If make an XBox game and want to play on my XBox, is it ok? What do I buy, the hardware or only a permanent "lease" to play Microsoft approved games? Your answer is welcomed:)
Well, what we need then (for a cheap solution) are embedded eyeball MEMS with a "sunlight" overlay (or the inverse). That way you can simply put violet posters in your walls and attack a "display" to them.
:) Nice!!
I can imagine the first use for, say, women: buying their boyfriends some violet tshits (and then ereg_replace (violet_tshits, brad_pit):)
Why? Isn't the earth shared by the other countries as well? This is polution terrorism. The fact that you are also hurting yourselves in the process does not make it any more acceptble to the other countries.
Oh, unless you don't give a shit about everyone's right when they don't have the power to "ENFORCE" justice.
Speaks for itself I think. Chase the terrorist...they should be hunt to death. But if ANYONE EVER DIES from global warming, remind yourselves: we killed them and got away for free. It's the American way.
(I am not anti-american by the way. I just happen to like other features of the "american dream")...
Can i say Hydroelectric plants? Is it really that difficult? Can i say electric cars? Is it really really that difficult? Insted of spending $50.000.000.000 a year in fossils, can't we use $45.000.000.000 and spend the rest on electric research? I guess we'd have cold fusion and many other ways of getting cheap energy if someone had the BALLS to stop this fossil business nonsense.
I think the "lowlanders" should be really worried. The poles will melt soon (2 generations at most), and it will be really caotic in close to sea level countries.
I'm a bit worried that the richest countries on earth can do any amount of damage to the earth yet blame the 3rd world for mostly everything.
Shouldn't we compensate non emiters in africa? We are fucking their share of earth for free...amazing how history is writen by the winners.
Ok, it's supposed to be funy (and it is:-) but it would be the same. They can charge per eyeball atoms-count if they want. You'll look at the final price.
Anyway (changing subject), maybe they could make an eyeglass version so that we don't need to work all the time at the office. Just imagine a 11:30 am pr0n session with this stuff:-) (ok, it could be a mess!)
The 2 days setup (to have it at the "beautifull level") is correct (unless you are lucky and with a fast CPU (+600mhz)). Anyway, i prefer having it working at my PC than a standalone player. This is a laptop so i like to carry it's multiregion DVD player arround with me...and the S-Video connector:)
Regarding the ATI rage card, is that the mach32 or mach64 card? If it's ATI mach64 based, you have vidix and xv working beautifully. I have a mach64 mobility and it's pretty decent for what the CPU's worth.
Anyway, there's a long road to go. The DeCSS stuff is not nice, and Mplayer gui lacks...and they won come bundled and precompiled anytime soon.
Tips for slow CPU owners
Here's what I've done to actually have decent playback on an Celeron 433 machine + ATI card. Hope it saves some people time.
They are not willing to switch (in part) because some people are telling them to turn their.doc files into.txt.
It would be best to tell them to turn the files into.pdf or.rtf. A nice windows program or script to massively turn all files into a Linux friendly format (compress+backup of originals files) would be just great:
Yeah, and Leia's birth is consealed while Luke's not. If Leia is not supposed to know she has a brother, she must not know her mother's Amadala. Because if she knew her mother was Amadala, then she can easily figure out she has a Brother somewhere (and maybe even know his name).
I may be wrong, I'm not a religious SW fan (though i like IV, V, VI a lot).
"Most programmers who donate time want to do what they like, not what might be needed."
Of course, that is a problem with part-time, volunteer open-source projects. If you are not doing something really noticeable, where everyone will remember you and thanks you, then the incentive goes down. There are exceptions, but it's not the general case.
However, some products like the kernel, Apache, MySQL are done in a really profesional manner. They are backed up by real _money_ (not a lot, but enough). And they have specific goal. For example, MySQL exists because their "contractors" asked for a solution, not for the code. And the MySQL team believed in open-sourcing it.
Anyway, I wouldn't mind paying for games or WHATEVER, as long as buying the source and able to modify it as i see fit.
There must be some way to broaden the appeal of open-source games.
I mean this ould be used in _addition_ to other means of detection, not as a complete replacement. I believe that no electronic or computer can replace a human beign when we are talking about physical security.
The more methods you have to detect a person, the better. Imagine that a terrorist may have to use a mask, alter it's fingertips, forge fake ID, use a special contact lens, change his height, etc. It would turn a nightmare for this guy to travel undetected. Ok, if you don't yet know he is a terrorist, it doesn't help you detect him. But if you suspect he might me into something, you can trace it's movements in the past (better than the method of reliying on a faked ID alone) and in the present/future.
It can't be bad, as long as it's not the only means of security. So I think we may agree...
I think maybe the problem is that programing a game is a different thing than either scratching and itch and also, you have no posible way of getting a revenue: no services to sell, no support, no nothing except the feeling that you contributed some fun to the masses.
So it's hard to see really good games. Remember some games cost between $5 to $50 million. That's a hole lot of money. Games must be sold at a price. A realistic price. I'd love to have contributed to Loki or maybe Transmeta. I just don't play much (nowadays).
Yes, if it only has a 5% success ratio. Of course it would be usefull only if you can reach 99,9% or something like that. Anyway, the false positives are a problem. It's to easy to fake someone's face.
I coul only see this system as an aid in specific cases.
Oh dumb me...I guess i'll never again comment on typos (funny or real ones). People are just too strange sometimes, you can never know (I don't find the quote funny nor original. Maybe that's why I didn't catch it)
Nope, not that. With a face recognition program you have these (partial list of) benefits:
1) If you travel with a false identity you HAVE A PROBLEM:) 2) If you are not registered, you HAVE A PROBLEM:) 3) Whoever you are and whatever identity you are using, they can trace all the locations you've traveled. You are the same guy everywhere. You passport is your body.
I guess i'l be investing in those biomasks companies soon:0
Yes, stereo imaging and depth are needed. But when you look at a person the brain stores a "pattern" of how to recognize this guy again. It discards a shit load of uneeded information.
If you don't believe me, try to draw a portrait of a close friend with pencil and paper. You'll find out you can't or that it doesn't correspond to the real look. It's NOT that you can't draw (You can perfectly copy it if you have a B&W photograph). The thing is that you really abstract the look and only store tiny bits of angles, distances, colors, patterns, movements and facial expresions.
You don't even know WHAT you are storing in the first place. Perception and pattern-matching are a very complex thing, and a thing far different than what one might guess.
Because they don't want to limit 99% of the users. To trully bring the UNLIMITED experience to 99% of their users they need to limit 1% of the (ab)users.
I think that while you may be really angry with what i am saying, the reality is that limiting everyone's experience because some people have 500.000 mb of crap in their download getright download queue just isn't fair.
After all, they are paying the same as the hardcore downloaders. While the downloaders do get to use the idle time of everyone's share, they never allow a second for others to compensate. So, bottom line, limiting everyone is not fair.
There is a site that makes binary packages of mostly everything you'll for slackware 8 and 7. You'll need some packages that are hard to compile or that you don't need much personalization or that you may want to easily remove with removepkg.
So in between official upgrade, take a loot at the linuxpackages.net site.
The viable business plan is that people using a lot of bandwidth for large periods of time should pay more. That's what bandwidth costs.
And that's what they are doing now. These business didn't know that 1% of the people would use 30/40% of the total bandwidth.
I can think how anyone in their right mind would subsidy these guys. Yes, they have the right to every damn bit they can extract from the line. But that doesn't mean people using it in a normal way should pay for their bandwidth.
I mean, i think it a good move to charge this people more. It costs more, you have to pay more. If the ISP ever get too greedy there's something we call... COMPETITION!
"The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time." Attributed to Tom Cargill of Bell Labs, and popularized by Jon Bentley's September 1985 "Bumper-Sticker Computer Science" column in "Communications of the ACM". It was there called the "Rule of Credibility", a name which seems not to have stuck. Other maxims in the same vein include the law attributed to the early British computer scientist Douglas Hartree: "The time from now until the completion of the project tends to become constant."
I think we are reinventing the weel. Windows was based not only on the idea that a computer should be usable by Joe and Jane but also on the premise that it should be admninistered by those Joe and Jane's.
It think that was a wrong choice. To make the choice worst, they decided that it should allow you to do everything easily (no learing neeeded) and if something was a bit complicated, then it should be stripped off.
The day they realize things should be "owned" and "permisioned" we'd be ok. I don't fear executing whatever in my linux, as long as i use a non important account to execute it (you also need to have all the permisions right or...).
Everyone should be able to use computers, administering is another thing. They can provide a default install that is ok and secure. Of course, there will be some things Joe will not be able to do. And that's a good thing (he can learn a bit if he really wants to change them).
Lonely investors backed by a huge corporation. Bell Labs couldn't have done squat without ritchie and co. It was not a "targeted" invention. It just happens because someone did it.
The fact that these people worked at Bell is not surprising, since in their field it was an obvious choice to be working for Bell or some other few companies.
Joe Farmer would not have invented this one. Someone in the field had to do it, and these people had jobs.
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If make an XBox game and want to play on my XBox, is it ok? What do I buy, the hardware or only a permanent "lease" to play Microsoft approved games? Your answer is welcomed :)
Well, what we need then (for a cheap solution) are embedded eyeball MEMS with a "sunlight" overlay (or the inverse). That way you can simply put violet posters in your walls and attack a "display" to them.
:)
:) Nice!!
I can imagine the first use for, say, women: buying their boyfriends some violet tshits (and then ereg_replace (violet_tshits, brad_pit)
Why? Isn't the earth shared by the other countries as well? This is polution terrorism. The fact that you are also hurting yourselves in the process does not make it any more acceptble to the other countries.
Oh, unless you don't give a shit about everyone's right when they don't have the power to "ENFORCE" justice.
Speaks for itself I think. Chase the terrorist...they should be hunt to death. But if ANYONE EVER DIES from global warming, remind yourselves: we killed them and got away for free. It's the American way.
(I am not anti-american by the way. I just happen to like other features of the "american dream")...
Can i say Hydroelectric plants? Is it really that difficult? Can i say electric cars? Is it really really that difficult? Insted of spending $50.000.000.000 a year in fossils, can't we use $45.000.000.000 and spend the rest on electric research? I guess we'd have cold fusion and many other ways of getting cheap energy if someone had the BALLS to stop this fossil business nonsense.
Thanks :) It's good to see some FACTS to end this "bash me/bash you" and "who/what" teoretical thread.
I think the "lowlanders" should be really worried. The poles will melt soon (2 generations at most), and it will be really caotic in close to sea level countries.
I'm a bit worried that the richest countries on earth can do any amount of damage to the earth yet blame the 3rd world for mostly everything.
Shouldn't we compensate non emiters in africa? We are fucking their share of earth for free...amazing how history is writen by the winners.
Ok, it's supposed to be funy (and it is :-) but it would be the same. They can charge per eyeball atoms-count if they want. You'll look at the final price.
:-) (ok, it could be a mess!)
Anyway (changing subject), maybe they could make an eyeglass version so that we don't need to work all the time at the office. Just imagine a 11:30 am pr0n session with this stuff
The 2 days setup (to have it at the "beautifull level") is correct (unless you are lucky and with a fast CPU (+600mhz)). Anyway, i prefer having it working at my PC than a standalone player. This is a laptop so i like to carry it's multiregion DVD player arround with me...and the S-Video connector :)
/dev/hdd
Regarding the ATI rage card, is that the mach32 or mach64 card? If it's ATI mach64 based, you have vidix and xv working beautifully. I have a mach64 mobility and it's pretty decent for what the CPU's worth.
Anyway, there's a long road to go. The DeCSS stuff is not nice, and Mplayer gui lacks...and they won come bundled and precompiled anytime soon.
Tips for slow CPU owners
Here's what I've done to actually have decent playback on an Celeron 433 machine + ATI card. Hope it saves some people time.
1: hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -a 32 -q
2: mplayer -vo xvidix -double -cache 15000 -framedrop -osdlevel 0 -fs -dvd 1
3: relax and enjoy
Remember you need to have setuid root in mplayer to use vidix in X (as non-root). Setting up a group with only your user allowed is better still.
They are not willing to switch (in part) because some people are telling them to turn their .doc files into .txt.
.pdf or .rtf. A nice windows program or script to massively turn all files into a Linux friendly format (compress+backup of originals files) would be just great:
It would be best to tell them to turn the files into
nice$ linoffice ~/documents/* -rf -t +excel +word +pp
Yeah, and Leia's birth is consealed while Luke's not. If Leia is not supposed to know she has a brother, she must not know her mother's Amadala. Because if she knew her mother was Amadala, then she can easily figure out she has a Brother somewhere (and maybe even know his name).
I may be wrong, I'm not a religious SW fan (though i like IV, V, VI a lot).
Well, then then problem is not so different.
"Most programmers who donate time want to do what they like, not what might be needed."
Of course, that is a problem with part-time, volunteer open-source projects. If you are not doing something really noticeable, where everyone will remember you and thanks you, then the incentive goes down. There are exceptions, but it's not the general case.
However, some products like the kernel, Apache, MySQL are done in a really profesional manner. They are backed up by real _money_ (not a lot, but enough). And they have specific goal. For example, MySQL exists because their "contractors" asked for a solution, not for the code. And the MySQL team believed in open-sourcing it.
Anyway, I wouldn't mind paying for games or WHATEVER, as long as buying the source and able to modify it as i see fit.
There must be some way to broaden the appeal of open-source games.
I mean this ould be used in _addition_ to other means of detection, not as a complete replacement. I believe that no electronic or computer can replace a human beign when we are talking about physical security.
The more methods you have to detect a person, the better. Imagine that a terrorist may have to use a mask, alter it's fingertips, forge fake ID, use a special contact lens, change his height, etc. It would turn a nightmare for this guy to travel undetected. Ok, if you don't yet know he is a terrorist, it doesn't help you detect him. But if you suspect he might me into something, you can trace it's movements in the past (better than the method of reliying on a faked ID alone) and in the present/future.
It can't be bad, as long as it's not the only means of security. So I think we may agree...
I think maybe the problem is that programing a game is a different thing than either scratching and itch and also, you have no posible way of getting a revenue: no services to sell, no support, no nothing except the feeling that you contributed some fun to the masses.
So it's hard to see really good games. Remember some games cost between $5 to $50 million. That's a hole lot of money. Games must be sold at a price. A realistic price. I'd love to have contributed to Loki or maybe Transmeta. I just don't play much (nowadays).
Well I live in a shitty country, but I can choose from 8 DSL providers and 2 cable providers. Maybe I am just lucky (in some way)...
Yes, if it only has a 5% success ratio. Of course it would be usefull only if you can reach 99,9% or something like that. Anyway, the false positives are a problem. It's to easy to fake someone's face.
I coul only see this system as an aid in specific cases.
Oh dumb me...I guess i'll never again comment on typos (funny or real ones). People are just too strange sometimes, you can never know (I don't find the quote funny nor original. Maybe that's why I didn't catch it)
:)
What the hell
Nope, not that. With a face recognition program you have these (partial list of) benefits:
:) :)
:0
1) If you travel with a false identity you HAVE A PROBLEM
2) If you are not registered, you HAVE A PROBLEM
3) Whoever you are and whatever identity you are using, they can trace all the locations you've traveled. You are the same guy everywhere. You passport is your body.
I guess i'l be investing in those biomasks companies soon
Yes, stereo imaging and depth are needed. But when you look at a person the brain stores a "pattern" of how to recognize this guy again. It discards a shit load of uneeded information.
If you don't believe me, try to draw a portrait of a close friend with pencil and paper. You'll find out you can't or that it doesn't correspond to the real look. It's NOT that you can't draw (You can perfectly copy it if you have a B&W photograph). The thing is that you really abstract the look and only store tiny bits of angles, distances, colors, patterns, movements and facial expresions.
You don't even know WHAT you are storing in the first place. Perception and pattern-matching are a very complex thing, and a thing far different than what one might guess.
Because they don't want to limit 99% of the users. To trully bring the UNLIMITED experience to 99% of their users they need to limit 1% of the (ab)users.
I think that while you may be really angry with what i am saying, the reality is that limiting everyone's experience because some people have 500.000 mb of crap in their download getright download queue just isn't fair.
After all, they are paying the same as the hardcore downloaders. While the downloaders do get to use the idle time of everyone's share, they never allow a second for others to compensate. So, bottom line, limiting everyone is not fair.
Isn't this similar to the stow GNU utility?
There is a site that makes binary packages of mostly everything you'll for slackware 8 and 7. You'll need some packages that are hard to compile or that you don't need much personalization or that you may want to easily remove with removepkg.
So in between official upgrade, take a loot at the linuxpackages.net site.
The viable business plan is that people using a lot of bandwidth for large periods of time should pay more. That's what bandwidth costs.
... COMPETITION!
And that's what they are doing now. These business didn't know that 1% of the people would use 30/40% of the total bandwidth.
I can think how anyone in their right mind would subsidy these guys. Yes, they have the right to every damn bit they can extract from the line. But that doesn't mean people using it in a normal way should pay for their bandwidth.
I mean, i think it a good move to charge this people more. It costs more, you have to pay more. If the ISP ever get too greedy there's something we call
Ninety-Ninety Rule n.
"The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time." Attributed to Tom Cargill of Bell Labs, and popularized by Jon Bentley's September 1985 "Bumper-Sticker Computer Science" column in "Communications of the ACM". It was there called the "Rule of Credibility", a name which seems not to have stuck. Other maxims in the same vein include the law attributed to the early British computer scientist Douglas Hartree: "The time from now until the completion of the project tends to become constant."
Isn't the entry wrong?????
I think we are reinventing the weel. Windows was based not only on the idea that a computer should be usable by Joe and Jane but also on the premise that it should be admninistered by those Joe and Jane's.
It think that was a wrong choice. To make the choice worst, they decided that it should allow you to do everything easily (no learing neeeded) and if something was a bit complicated, then it should be stripped off.
The day they realize things should be "owned" and "permisioned" we'd be ok. I don't fear executing whatever in my linux, as long as i use a non important account to execute it (you also need to have all the permisions right or...).
Everyone should be able to use computers, administering is another thing. They can provide a default install that is ok and secure. Of course, there will be some things Joe will not be able to do. And that's a good thing (he can learn a bit if he really wants to change them).
Lonely investors backed by a huge corporation. Bell Labs couldn't have done squat without ritchie and co. It was not a "targeted" invention. It just happens because someone did it.
The fact that these people worked at Bell is not surprising, since in their field it was an obvious choice to be working for Bell or some other few companies.
Joe Farmer would not have invented this one. Someone in the field had to do it, and these people had jobs.