Quote "But there's something much more noteworthy about the announcement. Google is agreeing to connect to other networks - something the big three instant messaging companies have refused to do. My company, SIPphone, has agreed to join into a federation with Google to use open standards and allow our customers to trade instant messages and voice calls. "
That's from the latest newsletter, which will eventually be at http://www.michaelrobertson.com/index.php when his webmaster gets off his ass and posts the latest one.
I'm too lazy to dig for the link, but check recent/. stories for the one on the school that is ditching textbooks for electronic versions. Time limitied, DRM, electronic versions...
Linux in set top boxes and handhelds, en masse, is *controlled* by the vendor. They can easily include a binary-only driver ala nVidia and you'll never the the source at all.
After all, they support what THEY install, not everything you feel like compiling in. "Not covered by warranty" and "Reset to factory defaults" are two phrases you'll hear a lot.
LINUX will see the drivers, for sure, but FOSS won't.
I'd rather see it the other way around. Can Google can make that desktop run thru a browser, so it is totally and tranparently transportable? (woohoo! alliteration!)
No, I don't mean running VNC back to my desktop PC, either.
You're probably too young to remember, consider you're referencing Invader Zim, but this is just a precursor to what they were showing in Max Headroom. Limited AI in the projection from the grave, so the deceased could still interact with the living.
Yeah, the hardware support is the killer, and why they won't do it. Where would all the drivers for all the obsolete hardware out there come from? Just getting it to boot on most 3-year old systems would mean having to write tens of thousands of drivers. Not gonna happen.
Then don't.
If people want to run on non-Mac hardware, draw a line in the cybersand and say "nothing manufactured before 1/1/2006 will we support".
The problem is the ENTIRE BOOK is in an archaic Queen's English. The author does a very good job with the language and descriptions and dialog to transport the reader to Napoleonic-era England. The problem is, once there my mind kept screaming "GET ME THE HELL OUT!"
Ha! I just RTFA and the first thing I told a co-worker was that I couldn't even finish JS&MN because of the stylistic grammer. I just plain gets in the way of the damn story.
That, and 10 chapters deep I kept thinking "things should be picking up about now" but they never did. Almost the whole novel struck me as character-building setup.
It is a lot like an all uphill roller-coaster. You keep waiting for the dropoff but it never comes.
...to wake up to, if you're on the Shuttle in orbit! That has just GOT to be a major morale booster for the people currently in space.
"Uh, yeah. Remember Columbia? Well, to make sure it doesn't happen again, none of the Shuttles are going to fly. Oh, except you guys. You're cool. Trust us."
There are several U.S. military contractors, and even sectors of our gov't that are prohibited from using Checkpoint firewalls because Checkpoint is Israeli and closed source. Too much potential for abuse.
Correct. It shows up in one of the corners. Yes, it is a pain, but it served its purpose. Gov't employees were photocopying REAMS of crap at no cost to them. One or two pages are no big deal, and you can then trim the edge. But, when you're talking about 200-300+ copies of a flyer or church news bulletin it is a different story.
There were several articles on Slashdot and elsewhere a while back about software like Adobe Photoshop and color printers detecting and refusing to scan/print/copy images of money.
Look at the back of new U.S. currencies or the Euros and you'll see patterns of "o". In the U.S. version, they are in the little "20" (or whatever) and in some Euros they are the body of musical notes. They form a star pattern that is the same when viewed from any angle. This is easy to detect in a scan, no matter how you rotate the bills.
The question is -- is it in the DRIVER or printer firmware. Some of this stuff was in the DRIVERS of Windows/Mac scanners.
If it is in the driver, then they're going to have a hard time with OSS drivers. If it is in the printer firmware, it is a bit different.
No... check the surveilance cameras at Office Max for when the printer was sold. Then, check the surveillance cameras at any place that has received conterfeit cash. Get warrants for people who appear on the films.
Government laser printers and copiers frequently have a small metal plate under the glass that says "property of the U.S. Gov't" and sometimes a serial number.
It was originally intended to stop people from using the copiers at work for personal business.
No teacher should be telling you the possibilities that exist. That is for you to figure out yourself. How does your teacher (or anyone) know ALL the possibilities that exist? How does he know they are possibilities and not just flights of fancy?
Overall, he sounds pretty good -- and better than the ones that are just pushing students thru to get good scores on the standardized exams.
The purpose is so network providers only have to maintain ONE infrastructure.
If you can get Internet, telephone and television all over IP then the people that run the wires no longer have to maintain three separate infrastructures.
"Just give me bandwidth" will be the new mantra.
They also have the ability to centralize their content distribution. Instead of having to put satellite downlinks everywhere and banks of video recorders in each city, then can focus on a high-speed network and create a central content warehouse.
Keep in mind, Time Warner was one of the early customers of Lucents "all optical" switching equipment, with terabits/second of bandwidth running coast to coast.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, and so does whatever the PS2 contains, but information about getting linux on your PS2 is pretty sparse.
Ummm... how about just buying a kit straight from Sony?
Sony has already said they will have something similar for the PS3.
-Charles
Michael Robertson
Quote "But there's something much more noteworthy about the announcement. Google is agreeing to connect to other networks - something the big three instant messaging companies have refused to do. My company, SIPphone, has agreed to join into a federation with Google to use open standards and allow our customers to trade instant messages and voice calls. "
That's from the latest newsletter, which will eventually be at http://www.michaelrobertson.com/index.php when his webmaster gets off his ass and posts the latest one.
You, sir, are on crack.
Cocaine is quite legal and is still available in Europe and the U.S. to dentists who use it as an alternative to NO2 and novacaine.
Yes, according to the FDA, cocaine has medicinal value and marijuana does not.
-Charles
I'm too lazy to dig for the link, but check recent /. stories for the one on the school that is ditching textbooks for electronic versions. Time limitied, DRM, electronic versions...
Then check out RMS' short story The Right to Read
-Charles
Linux in set top boxes and handhelds, en masse, is *controlled* by the vendor. They can easily include a binary-only driver ala nVidia and you'll never the the source at all.
After all, they support what THEY install, not everything you feel like compiling in. "Not covered by warranty" and "Reset to factory defaults" are two phrases you'll hear a lot.
LINUX will see the drivers, for sure, but FOSS won't.
-Charles
Look up "Trusted Hardware" and you'll have your answer.
The black magic needed to run those components dealing with DRM most likely will NOT be open sourced, or made available to FOSS programmers.
FOSS will be limited to "degraded" output -- until it is hacked. Then the lawyers will be turned loose...
I'd rather see it the other way around. Can Google can make that desktop run thru a browser, so it is totally and tranparently transportable? (woohoo! alliteration!)
No, I don't mean running VNC back to my desktop PC, either.
-Charles
You're probably too young to remember, consider you're referencing Invader Zim, but this is just a precursor to what they were showing in Max Headroom. Limited AI in the projection from the grave, so the deceased could still interact with the living.
http://store.voxilla.com/customer/product.php?prod uctid=16136
Basically, get two phones and a plan with free mobile-to-mobile minutes. Leave one at home in the base station and connect it to Asterisk with a DTA.
Call home with your mobile, then call again from there to where ever via VoIP. Basically a cell-to-VoIP gateway.
There is a FAQ somewhere around that explains exactly how to do this.
-Charles
And just pull it back 2 days for release.
-Charles
Yeah, the hardware support is the killer, and why they won't do it. Where would all the drivers for all the obsolete hardware out there come from? Just getting it to boot on most 3-year old systems would mean having to write tens of thousands of drivers. Not gonna happen.
Then don't.
If people want to run on non-Mac hardware, draw a line in the cybersand and say "nothing manufactured before 1/1/2006 will we support".
The problem is the ENTIRE BOOK is in an archaic Queen's English. The author does a very good job with the language and descriptions and dialog to transport the reader to Napoleonic-era England. The problem is, once there my mind kept screaming "GET ME THE HELL OUT!"
-Charles
Ha! I just RTFA and the first thing I told a co-worker was that I couldn't even finish JS&MN because of the stylistic grammer. I just plain gets in the way of the damn story.
That, and 10 chapters deep I kept thinking "things should be picking up about now" but they never did. Almost the whole novel struck me as character-building setup.
It is a lot like an all uphill roller-coaster. You keep waiting for the dropoff but it never comes.
-Charles
...to wake up to, if you're on the Shuttle in orbit! That has just GOT to be a major morale booster for the people currently in space.
"Uh, yeah. Remember Columbia? Well, to make sure it doesn't happen again, none of the Shuttles are going to fly. Oh, except you guys. You're cool. Trust us."
Sorry, no.
There are several U.S. military contractors, and even sectors of our gov't that are prohibited from using Checkpoint firewalls because Checkpoint is Israeli and closed source. Too much potential for abuse.
This is just one example of many.
-Charles
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1002274 598
"The code, in yellow, can be printed on a line as thin as 0.1 millimeter."
-Charles
Correct. It shows up in one of the corners. Yes, it is a pain, but it served its purpose. Gov't employees were photocopying REAMS of crap at no cost to them. One or two pages are no big deal, and you can then trim the edge. But, when you're talking about 200-300+ copies of a flyer or church news bulletin it is a different story.
It was, however, blatantly obvious.
There were several articles on Slashdot and elsewhere a while back about software like Adobe Photoshop and color printers detecting and refusing to scan/print/copy images of money.
Look at the back of new U.S. currencies or the Euros and you'll see patterns of "o". In the U.S. version, they are in the little "20" (or whatever) and in some Euros they are the body of musical notes. They form a star pattern that is the same when viewed from any angle. This is easy to detect in a scan, no matter how you rotate the bills.
The question is -- is it in the DRIVER or printer firmware. Some of this stuff was in the DRIVERS of Windows/Mac scanners.
If it is in the driver, then they're going to have a hard time with OSS drivers. If it is in the printer firmware, it is a bit different.
-Charles
No... check the surveilance cameras at Office Max for when the printer was sold. Then, check the surveillance cameras at any place that has received conterfeit cash. Get warrants for people who appear on the films.
Government laser printers and copiers frequently have a small metal plate under the glass that says "property of the U.S. Gov't" and sometimes a serial number.
It was originally intended to stop people from using the copiers at work for personal business.
No teacher should be telling you the possibilities that exist. That is for you to figure out yourself. How does your teacher (or anyone) know ALL the possibilities that exist? How does he know they are possibilities and not just flights of fancy?
Overall, he sounds pretty good -- and better than the ones that are just pushing students thru to get good scores on the standardized exams.
-Charles
Second paragraph "Under a blue, nearly cloudless sky, the spacecraft lifted off at 10:39 a.m. ET, as scheduled."
Look at the accompanying picture -- "nearly cloudless sky" that ain't. It is more like "partly to mostly cloudy".
CNN is supposed to report news, not wax poetic.
-Charles
The logo on the box says "patent pending". Good luck. Check out DKB's Battdisk for the Amiga, from 1987 or so. http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?product=bat tdisk
Copy Kickstart on to this, then use it to boot and you could boot an Amiga 3000 in 3-5 seconds. Wonderful device.
[Note: DKB = Dean K. Brown's company that did some real nice, and popular, hardware for the Amiga.]
-Charles
I got this advice earlier, but sleeping with these earphines on is just to uncomfortable.
Ummm... turn the computer off? You'd be amazed how quiet they are when turned off. Since you're asleep, give the computer a chance to nap as well.
-Charles
The purpose is so network providers only have to maintain ONE infrastructure.
If you can get Internet, telephone and television all over IP then the people that run the wires no longer have to maintain three separate infrastructures.
"Just give me bandwidth" will be the new mantra.
They also have the ability to centralize their content distribution. Instead of having to put satellite downlinks everywhere and banks of video recorders in each city, then can focus on a high-speed network and create a central content warehouse.
Keep in mind, Time Warner was one of the early customers of Lucents "all optical" switching equipment, with terabits/second of bandwidth running coast to coast.
-Charles