Just a little nitpick of your comment. First you say:
After the Second Life Herald conducted a widely circulated interview with the operator of Jailbait, a couple SL griefers and I went into the sim to try to figure out exactly how we could fuck with it. It was difficult to enter--a highly protected area. When we finally got in... Then, you mention:
But on the Internet, it is generally limited to dark, unknown, secret corners: password protected forums, underground Usenet groups, anonymous image boards.
Contrast this to Second Life, which is experienced as an open, freely accessible world, where one can walk around and see anything as it exists. No effort is needed to find these things--they can be found through mere wandering. It is experientially different, even if qualitatively similar, to the most depraved shit the Internet has to offer. So, you had to actually look really hard, "fuck with" a highly protected area in order to get the "bad stuff" in SL. How is that different from having to figure out the secret corners of the internet where this stuff is at? To me, it looks like you're actually saying that whatever is going on SL is as protected as the few Internet sites that condone or even promote these kind of services.
I'm very much against RL child pornography, because actual children are being abused, and the main reason why the accounts were banned from SL (according to TFA). But the virtual stuff, although tasteless, indecent, immoral, etc., is just a puppet show where no actual child is involved (the lesser of evils, I guess).
On another note, if virtual pornography is illegal in Germany, isn't the TV show reporter now a felon for acquiring/viewing/distributing the videos?
Well, if your computer has bluetooth you can use any bluetooth headset with Skype. I have a Cardio 500 bt headset, and I've been using it to call with Skype. I can roam around the room free whenever I travel, and the quality is great.
There are many people that haven't realized that bluetooth headsets are great for chat.
Wow, that is indeed some very bad news for the military aircraft development programs. If USA had let Japan create its own fighters, we could by now be flying Veritechs!
And "voting with your wallet" is exactly what I did. I had a Lexmark All-in-one printer that I received as a gift, but I didn't use it much. When I tried to print some color pages after like a month of not using it, the color was all screwed. I guess the ink dried on the head, or something, and no matter how many times I ran the cleaning procedure, I couldn't reestablish the color quality. The cartridge was still half full, and I was really angry, more so because I found out how much a replacement cartridge costs.
Fortunately, there was this promotion on a local Office Max that if you brought your old printer, you'd get a very good discount on a new one. So, for the same price of a replacement cartridge for my lexmark, I got instead a new Epson CX3500 with separate ink cartridges, and I'm very happy since. I don't know what office max does with the used printers, but I hope they kill that beast.
Your wish has been granted. Naruto will be part of the new Fall schedule. I just hope they don't mess around too much with the story, the dubbing, etc.
You do realize that AVG is not supposed to be free for companies. Only for personal use. If you really like AVG you should pay for it, so they get revenue and keep building the great product they have.
I do have the personal free edition for my home laptop, and it is a great program (although it had some issues with SP2 and some Nero drivers).
not YET, anyway. Microsoft is definetly interested in some kind of hardware mp3 player. They're always expanding their business (as many corporations do). You have the X-Box as an example.
However, corporate 'identity' isn't exclusive to MS. Most large corporations have some ways to 'encourage' employees to stick with the brands they make.
I'll be glad to take that MiniDisc player out of your hands. There's a couple of interesting projects I can think of.:)
I think MD players have a niche group among musicians, mainly because it lets them record directly to the player, and some even have digital in, so recording concerts and such is just a matter of connecting the MD to some audio-out on the consoles. Now that Sony admitted their mistake, they even might release some firmware update so that MD players support MP3 natively.
Same thing in Mexico. Almost all dvd players sold here are multi-region.
Even Sony had to cave in, by making their players play region-1 and region-4 encoded dvds (Mexico belongs to region 4). Now, I don't know if Sony changed the players or if the retailers did, but someone reprogrammed those Sony players.
I was looking at the pictures here and here, and it looks strikingly similar to MythTV screenshots. Being the owner of a 2wire DSL router, I know they use linux and ipfw, so I think I am correct in assuming they're also using MythTV for its UI.
Let's hope they give back to the community. This could be a great thing (or a bad thing) for MythTV
Have they considered using a Minidisc player? The one I have (MZ-NHF800) has optic line-in plus mic-in, for digital and analog recording. It is a Hi-MD unit, which supports recording in PCM mode, or in compressed mode (ATRAC3 encoding, Sony's proprietary format). You can then upload your music to a computer with the software. Sony has just recently released an utility to convert uploaded music from your device to WAV files. And with 1GB discs, you get 94 minutes of PCM audio, or 2040 minutes with highest compression mode. You have limitless amount of storage, as long as you keep buying minidics.
Not to mention that it is completely reversed. You know exactly who built open-source software. It's in their README files, their commit logs, etc. You don't know who built windows (not that you should care, but just to make a point).
Plus, you have the freaking source code! Who needs to know who built what, if you can look at how it is built and make sure yourself nothing is wrong (if you are so inclined to do so and have the time, the resouces, etc.)
I find this as a great news for the linux community. To have a major company take the steps required to make a laptop work with linux isn't an easy task.
However, now that HP has taken the first step, how about supporting the other laptop models that they sell. I have gentoo linux on an HP zt3000, and while 99% of the system works (WiFi, Ati Radeon, WXGA, IrDA, etc), there's still that 1% that needs HP support, like a driver for the SD media slot (although there's some work by some people to make this work).
I think HP is doing this as an experiment, to see how will the community react, how will customers use their laptop and how much tech-support issues will they have to solve. I wish them luck and hope they get behind this fulltime.
Well, I'm downloading it on firefox, and the status message says 'xx.x of 272.4 MB at...' so either firefox has a bug (dividing it by 1000 instead of 1024) or there's something fishy going here.
I just recently went to San Francisco for the weekend with some friends. We decided to go to the DNA Lounge (the bar from one of Netscape's founders) and it had a couple of linux boxes lying around for the people to use.
I connected to IRC, read/. and opened an SSH connection to my server to start some download I forgot to start in the morning, while my friends were dancing and drinking.
That's true, but ELF has been the standard on linux for quite some time. Most, if not all, binary linux packages have the applications in ELF format. If forced to remove ELF from linux, all distributions would have to change their binary packages. Hundreds if not thousands of GB of binary data on the net would become useless, as they would have to recompile every package to the new format.
I guess source-based distributions would have a better time with this problem.
However I am happy to inform you that ODEON is investing time and
effort into ensuring functionality across the many Web Browsers available to Internet Users, hopefully including Netscape Navigator and other Gecko based Web Browsers such as Opera and MoZilla.
I don't think Opera is based on Gecko, but I'm not sure since I've never used it.
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Contrast this to Second Life, which is experienced as an open, freely accessible world, where one can walk around and see anything as it exists. No effort is needed to find these things--they can be found through mere wandering. It is experientially different, even if qualitatively similar, to the most depraved shit the Internet has to offer. So, you had to actually look really hard, "fuck with" a highly protected area in order to get the "bad stuff" in SL. How is that different from having to figure out the secret corners of the internet where this stuff is at? To me, it looks like you're actually saying that whatever is going on SL is as protected as the few Internet sites that condone or even promote these kind of services.
I'm very much against RL child pornography, because actual children are being abused, and the main reason why the accounts were banned from SL (according to TFA). But the virtual stuff, although tasteless, indecent, immoral, etc., is just a puppet show where no actual child is involved (the lesser of evils, I guess).
On another note, if virtual pornography is illegal in Germany, isn't the TV show reporter now a felon for acquiring/viewing/distributing the videos?
Well, if your computer has bluetooth you can use any bluetooth headset with Skype. I have a Cardio 500 bt headset, and I've been using it to call with Skype. I can roam around the room free whenever I travel, and the quality is great.
There are many people that haven't realized that bluetooth headsets are great for chat.
Wow, that is indeed some very bad news for the military aircraft development programs. If USA had let Japan create its own fighters, we could by now be flying Veritechs!
I just hope you don't fly for any of the commercial airlines I regulary use. I wouldn't want a 'mad man' flying the plane I'm on.
Don't worry. Marketing droids will make sure to put in everyones head the fact that there was a problem before they came with this solution.
My thoughts exactly. Besides the supercomputing stuff, I can hardly see any relation between Google's and NASA's mission.
There's a very important piece of information in the article:
"The agreement would allow the company to design and develop a campus for whatever needs it envisions.
Google has been hoping to expand for at least a year, combing the Bay Area for suitable sites, including downtown San Francisco and San Jose."
I guess they took the hint from George Lucas
And "voting with your wallet" is exactly what I did. I had a Lexmark All-in-one printer that I received as a gift, but I didn't use it much. When I tried to print some color pages after like a month of not using it, the color was all screwed. I guess the ink dried on the head, or something, and no matter how many times I ran the cleaning procedure, I couldn't reestablish the color quality. The cartridge was still half full, and I was really angry, more so because I found out how much a replacement cartridge costs.
Fortunately, there was this promotion on a local Office Max that if you brought your old printer, you'd get a very good discount on a new one. So, for the same price of a replacement cartridge for my lexmark, I got instead a new Epson CX3500 with separate ink cartridges, and I'm very happy since. I don't know what office max does with the used printers, but I hope they kill that beast.
I'm sure they'll at least use NT code, or XP. ME is discontinued, you know...
Your wish has been granted. Naruto will be part of the new Fall schedule. I just hope they don't mess around too much with the story, the dubbing, etc.
Thanks to Richard Stallman and his GNU Project, Linus Torvalds
I knew that RMS always wanted to name Linux as GNU Linux, but now he claims to have created Linus Torvalds?
You do realize that AVG is not supposed to be free for companies. Only for personal use. If you really like AVG you should pay for it, so they get revenue and keep building the great product they have.
I do have the personal free edition for my home laptop, and it is a great program (although it had some issues with SP2 and some Nero drivers).
MSFT doesn't fire people for wearing iPODs...
not YET, anyway. Microsoft is definetly interested in some kind of hardware mp3 player. They're always expanding their business (as many corporations do). You have the X-Box as an example.
However, corporate 'identity' isn't exclusive to MS. Most large corporations have some ways to 'encourage' employees to stick with the brands they make.
I'll be glad to take that MiniDisc player out of your hands. There's a couple of interesting projects I can think of. :)
I think MD players have a niche group among musicians, mainly because it lets them record directly to the player, and some even have digital in, so recording concerts and such is just a matter of connecting the MD to some audio-out on the consoles. Now that Sony admitted their mistake, they even might release some firmware update so that MD players support MP3 natively.
Actually it looks like an (uglier)iPod turned sideways and with more buttons.
Maybe we can see the Apple webcast and check if Jobs has any comment on this... oh, nevermind.
Same thing in Mexico. Almost all dvd players sold here are multi-region.
Even Sony had to cave in, by making their players play region-1 and region-4 encoded dvds (Mexico belongs to region 4). Now, I don't know if Sony changed the players or if the retailers did, but someone reprogrammed those Sony players.
I was looking at the pictures here and here, and it looks strikingly similar to MythTV screenshots. Being the owner of a 2wire DSL router, I know they use linux and ipfw, so I think I am correct in assuming they're also using MythTV for its UI.
Let's hope they give back to the community. This could be a great thing (or a bad thing) for MythTV
Have they considered using a Minidisc player? The one I have (MZ-NHF800) has optic line-in plus mic-in, for digital and analog recording. It is a Hi-MD unit, which supports recording in PCM mode, or in compressed mode (ATRAC3 encoding, Sony's proprietary format). You can then upload your music to a computer with the software. Sony has just recently released an utility to convert uploaded music from your device to WAV files. And with 1GB discs, you get 94 minutes of PCM audio, or 2040 minutes with highest compression mode. You have limitless amount of storage, as long as you keep buying minidics.
All this for $200, btw.
Not to mention that it is completely reversed. You know exactly who built open-source software. It's in their README files, their commit logs, etc. You don't know who built windows (not that you should care, but just to make a point).
Plus, you have the freaking source code! Who needs to know who built what, if you can look at how it is built and make sure yourself nothing is wrong (if you are so inclined to do so and have the time, the resouces, etc.)
You mean, other than the fact that his nick is 'centauri'?
He must still wear TLS pijamas...
I find this as a great news for the linux community. To have a major company take the steps required to make a laptop work with linux isn't an easy task.
However, now that HP has taken the first step, how about supporting the other laptop models that they sell. I have gentoo linux on an HP zt3000, and while 99% of the system works (WiFi, Ati Radeon, WXGA, IrDA, etc), there's still that 1% that needs HP support, like a driver for the SD media slot (although there's some work by some people to make this work).
I think HP is doing this as an experiment, to see how will the community react, how will customers use their laptop and how much tech-support issues will they have to solve. I wish them luck and hope they get behind this fulltime.
Well, I'm downloading it on firefox, and the status message says 'xx.x of 272.4 MB at...' so either firefox has a bug (dividing it by 1000 instead of 1024) or there's something fishy going here.
I just recently went to San Francisco for the weekend with some friends. We decided to go to the DNA Lounge (the bar from one of Netscape's founders) and it had a couple of linux boxes lying around for the people to use.
/. and opened an SSH connection to my server to start some download I forgot to start in the morning, while my friends were dancing and drinking.
I connected to IRC, read
That's true, but ELF has been the standard on linux for quite some time. Most, if not all, binary linux packages have the applications in ELF format. If forced to remove ELF from linux, all distributions would have to change their binary packages. Hundreds if not thousands of GB of binary data on the net would become useless, as they would have to recompile every package to the new format.
I guess source-based distributions would have a better time with this problem.
You could also look for IT companies in Mexico. Cost of living there is cheaper, we share the same timezones as the US, we have similar cultures, etc.
There are a couple of companies that can give you very competitive rates (not as cheap as India, but cheaper than the US).
Disclaimer: I work for one of these companies, but I don't want to sound like an ad. Go and search for yourself. There are many.
I don't think Opera is based on Gecko, but I'm not sure since I've never used it.
Well, at least they are trying...