not realizing any benefit from the HD signal.
i'm not sure what the xbox is using for output, but you're probably best served waiting until they release a real vga adapter. if you absolutely cannot wait, you have a couple options. first, you can go the cheap route with a cheese box from AV Toolbox. these boxes will upconvert a standard ntsc composite or s-video signal to be displayed on the monitor. none will use the high def output though.
if you want high def, expect to pay upwards of $2000 USD. check this guy out from www.extron.com. extron makes all sorts of very nice broadcast quality conversion equipment, if you have the pockets deep enough to afford it.
my suggestion? wait till MS releases the $40 vga box:)
an interesting idea, but relativistic effects keep us from being able to notice it at all even if it were happening. in this case, if light were slowing down, so does time, and the whole thing balances out.
gosh, i'll bet that they never thought of that! maybe they never went through first year physics.
it's funny how/. mods will mod up any post that uses the words "crystal lattice structure".
anyway, if it were less dense than air, the freakin thing would float. i think it would probably occur to them to check out the "lattice structure" when they found the sample floating near the ceiling.
hey, maybe the nsa is actually trying to _help_ us
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i know this theory may sound pretty far out to some of the/. crowd - but maybe o just myabe the nsa is acting in the interest of national security. the united states has been moving more and more of its business operations online, allowing anyone in the world access to our banks, corporations, media, and everything else. we've made ourselves the world's biggest targets for computer intrusion. why wouldn't the nsa have interest in seeing u.s. companies secure themselves from this threat? maybe they'd rather see u.s. companies using secure crypto, strong policy enforcement, and mandatory access control on an open and peer reviewed platform as opposed to seeing us being overrun by russian mafia funder hackers from east germany?
as a dreamcast enthuiast and part time linux user, i'd be very interested in tinkering with a netbsd or linux port on the dreamcast. i've tried a number of time to get a sucesful burn from the code i get at sourceforge with no luck. has anybody ever seen a cd image of any of the current *nix projects on the dreamcast?
umm... did you also notice the first lines where it detected the dreamcast vga adapter? sega (and some 3rd parties) sell a unit to run the dreamcast on your monitor.
not really a big deal. this has been going on for some time, although in not quite as convenient a fashion. you can make a serial cable to read data off the gd already, but that's been superceded by a hacked firmware for some of the newer yamaha cdrw's that will allow these units to read gd-roms directly.
netware and file/print isn't novell's future
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as a former directory services consultant for a large services firm, i saw a lot of what novell is pushing in the enterprise marketplace. novell is decoupling all of their products from the netware server platform. as a file/print server, netware has dominated the industry in performance. too bad that file and print have become commodities in today's nos market. in reaction, novell is targeting their software at other platforms. just about all of novell's major products (outside of bordermanager) are available for nt or linux or both. their flagship product, novell directory services, is available for nt, linux, solaris, aix, and even os/390 now. contrary to the story above, nds is not obsoleted by ldap. nds corporate edition on all platforms is the fastest and most robust ldap service available. again, novell has a long history of being the performance leader.
i'm still not going to buy any of their stock, but i wouldn't count novell out quite yet.
Not 12 hours before this release, they released another game wherein they claimed it would also be their last release. Obviously it wasn't. They've made similiar claims in the past, all unsubstantiated. Kalisto seems to like nothing more than being the subject of conversation. They released somewhere around %90 or more of the Dreamcast games available for download, so there was a lot of speculation as to whether the DC warez scene was going to continue without new releases.
As always, nature abhors a vacuum. ECHELON and others have immediately started releasing self-booting DC games in the absence of Kalisto.
Good riddance to another stupid warez group.
If you have too much time on your hands, you can read all the apropos.NFOs and watch the forums on http://www.isonews.com
as a semi-informed lay person i'll give my best here.
first off, if this holds out, this is a _very_big_find_
bosons are "force carriers". all particles have a quantized property called "spin". bosons are particles with an integral spin. that is, they all have a spin of 1, 2, 3, or whatever. one boson that you are probably familiar with is the photon, the carrier of the electromagnetic force. there's also gluons that carry the strong force which among other things holds a nucleus together. there's W+, W-, and Z^0 which carry the weak force that causes particle decay. there's also speculation about the "graviton", which would allegedly carry the gravitational force. all the bosons mentioned above have a spin of 1. (as an aside, fermions are particles with half integral spin like 1/2 or 3/2, and they compromise the rest of the particles like electrons and quarks.)
the higgs is interesting as it has a spin of 0. there's a question in physics as to why some particles have this strange property we call mass, and why the mass of some particles is so much different than others. peter higgs postulated the existance of a boson that would interact with massive objects in such a way that they would appear to have mass in various degrees. hence, the higgs boson.
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while i enjoy cringley columns, his mangling of the bottom layers of the OSI model made me cringe (pun intended).
encoding systems are physical (layer 1) technologies, not 2nd layer like he claims. he further states that ethernet and token ring are layer 3 technologies, which is blatently false - they are both data link technologies.
maybe i'm just being nitpicky....
well, palm kinda does this, as long as you have batteries to keep refreshing the dram. run out of batteries, and you lose everything.
i think he's talking something more like the win2k "hibernate" feature, something which is also done in hardware on a number of laptops (the thinkpad series for 1)
the tivo's a lot more hackable right now than you think. you want network support? go here: http://www.9thtee.com/tivonet.htm
and if you're looking to hack it for free service, that's been done too (for the directivo leastwise). link not provided, but if you were to search, try "60xtreme" or "25xtreme"
it doesn't really much matter what connectors are on the back of the thing (coax or whatever) - there's no video input hardware.
unless they offer an expansion unit to do vidcap, the xbox is never going to be "ultimatetv"
...would be laughed off the decks.
anyway, real nerds use Final Scratch
actually, you are not correct. dvd-rw and dvd+rw drives will both write to dvd-r media. read the review.
actually, this is called "learning". try it some time.
i have to laugh at all the people here who are trying to work out the costs and marketing issues with creating a "product".
this isn't an inventer folks, he's a hacker. he want's to learn digital design in the best way possible - by doing it.
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for what it's worth, i think you're confusing patent law with trademark law. trademarks need to be actively protected to remain valid, patents and copyrights don't.
`cept 2 twin sticks and the link cable are likely going to cost well over $200... too bad though.
this item looked interesting, but after looking into it (http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/html/wintv-d.pdf), i find a few problems. first off, it's a pci card, so you need a computer handy. that's not usually a problem if you're actually plugging into a vga monitor, but it might be if you're connecting to a data projector. the bigger problem however is that it downconverts ALL HD formats to 480i (check the link above) and displays them through your existing video card. 480i is good old NTSC, so you're not realizing any benefit from the HD signal.
i'm not sure what the xbox is using for output, but you're probably best served waiting until they release a real vga adapter. if you absolutely cannot wait, you have a couple options. first, you can go the cheap route with a cheese box from AV Toolbox. these boxes will upconvert a standard ntsc composite or s-video signal to be displayed on the monitor. none will use the high def output though.
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if you want high def, expect to pay upwards of $2000 USD. check this guy out from www.extron.com. extron makes all sorts of very nice broadcast quality conversion equipment, if you have the pockets deep enough to afford it.
my suggestion? wait till MS releases the $40 vga box
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& item=1254742933
get it while it's hot...
an interesting idea, but relativistic effects keep us from being able to notice it at all even if it were happening. in this case, if light were slowing down, so does time, and the whole thing balances out.
gosh, i'll bet that they never thought of that! maybe they never went through first year physics.
/. mods will mod up any post that uses the words "crystal lattice structure".
it's funny how
anyway, if it were less dense than air, the freakin thing would float. i think it would probably occur to them to check out the "lattice structure" when they found the sample floating near the ceiling.
i know this theory may sound pretty far out to some of the /. crowd - but maybe o just myabe the nsa is acting in the interest of national security. the united states has been moving more and more of its business operations online, allowing anyone in the world access to our banks, corporations, media, and everything else. we've made ourselves the world's biggest targets for computer intrusion. why wouldn't the nsa have interest in seeing u.s. companies secure themselves from this threat? maybe they'd rather see u.s. companies using secure crypto, strong policy enforcement, and mandatory access control on an open and peer reviewed platform as opposed to seeing us being overrun by russian mafia funder hackers from east germany?
actually, the name "football card" comes from the primary use of these things - getting all the football games for free.
as a dreamcast enthuiast and part time linux user, i'd be very interested in tinkering with a netbsd or linux port on the dreamcast. i've tried a number of time to get a sucesful burn from the code i get at sourceforge with no luck. has anybody ever seen a cd image of any of the current *nix projects on the dreamcast?
umm... did you also notice the first lines where it detected the dreamcast vga adapter? sega (and some 3rd parties) sell a unit to run the dreamcast on your monitor.
not really a big deal. this has been going on for some time, although in not quite as convenient a fashion. you can make a serial cable to read data off the gd already, but that's been superceded by a hacked firmware for some of the newer yamaha cdrw's that will allow these units to read gd-roms directly.
as a former directory services consultant for a large services firm, i saw a lot of what novell is pushing in the enterprise marketplace. novell is decoupling all of their products from the netware server platform. as a file/print server, netware has dominated the industry in performance. too bad that file and print have become commodities in today's nos market. in reaction, novell is targeting their software at other platforms. just about all of novell's major products (outside of bordermanager) are available for nt or linux or both. their flagship product, novell directory services, is available for nt, linux, solaris, aix, and even os/390 now. contrary to the story above, nds is not obsoleted by ldap. nds corporate edition on all platforms is the fastest and most robust ldap service available. again, novell has a long history of being the performance leader.
i'm still not going to buy any of their stock, but i wouldn't count novell out quite yet.
first off, they run IOS, which is cisco's own proprietary os.
and qnx posix compliance would have nothing to do with the ease of porting linux....
...of being completely full of shit.
.NFOs and watch the forums on http://www.isonews.com
Not 12 hours before this release, they released another game wherein they claimed it would also be their last release. Obviously it wasn't. They've made similiar claims in the past, all unsubstantiated. Kalisto seems to like nothing more than being the subject of conversation. They released somewhere around %90 or more of the Dreamcast games available for download, so there was a lot of speculation as to whether the DC warez scene was going to continue without new releases.
As always, nature abhors a vacuum. ECHELON and others have immediately started releasing self-booting DC games in the absence of Kalisto.
Good riddance to another stupid warez group.
If you have too much time on your hands, you can read all the apropos
as a semi-informed lay person i'll give my best here.
first off, if this holds out, this is a _very_big_find_
bosons are "force carriers". all particles have a quantized property called "spin". bosons are particles with an integral spin. that is, they all have a spin of 1, 2, 3, or whatever. one boson that you are probably familiar with is the photon, the carrier of the electromagnetic force. there's also gluons that carry the strong force which among other things holds a nucleus together. there's W+, W-, and Z^0 which carry the weak force that causes particle decay. there's also speculation about the "graviton", which would allegedly carry the gravitational force. all the bosons mentioned above have a spin of 1. (as an aside, fermions are particles with half integral spin like 1/2 or 3/2, and they compromise the rest of the particles like electrons and quarks.)
the higgs is interesting as it has a spin of 0. there's a question in physics as to why some particles have this strange property we call mass, and why the mass of some particles is so much different than others. peter higgs postulated the existance of a boson that would interact with massive objects in such a way that they would appear to have mass in various degrees. hence, the higgs boson.