FWIW, MS's marketing team tried to get REM's "It's the End of the World As We Know it (And I feel fine)" for the Win95 launch. REM doesn't license it's songs for commercials, so instead they went to the Rolling Stones, and asked them how much they'd want to use "Start Me Up"- RS threw out a number that they thought was ridiculous and completely unlikely: $10 million. They got it.
My points still stand.
Disk space: Yeah, you can get FBSD base under 100Meg. But, if you're using it on the desktop, you're gonna want more than vi and grep. Add X, KDE/GNOME, Mozilla, and (Star/Open)Office, it starts to add up.
Memory Usage: Yeah, Linux or FreeBSD with just base is very efficient, memory wise. But start X, KDE/GNOME, Mozilla, etc, and watch where your memory goes.
OS usage: The post to which my original reply was attached to apologized for being a DOS/WIN resource, I was merely pointing out that despite a lot of posturing, most of/. uses a WinXX machine, at least for browsing/.
It's possible that a specific driver feature or features causes Quake 3 to run 15% faster, but at the expense of making the system unstable or unreliable in other games. It would make no sense for ATI to make the cards run as fast as possible on Quake 3 and only Quake 3.
It's also possible that the Quack-quake transfer screwed something up in Quake- I'd be interested to see how a quackified exe performed on NVidia's chipset.
See this statement at the end of the text:
John B. Challinor II APR - Director, Public Relations at ATI Technologies Inc. "ATI optimizes its drivers on many different levels, including the application level, the game engine level, the API level, and the operating system level. That is, some optimizations work only on specific games, while others work only on specific game engines or only on specific operating systems. In the case of Quake III and Quake III Arena, we were able to achieve certain optimizations specifically for that game, as we do for other popular games. "
Bah, I don't even see where the "Optimizing for Quake 3 only" comes in. The Quake series has been and still is the benchmark of 1st person, 3D FPS graphics.
That being said, it would be convenient to have a checkbox in their control panel "(X) Enable unstable 3D support. May speed up certain apps, may cause problems. Use at own risk."
2. Most/.'s bitch about windows being bloated, then do the default install in RedHat or Debian or FreeBSD, which top out over a gig when you install (KDE or GNOME) + X + Misc.
3. That's OK, most of the people that read/. read it from Windows machines. Rob (Taco to the fanboys) used to have the stats up, before andover then va decided to market it as Linux Central. Over 80-90% of machines were WinX boxen.
Archos's Jukebox is:
* Available in 6 or 20 GB options
* Comes with USB. While Firewire would be nice to have, it's not $100-150 more convenient.
* 4.5" x 3.2" x 1.3". 12 Oz. Bigger than the iPod, but not significantly. Not $150 bigger.
* Was $200 at Best Buy a few weeks ago. For the 6 gb version.
* Has a recorder option on one of the models.
I'm underwhelmed. It's cool, but not $200 cooler than an Archos. (www.archos.com).
>(assuming 2.4 Mb/s USB spec and 50MB/s firewire, im unsure).
I'd like to see, hell, I'd like to _own_ a portable hard drive that gives 50 MB/s read/write speed. I'd have to invest in an asbestos pocket protector. Even 50Mb/s seems high for a low-rpm mini-hd. (as a point of comparison, 7200 RPM SCSI 160s average around 20-30 MB/s sustained.
It would be cool if you could share music locally "Portable_Music_Share", on a wireless network, then when the portable comes into range of a 802.11b, it loads portable music into the playlist (or load a playlist off of it), then streaming. 802.11 is more than capable of streaming. Then reading the ID3v2 tags, grab music you might like off of the share if you had available space (tivo-esque).
>So, GPL does not protect the code from commercial use after all.
It never did. That's NOT the purpose of the GPL.The purpose of the GPL is not to overtly prevent people making profit off of software; but rather to force people who use GPLed code to release any code they combine it with or changes they make to it to be publicly available, which Caldera apparently does (see the blurb in the article).
FWIW, the university that I attend had a DOS attack on our main Library. A student organization checked out approximately 5000 books and locked them in a rental truck as a protest over the lack of funding for the specific group.The library system has over 4 million items, so it was more of a nuisance than a large issue. However, the amount of time that the librarians had to spend filing the books after their return was nontrivial.
Good points, said some things I would've like to touch on in my original post, but didn't to be concise. I think I know what my answers would be to my previous post-- I was through a page and a half of text at 1024x768 in 12 point (in a separate window, fullscreen) in reply, when I realized that/. comment form really wasn't the best place to expound on what I was trying to say.
What about the society that allows easy and unfettered access to this information? Face it, we live in an information society. Thought experiment: Say the local news says "convicted arsonist felon living near local school". You've never burnt anything more than a pile of charcoal, but someone with your name has- does that change the fact that you now have people outside your door protesting? If you're lucky, you get a retraction at the end of the news and a small settlement. Look at Richard Jewell, who spent three months in hell as the suspect of the Atlanta Olympic bombing-- only to be cleared with a 'oh, he's not the guy. sorry for screwing your life over'. Prefacing bomber with 'accused' doesn't take the impact out of it.
The web puts people at equal footing- if Joe Anonymous posts libel to the web, I can just as easily refute it. His sealand site has as much as a voice as does my ispland site. Contrast this with the power that you have against "Investigative News."
We face a paradox: The ease of the exchange of information is inverse to privacy (Which is nothing more than the control of information about you). I would wager that some of the people that scream the loudest that "Information Must Be Free" also scream that "Privacy is a Right!" Where will you draw the line?
1. A working, accurate link: http://www.pioneer.co.jp/press/release63.html (it's in english)
2. Quote #1:
"Introduction of Copy Protection Technology The DVR-1000 complies with all available copy protection technologies {e.g. response to CGMS (Copy Generation Management System) signal and detection of Macrovision signal}, to protect copyrighted visual content from unauthorized copying which contradicts the intention of copyright owners. Furthermore, the DVR-1000 implements secure media ID detection functions, which form a key element in disabling playback of discs containing unauthorized copies. DVD-RW blank discs also contain the technology to prevent successful copying of discs protected by CSS*"
3. Quote #2. Recording Time Standard mode(SP) 120 minutes Manual mode (MN) 60 ` 360 minutes (32 steps)
4. Quote #3. " At the same time, Pioneer will ask the member companies of the DVD Forum to adopt Pioneer's technology as the de facto standard for DVD recorders." So it isn't a standard, and may not be a standard ever.
5. Quote #4. "DVD-RW adopts the Video Recording Format method for recording, a specification authorized by the DVD Forum. This format allows high-quality real-time signal recording using MPEG compression technology and also provides a variety of editing functions. Furthermore, Pioneer, as well as other major hardware manufacturers, will introduce Video Recording Format-ready DVD-Video players, and it will be possible to replay DVD-RW recorded discs on those players too. " So you won't be able to play the disc on many of the current players. But it does do realtime encoding.
Nothing particularly scary to any media company. Of course, my illusions of corporate competition among the 'big' corporations was shattered when I opened up my 101 disc Pioneer changer and found-- Sony components.
but the argument could be made that 1 is not an even or an odd number because an odd number must be only have two factors, 1 and itself. 1 is divisible only by itself, therefore, not odd.
Should'a been a quickie: also not worth 12 Meg... It would've been impressive in '93, but it really isn't worth a whole news item. It's a slighly grating cooking show parody based upon microwaving CDs. It's a good demonstration of the "microwave CD" principle, if you haven't done it yourself... I highly recommend it (microwaving cd). There's 15 seconds worth of actual-interesting-stuff (the CDs and the pickle). The rest can be safely skipped over with mute on (assuming you have access to a machine with the player)... otherwise don't cry any tears about missing *this* one. -ether
Douglas Coupland's microserfs mentioned the possibility that geeks are autistic.. around 2/3rd's of the way in... Coupland raised the issue that the 'better' (more productive) geek you are the more autistic (the ability to focus on one item intensly.
1- The lake freezes. Ice is not easy on structures. See the engineering that went into the bridge connecting the UP and LP in Michigan.
2- They could take out Disaster Transport (like space mountain, but lamer) and Iron Dragon (a thrilling 45 mph in what appears to be a "yugo-of-the-future-circa 1987" without anyone complaining. Also the wildcat, which is redeemable only for it's sheer ghetto-value, but not enough to stand in the way of progress;). However, It sounds like they're gonna take out the Matterhorn (?), the gondola ride. From the description [center of the island] it sounds most likely that it's gonna be the victim, but then again, I could be wrong.
It's bad living (relatively) near Cedar Point. It raises your expectations too high.
Some moderator is gonna burn a lot of points on Flamebait, I belive. Eight posts, all "Flamebait"....:)
Not that I actually care, though. A nation that has a board to determine the proper french form of words such as CD-ROM doesn't attract a lot of sympathy....
(Quote) CONTENT: (AbAbAb, LLL, VVV, SSS, NNN, A, DD, MMM) Anti-Christian, anti-God, anti-morality, intentionally immoral, with the most vile content in the history of mainstream moviemaking; 340 counted obscenities (there may be more that are muddled), 14 profanities & many disgusting bodily functions, including vomiting; bloody violence including ripping out heart, ripping body parts apart, splattering blood, & putting heart in micro-wave oven; extreme sex including homosexuality & pedophilia; extreme nudity including pictures of male & female genitalia, & jokes about the same; smoking by young boy & drug use including hash pipe; and, rebellion, theft, lying, cheating, & a surplusage of other depraved content. (/quote) In other words, off the scale.:)
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FWIW, MS's marketing team tried to get REM's "It's the End of the World As We Know it (And I feel fine)" for the Win95 launch. REM doesn't license it's songs for commercials, so instead they went to the Rolling Stones, and asked them how much they'd want to use "Start Me Up"- RS threw out a number that they thought was ridiculous and completely unlikely: $10 million. They got it.
I read the _article_, I merely missed that line. (Where do you think I got the quote I used from?)
Aside from the section speculating about the problem possibly lying within Q3, my line of reasoning still stands.
My points still stand. /. uses a WinXX machine, at least for browsing /.
Disk space: Yeah, you can get FBSD base under 100Meg. But, if you're using it on the desktop, you're gonna want more than vi and grep. Add X, KDE/GNOME, Mozilla, and (Star/Open)Office, it starts to add up.
Memory Usage: Yeah, Linux or FreeBSD with just base is very efficient, memory wise. But start X, KDE/GNOME, Mozilla, etc, and watch where your memory goes.
OS usage: The post to which my original reply was attached to apologized for being a DOS/WIN resource, I was merely pointing out that despite a lot of posturing, most of
It's possible that a specific driver feature or features causes Quake 3 to run 15% faster, but at the expense of making the system unstable or unreliable in other games. It would make no sense for ATI to make the cards run as fast as possible on Quake 3 and only Quake 3.
It's also possible that the Quack-quake transfer screwed something up in Quake- I'd be interested to see how a quackified exe performed on NVidia's chipset.
See this statement at the end of the text:
John B. Challinor II APR - Director, Public Relations at ATI Technologies Inc. "ATI optimizes its drivers on many different levels, including the application level, the game engine level, the API level, and the operating system level. That is, some optimizations work only on specific games, while others work only on specific game engines or only on specific operating systems. In the case of Quake III and Quake III Arena, we were able to achieve certain optimizations specifically for that game, as we do for other popular games. "
Bah, I don't even see where the "Optimizing for Quake 3 only" comes in. The Quake series has been and still is the benchmark of 1st person, 3D FPS graphics.
That being said, it would be convenient to have a checkbox in their control panel "(X) Enable unstable 3D support. May speed up certain apps, may cause problems. Use at own risk."
Couple of your points:
/.'s bitch about windows being bloated, then do the default install in RedHat or Debian or FreeBSD, which top out over a gig when you install (KDE or GNOME) + X + Misc.
/. read it from Windows machines. Rob (Taco to the fanboys) used to have the stats up, before andover then va decided to market it as Linux Central. Over 80-90% of machines were WinX boxen.
2. Most
3. That's OK, most of the people that read
Archos's Jukebox is:
* Available in 6 or 20 GB options
* Comes with USB. While Firewire would be nice to have, it's not $100-150 more convenient.
* 4.5" x 3.2" x 1.3". 12 Oz. Bigger than the iPod, but not significantly. Not $150 bigger.
* Was $200 at Best Buy a few weeks ago. For the 6 gb version.
* Has a recorder option on one of the models.
I'm underwhelmed. It's cool, but not $200 cooler than an Archos. (www.archos.com).
>(assuming 2.4 Mb/s USB spec and 50MB/s firewire, im unsure).
I'd like to see, hell, I'd like to _own_ a portable hard drive that gives 50 MB/s read/write speed. I'd have to invest in an asbestos pocket protector. Even 50Mb/s seems high for a low-rpm mini-hd. (as a point of comparison, 7200 RPM SCSI 160s average around 20-30 MB/s sustained.
It would be cool if you could share music locally "Portable_Music_Share", on a wireless network, then when the portable comes into range of a 802.11b, it loads portable music into the playlist (or load a playlist off of it), then streaming. 802.11 is more than capable of streaming. Then reading the ID3v2 tags, grab music you might like off of the share if you had available space (tivo-esque).
>So, GPL does not protect the code from commercial use after all.
It never did. That's NOT the purpose of the GPL.The purpose of the GPL is not to overtly prevent people making profit off of software; but rather to force people who use GPLed code to release any code they combine it with or changes they make to it to be publicly available, which Caldera apparently does (see the blurb in the article).
Get a P3 1Ghz, 256 Meg, 32 meg Geforce2Go (should be available rsn), 15" lcd.
FWIW, the university that I attend had a DOS attack on our main Library. A student organization checked out approximately 5000 books and locked them in a rental truck as a protest over the lack of funding for the specific group.The library system has over 4 million items, so it was more of a nuisance than a large issue. However, the amount of time that the librarians had to spend filing the books after their return was nontrivial.
"Sure buffers are great, but why not mount /tmp to a Ram Disk, and the cache directory for Web browsers too?"
Or, you could simply increase the size of the Memory Cache in Netscape. Edit...Preferences, Advanced, Cache, Memory Cache Size.
I'm not enough of an expert on Linux's tmpspace to comment on that part of the proposal... but IMO, it seems like a really bad idea.
Good points, said some things I would've like to touch on in my original post, but didn't to be concise. I think I know what my answers would be to my previous post-- I was through a page and a half of text at 1024x768 in 12 point (in a separate window, fullscreen) in reply, when I realized that /. comment form really wasn't the best place to expound on what I was trying to say.
What about the society that allows easy and unfettered access to this information? Face it, we live in an information society. Thought experiment: Say the local news says "convicted arsonist felon living near local school". You've never burnt anything more than a pile of charcoal, but someone with your name has- does that change the fact that you now have people outside your door protesting? If you're lucky, you get a retraction at the end of the news and a small settlement. Look at Richard Jewell, who spent three months in hell as the suspect of the Atlanta Olympic bombing-- only to be cleared with a 'oh, he's not the guy. sorry for screwing your life over'. Prefacing bomber with 'accused' doesn't take the impact out of it.
The web puts people at equal footing- if Joe Anonymous posts libel to the web, I can just as easily refute it. His sealand site has as much as a voice as does my ispland site. Contrast this with the power that you have against "Investigative News."
We face a paradox: The ease of the exchange of information is inverse to privacy (Which is nothing more than the control of information about you). I would wager that some of the people that scream the loudest that "Information Must Be Free" also scream that "Privacy is a Right!" Where will you draw the line?
1. A working, accurate link:
http://www.pioneer.co.jp/press/release63.html
(it's in english)
2. Quote #1:
"Introduction of Copy Protection Technology
The DVR-1000 complies with all available copy protection technologies {e.g. response to CGMS (Copy Generation Management System) signal and detection of Macrovision signal}, to protect copyrighted visual content from unauthorized copying which contradicts the intention of copyright owners. Furthermore, the DVR-1000 implements secure media ID detection functions, which form a key element in disabling playback of discs containing unauthorized copies. DVD-RW blank discs also contain the technology to prevent successful copying of discs protected by CSS*"
3. Quote #2.
Recording Time
Standard mode(SP) 120 minutes
Manual mode (MN) 60 ` 360 minutes (32 steps)
4. Quote #3.
" At the same time, Pioneer will ask the member companies of the DVD Forum to adopt Pioneer's technology as the de facto standard for DVD recorders."
So it isn't a standard, and may not be a standard ever.
5. Quote #4.
"DVD-RW adopts the Video Recording Format method for recording, a specification authorized by the DVD Forum. This format allows high-quality real-time signal recording using MPEG compression technology and also provides a variety of editing functions.
Furthermore, Pioneer, as well as other major hardware manufacturers, will introduce Video Recording Format-ready DVD-Video players, and it will be possible to replay DVD-RW recorded discs on those players too.
"
So you won't be able to play the disc on many of the current players. But it does do realtime encoding.
Nothing particularly scary to any media company. Of course, my illusions of corporate competition among the 'big' corporations was shattered when I opened up my 101 disc Pioneer changer and found-- Sony components.
but the argument could be made that 1 is not an even or an odd number because an odd number must be only have two factors, 1 and itself. 1 is divisible only by itself, therefore, not odd.
"garnish the cd to taste"
Should'a been a quickie: also not worth 12 Meg... It would've been impressive in '93, but it really isn't worth a whole news item. It's a slighly grating cooking show parody based upon microwaving CDs. It's a good demonstration of the "microwave CD" principle, if you haven't done it yourself... I highly recommend it (microwaving cd). There's 15 seconds worth of actual-interesting-stuff (the CDs and the pickle). The rest can be safely skipped over with mute on (assuming you have access to a machine with the player)... otherwise don't cry any tears about missing *this* one. -ether
Deja Vu: Most recent Slashdot article.
Douglas Coupland's microserfs mentioned the possibility that geeks are autistic.. around 2/3rd's of the way in... Coupland raised the issue that the 'better' (more productive) geek you are the more autistic (the ability to focus on one item intensly.
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Good book, see:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/00609870
1- The lake freezes. Ice is not easy on structures. See the engineering that went into the bridge connecting the UP and LP in Michigan.
;).
2- They could take out Disaster Transport (like space mountain, but lamer) and Iron Dragon (a thrilling 45 mph in what appears to be a "yugo-of-the-future-circa 1987" without anyone complaining. Also the wildcat, which is redeemable only for it's sheer ghetto-value, but not enough to stand in the way of progress
However, It sounds like they're gonna take out the Matterhorn (?), the gondola ride. From the description [center of the island] it sounds most likely that it's gonna be the victim, but then again, I could be wrong.
It's bad living (relatively) near Cedar Point. It raises your expectations too high.
Some moderator is gonna burn a lot of points on Flamebait, I belive. Eight posts, all "Flamebait".... :)
Not that I actually care, though. A nation that has a board to determine the proper french form of words such as CD-ROM doesn't attract a lot of sympathy....
Then again, is this message flamebait itself?
Greatest Quote from that site:
:)
GENRE: Animated Pornography
Also, under Content:
(Quote)
CONTENT: (AbAbAb, LLL, VVV, SSS, NNN, A, DD, MMM) Anti-Christian, anti-God, anti-morality, intentionally immoral, with the most vile content in the history of mainstream moviemaking; 340 counted obscenities (there may be more that are muddled), 14 profanities & many disgusting bodily functions, including vomiting; bloody violence including ripping out heart, ripping body parts apart, splattering blood, & putting heart in micro-wave oven; extreme sex including homosexuality & pedophilia; extreme nudity including pictures of male & female genitalia, & jokes about the same; smoking by young boy & drug use including hash pipe; and, rebellion, theft, lying, cheating, & a surplusage of other depraved content.
(/quote)
In other words, off the scale.
http://www.doonesbury.com/dailydose/strips/1999/05 /db990524.html
Second wife of a failed presidential candidate. Work with the Amer. Red Cross. Politicially appointed officeholder of ineffective federal agencies.
Great qualifications to be a VP.
#include "earlier_slashdot_thread.h"
#include "my_hp_48s_ir_port.h"
#include "security_by_obscurity_is_bad.h"
80 Gigabytes, which can be doubled to 160 GB temporarily.
-"Johnny Mnemonic", the movie. The short story (from Burning Chrome) doesn't actually say how much info is stored.