They're lovely. I've got a HTPC setup in my lounge, with a server that has dual tuners and has icecast so I can listen to my tunes at work. I need to steal one of these screens for my playlist:D
Unforuntately it seems it's headed for a life of displaying meetings in a government building:(
I can't answer your main question, but i'd advise against E-Smith. It's a nice product, but the community around it has degenerated to a point where we've decided to move our small company server to Fedora or something else generic.
It's a shame, as it is a nice system for small companies. What's ClarkConnect like then?
Aye you're correct, thank you for the clarification. I am obviously no expert but was just correcting the idea of cancer of somehow making a conscious decision to be evil.
Well....the explicit statement is not that Linux is Evil, but that Linux is Cancer. The question being to complete the line of reasoning is "Is Cancer evil?" Most would argue yes of course.
I don't quite agree with this. Cancer isn't 'evil', it's just performing the task it evolved to do, it doesn't consciously decide to be evil, we just don't like it.
Bear in mind my girlfriends mother died of complications stemming from cancer of the aesophagus a week ago today, i'd love to think the fucking thing is evil but it just ain't so.
Exactly. I'm not too fond of Rockstar lately, what with their trying to pass the 'blame' for the hot coffee mod onto people who discovered it ON THE DISC, and Bully does seem an awfully cynical way to get more schoolkids beaten up while making cash, but this is absolutely golden PR for them. Watch those sales fly!
Can you imagine the logistics of sending people that far? They'd need entertainment, so would have a ship fully loaded with tunes and films. There'll be hell to pay if they're DRM'ed copies and suddenly stop working because someone didn't pay the bill - i'd give them 5 years on Mars before they come back and set fire to Earth, starting with Microsoft, because they had to sit on a spaceship with no tunes. Brilliant.
I know what his job title us, but what exactly is he directed to do? Is he hired in a defensive capacity, such as finding good parts of the Linux architecture and replicating it, or is he required to find ammunition (bugs, lack of functionality) to use against OSS?
Keep that in mind next time somebody tells you what a great deal allofmp3.com is. The cost is actually a few pennies a song plus some poor sap's kneecaps somewhere.
Insightful, this? You moderators are having a laugh. Name your sources instead of letting this hypothetical crap fester on the internet. As if the RIAA need any more 'empirical data' like this to portray anyone who downloads a tune as a criminal.
Where exactly is your evidence that me downloading and paying for tunes from allofmp3 aids people being kneecapped?
... I finally bought a copy of the Motorola 68000 developers handbook, complete with exact timings for each instruction, and was thoroughly disappointed when this 'monster fast' machine managed to vertically scroll a background about 20 times a second.
I was expecting to be incredibly fast and silky smooth on the screen, it was around then I learnt the habit of optimising the bejesus out of my code:)
I knew I had to start going out and meeting girls when the answer to a problem i'd had for weeks came to me in a dream. I'd written a fast replacement driver for the operating systems built in text output api. Some canadian bloke then started selling a version which was nearly twice as fast. I was well pissed off and couldn't work out how he'd done it. Then this dream came and told me about using 'Move.P' instead of the 'Move.W' instruction. I had one of those Eureka moments and immediately started coding.
Oh, and spending the only quality time I spent with my mum at the time playing Space Invaders on the Atari 2600 with her. The score wrapped around at 9999, so we'd spot each other and keep tabs on how many times our score had wrapped around:D
Isn't this a dupe? I seem to recall the reason they don't open-source it is because Microsoft still owns some bits of it and banks who still use OS/2 wouldn't be happy for people to go look for holes in the code.
I've definitely told the story on slashdot before of the support line for a german company (Heilersoft?) who pronounced the name like 'Oh Ess Half'.
Ah you're right, I should have qualified that. But maybe i've spent too many hours seeing signs outside high street stores such as Woolworths in the UK telling me that everyone involved in piracy is a drug-fuelled baby eater.
Besides, I don't believe any crime figures relating to intellectual property or to the sale of 'dangerous' illegal drugs. Much like the record companies claim they lose thousands for every 8 year old who downloads a song, I find it amazingly funny when the police round here trumpeted a find of 100000 ecstacy tablets as worth '3 million quid'. Which is bollocks when they sell to the end use for less than 1 ukp now.
If it comes to a straight choice between murderers, drug dealers and paedophiles and big media companies, all jokes aside, I'd rather give my money to the CEO.
Right, it's not really usable on the internet by large. But, in this case, the cable company controls the software and the routers. There is no reason they can't have their network handle these streams and put no more than 75 channels on any given piece of pipe. It can be less than 75, if a given channel is not viewed by anyone in a given neighbourhood, but never more than 75.
Good point, but it doesn't work if it is true VOD - in which case as you're watching different parts of the same at a different time as everyone else you can't multicast. It might be mitigated by having hard disks on the cable box to automatically grab telly constantly.
Thanks to a team of British scientists headed by a molecular neurobiologist/stand-up comic
Dr. Helen Pilcher, who led the research,
... makes me wonder just how funny Dr Helen Pilcher is. There's loads about her research on the net, but none of her standup. Tell us a joke, Helen, dammit!
I have a horrible feeling we're getting too excited over here.
Isn't it going to be like the old Sony 'Yaroze' (or however it was spelt) system where you could develop for the Playstation, but with crappy limited libraries? I'm sure they'll still digitally sign stuff, so we won't be able to compile straight to it. It's a nice gesture though.
Not that OOo is any better. Office-ware tends to be bloat-ware.
True. I know it's just a beta, but I tried a recent java 'enhanced' version of OOo and it was terribly slow, moreso than Office. Some open-source coders need their heads banging together. Their minds need concentrating on what people want, not competing with the latest 'Office'.
The futility of this is shown in the latest MS adverts which don't even give good reasons for upgrading to the new Office, and just use FUD and nice dinosaurs to persuade people. I'd like an OO which competes with Office 2000, because that's what most people *need*
.. is to make companies accountable for the actions of their 'affiliates'. Many a spyware company uses this defence, and end up gaining customers from dodgy affiliates who they don't need to pay as the affiliate has broken the terms and conditions. Genius. Their business model is just like bill posting on roads and streets.
Well, just consider the differences in downloading vs. shoplifting a single CD. If you don't share it back out in either case, I consider the shoplifting a bigger crime. You're stealing physical property as well as the music - but nobody calls that crime infringement. If you download the album and use it for personal listening only, it's technically a bigger crime (in some places) and certainly carries more civil liabilities.
This annoys me too. I can physically rob a record store and get less of a 'penalty' than if I shared one album on the internet. Bear in mind the record industry can only prove I upload to one other person, them.
I was reading in the Times (UK) today about penalties for speeding, and somebody advocated no fines but purely points, which would accumulate to a point where you weren't able to drive. I think this should apply to file sharing too - what's the damage? When we decide the amount of 'damage' the accused can pay for this with a day in jail rather than a 'settlement' that ruins them for the rest of their life.
(I'm not saying the DVD funtionality is what causes xbox and ps2 drives to break so often, but complexity always makes things less stable)
I agree with some of your post, but not this. Surely having a new format makes it less reliable - DVD chipsets/drives are mostly debugged these days so reliability isn't a problem (for reading, anyways).
Nintendo make some excellent games, sadly though the last I played was Metroid on the SNES. They've done nothing particularly amazing for a 32 year old like me recently. That said, i'd buy a SNES now if I could get 4 player Bomberman with a multitap. That's among one of many old Nintendo games that are begging to done properly on a decent new gen console.
Oh, and as an aside - Microsoft getting Jeff Minter to do their visualisations was a genius move. Looks like i'll be buying an Xbox 360, I won't be buying any games though.
They did force the World Wrestling Federation to abandon their WWF moniker. That's evil enough in my book.
Didn't the wrestling lot bring this upon themselves by starting the legal action? As the World Wildlife Fund have been registered since 1961 they didn't have a leg to stand on and so deservedly lost the rights to the initials.
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Ah, another page from the Big Book Of Apple Can't Do No Wrong (tm)
You're an idiot, right?
What about Star Raiders in 1979 on the Atari, then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Raiders
My company make these touchscreens for various government departments:
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http://www.mrgsystems.co.uk/graphics/lcdsignage/C
They're lovely. I've got a HTPC setup in my lounge, with a server that has dual tuners and has icecast so I can listen to my tunes at work. I need to steal one of these screens for my playlist
Unforuntately it seems it's headed for a life of displaying meetings in a government building
I can't answer your main question, but i'd advise against E-Smith. It's a nice product, but the community around it has degenerated to a point where we've decided to move our small company server to Fedora or something else generic.
It's a shame, as it is a nice system for small companies. What's ClarkConnect like then?
Aye you're correct, thank you for the clarification. I am obviously no expert but was just correcting the idea of cancer of somehow making a conscious decision to be evil.
I don't quite agree with this. Cancer isn't 'evil', it's just performing the task it evolved to do, it doesn't consciously decide to be evil, we just don't like it.
Bear in mind my girlfriends mother died of complications stemming from cancer of the aesophagus a week ago today, i'd love to think the fucking thing is evil but it just ain't so.
Sean.
Exactly. I'm not too fond of Rockstar lately, what with their trying to pass the 'blame' for the hot coffee mod onto people who discovered it ON THE DISC, and Bully does seem an awfully cynical way to get more schoolkids beaten up while making cash, but this is absolutely golden PR for them. Watch those sales fly!
Can you imagine the logistics of sending people that far? They'd need entertainment, so would have a ship fully loaded with tunes and films. There'll be hell to pay if they're DRM'ed copies and suddenly stop working because someone didn't pay the bill - i'd give them 5 years on Mars before they come back and set fire to Earth, starting with Microsoft, because they had to sit on a spaceship with no tunes. Brilliant.
I know what his job title us, but what exactly is he directed to do? Is he hired in a defensive capacity, such as finding good parts of the Linux architecture and replicating it, or is he required to find ammunition (bugs, lack of functionality) to use against OSS?
And how is he received by the rest of Redmond?
Insightful, this? You moderators are having a laugh. Name your sources instead of letting this hypothetical crap fester on the internet. As if the RIAA need any more 'empirical data' like this to portray anyone who downloads a tune as a criminal.
Where exactly is your evidence that me downloading and paying for tunes from allofmp3 aids people being kneecapped?
... I finally bought a copy of the Motorola 68000 developers handbook, complete with exact timings for each instruction, and was thoroughly disappointed when this 'monster fast' machine managed to vertically scroll a background about 20 times a second.
:)
:D
I was expecting to be incredibly fast and silky smooth on the screen, it was around then I learnt the habit of optimising the bejesus out of my code
I knew I had to start going out and meeting girls when the answer to a problem i'd had for weeks came to me in a dream. I'd written a fast replacement driver for the operating systems built in text output api. Some canadian bloke then started selling a version which was nearly twice as fast. I was well pissed off and couldn't work out how he'd done it. Then this dream came and told me about using 'Move.P' instead of the 'Move.W' instruction. I had one of those Eureka moments and immediately started coding.
Oh, and spending the only quality time I spent with my mum at the time playing Space Invaders on the Atari 2600 with her. The score wrapped around at 9999, so we'd spot each other and keep tabs on how many times our score had wrapped around
Isn't this a dupe? I seem to recall the reason they don't open-source it is because Microsoft still owns some bits of it and banks who still use OS/2 wouldn't be happy for people to go look for holes in the code.
I've definitely told the story on slashdot before of the support line for a german company (Heilersoft?) who pronounced the name like 'Oh Ess Half'.
Ah you're right, I should have qualified that. But maybe i've spent too many hours seeing signs outside high street stores such as Woolworths in the UK telling me that everyone involved in piracy is a drug-fuelled baby eater.
Besides, I don't believe any crime figures relating to intellectual property or to the sale of 'dangerous' illegal drugs. Much like the record companies claim they lose thousands for every 8 year old who downloads a song, I find it amazingly funny when the police round here trumpeted a find of 100000 ecstacy tablets as worth '3 million quid'. Which is bollocks when they sell to the end use for less than 1 ukp now.
Utter crap.
Welcome to the marketing department
Good point, but it doesn't work if it is true VOD - in which case as you're watching different parts of the same at a different time as everyone else you can't multicast. It might be mitigated by having hard disks on the cable box to automatically grab telly constantly.
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?show topic=34368&st=0&p=310943&#entry310943/
It does seem nice, but I can't understand why they have the same samba/firewall problem they had in fc3 (which I run on 2 machines at home).
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4
Is it possible to install FC4 over FC3 without losing my manually installed additions?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3787129.stm
I have a horrible feeling we're getting too excited over here.
Isn't it going to be like the old Sony 'Yaroze' (or however it was spelt) system where you could develop for the Playstation, but with crappy limited libraries? I'm sure they'll still digitally sign stuff, so we won't be able to compile straight to it. It's a nice gesture though.
True. I know it's just a beta, but I tried a recent java 'enhanced' version of OOo and it was terribly slow, moreso than Office. Some open-source coders need their heads banging together. Their minds need concentrating on what people want, not competing with the latest 'Office'.
The futility of this is shown in the latest MS adverts which don't even give good reasons for upgrading to the new Office, and just use FUD and nice dinosaurs to persuade people. I'd like an OO which competes with Office 2000, because that's what most people *need*
.. is to make companies accountable for the actions of their 'affiliates'. Many a spyware company uses this defence, and end up gaining customers from dodgy affiliates who they don't need to pay as the affiliate has broken the terms and conditions. Genius. Their business model is just like bill posting on roads and streets.
This annoys me too. I can physically rob a record store and get less of a 'penalty' than if I shared one album on the internet. Bear in mind the record industry can only prove I upload to one other person, them.
I was reading in the Times (UK) today about penalties for speeding, and somebody advocated no fines but purely points, which would accumulate to a point where you weren't able to drive. I think this should apply to file sharing too - what's the damage? When we decide the amount of 'damage' the accused can pay for this with a day in jail rather than a 'settlement' that ruins them for the rest of their life.
I agree with some of your post, but not this. Surely having a new format makes it less reliable - DVD chipsets/drives are mostly debugged these days so reliability isn't a problem (for reading, anyways).
Nintendo make some excellent games, sadly though the last I played was Metroid on the SNES. They've done nothing particularly amazing for a 32 year old like me recently. That said, i'd buy a SNES now if I could get 4 player Bomberman with a multitap. That's among one of many old Nintendo games that are begging to done properly on a decent new gen console.
Oh, and as an aside - Microsoft getting Jeff Minter to do their visualisations was a genius move. Looks like i'll be buying an Xbox 360, I won't be buying any games though.
Didn't the wrestling lot bring this upon themselves by starting the legal action? As the World Wildlife Fund have been registered since 1961 they didn't have a leg to stand on and so deservedly lost the rights to the initials.