Untrue. There were only two or three articles and an article detailing the error was posted. This is hardly the place to point fingers at those who occasionally get taken in by overgrown rumors.
Actually, there is an element of truth to that rumor. Sega is trying to get developers to approach Dreancast as a software API (DirectX) rather than a hunk of hardware. They want to be able to release new versions with upgraded, incompatible chips while still running everything written for the first version of the console. Yes, I know, it's the incredibly evil Microsoft providing the API. Get over it.
Here at my university I know that cd sales are declining because of mp3's. Everyone in the dorms here is connected to the local area network, and quite a bit of mp3 trading, sharing, and downloading goes on.
The only time most of us turn on the radio is to hear songs we havn't downloaded yet. Some of the people in my dorm have barely 100Mb of free space left on their hard drives due to the massive amount of mp3's they have.
Mp3's are huge here, and in the years following graduation I'm sure most will continue to favour mp3's over cd's.
Copyright infringement? National Security!
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Posted by peacockj:
all i want to say is...uh huh...riiigghhhtt... The parent poster of this really has their head up their a$$ so far that they don't realize what life is. Who cares about how music affects people?...certainly not me. I love music and am not about to let people tell me that it's corrupting our society...it's free expression. It's a reflection of our society, mainly from the people that think injustice is occurring. Get off your high horse and take a moment to realize what you are saying. 1. it costs roughly $2 to make a CD, the record companies sell it to stores for $10 and the stores sell it for about $12. this is truly a showing of how the record industry needs to be screwed over. thank you.
I agree that the graphics were not a fatal flaw but it did place severe limits on the potential market. Then there's the issue of having millions of people staring into a flashing red display. At the first E3 where the VB was publicly shown I asked some Nintendo execs if any of them had ever seen 'The Andromeda Strain.' Most of them were baffled by this but one soon acquired a horrified expression.
The best way to pick up discontinued systems is to make friends with the manager of your local Blockbuster. When they dumped Virtual Boy rentals those units (in carrying case with AC adaptor) went for $20. A really nice package. I bought about a dozen and used most of them as gifts. The VB had two major flaws: high introductory price and no AAA title at launch. You can get away with one big mistake during a product launch but not two. If it had shipped with Wario in the box it could have enough to define a decent niche market. If it had launched at $125 instead of $200 curiousity would been sufficient to get a good installed base started. Too bad, such is history.
Are you using S3 Trio3D also? I've tried that before but I get an error "execve failed for/etc/X11/X, errno 13" when I "startx". But during the startup of my machine, I can see the cute little penguin icon (using VGA=773 i think, 256 colors at 1024x768). I followed the instructions and downloaded the binary file of XF68FB_Dev. I dont know what went wrong.
I would, but there are no newsreaders worth using for Linux. Why do the XFree86 people seem to think it's in there, and why won't there ever be a 3dfx module for 2.2.x? Don't 2.2 users deserve better performance as well?
This made me think of the general problem of supporting a bunch of different systems, your example is an extreme case of not being able to force things. Off the top of my head I think that I would not separate the Linux users from the rest of the group, the problems may be more common due to the wider support for services under Linux but the problem is not limited to full service systems, you could get a back door problem on a Win 98 system.
I think that the first thing that I would do is to set up a data base of each of the system with a routine to check for there location on the network; in other words have your hubs report what is mac address is using what port and then translate that to an IP address and a system ID. Here with only a few hundred system I built something like that and we find it a godsend. Then I would go further and loop slowly through the list and check for security problems on each system, this is the part that you have a handle on. One of the things that I would do is to use one of the OS type program so that I don't have to depend on the user telling me which OS they are running, you might have a number of dual boot systems (with that number of systems I would not be surprised to find some real strange stuff).
When you find a problem then do one of two things, if the system is where you think it should be and is not some rogue add-on to you network send the "owner" of the system a e-mail (automatically of course) with the following info. 1) that a problem was found.
2) what the problem was and why this is a problem, this is where you need to do a selling job and give the owner a clear reason why it is in there best interest to fix this problem.
3) instructions on how to fix the problem, (turning off services that are un-needed, updating software, running a anti-virus program etc.)
Your question has started me thinking about the more general case of not having ownership of all of the systems on a network, this is more common that one might think at first.
Ideas: You are probably already thinking about this, BUT
1) Anyone with a accumulated score over X should automatically become a moderator. Meta-moderators (the Slashdot Mammals) could mark certain users as being "in the penalty box" so they can't moderate no matter what. This has the advantage of cleaning up the comments (via moderation) but ALSO the advantage that we aren't being ruled from above (by either a dictator or a ruling class). I may have to change my name from "FascDot" to "DemoDot"...
2) The way to make moderators score more positives than negatives is to link the two mathematically. For instance, imagine each moderator has a "pool of points" for each story. Initially the pool is empty. If they moderate a story upwards, the pool gains points, when they moderate downwards, they lose points. Moderators with empty pools can't moderate (for a given story). If you make a minus more expensive (it costs 2 moderation pool points to lower a story by 1) you suddenly get twice as many plus mods as minus.
This problem has long been one preventing the developmentof Linux across the University system and ultimately may stop it altogether if the correct management approach is not taken.
For Linux to develop and mature, then appropriate solutions to this huge issue need to be sorted out.
How about a set of agreed but unofficial solutions ?
PDF sucks dead pigs through a straw. I'm sick and tired of receiving documents that cannot be decoded with the PDF tools that are available on my machine. I think it's actually worse than PostScript, if that's possible.
IPP is using HTTP as a substrate, but (at the insistence of the Internet Engineering Steering Group) it's using a separate port. So it won't submarine through firewalls (at least by default) and layering is less of an issue. Basically, IPP defines MIME types for use in POST and the response to POST.
IPP 1.0 uses HTTP/1.1 digest authentication; though most vendors will probably support SSL 3 also. IPP 1.1 (still in draft stage) will allow use of TLS 1.0 in addition to HTTP digest.
Note that IETF approved IPP 1.0 as an Experimental protocol; IPP 1.1 is expected to (eventually) be approved as a Proposed Standard.
I'm sorry if I read that wrong, but it looks to me like that document claims the/dev/3dfx driver is in the 2.2 Linux kernel. If so, where is it? I'd love to use it since the MTRR support will supposedly give you better performance.
there are more reasons than 2 that radio will not die with the widespread use of mp3s. i work in a radio station, i know the deal. music is only part of what goes on. talk, news, commentary, documentaries, radio plays, etc. are all a major part of radio programming.
radio stations are part of a loop that consumers are not unless they have the time to contact labels and constantly read CHART. i'm not talking just the new cd from virgin or warner or geffen. even the small labels. if you've ever run a music distribution (i have for years) than you know that *finding* the music takes a lot of time.
it's not as simple an issue as MP3s will change the world because i can get some music for free. the fact that people who are into MP3s are creating community to share their music and going out and active finding new music to share, that will change the music world.
If I can run my Unreal under wine with full 3dfx support, I'll finally stop using Windows. (I hope the Internet multiplayer is also supported under wine)
Article title: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Wednesday released a report showing a large decline in sales to young demographics, and the association suspects MP3 trading is a culprit.
Article contents: "Potentially, the rise of the Internet as a free entertainment center, and the accompanying availability of free MP3 music files, could be contributing factors," said the report.
Even the title of the article is making assumptions. They state that MP3 downloads *could* be a contributing factor, but they don't have conclusive proof.
For me personally, MP3 downloads (legal ones) are a waste of time, as none of the bands I listen to have their songs available. Now I could (and have) download illegal MP3s, but personally I prefer to buy a CD. Why? It's already on a storage device, so I dont have to download a song and stick it onto a CD. Convenience! Agreed CD prices are just plain crazy, but believe me, North America has it easy compared to England. Having moved to Canada from England, my CD collection rocketed because they are so much cheaper over here.
So maybe if CD prices came down then the RIAA wouldnt have to worry about MP3 and piracy.
dont care with 3D, i just want my S3Trio3D to work
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Posted by matsutsu:
Ive been searching on the internet for months on S3Trio3D-HOWTO but no luck. I dont care if it could not do 3D acceleration, as of the moment, i just want my S3 Trio3D to work even only at 256 colors. Currently, my PC can only do 16 colors using VGA16 XFree driver at 640x480. Had anyone here successfully installed the right driver for it? Thanks in advance.
A friend has a newton, but cannot use a pcmcia modem without using the external power supply. Kinda defeats the whole purpose, unless you know there is going to be an outlet near every phone you will ever use the newton from. It's a great concept though.
The newton was a much better device than the Pilot. It(like all Apple products-since day one) was just too fscking expensive. It was abandoned due to poor sales, not any technological reason. Apple never said the weren't going to re-enter the PDA market, they were just going to wait until it was possible to run the same OS as thier desktops. Rhapsody on a dragonball? The mind reels.
Torvalds has accomplished much with his skills, he has earned the respect and admiration of the Linux community. So what have you done with your life? Make it count, or shut up.
I totaly agree with this. In my opinion the toplevel domains are completely misused. I'm coming from the Netherlands (.nl) and our domain registry organisation does not want to register all domain names. They exclude lots of them. To be able to still use that name dutch companies move to other top level domains like.net.com or.org. This makes it very difficult to see where a company is from. I prefer a country toplevel domain use like they do in the UK. .co.uk is used as the.com domain but now in the uk. Every country should use a simular structure. Yes, even the US should do that. .co.us,.net.us,.co.nl,.gov.nl, etc. Also the original meaning of the old toplevel domains like.com,.net and.org should be restored. So normal companies should go to.com and not to any other toplevel except.co.us
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Posted by NBrazil:
Untrue. There were only two or three articles and an article detailing the error was posted. This is hardly the place to point fingers at those who occasionally get taken in by overgrown rumors.
Actually, there is an element of truth to that rumor. Sega is trying to get developers to approach Dreancast as a software API (DirectX) rather than a hunk of hardware. They want to be able to release new versions with upgraded, incompatible chips while still running everything written for the first version of the console. Yes, I know, it's the incredibly evil Microsoft providing the API. Get over it.
Posted by hurstdawg:
Here at my university I know that cd sales are declining because of mp3's. Everyone in the dorms here is connected to the local area network, and quite a bit of mp3 trading, sharing, and downloading goes on.
The only time most of us turn on the radio is to hear songs we havn't downloaded yet. Some of the people in my dorm have barely 100Mb of free space left on their hard drives due to the massive amount of mp3's they have.
Mp3's are huge here, and in the years following graduation I'm sure most will continue to favour mp3's over cd's.
Posted by peacockj:
all i want to say is...uh huh...riiigghhhtt...
The parent poster of this really has their head up their a$$ so far that they don't realize what life is. Who cares about how music affects people?...certainly not me. I love music and am not about to let people tell me that it's corrupting our society...it's free expression. It's a reflection of our society, mainly from the people that think injustice is occurring. Get off your high horse and take a moment to realize what you are saying.
1. it costs roughly $2 to make a CD, the record companies sell it to stores for $10 and the stores sell it for about $12.
this is truly a showing of how the record industry needs to be screwed over. thank you.
Posted by NBrazil:
I agree that the graphics were not a fatal flaw but it did place severe limits on the potential market. Then there's the issue of having millions of people staring into a flashing red display. At the first E3 where the VB was publicly shown I asked some Nintendo execs if any of them had ever seen 'The Andromeda Strain.' Most of them were baffled by this but one soon acquired a horrified expression.
Posted by NBrazil:
The best way to pick up discontinued systems is to make friends with the manager of your local Blockbuster. When they dumped Virtual Boy rentals those units (in carrying case with AC adaptor) went for $20. A really nice package. I bought about a dozen and used most of them as gifts.
The VB had two major flaws: high introductory price and no AAA title at launch. You can get away with one big mistake during a product launch but not two. If it had shipped with Wario in the box it could have enough to define a decent niche market. If it had launched at $125 instead of $200 curiousity would been sufficient to get a good installed base started. Too bad, such is history.
Posted by matsutsu:
/etc/X11/X, errno 13" when I "startx". But during the startup of my machine, I can see the cute little penguin icon (using VGA=773 i think, 256 colors at 1024x768). I followed the instructions and downloaded the binary file of XF68FB_Dev. I dont know what went wrong.
Are you using S3 Trio3D also? I've tried that before but I get an error "execve failed for
thanks in advance,
matsutsu
Posted by OGL:
I would, but there are no newsreaders worth using for Linux. Why do the XFree86 people seem to think it's in there, and why won't there ever be a 3dfx module for 2.2.x? Don't 2.2 users deserve better performance as well?
-W.W.
Posted by pwd:
This made me think of the general problem of
supporting a bunch of different systems, your
example is an extreme case of not being able
to force things. Off the top of my head I think
that I would not separate the Linux users
from the rest of the group, the problems may
be more common due to the wider support for
services under Linux but the problem is not
limited to full service systems, you could
get a back door problem on a Win 98 system.
I think that the first thing that I would
do is to set up a data base of each of the
system with a routine to check for there
location on the network; in other words have
your hubs report what is mac address is
using what port and then translate that to
an IP address and a system ID. Here with
only a few hundred system I built something
like that and we find it a godsend. Then I
would go further and loop slowly through
the list and check for security problems on
each system, this is the part that you have
a handle on. One of the things that I would
do is to use one of the OS type program so
that I don't have to depend on the user
telling me which OS they are running, you
might have a number of dual boot systems
(with that number of systems I would not
be surprised to find some real strange stuff).
When you find a problem then do one of two
things, if the system is where you think it
should be and is not some rogue add-on to
you network send the "owner" of the system
a e-mail (automatically of course) with
the following info.
1) that a problem was found.
2) what the problem was and why this is
a problem, this is where you need to
do a selling job and give the owner a
clear reason why it is in there best
interest to fix this problem.
3) instructions on how to fix the problem,
(turning off services that are un-needed,
updating software, running a anti-virus
program etc.)
Your question has started me thinking about the
more general case of not having ownership of
all of the systems on a network, this is more
common that one might think at first.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
Ideas: You are probably already thinking about this, BUT
1) Anyone with a accumulated score over X should automatically become a moderator. Meta-moderators (the Slashdot Mammals) could mark certain users as being "in the penalty box" so they can't moderate no matter what. This has the advantage of cleaning up the comments (via moderation) but ALSO the advantage that we aren't being ruled from above (by either a dictator or a ruling class). I may have to change my name from "FascDot" to "DemoDot"...
2) The way to make moderators score more positives than negatives is to link the two mathematically. For instance, imagine each moderator has a "pool of points" for each story. Initially the pool is empty. If they moderate a story upwards, the pool gains points, when they moderate downwards, they lose points. Moderators with empty pools can't moderate (for a given story). If you make a minus more expensive (it costs 2 moderation pool points to lower a story by 1) you suddenly get twice as many plus mods as minus.
This problem has long been one preventing the developmentof Linux across the University system and ultimately may stop it altogether if the correct management approach is not taken.
For Linux to develop and mature, then appropriate solutions to this huge issue need to be sorted out.
How about a set of agreed but unofficial solutions ?
Posted by kmoore:
PDF sucks dead pigs through a straw.
I'm sick and tired of receiving documents that
cannot be decoded with the PDF tools that are
available on my machine. I think it's actually
worse than PostScript, if that's possible.
Posted by kmoore:
IPP is using HTTP as a substrate, but (at the insistence of the Internet Engineering Steering
Group) it's using a separate port. So it won't submarine through firewalls (at least by default) and layering is less of an issue. Basically,
IPP defines MIME types for use in POST and the response to POST.
IPP 1.0 uses HTTP/1.1 digest authentication; though most vendors will probably support SSL 3 also. IPP 1.1 (still in draft stage) will allow
use of TLS 1.0 in addition to HTTP digest.
Note that IETF approved IPP 1.0 as an Experimental protocol; IPP 1.1 is expected to (eventually) be approved as a Proposed Standard.
Posted by OGL:
/.
XFree doesn't support multi-head. Please read their documentation before posting questions to
-W.W.
Posted by OGL:
/dev/3dfx driver is in the 2.2 Linux kernel. If so, where is it? I'd love to use it since the MTRR support will supposedly give you better performance.
I'm sorry if I read that wrong, but it looks to me like that document claims the
-W.W.
Posted by nernin:
there are more reasons than 2 that radio will not die with the widespread use of mp3s.
i work in a radio station, i know the deal. music is only part of what goes on. talk, news, commentary, documentaries, radio plays, etc. are all a major part of radio programming.
radio stations are part of a loop that consumers are not unless they have the time to contact labels and constantly read CHART. i'm not talking just the new cd from virgin or warner or geffen. even the small labels. if you've ever run a music distribution (i have for years) than you know that *finding* the music takes a lot of time.
it's not as simple an issue as MP3s will change the world because i can get some music for free. the fact that people who are into MP3s are creating community to share their music and going out and active finding new music to share, that will change the music world.
Posted by jpepin:
Sounds cool to me!
Posted by Bocharn:
If I can run my Unreal under wine with full 3dfx support, I'll finally stop using Windows.
(I hope the Internet multiplayer is also supported
under wine)
Posted by US Marine:
Not as long as I am driving my 1967 Stingray.
MP3 ain't much good when you're cruising down the Texas highways. 99.5 The Wolf. This is Texas Country.
Posted by stodge:
Read the article folks.
Article title:
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Wednesday released a report showing a large decline in sales to young demographics, and the association suspects MP3 trading is a culprit.
Article contents:
"Potentially, the rise of the Internet as a free entertainment center, and the accompanying availability of free MP3 music files, could be contributing factors," said the report.
Even the title of the article is making assumptions. They state that MP3 downloads *could* be a contributing factor, but they don't have conclusive proof.
For me personally, MP3 downloads (legal ones) are a waste of time, as none of the bands I listen to have their songs available. Now I could (and have) download illegal MP3s, but personally I prefer to buy a CD. Why? It's already on a storage device, so I dont have to download a song and stick it onto a CD. Convenience! Agreed CD prices are just plain crazy, but believe me, North America has it easy compared to England. Having moved to Canada from England, my CD collection rocketed because they are so much cheaper over here.
So maybe if CD prices came down then the RIAA wouldnt have to worry about MP3 and piracy.
Posted by matsutsu:
:)
Ive been searching on the internet for months on S3Trio3D-HOWTO but no luck. I dont care if it could not do 3D acceleration, as of the moment, i just want my S3 Trio3D to work even only at 256 colors. Currently, my PC can only do 16 colors using VGA16 XFree driver at 640x480. Had anyone here successfully installed the right driver for it? Thanks in advance.
cheerio
matsutsu
Posted by F.A.N.G.:
A friend has a newton, but cannot use a pcmcia modem without using the external power supply.
Kinda defeats the whole purpose, unless you know there is going to be an outlet near every phone you will ever use the newton from. It's a great concept though.
Posted by F.A.N.G.:
The newton was a much better device than the Pilot. It(like all Apple products-since day one) was just too fscking expensive. It was abandoned due to poor sales, not any technological reason. Apple never said the weren't going to re-enter the PDA market, they were just going to wait until it was possible to run the same OS as thier desktops. Rhapsody on a dragonball? The mind reels.
Posted by wraith-q:
Torvalds has accomplished much with his skills, he has earned the respect and admiration of the Linux community. So what have you done with your life? Make it count, or shut up.
Posted by SingleGuy:
But there is nothing wrong with that. They don't have to do that.
Posted by SingleGuy:
.net .com or .org. .com domain but now in the uk. .net.us, .co.nl, .gov.nl, etc. .com, .net and .org should be restored. So normal companies should go to .com and not to any other toplevel except .co.us
I totaly agree with this.
In my opinion the toplevel domains are completely misused. I'm coming from the Netherlands (.nl) and our domain registry organisation does not want to register all domain names. They exclude lots of them. To be able to still use that name dutch companies move to other top level domains like
This makes it very difficult to see where a company is from.
I prefer a country toplevel domain use like they do in the UK.
.co.uk is used as the
Every country should use a simular structure. Yes, even the US should do that.
.co.us,
Also the original meaning of the old toplevel domains like