Personally I think Heelys wheel shoes are much cooler and more useful, if only they had been able to make it easy to retract the wheel into the shoe when not in use. (I havent looked at the development lately, but when I looked a year ago, that was not possible)
When I first saw them I thought: "Why didn't they make those when I was a *kid*?!"
I see many comments like "what is Linux on a phone good for?". Well, in some way I agree, it is after all the experience of the phone that matters.
But it must be good for the "Linux world" to get the name heard more and more often, must it not? The more people hear and learn about it, the less alienated they become.
That's my 20 öre...
OT: Record attempt in cluttered desktop
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Tetris AI System
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· Score: 1
The record attempt in "Cluttered Desktop Competition 2003" was almost more interesting than the project itself:
Wouldn't a TiVO or Replay TV be much cheaper than this?
Sigh... I get soooo tired of all people that thinks that the whole world is USA. Now, please tell me how I am gonna get a TiVO or Replay TV here in Sweden. Please do that.
Thank you!
PS. Not that I am planning to buy an xbox or anything, I will not support MS if I can avoid it (yes, you DO support MS if you buy one of those machines, even if they lose money selling them)
A couple of weeks ago, I managed, for the first time, to toally clear the tetris screen. Does not sound much, but I was almost thinking that it couldn't be done, that there were some algorithm in the game that forbid that (apart from when you start of course). This was a victory for *me*, but the game just kept going so I guess I did not beat it...:)
I don't know how Index Server handles this metadata, but I know that it also is a ordinary indexing service, i.e. it reads the data from all files and indexes this so that you can search for anything in those files to find them. I think this is good enough, whey add a lot of metadata when you already have the data in the document? Of course, this does not apply to files containing data not readable by us humans (like drawings, binary files etc etc).
The latest Phrack magazine has a link to a quite interesting (at least from a technical standpoint) article that describes how much of this magic works and also has some comments about it being a security risk (though I don't fully agree): http://www.phrack-dont-give-a-shit-about-dmca.org/ show.php?p=60&a=3 (the section is called "1 - The Dark Side of NTFS")
A long time ago, someone created the game Snake on some computer.
Many years later Nokia put Snake into their mobile phones.
Some time after that, you could play the web-version of that Nokia Snake-phone version game (i.e. the exact same game as on the phone, same controls, same graphics etc)
Now, what happens if someone tried to run this web-based game in their new web-enabled Nokia phone? Will it create a feedback loop and make the universe explode?...:)
Who can companies trust if they're afraid that this kind of thing can happen? How can they prevent it?"
In the same way one should prevent employees from placing out pieces of fish to rot in strategic places around the building, or other nice ways to sabotage: by taking care of their workers.
I don't see the difference between this way of sabotaging and my silly example above.
I repeat, What do you need a gun for? Please tell me so that I can go out and by myself one! I feel I am missing out on something here, something is missing in my life...
> No computer will have hormones, or millions of years of evolution, or bad hair days, or dendrites, or lots of things we have.
You have your mind on computers, it seems.
> But that's all beneath the surface, as it were.
Is it because that's all beneath the surface as it were that you came to me?
> Turing's point is that whatever intelligence is beneath the surface, ultimately all we see if the phenomena of intelligence, its outward manifestations.
Does it bother you that whatever intelligence is beneath the surface ultimately all you see if the phenomena of intelligence its outward manifestations?
> If I decide whether or not you are an intelligent human (as opposed to a computer or a coffee table or a CD playing your voice), I don't see the gears turning inside your head, or really care if you've got actual gears or not. I just interact with you, and get an impression.
Well, it seems pi is normal, which means any finite sequence appears somewhere along the expansion of the number. So trivially, that image of a circle is in there somewhere, as is an image of a triangle, the source to Linux 4.0, an image of Bush playing with G.I. Joe dolls on his desk and so on.
Exactly. A friend of mine thought he had come up with an ingenious compression scheme using this. Instead of storing the actual numbers in a file, store the position where that number can be found inside pi!
This sounded a little bit too good to be true though, I supected that to find any number in pi you would sometimes have to scan quite far in the range of endless decimals. And I was right, often the position where the string could be found was a higher number than the number itself and in the end you're not compressing anything at all...:)
Finally a useful browser feature for us who like to avoid using the mouse. This will get me one step closer to no-mouse nirvana. I have had the exact same thoughts about extending IE with some plugin to do the same thing, bu now Mozilla beat me to it.
If people had done something more useful than discussing who is right and who is wrong on this GNU/Linux vs Linux naming issue, bandwidth had been saved and probably more great stuff produced.
I do something much like that, just without all the clutter on the desktop (yes, I am annoyed by a cluttered desktop). I call it smart shortcuts and it works (kinda) right out of the box on Windoze 95/98/ME/NT4/W2k/XP: "look ma, no mouse!"
Maybe I misunderstand your use of the word "techies" but I do not agree with you. There will always be jobs for a competent and problem-solving tech-guy.
Do not give up!
You do not have to explicitely copyright something
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Public Domain Superheroes?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Apparently, a bunch of golden age heroes were never copyrighted and just faded into obscurity.
At least today, you do not need to explicitely say that you have copyright to something, you get this automatically. Of course it helps if you type down your name and stuff to be easier to enforce.
Maybe a little bit off-topic, but is there some way to "protect" an idea from being patented other than a patent? I mean like a GPL for patents (yes, I know copyright and patents are quite different). I might come up with something I think is a good idea but want all people to be able to use it for their own needs without restricting others. Again, something like the GPL for copyrights.
(I suspect this has been asked before at/. but I was too lazy to search for it, sorry...)
I'm completely satisfied with my Diva mp3-player. It's very small (one of the smallest having this big memory capacity) and light anf the buttons are easy to feal even through your pockets so you don't have to take the player out when adjusting the volume and so on.
I bought it with a 128MB CF1 card and together with the internal 32MB I have room for a couple of hours of music. The max CF1 size was 512MB at the time I bought mine, maybe there are even larger now?
Here in Sweden I bought it for $150, but as usual I suspect it is much cheaper in the US.
No problem to use it under Linux; I have a nice s cript that empties it and fiils it with random songs from my collection.
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When I first saw them I thought: "Why didn't they make those when I was a *kid*?!"
But it must be good for the "Linux world" to get the name heard more and more often, must it not? The more people hear and learn about it, the less alienated they become.
That's my 20 öre...
record attempt
Did I say that it would? No I did not. I was just reacting to the "why don't you just use TiVO"-answer.
Sigh... I get soooo tired of all people that thinks that the whole world is USA. Now, please tell me how I am gonna get a TiVO or Replay TV here in Sweden. Please do that.
Thank you!
PS. Not that I am planning to buy an xbox or anything, I will not support MS if I can avoid it (yes, you DO support MS if you buy one of those machines, even if they lose money selling them)
A couple of weeks ago, I managed, for the first time, to toally clear the tetris screen. Does not sound much, but I was almost thinking that it couldn't be done, that there were some algorithm in the game that forbid that (apart from when you start of course). This was a victory for *me*, but the game just kept going so I guess I did not beat it... :)
I don't know how Index Server handles this metadata, but I know that it also is a ordinary indexing service, i.e. it reads the data from all files and indexes this so that you can search for anything in those files to find them. I think this is good enough, whey add a lot of metadata when you already have the data in the document? Of course, this does not apply to files containing data not readable by us humans (like drawings, binary files etc etc).
The latest Phrack magazine has a link to a quite interesting (at least from a technical standpoint) article that describes how much of this magic works and also has some comments about it being a security risk (though I don't fully agree): http://www.phrack-dont-give-a-shit-about-dmca.org/ show.php?p=60&a=3 (the section is called "1 - The Dark Side of NTFS")
A long time ago, someone created the game Snake on some computer.
... :)
Many years later Nokia put Snake into their mobile phones.
Some time after that, you could play the web-version of that Nokia Snake-phone version game (i.e. the exact same game as on the phone, same controls, same graphics etc)
Now, what happens if someone tried to run this web-based game in their new web-enabled Nokia phone? Will it create a feedback loop and make the universe explode?
In the same way one should prevent employees from placing out pieces of fish to rot in strategic places around the building, or other nice ways to sabotage: by taking care of their workers.
I don't see the difference between this way of sabotaging and my silly example above.
You're listening RIAA? I AM STEALING YOUR MUSIC, AND THERE ISN'T ANYTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.
You're not stealing anything from anyone. You get the music, they still have it.
I repeat, What do you need a gun for? Please tell me so that I can go out and by myself one! I feel I am missing out on something here, something is missing in my life...
Guns kill people, guns are bad. That's it.
> You're mixing up levels here.
Why do you say I am mixing up levels there?
> No computer will have hormones, or millions of years of evolution, or bad hair days, or dendrites, or lots of things we have.
You have your mind on computers, it seems.
> But that's all beneath the surface, as it were.
Is it because that's all beneath the surface as it were that you came
to me?
> Turing's point is that whatever intelligence is beneath the surface, ultimately all we see if the phenomena of intelligence, its outward manifestations.
Does it bother you that whatever intelligence is beneath the surface
ultimately all you see if the phenomena of intelligence its outward
manifestations?
> If I decide whether or not you are an intelligent human (as opposed to a computer or a coffee table or a CD playing your voice), I don't see the gears turning inside your head, or really care if you've got actual gears or not. I just interact with you, and get an impression.
You think too much about computers.
Exactly. A friend of mine thought he had come up with an ingenious compression scheme using this. Instead of storing the actual numbers in a file, store the position where that number can be found inside pi!
This sounded a little bit too good to be true though, I supected that to find any number in pi you would sometimes have to scan quite far in the range of endless decimals. And I was right, often the position where the string could be found was a higher number than the number itself and in the end you're not compressing anything at all... :)
Interesting idea though...
Finally a useful browser feature for us who like to avoid using the mouse. This will get me one step closer to no-mouse nirvana. I have had the exact same thoughts about extending IE with some plugin to do the same thing, bu now Mozilla beat me to it.
y /t ypeaheadfind.html
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibilit
Yippie!
If people had done something more useful than discussing who is right and who is wrong on this GNU/Linux vs Linux naming issue, bandwidth had been saved and probably more great stuff produced.
A friend of mine got this error message:
_ do _not_exist.jpg
"You don't exist.Go away!"
A picture can be found here:
http://mathias.dahl.net/dat/gfx/jpg/hemsida/you
xmda - this is freaking great!! Thank you so much! I love it. (I know what I am doing for the rest of my afternoon) Ooo yeah!!
Hmm, was that very ironic or very sincere... Hmm...
I do something much like that, just without all the clutter on the desktop (yes, I am annoyed by a cluttered desktop). I call it smart shortcuts and it works (kinda) right out of the box on Windoze 95/98/ME/NT4/W2k/XP:
"look ma, no mouse!"
You like?
Maybe I misunderstand your use of the word "techies" but I do not agree with you. There will always be jobs for a competent and problem-solving tech-guy.
Do not give up!
At least today, you do not need to explicitely say that you have copyright to something, you get this automatically. Of course it helps if you type down your name and stuff to be easier to enforce.
Maybe a little bit off-topic, but is there some way to "protect" an idea from being patented other than a patent? I mean like a GPL for patents (yes, I know copyright and patents are quite different). I might come up with something I think is a good idea but want all people to be able to use it for their own needs without restricting others. Again, something like the GPL for copyrights.
/. but I was too lazy to search for it, sorry...)
(I suspect this has been asked before at
No, you're a squid!
I'm completely satisfied with my Diva mp3-player. It's very small (one of the smallest having this big memory capacity) and light anf the buttons are easy to feal even through your pockets so you don't have to take the player out when adjusting the volume and so on.
I bought it with a 128MB CF1 card and together with the internal 32MB I have room for a couple of hours of music. The max CF1 size was 512MB at the time I bought mine, maybe there are even larger now?
Here in Sweden I bought it for $150, but as usual I suspect it is much cheaper in the US.
No problem to use it under Linux; I have a nice s cript that empties it and fiils it with random songs from my collection.
I thought the software that was proprietary, not the vendor...