The JPEG Committee had to do this. So what if there is a new standard? Without securing the old one, who would adopt the new one.
They could say two things:
1) We've got a new standard. Just move every image on the web to it.
2) This is absurd. We're going to fight this, but if all else fails, slowly adapt the new standard.
At least now, with option number two, they maintain credibility, as they don't have unreasonable expectations.
Also, a bit off-topic, but is there any real competition for a web photo-quality image format? PNG is an obvious GIF killer and is slightly entrenched (IE, has browser support), but JPEG2000 isn't as far as I know.
Um.... no, I think I got the joke and added to it, you COWARD....
The story: A third of the money has been raised.
The original joke: Well, if we can't raise 100,000EU, we can buy a KitchenAid.
My addition: No, B+D is better... if we can't get the best one, at least buy a decent one.
Now, you see, if you weren't a COWARD, I'd reply with something similar to "Oh, was there a hidden joke in KitchenAid?"
But, you're a COWARD. I despise COWARDS. I'll say why some other time.
No, Black and Decker. We want STABLE blenders. At my house, we have a 10+ year old B+D that still works. Has KitchenAid even been in business that long?
I don't think Septerra Core would be open-sourced any time soon - I'm not sure about Walmart.com, but the Wal-mart nearby sells it bundled with Shogo:Mobile Armor Division for $10. I might have to pick that up, even though I own Shogo already.
Slightly offtopic, but mods - please hang in there...
I've never had the chance to use blender, but old console games, especially SNES games, really deserve this treatment.
For example, Yu Yu Hakusho, a surprisingly good Anime, is on Cartoon Network right now. I was browsing a ROM site for a ROM of a game I bought, when I noticed that there were not one or two, but 4 YYH SNES games and a bunch of Game Boy games. Now, in this example, Funimation may own the rights to these games in the US, but they aren't using those rights.
This could do many things. For old developers that have gone out of business, SOMEONE still owns rights to games that may already even be in English. These people aren't likely going to see any money, but if we could raise a small amount they may be willing to sell the rights to them.
There are quite a few PC games that fall under this category too. The copyright holders of One Must Fall 2097 gave their work to the public domain a while back. One of the Ultima games was distributed with a magazine freely. I, personally, would love to be able to download games like Jazz Jackrabbit and the like freely and legally.
This needs to be done. There are many great games and old apps that deserve this treatment.
That said, raising less than 20% of what's needed for this buyout is depressing, as it's pretty safe to say that donations will slow down a bit.
I'm not a photoshop or GIMP user, but personally, I believe the pic is false.
1) Look at the joystick-like pointer, where it meets the front molding. There are 'jaggies' - anyone who has toyed with a image editor knows how much of a pain they are.
2) There are three spots where the device shines, reflecting the light - on the screen, the palm emblem, and joystick. Assuming the joystick and emblem are real, look where on each reflection would put the light source. It would need to be, considering the joystick's reflection's angle, high up on the palm and to the left side. The emblem points toward it being lower.... (I've checked this with my m105.... I can't quite explain it, but look and you might be able to grab it.... it just doesn't look quite right:(
I had more points, but I've already forgotten them. What we need is hardware that keeps track of my mind so that I don't forget these little idiosyncracies. O-O
Is MS Word.doc: 1) Functional? Yup. It can do what it advertises. 2) Open or reverse-engineered? Yup, the latter. Almost every office suite (open-source ones included) have sufficient reading and writing capabilities. 3) Support? Only under Office, but then it's covered by MS and by forums and such.
Am I arguing the MS.doc of even yEnc are perfect? no. All I say is that somethimes a de facto standard must be established. This was one of those times.
I really don't believe this to be a big issue. So yEnc isn't an official standard; big deal. Most 'standards' didn't start out as such, instead being what was adopted and then standardized. Look at basic hardware designs for great examples of this principal.
What is inportant is that it works, it is open format, and that it has a large enough user base now to become a standard. It can be changed to fix any problems it has.
I'm suprised that Slashdot posted this. It isn't a groundbreaking issue. Odd...
Kind off odd that Slashdot would finally mention the icebox, considering that it was in PC Magazine months ago in the After Hours section... Typically, I consider Slashdot to have the latest news, albeit with slightly less accuracy.
Still, awesome little device. If it wasn't for the fact that I was economically disadvantaged due to corporate and familial mismanagement, I'd get one.
The real question is, does it include a built-in receipe book program? If not, somebody please make one!
This is an odd idea. Persona;;y, I don't like it because I hate gift cards and certificates.
You see, this year for Christmas one of my presents was a $15 Electronics Boutique gift card. I could have gotten that same amount in cash, or in a MALL gift certificate at the very least, but didn't.
I'd love to use it toward buying a new video card to replace my Voodoo 3, but I have a dilemma. EB only has a GeForce2 PCI at 64MB RAM for $100. Wal-mart, right across the road, has the cheaper 32MB model for $70. Now, I'll have to wait even longer.
The real question is whether the 'gift exchange' would fix my problem. Would I be stuck in that store, or across the service's network of stores, or could I get it applied to any store?
Furthermore, what would stop me from using it to buy someone else a gift, or to pay a bill, etc... A gift may not be perfect, but the thought put into it can and will make up for that shortcoming.
The only graceful option at this point is the Vise Buxx card, but it's been advertised as something to give teens (I happen to be one, but still...). Also, it still isn't personal enough.
I could buy my brothers, who are 8, 7, and 3, gift certificates to KB Toys to buy video games, but instead I spend the time with them, notice that they love Sqaresoft RPGs (even though they are a bit hard for them o_O), and pick up Legend of Dragoon.
They love it, I'm playing it with them, and everybody is happy.
Had I bought the gift card, it would have gone to action figures or some side-scroller that they would play for ten minutes and decide they hate. Then, I would feel that I had not only let them down, but actively betrayed them, since they depended on me for a present.
They bought me a watch. A cool watch, one that I had picked out. In fact, they weren't there when my mother and I picked it up. But I needed a new watch, and hated boring watches. They knew that, and asked my mother to pick it up.
You might get the gift you want, but you'll realize, probably when exchanging your gift right before Christmas, that while you shoved some shoddy quick gifts on your loved ones, they did the same to you.
I doubt anybody, even the reps at the local cable company, have heard anthing about HDTV. I've never seen a demo, not even while I lived in Pittsburgh.
That said, I'd wait. They will come down in price by then, have a stable feature set, and will be easier to use with 'vintage' VCRs, game consoles, etc.
Personally, I'd like to get a better video capture card and a big monitor. Throw on some SNES emulation, make a nice little menu, and the set top box from heaven. Oh, and an integreated MP3/CD/DVD/PSX Player.
Then again, why don't I just wish to be ruler of the world, or as rich as Bill Gates. At least that way I have a chance of my dreams coming true. O_o
IBM hasn't exactly fit like a glove to users' needs for the past few years. The PS/2 (not the PS2!) wasn't exactly flying off the shelves. I had a few in '96, and needed a BIOS boot disk. It took me hours to find it on their site, yet they had the nerve to pop-up a support survey. They hurt...
Their fairly new systems aren't much better. I got a NetVista A20 through PeoplePC. This system is a joke. It has only two RAM slots and three PCI slots, one of which is filled up with the modem. They could have put it in the ill-fated AMR slot. The video was based from the i810 chipset, and using it from the 64 MB RAM didn't help. Also, the CD-ROM drive was slower than advertised.
To add insult to injury, after I tricked the system out with a 16MB Voodoo3, 64 MB more RAM, a 10/100 Ethernet adapter, and an optical mouse, I decided to upgrade to Windows 2000. I had a bit of trouble with the upgrade, wait 15 minutes on tech support, and am told that IBM will only support the Windows ME that shipped with the PC.
This was obviously a business system, yet they don't support a business OS? WinME was junk. I could either install Win2K again, or use the 1GB system restore partition to bring back WinME. Yep, as if 10GB wasn't small enough, a gig was for the system restore.
I got this system because I couldn't afford to buy one outright. I'll admit that for a free PC it's decent. And, when manufactured, it may have been a good system. That said, IBM disappoints me greatly.
Now, I've added a 12x8x32x HP CD Writer (up from my 2x HP Parallel model), 256MB more RAM is on the way, and a GeWhizBangForce 2MX is in the works. I wonder how long I can keep this beast comfortably...
1) From all that we have seen on the news lately with Islamic scholars, Islam means peace and the Q'uran teaches that a Muslim should respect his Christian and Jewish brothers and love them since we all come from the same God. It goes back to Islam teaching that Abraham and Jesus were in the same vein as Muhammed as prophets. Why is then that there is such a thread of hate when it comes to Muslims and Jews? I understand the biblical aspect of the conflict (It goes back to Cain and Able if I remember my studies). But sitting that aside, why the hate?
It goes back to ancient Rome. When Rome uprooted the Jews for defying them (though I can't remember WHY), they let the Arabs move in. Starting around WWII (I believe), Zionism, or the desire for a Jewish homeland started to grow. The Allies (mainly England) said they would support Zionism for their support in WWII, but later gave the issue to the UN. The UN created Israel (sp?), uprooting the Arabs. Who had the right to the land? Both.
2) Again, on the news, we keep hearing that true Islam does not teach Jihaad but the concept had to come from somewhere, correct? I can't find any unbiased reporting and I don't have a copy of the Quran here with me to check myself. If Jihaad is indeed mentioned in the Quran, what are the circumstances surrounding it and what are the justifications.
Could this be the equivalent of the Crusades in the middle ages?
I understand that many Muslims are saying that Bin Laden has hijacked TRUE Islam but where did he get the ideas for Jihaad? Where did this all start? (not his hatred of the US but the concept of a holy war at all costs.
Further more, I've read all the passages about killing innocents and how it is forbidden but if a Jihaad is allowed does that bypass that rule?
This is a question that is NEVER taught in schools, but should be. Any "holy" war is a economic war being excused for religious reasons. This is used to encite the people to fight. During any "holy" war you will hear a protest, "Would God want us doing this?". The Jerry Falwells of the world use the Bible to push their opinion; why can't the economy?
Another level to look at it is this:The US, with their powerful economy and military, are the "Great Satan," because they deny, through not passing an "equal" share of the money (namely, that which would make the US and Arabs equally economically powerful).
I'm a senior this year, yet I have never had a social studies teacher come out and say "God is their excuse for war".
BTW, hate to say it, but all religions are the same. I believe in a God, but have yet to find a religion which I don't take exception with for some supposedly moral practice. God and religion are two seperate things, and if and when everyone realizes this, the world will be a better place.
I'm on a dialup with no ability to upgrade for at least a year, so if a P2P system is to work for me, downloads must be kept to a minimum.
That said, P2P is a good thing in my mind. It's flexible and often at least somewhat private (or moreso than C2S counterparts).
My only complaint about all P2P I use is where server lists come from. Napster is dying because it's centralized. Yet, if there is no central server AT ALL, like gnutella, it's hard to find anything.
Excuse me if this sounds somewhat foolish, but wouldn't 'real-time' be somewhat useless? A force that is breaking something may be continuous.
Also, this is limited use. Like the articles say, the capsules will eventually be used up. Before this is useful, we'll need to find how much damage this can take (host material, depth, strength, width, number of times?).
We won't be able know how long it will last in a real situation. Testing can only do so much, and we may come to depend on it.
IBM *did* develop the modem for their Thinkpad. BUT, Intel made a standard for cheap internal modems. It's part of at least the i8#0 chipsets (ie, i810, etc.).
If the thinkpad internal modem is AC '97 compatible (which would make sense, since laptops do try to save space and using Ac '97 would help), we can reuse the AC '97 code for other AC '97 modems.
Does this mean that every modem will become Linux-compatible? No.
It does, however, give a nice shred of hope to those of us who can't really afford an external or expensive internal modem.
One thought though. Since this IS GPLed, could we use it to make more modems work? I don't know if it is, but if the MWave uses the AC '97 standard, we could get things moving quickly. Intel may actually have helped Linux again. (Note: If you are an Intel PR person, don't say that this was your original intention; admit that you made a mistake. We would still love you...)
No one will read this because it's pretty far down, but this raises interesting possibilities. Would it be possible to set up a mail server their (web-based, like Hotmail) and automatically add all email addresses created to this list?
This would be a good way to have a 'safe' email account for emailing friends, collegues, etc. without digging through messages.
The only issue would be enforcement. In theory this works, but to ensure that the law would still be in effect for such a server, a lawyer would have to look at the law itself. Basically, do you need citizenship?
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The JPEG Committee had to do this. So what if there is a new standard? Without securing the old one, who would adopt the new one.
They could say two things:
1) We've got a new standard. Just move every image on the web to it.
2) This is absurd. We're going to fight this, but if all else fails, slowly adapt the new standard.
At least now, with option number two, they maintain credibility, as they don't have unreasonable expectations.
Also, a bit off-topic, but is there any real competition for a web photo-quality image format? PNG is an obvious GIF killer and is slightly entrenched (IE, has browser support), but JPEG2000 isn't as far as I know.
Um.... no, I think I got the joke and added to it, you COWARD....
The story: A third of the money has been raised.
The original joke: Well, if we can't raise 100,000EU, we can buy a KitchenAid.
My addition: No, B+D is better... if we can't get the best one, at least buy a decent one.
Now, you see, if you weren't a COWARD, I'd reply with something similar to "Oh, was there a hidden joke in KitchenAid?"
But, you're a COWARD. I despise COWARDS. I'll say why some other time.
No, Black and Decker. We want STABLE blenders. At my house, we have a 10+ year old B+D that still works. Has KitchenAid even been in business that long?
Actually, isn't the download the UPDATE from 6.x to 7.0 and from 7.1 to 7.5.3 what are freely downloadable on Apple's FTP?
I, too, could be full of it, but then again, Apple's FTP is tons of fun to figure out, as is most PC makers'.
Not necessarily. You could encapsulate and then 'black box' the unowned software's functionality if needed.
Also, many companies might be willing to give up rights on unimportant DLLs and the like in exchange for the PR.
Um.... why not just buy out blender with the fake Euros?
For crying out loud, it would take much more than a 100,000 euros to reduce the Euro's value that much.
Heck, you'd have to print a 100,000 Euros worth of Euros! Where will you get the money for that? Wait, we can counterfeit Euros --- AAGH! MY EYES!!!
I don't think Septerra Core would be open-sourced any time soon - I'm not sure about Walmart.com, but the Wal-mart nearby sells it bundled with Shogo:Mobile Armor Division for $10. I might have to pick that up, even though I own Shogo already.
Slightly offtopic, but mods - please hang in there...
I've never had the chance to use blender, but old console games, especially SNES games, really deserve this treatment.
For example, Yu Yu Hakusho, a surprisingly good Anime, is on Cartoon Network right now. I was browsing a ROM site for a ROM of a game I bought, when I noticed that there were not one or two, but 4 YYH SNES games and a bunch of Game Boy games. Now, in this example, Funimation may own the rights to these games in the US, but they aren't using those rights.
This could do many things. For old developers that have gone out of business, SOMEONE still owns rights to games that may already even be in English. These people aren't likely going to see any money, but if we could raise a small amount they may be willing to sell the rights to them.
There are quite a few PC games that fall under this category too. The copyright holders of One Must Fall 2097 gave their work to the public domain a while back. One of the Ultima games was distributed with a magazine freely. I, personally, would love to be able to download games like Jazz Jackrabbit and the like freely and legally.
This needs to be done. There are many great games and old apps that deserve this treatment.
That said, raising less than 20% of what's needed for this buyout is depressing, as it's pretty safe to say that donations will slow down a bit.
I'm not a photoshop or GIMP user, but personally, I believe the pic is false.
:(
1) Look at the joystick-like pointer, where it meets the front molding. There are 'jaggies' - anyone who has toyed with a image editor knows how much of a pain they are.
2) There are three spots where the device shines, reflecting the light - on the screen, the palm emblem, and joystick. Assuming the joystick and emblem are real, look where on each reflection would put the light source. It would need to be, considering the joystick's reflection's angle, high up on the palm and to the left side. The emblem points toward it being lower.... (I've checked this with my m105.... I can't quite explain it, but look and you might be able to grab it.... it just doesn't look quite right
I had more points, but I've already forgotten them. What we need is hardware that keeps track of my mind so that I don't forget these little idiosyncracies. O-O
That Katz. When you need a highly publicized, mega-hyped troll, you know who to call.
You need to read the 'loading' screen. Knock him down, then fire or acid. Otherwise his HP... er, cynicism/ego... will regenerate at an alarming rate.
Curse you BioWare. BG2 is TOO addictive.
Well, let's see.
.doc:
.doc of even yEnc are perfect? no. All I say is that somethimes a de facto standard must be established. This was one of those times.
Is MS Word
1) Functional? Yup. It can do what it advertises.
2) Open or reverse-engineered? Yup, the latter. Almost every office suite (open-source ones included) have sufficient reading and writing capabilities.
3) Support? Only under Office, but then it's covered by MS and by forums and such.
Am I arguing the MS
I really don't believe this to be a big issue. So yEnc isn't an official standard; big deal. Most 'standards' didn't start out as such, instead being what was adopted and then standardized. Look at basic hardware designs for great examples of this principal.
What is inportant is that it works, it is open format, and that it has a large enough user base now to become a standard. It can be changed to fix any problems it has.
I'm suprised that Slashdot posted this. It isn't a groundbreaking issue. Odd...
Kind off odd that Slashdot would finally mention the icebox, considering that it was in PC Magazine months ago in the After Hours section... Typically, I consider Slashdot to have the latest news, albeit with slightly less accuracy.
Still, awesome little device. If it wasn't for the fact that I was economically disadvantaged due to corporate and familial mismanagement, I'd get one.
The real question is, does it include a built-in receipe book program? If not, somebody please make one!
Crud! I forgot to give all you other readers the gift of good grammar. And I call this heartless...
Yeesh.
This is an odd idea. Persona;;y, I don't like it because I hate gift cards and certificates.
You see, this year for Christmas one of my presents was a $15 Electronics Boutique gift card. I could have gotten that same amount in cash, or in a MALL gift certificate at the very least, but didn't.
I'd love to use it toward buying a new video card to replace my Voodoo 3, but I have a dilemma. EB only has a GeForce2 PCI at 64MB RAM for $100. Wal-mart, right across the road, has the cheaper 32MB model for $70. Now, I'll have to wait even longer.
The real question is whether the 'gift exchange' would fix my problem. Would I be stuck in that store, or across the service's network of stores, or could I get it applied to any store?
Furthermore, what would stop me from using it to buy someone else a gift, or to pay a bill, etc... A gift may not be perfect, but the thought put into it can and will make up for that shortcoming.
The only graceful option at this point is the Vise Buxx card, but it's been advertised as something to give teens (I happen to be one, but still...). Also, it still isn't personal enough.
I could buy my brothers, who are 8, 7, and 3, gift certificates to KB Toys to buy video games, but instead I spend the time with them, notice that they love Sqaresoft RPGs (even though they are a bit hard for them o_O), and pick up Legend of Dragoon.
They love it, I'm playing it with them, and everybody is happy.
Had I bought the gift card, it would have gone to action figures or some side-scroller that they would play for ten minutes and decide they hate. Then, I would feel that I had not only let them down, but actively betrayed them, since they depended on me for a present.
They bought me a watch. A cool watch, one that I had picked out. In fact, they weren't there when my mother and I picked it up. But I needed a new watch, and hated boring watches. They knew that, and asked my mother to pick it up.
You might get the gift you want, but you'll realize, probably when exchanging your gift right before Christmas, that while you shoved some shoddy quick gifts on your loved ones, they did the same to you.
I doubt anybody, even the reps at the local cable company, have heard anthing about HDTV. I've never seen a demo, not even while I lived in Pittsburgh.
That said, I'd wait. They will come down in price by then, have a stable feature set, and will be easier to use with 'vintage' VCRs, game consoles, etc.
Personally, I'd like to get a better video capture card and a big monitor. Throw on some SNES emulation, make a nice little menu, and the set top box from heaven. Oh, and an integreated MP3/CD/DVD/PSX Player.
Then again, why don't I just wish to be ruler of the world, or as rich as Bill Gates. At least that way I have a chance of my dreams coming true. O_o
IBM hasn't exactly fit like a glove to users' needs for the past few years. The PS/2 (not the PS2!) wasn't exactly flying off the shelves. I had a few in '96, and needed a BIOS boot disk. It took me hours to find it on their site, yet they had the nerve to pop-up a support survey. They hurt...
Their fairly new systems aren't much better. I got a NetVista A20 through PeoplePC. This system is a joke. It has only two RAM slots and three PCI slots, one of which is filled up with the modem. They could have put it in the ill-fated AMR slot. The video was based from the i810 chipset, and using it from the 64 MB RAM didn't help. Also, the CD-ROM drive was slower than advertised.
To add insult to injury, after I tricked the system out with a 16MB Voodoo3, 64 MB more RAM, a 10/100 Ethernet adapter, and an optical mouse, I decided to upgrade to Windows 2000. I had a bit of trouble with the upgrade, wait 15 minutes on tech support, and am told that IBM will only support the Windows ME that shipped with the PC.
This was obviously a business system, yet they don't support a business OS? WinME was junk. I could either install Win2K again, or use the 1GB system restore partition to bring back WinME. Yep, as if 10GB wasn't small enough, a gig was for the system restore.
I got this system because I couldn't afford to buy one outright. I'll admit that for a free PC it's decent. And, when manufactured, it may have been a good system. That said, IBM disappoints me greatly.
Now, I've added a 12x8x32x HP CD Writer (up from my 2x HP Parallel model), 256MB more RAM is on the way, and a GeWhizBangForce 2MX is in the works. I wonder how long I can keep this beast comfortably...
1) From all that we have seen on the news lately with Islamic scholars, Islam means peace and the Q'uran teaches that a Muslim should respect his Christian and Jewish brothers and love them since we all come from the same God. It goes back to Islam teaching that Abraham and Jesus were in the same vein as Muhammed as prophets. Why is then that there is such a thread of hate when it comes to Muslims and Jews? I understand the biblical aspect of the conflict (It goes back to Cain and Able if I remember my studies). But sitting that aside, why the hate?
It goes back to ancient Rome. When Rome uprooted the Jews for defying them (though I can't remember WHY), they let the Arabs move in. Starting around WWII (I believe), Zionism, or the desire for a Jewish homeland started to grow. The Allies (mainly England) said they would support Zionism for their support in WWII, but later gave the issue to the UN. The UN created Israel (sp?), uprooting the Arabs. Who had the right to the land? Both.
2) Again, on the news, we keep hearing that true Islam does not teach Jihaad but the concept had to come from somewhere, correct? I can't find any unbiased reporting and I don't have a copy of the Quran here with me to check myself. If Jihaad is indeed mentioned in the Quran, what are the circumstances surrounding it and what are the justifications.
Could this be the equivalent of the Crusades in the middle ages?
I understand that many Muslims are saying that Bin Laden has hijacked TRUE Islam but where did he get the ideas for Jihaad? Where did this all start? (not his hatred of the US but the concept of a holy war at all costs.
Further more, I've read all the passages about killing innocents and how it is forbidden but if a Jihaad is allowed does that bypass that rule?
This is a question that is NEVER taught in schools, but should be. Any "holy" war is a economic war being excused for religious reasons. This is used to encite the people to fight. During any "holy" war you will hear a protest, "Would God want us doing this?". The Jerry Falwells of the world use the Bible to push their opinion; why can't the economy?
Another level to look at it is this:The US, with their powerful economy and military, are the "Great Satan," because they deny, through not passing an "equal" share of the money (namely, that which would make the US and Arabs equally economically powerful).
I'm a senior this year, yet I have never had a social studies teacher come out and say "God is their excuse for war".
BTW, hate to say it, but all religions are the same. I believe in a God, but have yet to find a religion which I don't take exception with for some supposedly moral practice. God and religion are two seperate things, and if and when everyone realizes this, the world will be a better place.
I'm on a dialup with no ability to upgrade for at least a year, so if a P2P system is to work for me, downloads must be kept to a minimum.
That said, P2P is a good thing in my mind. It's flexible and often at least somewhat private (or moreso than C2S counterparts).
My only complaint about all P2P I use is where server lists come from. Napster is dying because it's centralized. Yet, if there is no central server AT ALL, like gnutella, it's hard to find anything.
Excuse me if this sounds somewhat foolish, but wouldn't 'real-time' be somewhat useless? A force that is breaking something may be continuous.
Also, this is limited use. Like the articles say, the capsules will eventually be used up. Before this is useful, we'll need to find how much damage this can take (host material, depth, strength, width, number of times?).
We won't be able know how long it will last in a real situation. Testing can only do so much, and we may come to depend on it.
I know that! If the IBM modem conforms to INTEL's AC '97, INTEL's modem standard may be useful since we can reuse their code.
Sheesh!
IBM *did* develop the modem for their Thinkpad. BUT, Intel made a standard for cheap internal modems. It's part of at least the i8#0 chipsets (ie, i810, etc.).
If the thinkpad internal modem is AC '97 compatible (which would make sense, since laptops do try to save space and using Ac '97 would help), we can reuse the AC '97 code for other AC '97 modems.
Does this mean that every modem will become Linux-compatible? No.
;-)
It does, however, give a nice shred of hope to those of us who can't really afford an external or expensive internal modem.
One thought though. Since this IS GPLed, could we use it to make more modems work? I don't know if it is, but if the MWave uses the AC '97 standard, we could get things moving quickly. Intel may actually have helped Linux again. (Note: If you are an Intel PR person, don't say that this was your original intention; admit that you made a mistake. We would still love you...)
Just make the MDP3880-W(U) a priority, k?
Isn't most of this post taken from "The Dilbert Principal"?
I wouldn't have noticed except I reread it yesterday.
No one will read this because it's pretty far down, but this raises interesting possibilities. Would it be possible to set up a mail server their (web-based, like Hotmail) and automatically add all email addresses created to this list?
This would be a good way to have a 'safe' email account for emailing friends, collegues, etc. without digging through messages.
The only issue would be enforcement. In theory this works, but to ensure that the law would still be in effect for such a server, a lawyer would have to look at the law itself. Basically, do you need citizenship?