My ATI Radeon 9000 works fine under the DRI that comes with the kernel.
(And before someone says, "That's an old card; you should upgrade," I'll point out that it was a significant improvement over the Riva TNT2 I had until this past January.)
However, if your school set it up properly (like they did at my school/workplace), even setting it to "direct connection to the Internet" will run you through a HTTP cache/firewall.
Sometimes a company may cease distributing a product because they want to focus consumer attention on their new offerings.
However, I definately support returning the ownership of IP to the employees that authored it...assuming their employer went out of business.
On a more speculative note, it'd be interesting to see a system where patents and copyrights had to be in the name of individuals, and ownership of that material followed the individual wherever he went.
Ogg is the transport layer that both are stored in, so a video file will be Theora-encoded data inside an Ogg file, while audio is normally Vorbis-encoded data inside an ogg file.
Ogg can/is used for other audio codecs, too, like FLAC.
I've got a friend who showed me a graphical novel...first one I ever saw. It looked like manga, and you read the book back-to-front. (Which was wierd...that's how I normally end up paging through books.)
Something about a conflict between the church of England and the Catholic church over putting down vampires.
"Oh yeah? The fact that you know an email was sent proves you got it."
So much for dating a logic major...
Actually, something similar happened to me when I was nine or ten years old. I was messing around with Legos, and I heard my grandmother call for me over the intercom...it was time for dinner, and she sounded angry, so I hurried down the hall to the dining room.
When I got there, I said, "Sorry. I didn't hear you the first time."
Boy, did I get in trouble.
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Hey...everyone's switching to Geiko. Or, at least, their methods.:)
The pen could become a whole class of functionality to itself. You could scan a document by running the pen sideways on piece of paper, then deposit it in your PDA. You could take a photo. You could use an accelerometer to record whatever you're writing.
It makes for new ways of communication, too. You could ship someone a document inside the pen. Write a digital letter to your loved one, storing it inside the pen. (Then mail the pen.) You could sign for a package by tapping your pen on the FedEx guy's tablet PC.
It'd probably be more effective to supply the pen with a modest amount of flash memory, and power and communicate with it using an inductor and a magnetic fied.
No moving parts, and the pen can be separate from the device the data came from.
Now on a related note, I found that after hours of playing Castle Wolfenstein (back then), I had the urge to push on every brick wall I found to see if there was a hidden room behind it.
I figured out a pattern that led to moderate success. Look for secrets behind features(Tapestries, wreaths, portraits, etc.) on the walls. Generally speaking, there'll only be a secret behind a relatively blank section of wall if it's a short wall. (Such as the secret exit in the first level of the first episode.)
The Verizon techs came out and said they got plenty of signal, and that more than one tower should have been able to provide service to that location.
It could be a problem with the phone firmware, except that every Verizon phone that ever came to our house couldn't get signal. (Except their test equipment, of course.)
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Wait! The P4 is crying foul! Someone ran SETI@home as a background process!
Which card? And why is it necessary to use ATI's driver?
Like I said, the driver that comes with the kernel works fine...3D accel and all.
What issues are there? Do you have a reference?
My ATI Radeon 9000 works fine under the DRI that comes with the kernel.
(And before someone says, "That's an old card; you should upgrade," I'll point out that it was a significant improvement over the Riva TNT2 I had until this past January.)
Sure..."local" as in, "anyone who can install cgi scripts can do it."
Or any way a remote user can run arbitrary code (not even as root.).
Tools->Options->General->Connection Settings...
However, if your school set it up properly (like they did at my school/workplace), even setting it to "direct connection to the Internet" will run you through a HTTP cache/firewall.
There's drivers in the Linux kernel for hooking up most console system controllers to your parallel port. And emulators to match.
So if that's what you're looking for...
I was thinking more along the lines of a basis for a story. I don't expect anything of the sort to come into place in the US.
Sometimes a company may cease distributing a product because they want to focus consumer attention on their new offerings.
However, I definately support returning the ownership of IP to the employees that authored it...assuming their employer went out of business.
On a more speculative note, it'd be interesting to see a system where patents and copyrights had to be in the name of individuals, and ownership of that material followed the individual wherever he went.
That suggests an even better model. ".ogv" for Vorbis, and ".ogt" for Theora. As an aside, ".ogf" would be for FLAC.
It'll still make sense, though.
For audio players, ogg will obviously mean vorbis. For video players, it'll mean both.
Vorbis is an audio codec...but you knew that.
Theora is a video codec.
Ogg is the transport layer that both are stored in, so a video file will be Theora-encoded data inside an Ogg file, while audio is normally Vorbis-encoded data inside an ogg file.
Ogg can/is used for other audio codecs, too, like FLAC.
Sure... "Ogg" is the actual format of the file, which is simply a container for the content encoded within.
I'd like to see ".ogv" start popping up to signify Ogg video.
...I use Vorbis whenever I rip my audio CDs. If I did video, I'd certainly try Theora.
I've got a friend who showed me a graphical novel...first one I ever saw. It looked like manga, and you read the book back-to-front. (Which was wierd...that's how I normally end up paging through books.)
Something about a conflict between the church of England and the Catholic church over putting down vampires.
It's easy...we just power-cycle our microwave at noon (or midnight...but noon is more convenient) whenever necessary.
At which point I'll say,
"Jack, you jealous piece of machinery, you want that ice cream all for yourself! MOM! Make Jack give me the ice cream!"
"Oh yeah? The fact that you know an email was sent proves you got it."
So much for dating a logic major...
Actually, something similar happened to me when I was nine or ten years old. I was messing around with Legos, and I heard my grandmother call for me over the intercom...it was time for dinner, and she sounded angry, so I hurried down the hall to the dining room.
When I got there, I said, "Sorry. I didn't hear you the first time."
Boy, did I get in trouble.
Hey...everyone's switching to Geiko. Or, at least, their methods. :)
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The pen could become a whole class of functionality to itself. You could scan a document by running the pen sideways on piece of paper, then deposit it in your PDA. You could take a photo. You could use an accelerometer to record whatever you're writing.
It makes for new ways of communication, too. You could ship someone a document inside the pen. Write a digital letter to your loved one, storing it inside the pen. (Then mail the pen.) You could sign for a package by tapping your pen on the FedEx guy's tablet PC.
It'd probably be more effective to supply the pen with a modest amount of flash memory, and power and communicate with it using an inductor and a magnetic fied.
No moving parts, and the pen can be separate from the device the data came from.
Now on a related note, I found that after hours of playing Castle Wolfenstein (back then), I had the urge to push on every brick wall I found to see if there was a hidden room behind it.
I figured out a pattern that led to moderate success. Look for secrets behind features(Tapestries, wreaths, portraits, etc.) on the walls. Generally speaking, there'll only be a secret behind a relatively blank section of wall if it's a short wall. (Such as the secret exit in the first level of the first episode.)
The Verizon techs came out and said they got plenty of signal, and that more than one tower should have been able to provide service to that location.
It could be a problem with the phone firmware, except that every Verizon phone that ever came to our house couldn't get signal. (Except their test equipment, of course.)
I prefer Ars Technica's Understanding Pipelining and Superscalar Execution...
Besides, I feel HT exploits the fact that the processor is pipelined more than its superscalar nature.
If you've got antennae, you might want to join a circus. I hear they pay big money for people like you. :)