I meant keeping your brain stimulated kind of activity. When I visit my grandpa at old folks home, the ones that are most alert and talkative, are also the ones who keep setting up a poker table, play Sudoku, etc. The zombies are the ones watching TV, you can get barely a word out of them.
I've always thought that unless you are a person who always just watches someone else play (hmm, maybe Korea has lots of these with their televised Starcraft tournaments), you are ACTIVELY participating. Broadcast TV = passive couch potato, gaming = Active.
This just came to mind when way back in the early 90's there was big hype about "interactive TV" and how viewers could soon decide what happens on the screen (well, in the end it boiled down to being able to vote people off the island), and us gamer-nerds were like "Bah, we have participated in deciding what happens on the screen for last 10 years...". Especially when you had stuff like Ultima-series to show for it.
Problem is that they stop security updates for old versions.
I was HAPPY with firefox 2.x. Even with addon that tries to resemble the old behavior(Old Location Bar), I hate the way firefox 3 handles it. I much liked the way I could type part of the url and I'd see ordered list in my search history of matching places - ORDERED by number of visits.
I didn't want to go 3.x, but since 2.x no longer gets security updates...I'm SOL.
While the right for employee to monitor your net usage while you are using employer's systems is up for debate, this bill is much worse.
The bill doesn't mention e-mail, or workplace.
It only contains words of "community subscriber" and "identifying information, but not content".
So, universities and schools can monitor what students do on the Internet. Over any protocol, not just e-mail. Who do they call on VoIP. What websites they visit. Same applies for libraries. Or even community housing.
Democracy doesn't necessarily have to mean that simple majority (50% + 1) votes is enough. US Senate needs 60 votes to be filibuster-proof, constitutional amendments require pretty steep supermajority (need to be ratified on state level too), and so on.
Looking at sibling poster's "9 people" example, what if motion passing requires 80% of the vote?
I don't see how this is any different from getting material for training from Internetworkexpert and the bootcamp trainers. It's pretty darn well known set-up:)
CCIE #20962.
Anyway, there are about sixteen different lab exams of varying difficulty.
There is work on that arena. Basically, when HTTPBis WG was being chartered, during the BOF discussion it was acknowledged that authentication is too big can of worms to simply be considered a "revision", thus it's going to happen in a separate WG. In November, a BOF for OAuth was held...have to see if anything comes out of it.
Considering QoS...an ISP can only guarantee QoS to any practical degree in their own network.
The whole point of term "Internet-based service" is the fact that it's accessed through a mystical cloud of multiple networks held together by glue, duct tape, BGP and peering agreements. Accessing Slashdot (for me) goes through four AS numbers (try in Linux traceroute with the -A option). So while all those ISPs have been able to agree to exchange bits either in peering or customer/provider model, there's no practical way that I could negotiate a guaranteed access quality to slashdot.org across all those various organizations at any practical cost...
BBC *is* a special case that topologically they have their own network which is able to peer with other ISPs at lot of places (at least if you are either in US or UK) so they might be able to wrangle deals with directly-connected ISPs to provide some QoS to their peering point. As their customer-base would be UK license payers it might, technically, work.
Whether anyone is actually willing to pay extra for that...I seriously doubt it.
I work for an ISP/Telco. A few years ago this whole "access Internet from your phone" was just coming and GPRS costs were crazy. At that point we made quite a few studies that basically came to the effect of "in ISP world, with DSL, cable etc, people are already used to flat rate - you can't change that. In mobile, folks are still used to idea of different price for different services - case in point text messages".
Well, we missed the boat on that one (technology was there - all traffic goes through GGSN and they supported tying a Layer 4/7 switch to a accounting server). There were some ideas proposed, like concepts of "sponsored links" where if you normally paid X amount per megabyte some advertiser could perhaps do it for you and so on.
We missed the boat on that one, and now everyone is in the "flat until X MB (where X can be infinite), then extra bytes cost extra from that point on" model - even in the Internet accessed from mobile phone. In regular ISP world it's a doomed proposition since we have had 10-15 years of flat rate broadband now.
There's just *no* way this is going to happen anymore. Sure, business customers might be interested (and are) paying for e.g. guaranteed delivery for their internal VoIP traffic and guaranteed QoS, but it's just not going to fly for average consumer. Some "added value" services might be in there (stuff like, say, some freebies at iTunes), but QoS-related stuff for *generic Internet service* is not going to be one of them.
I heard stories that they don't even show these in Sweden anymore since Pirate Bay and The Pirate Party have succeeded in making everyone just laugh at them. Can someone confirm?
I've been to the US numerous times, all on business trips (I get paid to travel there). Anyway, back in 2003, Dallas, on first trip ever, I was basically waved through...not so bad even coming with an completely empty, unstamped passport.
Unfortunately, ever since then, on multiple trips (Immigration checks at NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston) the fingerprints have been the least annoying part.
When the US-VISIT scheme was introduced, I went through the DHS website and looked into the privacy and data storage implications. Basically the PDF docs on the site showed such a horrendous architecture that I was pretty confident that my fingerprints will be safe in bowels of a system that probably won't ever really work (and I'm not a US taxpayer so I don't care that much where their money goes).
This was confirmed on my arrival to PHL - I thought that since I've been on multiple visits before that the officer probably has all my info on her screen the moment she wipes my (machine-readeable, not yet biometric) passport.
Guess what? I have scandinavian letters in my name (ääääööö). The officer asked me under what name I'd like to enter the US - should she type in my name with ä => ae or ä => a conversion. I gave the ä => a version since that's what everyone is in reality using... but kinda felt a bit let down of the awesome border security procedures...I'm starting to realize where all the Usama/Osama problems stem from. I thought that they'd at least use, say, the passport number if not the "code" field as primary key...At least if on some trip I land in trouble I can just claim "No, it's just a misspelled name, I'm really that other guy..."
Point I'm getting here: Fingerprints are minor piece of annoyance that add a bit to the travelers problems. For me, the privacy implications were pretty well addressed by DHS docs. The guy that interviews you at the border is the first person who you meet in foreign country - it's his behavior that gives the first impression.
The annoying part has been the attitude of almost all occasions I've basically felt that arrogance of "YOU ARE NOTHING, WHY THE HELL SHOULD I LET YOU IN, you pitiful European". Some vindication came on the last time in:
I was recently in Minneapolis IETF, and went through Chicago again (to change planes to Minneapolis). I don't know whether it was "economy is down, this foreign guy might bring in some serious money" or the fact that it was Obama's home town and everyone was still in great post-election mood and they forgot to be jackasses - but the guy at the desk was really nice. He ofc asked all the same questions as every other time - where I'm going and why - but the attitude made me actually feel welcome to the US. He basically apologized that they have to these days take the whole hand (prints from all fingers) but also said how much better the reader is compared to old one, told me that if I'm planning to spend any time in Chicago he could name a couple of good steakhouses - before stamping my passport and sending me on to the baggage carousel.
Now, timewise it wasn't any faster than any previous visits - same 5 minutes to process me - but I actually felt a bit happy after 16-hour flight (with transfers).
Mind you, I've gotten the "I'm welcome" feeling in EVERY other country I've visited, ever. At all borders they've acquired the same information - why I'm there, when I'm leaving and what I'm planning to do - but I'll be glad to visit Canada, UK, Thailand, Japan, Australia, NZ, and even Russia again - as a tourist, spending my own money.
If I'll get the same experience on my subsequent US business trips as I got on my latest one, I might actually come in again as a tourist, bring friends, and spend some of my own money, too.
If you just picked it up, I suggest you get EasyTutu, which allows you to play BG1 with BG2's much improved engine. Including higher resolution and all the other improvements.
I've tried contacting both strigi developers, other one doesn't respond and the other says "ask the other guy".
Anyway, I've got about 10000+ JPEGs off my digicams, all of them are commented - in the JPEGs internal comment field. When reading about strigi and other desktop search tools, I was thrilled - I could just search for stuff instead of my old standby jhead *.jpg | grep Comment | grep .
However, at least KDE 4.1 implementation seems to be based on some crappy database with proprietary format with no chance to import the metadata from elsewhere...and when using stand-alone strigi the whole thing doesn't seem to work. From all that I've read, I SHOULD be able to search e.g. all images that were taken with ISO >800 or whatever is in comment field (although there is apparently some confusion whether the comment is JPEG comment or EXIF comment).
Only problem that it doesn't work.
Anyway, I hate the idea of some separate "metadata-database". DB can be used for CACHING, but all the metadata should really be integral to the file itself. EXIF tags for images, ID3 tags for MP3s, and so on - that way if you copy/move the file all the attached information goes with it and requires no specific "transfer metadata too" support from the copy operation.
Anyway, has anyone on/. actually gotten strigi to work with image files/photos?
I do have some MP3s, though, and could always transcode if I wanted. The game specifically says that you can put shortcuts to your music or music folders into the user music directory. But... it doesn't work with networked mounts. I keep all of my music on my server and access via Samba from Windows or NFS in Linux. But not for GTA4... it just ignores any shortcuts that access another machine. Lame!
Does the old "Map network location to a drive letter" standby work? That way the shortcuts would refer to e.g. E:\Music instead of \\FILESERVER\MUSIC...?
Their drivers are stunning and they are completely open. 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 have some really neat stuff for Intel cards.
I've had a Thinkpad with i915 in it now for three years.
Not ONCE during that time I've gotten properly accelerated 3D without any issues.
Very simple test subject, Google Earth.
Back at Xorg 6.8 it was simply unaccelerated and didn't work at all (had to set some environment variable so it would work). Upgrade: When zooming in, the screen would go all foggy (bug in Mesa versions before 7.1).
Beside these, throughout the whole time there's been a bunch of window issues. For example, if you drag any window (any popup that gearth generates) over the main window, there's horrible flicker.
So my experience with Intel stuff has been pure crap so far.
I'm looking forward to those 2.6.28 and the GEM stuff, maybe they'd finally make my GFX work.
Their drivers are stunning and they are completely open. 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 have some really neat stuff for Intel cards.
I've had a Thinkpad with i915 in it now for three years.
Not ONCE during that time I've gotten properly accelerated 3D without any issues.
Very simple test subject, Google Earth.
Back at Xorg 6.8 it was simply unaccelerated and didn't work at all (had to set some environment variable so it would work). Upgrade: When zooming in, the screen would go all foggy (bug in Mesa https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17397 Beside these, throughout the whole time there's been a bunch of window issues. For example, if you drag any window (any popup that gearth generates) over the main window, there's horrible flicker.
So my experience with Intel stuff has been pure crap so far.
I'm looking forward to those 2.6.28 and the GEM stuff, maybe they'd finally make my GFX work.
I miss ONE particular game that I don't think anyone has managed to re-create. I'd very much appreciate a new version of PSI-5 Trading co. You have your standard Elite-esque "trade stuff between planets A, B & C"-thing go on...but the beef is that you command your spaceship *completely* by just giving your crew orders - and they attempt to execute them. So you become Captain Kirk and just bark orders for your Sulu, Chekov and Scotty. I haven't heard of other such games - I mean, you are *always* expected to grab the joystick. Eve Online might come close but it's still pretty much realtime.
Yes, the Mobygames lists DOS version, but the CGA glory isn't exactly the best release.
If you have any of those old CBM-BASIC listings from 80's computing magazines, it's full of POKE x,y statements (and sometimes the program is just a hex loader with bunch of READ...DATAs). So I'm really not so sure of the value of this experiment.
(One of the longest "commercial" CBM-BASIC programs I remember - that actually used it for lots of things - was Sid Meier's Pirates!. (Haven't tested the newest Remake - I did like Pirates Gold!, the first remake, a lot)
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I meant keeping your brain stimulated kind of activity. When I visit my grandpa at old folks home, the ones that are most alert and talkative, are also the ones who keep setting up a poker table, play Sudoku, etc. The zombies are the ones watching TV, you can get barely a word out of them.
I've always thought that unless you are a person who always just watches someone else play (hmm, maybe Korea has lots of these with their televised Starcraft tournaments), you are ACTIVELY participating. Broadcast TV = passive couch potato, gaming = Active.
This just came to mind when way back in the early 90's there was big hype about "interactive TV" and how viewers could soon decide what happens on the screen (well, in the end it boiled down to being able to vote people off the island), and us gamer-nerds were like "Bah, we have participated in deciding what happens on the screen for last 10 years...". Especially when you had stuff like Ultima-series to show for it.
Thanks for this - I'll give it a try.
Problem is that they stop security updates for old versions.
I was HAPPY with firefox 2.x. Even with addon that tries to resemble the old behavior(Old Location Bar), I hate the way firefox 3 handles it. I much liked the way I could type part of the url and I'd see ordered list in my search history of matching places - ORDERED by number of visits.
I didn't want to go 3.x, but since 2.x no longer gets security updates...I'm SOL.
While the right for employee to monitor your net usage while you are using employer's systems is up for debate, this bill is much worse.
The bill doesn't mention e-mail, or workplace.
It only contains words of "community subscriber" and "identifying information, but not content".
So, universities and schools can monitor what students do on the Internet. Over any protocol, not just e-mail. Who do they call on VoIP. What websites they visit. Same applies for libraries. Or even community housing.
Democracy doesn't necessarily have to mean that simple majority (50% + 1) votes is enough. US Senate needs 60 votes to be filibuster-proof, constitutional amendments require pretty steep supermajority (need to be ratified on state level too), and so on.
Looking at sibling poster's "9 people" example, what if motion passing requires 80% of the vote?
Bah, linked wrong article. Meant this one: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/04/1816227&tid=191
There are some differences...in fact, using reoviruses to cure skin cancer has been attempted - it was mentioned earlier on Slashdot.
I don't see how this is any different from getting material for training from Internetworkexpert and the bootcamp trainers. It's pretty darn well known set-up :)
CCIE #20962.
Anyway, there are about sixteen different lab exams of varying difficulty.
There is work on that arena. Basically, when HTTPBis WG was being chartered, during the BOF discussion it was acknowledged that authentication is too big can of worms to simply be considered a "revision", thus it's going to happen in a separate WG. In November, a BOF for OAuth was held...have to see if anything comes out of it.
Considering QoS...an ISP can only guarantee QoS to any practical degree in their own network.
The whole point of term "Internet-based service" is the fact that it's accessed through a mystical cloud of multiple networks held together by glue, duct tape, BGP and peering agreements. Accessing Slashdot (for me) goes through four AS numbers (try in Linux traceroute with the -A option). So while all those ISPs have been able to agree to exchange bits either in peering or customer/provider model, there's no practical way that I could negotiate a guaranteed access quality to slashdot.org across all those various organizations at any practical cost...
BBC *is* a special case that topologically they have their own network which is able to peer with other ISPs at lot of places (at least if you are either in US or UK) so they might be able to wrangle deals with directly-connected ISPs to provide some QoS to their peering point. As their customer-base would be UK license payers it might, technically, work.
Whether anyone is actually willing to pay extra for that...I seriously doubt it.
I work for an ISP/Telco. A few years ago this whole "access Internet from your phone" was just coming and GPRS costs were crazy. At that point we made quite a few studies that basically came to the effect of "in ISP world, with DSL, cable etc, people are already used to flat rate - you can't change that. In mobile, folks are still used to idea of different price for different services - case in point text messages".
Well, we missed the boat on that one (technology was there - all traffic goes through GGSN and they supported tying a Layer 4/7 switch to a accounting server). There were some ideas proposed, like concepts of "sponsored links" where if you normally paid X amount per megabyte some advertiser could perhaps do it for you and so on.
We missed the boat on that one, and now everyone is in the "flat until X MB (where X can be infinite), then extra bytes cost extra from that point on" model - even in the Internet accessed from mobile phone. In regular ISP world it's a doomed proposition since we have had 10-15 years of flat rate broadband now.
There's just *no* way this is going to happen anymore. Sure, business customers might be interested (and are) paying for e.g. guaranteed delivery for their internal VoIP traffic and guaranteed QoS, but it's just not going to fly for average consumer. Some "added value" services might be in there (stuff like, say, some freebies at iTunes), but QoS-related stuff for *generic Internet service* is not going to be one of them.
I heard stories that they don't even show these in Sweden anymore since Pirate Bay and The Pirate Party have succeeded in making everyone just laugh at them. Can someone confirm?
I've been to the US numerous times, all on business trips (I get paid to travel there). Anyway, back in 2003, Dallas, on first trip ever, I was basically waved through...not so bad even coming with an completely empty, unstamped passport.
Unfortunately, ever since then, on multiple trips (Immigration checks at NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston) the fingerprints have been the least annoying part.
When the US-VISIT scheme was introduced, I went through the DHS website and looked into the privacy and data storage implications. Basically the PDF docs on the site showed such a horrendous architecture that I was pretty confident that my fingerprints will be safe in bowels of a system that probably won't ever really work (and I'm not a US taxpayer so I don't care that much where their money goes).
This was confirmed on my arrival to PHL - I thought that since I've been on multiple visits before that the officer probably has all my info on her screen the moment she wipes my (machine-readeable, not yet biometric) passport.
Guess what? I have scandinavian letters in my name (ääääööö). The officer asked me under what name I'd like to enter the US - should she type in my name with ä => ae or ä => a conversion. I gave the ä => a version since that's what everyone is in reality using... but kinda felt a bit let down of the awesome border security procedures...I'm starting to realize where all the Usama/Osama problems stem from. I thought that they'd at least use, say, the passport number if not the "code" field as primary key...At least if on some trip I land in trouble I can just claim "No, it's just a misspelled name, I'm really that other guy..."
Point I'm getting here: Fingerprints are minor piece of annoyance that add a bit to the travelers problems. For me, the privacy implications were pretty well addressed by DHS docs. The guy that interviews you at the border is the first person who you meet in foreign country - it's his behavior that gives the first impression.
The annoying part has been the attitude of almost all occasions I've basically felt that arrogance of "YOU ARE NOTHING, WHY THE HELL SHOULD I LET YOU IN, you pitiful European". Some vindication came on the last time in:
I was recently in Minneapolis IETF, and went through Chicago again (to change planes to Minneapolis). I don't know whether it was "economy is down, this foreign guy might bring in some serious money" or the fact that it was Obama's home town and everyone was still in great post-election mood and they forgot to be jackasses - but the guy at the desk was really nice. He ofc asked all the same questions as every other time - where I'm going and why - but the attitude made me actually feel welcome to the US. He basically apologized that they have to these days take the whole hand (prints from all fingers) but also said how much better the reader is compared to old one, told me that if I'm planning to spend any time in Chicago he could name a couple of good steakhouses - before stamping my passport and sending me on to the baggage carousel.
Now, timewise it wasn't any faster than any previous visits - same 5 minutes to process me - but I actually felt a bit happy after 16-hour flight (with transfers).
Mind you, I've gotten the "I'm welcome" feeling in EVERY other country I've visited, ever. At all borders they've acquired the same information - why I'm there, when I'm leaving and what I'm planning to do - but I'll be glad to visit Canada, UK, Thailand, Japan, Australia, NZ, and even Russia again - as a tourist, spending my own money.
If I'll get the same experience on my subsequent US business trips as I got on my latest one, I might actually come in again as a tourist, bring friends, and spend some of my own money, too.
If you just picked it up, I suggest you get EasyTutu, which allows you to play BG1 with BG2's much improved engine. Including higher resolution and all the other improvements.
Since this is on topic...and Nepomuk uses strigi components:
My problem: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-710966.html
I've tried contacting both strigi developers, other one doesn't respond and the other says "ask the other guy".
Anyway, I've got about 10000+ JPEGs off my digicams, all of them are commented - in the JPEGs internal comment field. When reading about strigi and other desktop search tools, I was thrilled - I could just search for stuff instead of my old standby jhead *.jpg | grep Comment | grep .
However, at least KDE 4.1 implementation seems to be based on some crappy database with proprietary format with no chance to import the metadata from elsewhere...and when using stand-alone strigi the whole thing doesn't seem to work. From all that I've read, I SHOULD be able to search e.g. all images that were taken with ISO >800 or whatever is in comment field (although there is apparently some confusion whether the comment is JPEG comment or EXIF comment).
Only problem that it doesn't work.
Anyway, I hate the idea of some separate "metadata-database". DB can be used for CACHING, but all the metadata should really be integral to the file itself. EXIF tags for images, ID3 tags for MP3s, and so on - that way if you copy/move the file all the attached information goes with it and requires no specific "transfer metadata too" support from the copy operation.
Anyway, has anyone on /. actually gotten strigi to work with image files/photos?
Hmm... Xkcd (the sexuality-refencing strips) are child porn? Cute.
I do have some MP3s, though, and could always transcode if I wanted. The game specifically says that you can put shortcuts to your music or music folders into the user music directory. But... it doesn't work with networked mounts. I keep all of my music on my server and access via Samba from Windows or NFS in Linux. But not for GTA4... it just ignores any shortcuts that access another machine. Lame!
Does the old "Map network location to a drive letter" standby work? That way the shortcuts would refer to e.g. E:\Music instead of \\FILESERVER\MUSIC...?
Bah, using expression "mesa less than 7.1" made slashdot think it's some tag and ate half of my post. Reposting..
Their drivers are stunning and they are completely open.
2.6.28 and 2.6.29 have some really neat stuff for Intel cards.
I've had a Thinkpad with i915 in it now for three years.
Not ONCE during that time I've gotten properly accelerated 3D without any issues.
Very simple test subject, Google Earth.
Back at Xorg 6.8 it was simply unaccelerated and didn't work at all (had to set some environment variable so it would work).
Upgrade: When zooming in, the screen would go all foggy (bug in Mesa versions before 7.1).
Upgraded now to Xorg 7.4. Intel driver 2.4.x. Cloud bug went away, but suffering from this issue:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17397
Beside these, throughout the whole time there's been a bunch of window issues. For example, if you drag any window (any popup that gearth generates) over the main window, there's horrible flicker.
So my experience with Intel stuff has been pure crap so far.
I'm looking forward to those 2.6.28 and the GEM stuff, maybe they'd finally make my GFX work.
Their drivers are stunning and they are completely open.
2.6.28 and 2.6.29 have some really neat stuff for Intel cards.
I've had a Thinkpad with i915 in it now for three years.
Not ONCE during that time I've gotten properly accelerated 3D without any issues.
Very simple test subject, Google Earth.
Back at Xorg 6.8 it was simply unaccelerated and didn't work at all (had to set some environment variable so it would work).
Upgrade: When zooming in, the screen would go all foggy (bug in Mesa https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17397
Beside these, throughout the whole time there's been a bunch of window issues. For example, if you drag any window (any popup that gearth generates) over the main window, there's horrible flicker.
So my experience with Intel stuff has been pure crap so far.
I'm looking forward to those 2.6.28 and the GEM stuff, maybe they'd finally make my GFX work.
Oh darn. Clearly I was converting pound-congresses to kilos first.
Yay! We finally have unit conversion from 1 LoC to bytes! So...20 PB = 6LoC, means that 1 LoC = 3,333... PB :)
I miss ONE particular game that I don't think anyone has managed to re-create. I'd very much appreciate a new version of PSI-5 Trading co. You have your standard Elite-esque "trade stuff between planets A, B & C"-thing go on...but the beef is that you command your spaceship *completely* by just giving your crew orders - and they attempt to execute them. So you become Captain Kirk and just bark orders for your Sulu, Chekov and Scotty. I haven't heard of other such games - I mean, you are *always* expected to grab the joystick. Eve Online might come close but it's still pretty much realtime.
Yes, the Mobygames lists DOS version, but the CGA glory isn't exactly the best release.
If you have any of those old CBM-BASIC listings from 80's computing magazines, it's full of POKE x,y statements (and sometimes the program is just a hex loader with bunch of READ...DATAs). So I'm really not so sure of the value of this experiment.
(One of the longest "commercial" CBM-BASIC programs I remember - that actually used it for lots of things - was Sid Meier's Pirates!. (Haven't tested the newest Remake - I did like Pirates Gold!, the first remake, a lot)