I like this idea, it's slightly more direct than what's being done now, although I'd like to see it taken a step further. I'd like to see a list of sponsers/ads during a show that I can not only request more info on, but order.
This is particularly useful for DIY/Home improvement shows. Also for shows like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition where the show you're watching is actually a factor in your motivation for endorsing the show's sponsors.
I'm really not trolling here, but wouldn't one solution be for broadcast companies & tv manufacturers to initially set v-chips to only allow TV-G and G-rated movies by default? maybe put the 4-digit access pin on the sign-up contract (which is only legally binding to adults)
I know this is rather simplistic, I have several qualms about the rating systems and the v-chip myself (which ammendment is that again? the one about freedom to leech or something like that?) but from the eyes of a manufacturer/broadcaster, wouldn't this help keep those pesky senators quiet, being that anybody who allows "indecent" content on their television is doing so by their own will? I'd imagine this would protect most homes, and make more parents aware of the v-chip and how to use it. To my understanding, that's a big problem with the v-chip issue today is that most parents don't even think about whether or not it exists, and never notice the "parental controls" feature which is usually hidden in the setup menus.
that's all well and good, but at the same time its really not my problem, they need to find a way to make up for that on their own. and until they figure out a way that their users can communicate on all IM networks without having 6 (count em, 6) processes running at a time, I'm not going to let it be my problem. Also, developers who make compatible clients aren't going to either, and eventually yahoo and friends will be spending more money changing their protocol than they receive in ad revenue.
yeah, and we all know how perceptions of businesses really affect usage of sales.
"Wow, using OpenOffice instead of MS Office can save us hundreds of dollars for each workstation we purchase. Too bad those open-source developers are so nutty."
from what I've seen its more like "Yeah but MS Office is already installed on those computers, and the bundled price is too much trouble to calculate on savings, and we're already using MS Office anyway, but we'll keep an eye on this OpenOffice thing."
ADHD is chemically detectable, so are dyslexia and Tourette's. its very real, its not some sort of state of mind. Its an imbalance of chemicals like dopamine and seratonin
My situation isn't much different. I was diagnosed with ADHD at 5 years old, prescriped ritalin. and then diagnosed with Tourette's. Ritalin, being a tricyclic amphetamine (as opposed to a methamphetamine like adderal) aggrivates Tourette's.
I was also diagnosed with dyslexia, and these three disorders are very commmonly together.
I'm now 27 and for the most part have grown out of it, but have self-medicated (not even consciously at first) with caffeine. I still feel like I can't focus and have never been able to have a job where I have to get at work at a specific time(I need up to a half-hour of leeway...and I'm pretty sure that's about as good as its going to get.). I'm considering seeking a specialist again and seeing what can be done for me.
I can say that pills aren't very effective in general, especially for kids. I mean who really expects anyone under 14 with ADHD to take a drug daily when that drug makes you more hyperactive when you miss a doseage.
First the exploit compromised one of the largest linux distribution and potentially they could have put trojan horses in all our packages and we would really be up shit river when that happens.
I'm not 100% sure on this one since i'm using redhat and mandrake (and gentoo) for all my machines, however:
binary packages are normally signed by the development team. if the binary packages were changed at all, the packages won't match the signature and the installer should refuse to install them (or at the very least, warn about the signatures)
so really the debian distribution should still be safe to use (again, this is assuming that their installer checks signatures. which, considering debian's scrutiny, i'd be surprised if it didn't)
Firstly, if our system of free speech relies upon rich liberals, we're all screwed. Rich liberals are the ones we have to thank for the "Parental Advisory" stamps that wal-mart and friends use as a binary indicator for deciding which albums are good enough quality to sell.
As the person you're replying to pointed out, there will never be one opinion in charge of all the media because it will be too easy for someone who caters to another viewpoint to move in and take market share.
this assumes that political agenda is what drives these companies.
politics are secondary. money drives these companies.
so why not own the widest variety of large networks as possible, giving the broadest possible spectrum of opinion/politics as possible, and then you're the only one making a profit in the media industry.
once you have that accomplished, you get to set the bar to an "affordable" level (I'm of the opinion that the masses eat only from what they're fed) and narrow content availablility to a manageable scale.
this road paved with purchases of other companies that are financially struggling but are undervalued at the time of purchase (AOL/Time/Warner/Netscape/AllYourBase)
and so "Free Speech" is protected in that there is a diverse opinion available, except making your own opinion available, or better yet, making money anywhere as an artist/musician/talk show host gets harder to do without signing away your art/music/voice/likeness to a large company.
I don't really have a problem with one company owning newspapers/radio stations/tv stations, but when the price/availability for others to maintain the same kind of network gets to be unaffordable (I.E. rising FCC Fees, skyrocketing equipment costs) then only the rich get heard.
not sure where i'm going with this but i think my point is that its not just what's being said or what's being heard but who's saying that which is being heard.
That said, i don't think its the FCC's place to regulate this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing we're to rely on the DOJ for. but the FCC has been known to cater to the monopolies (like the baby bells) in the past, and that's still going almost unchecked by the other agencies of government.
from what I read, the $3k card is designed for render farms, if I understood correctly (i'm not 100% that i did, but i at least understood some of it)the cards talk directly to each other for fast mutli-machine rendering.
This is an enhanced version of the QFX3K, with a daughter card that sits on top of the board, mezzanine style. This board provides such functionalities as "Framesynch" multi-system synchronization and "Genlock" for synchronization to an external source input. The Framesynch connections are the sockets that look similar to Ethernet jacks. These provide the ability to have multiple systems working on a single model and rendering contiguous pieces of it, for example, while displayed at the same time on a larger screen format. The Genlock connector is the coaxial plug on the card. However, we're looking at the standard version of the Quadro FX 3000 here for our test purposes, so that's what we'll be focusing on in this showcase.
that means that when Pixar/AAA Architecture and Design decides its time to finish up with their rendering project, it cuts render time down significantly, and since there are so few new cards out there that do exactly this, yea the price is going to be steep. and hell this is the kinda marketing that empires are built on.
in order to get a real return on the investment, you need to buy more than one (let's say 32) and then the fastest agp8x machine you can get your hands on, and don't forget software licenses. so even though the card is $3k, to use the card well, you need to spend around $250K, $96K of which goes to nvidia...this is all top-of the head/google calculator math, but i'm just trying to get a general idea across....this card isn't for gamers, like at all....they probably want gamers NOT to buy this card....this is for the movies and the designers/architects.
Its really not worth my time to snail-mail them my opt-out request, and the website with the opt-out info seemed to only have instructions on how to snail-mail the opt-out request and what info to include, in fact it was the exact same info that was in the PDF I was emailed a week ago regarding this.
Its a stupid lawsuit if you ask me, not that it has absolutely no merit, but I really don't think its a very big problem/inconvenience.
Apparently, a couple other people here agree with me, i wonder how much register.com would save if they had an online opt-out form.
ISO install == waste of CD+time
on
Mandrake 9.2 RC1
·
· Score: 5, Informative
personally, I almost never burn a CD anymore for linux installers.....too much hassle. its much easier to me to create the network install floppy and pick a mirror(now a torrent-based install floppy would be uber-cool) the most complicated thing about this is writing down the server host name and the URL that contains the RPMs. once that's done, you begin the normal install process and you're only downloading exactly what you need in order to get a proper installation.
creating the floppy is easy, just download the images/network.img (pcmcia.img for laptops) and use dd (winrawrite for windows) to create the boot floppy
this is a very old practice, I know. but I'm mostly writing for those who don't.
so conserve plastic/aluminum, bandwidth, and time and use the network install instead
I don't watch MSN's security flaws very closely (an almost impossible task from what i have seen) but it seems to me that the security flaws are in their client, not thier servers. In fact, i've heard of only a few successful breakins to microsoft's core messaging servers (probably because i stopped watching around the time they started swtiching to windows for their servers.)
actually, I have on my desk 4 AMD Thunderbird (950+Mhz) CPUs all dead from heat and all were properly installed with the fans still spinning, one of them was from my personal workstation. I don't know about the XP or later series, but from what i've seen, there's at least SOME credibility to the heat damage argument, also, the famous tom's hardware videos (i'm sure if you look, you'll find them) demonstrate pretty well that amd has a flawed thermal management system compared to the pentium. (even though running a CPU at all deserves the loss of said CPU, dying fans happen every day, and that really just doesn't deserve the loss of a whole CPU.)
so this lawsuit is probably gonna take a good while to go through the courts and all....it definitely won't be over before the october date when this list is distributed and publicly accessible......so let's say a pig flys in to the courtroom to deliver a snowball from hell and a note attatched that the telemarketers must win their lawsuit or all the judges get a wedgie from hitler (and the telemarketers win).
now they have probably one of the largest compiled lists of valid contact information in history, and its their own fault for letting themselves get duped into giving out their contact info so easily.
hopefully, "Funny" is the appropriate modreation.
SOOooo I looked around on their website....nope...can'e download an entire package of OpenLinux....and then I thought....wait a second..support! shouldn't ceasing support of a product that they sold a few weeks ago put them under some kinda liability??
so i dug around on the ftp site....and it didn't take to long to find exactly what i was looking for.
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Work station/CSSA-2003-020.0/SRPMS/.
The Linux kernel packed in source RPM format! yes, they ARE still distributing the source code for very thing which they believe contains their own proprietary code!
I'm curious to see how this effects companies like the one that I work for. I'm a foxpro developer for a company that writes software specifically for local government offices. The reason we only write software for local government is because their needs are special enough that software really does need to be specially written for them. In our case its pretty much database software. So even though offices may be required to consider open source software, it wouldn't really be very easy to move their data and software to an open sourced operating system like linux. also I'm pretty sure that a lot of these guys already know what software and hardware they're going to use before they even get started on the bidding process. That said, I'm personally very ready for if the government offices do want to start using open-source software, I'm a big lover of free software and would like if we wound up rewriting our software for an open platform.
Well here the cable internet is cox and from what i've seen they use some weird system and IPs change pretty frequently. We have another dsl provider that has static IP for work i'm gonna try and talk to my boss about using it as a router and putting my server up at the office. we'll just have to see.
DirecTV is the only residential provider in my area that provides static IP, hopefully i'll run across somewhere else. btw the support phone number has a message basically saying that they are shutting down within the next 30 days and to please not call them anymore.
Okay, Apple, you have one of the most critically acclaimed Operating Systems out there, both in terms of usability, speed, and beauty. Why are you still putting all your eggs in the hardware basket? We all know that Darwin runs on x86. How much work do you really need to port the Mac0S shell over to x86?
What a marketing nightmare! Can you imagine these teeming masses of ppl that don't know what speed processor they have, much less whether or not the thing supports USB (or often much more than how old the damn thing is) going out there and trying to buy software for MacOS and then calling support to figure out why the CD they bought says for Mac Only and then the software guys trying to explain that just because they run MacOS, they don't necessarily have a Mac. or worse yet, a mac user going out and buying software that says "made for mac" and then learning that the vendor goofed and they have now bought PC SOFTWARE.
one of the key central ideas to the mac is being completely usable by the people who have never heard of the x86, or the powerpc, or the 680x0, or even (for that matter) linux or bsd
the other half of that idea is for these people to never ever ever have to learn what any of those things are, much less what they do.
maybe down the road things will be easier, but right now the proprietary hardware is still better than the x86(64-bit words since the first ppc) and its still much easier to use.
the people I know in the media/"art" industry know very well what they get from a mac. they turn it on, do their work, and turn it off. and they don't have to do any noticeable amount of work just so that they can do their work.
personally i'm not one of these people, I like my interface my way, but I grew up with the mac so I understand their point.
Jobs obviously has a big woody for all those pc users, along with the rest of apple, but i doubt they're going to allow their name associated with something that could be called confusing.
fixed the problem. holding option on startup is apparently not implemented in the origional line of iMacs; it did squat. booting from an OS9 CD wouldn't allow the volume to mount (unreadable volume, erase?) but after booting from the OSX CD and running first aid on the hard drive a few times, then booting from a debian CD to see if i could mount the drive HFS and see little more than a file called Where_Have_All_My_Files_Gone? I rebooted once more from the OS/9.1 CD and used the old startup disk control panel to select the hard drive as the boot device (my 7100 seemed to be a much better sport about this kinda thing, btw) and then i was able to boot to OS9, and use the new startup disk control panel to boot from OSX.
Slashdot Mirror
I like this idea, it's slightly more direct than what's being done now, although I'd like to see it taken a step further. I'd like to see a list of sponsers/ads during a show that I can not only request more info on, but order. This is particularly useful for DIY/Home improvement shows. Also for shows like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition where the show you're watching is actually a factor in your motivation for endorsing the show's sponsors.
I know this is rather simplistic, I have several qualms about the rating systems and the v-chip myself (which ammendment is that again? the one about freedom to leech or something like that?) but from the eyes of a manufacturer/broadcaster, wouldn't this help keep those pesky senators quiet, being that anybody who allows "indecent" content on their television is doing so by their own will? I'd imagine this would protect most homes, and make more parents aware of the v-chip and how to use it. To my understanding, that's a big problem with the v-chip issue today is that most parents don't even think about whether or not it exists, and never notice the "parental controls" feature which is usually hidden in the setup menus.
that's all well and good, but at the same time its really not my problem, they need to find a way to make up for that on their own. and until they figure out a way that their users can communicate on all IM networks without having 6 (count em, 6) processes running at a time, I'm not going to let it be my problem. Also, developers who make compatible clients aren't going to either, and eventually yahoo and friends will be spending more money changing their protocol than they receive in ad revenue.
yeah, and we all know how perceptions of businesses really affect usage of sales.
"Wow, using OpenOffice instead of MS Office can save us hundreds of dollars for each workstation we purchase. Too bad those open-source developers are so nutty."
from what I've seen its more like
"Yeah but MS Office is already installed on those computers, and the bundled price is too much trouble to calculate on savings, and we're already using MS Office anyway, but we'll keep an eye on this OpenOffice thing."
ADHD is chemically detectable, so are dyslexia and Tourette's. its very real, its not some sort of state of mind. Its an imbalance of chemicals like dopamine and seratonin
My situation isn't much different. I was diagnosed with ADHD at 5 years old, prescriped ritalin. and then diagnosed with Tourette's. Ritalin, being a tricyclic amphetamine (as opposed to a methamphetamine like adderal) aggrivates Tourette's.
I was also diagnosed with dyslexia, and these three disorders are very commmonly together.
I'm now 27 and for the most part have grown out of it, but have self-medicated (not even consciously at first) with caffeine. I still feel like I can't focus and have never been able to have a job where I have to get at work at a specific time(I need up to a half-hour of leeway...and I'm pretty sure that's about as good as its going to get.). I'm considering seeking a specialist again and seeing what can be done for me.
I can say that pills aren't very effective in general, especially for kids. I mean who really expects anyone under 14 with ADHD to take a drug daily when that drug makes you more hyperactive when you miss a doseage.
First the exploit compromised one of the largest linux distribution and potentially they could have put trojan horses in all our packages and we would really be up shit river when that happens.
I'm not 100% sure on this one since i'm using redhat and mandrake (and gentoo) for all my machines, however:
binary packages are normally signed by the development team. if the binary packages were changed at all, the packages won't match the signature and the installer should refuse to install them (or at the very least, warn about the signatures) so really the debian distribution should still be safe to use (again, this is assuming that their installer checks signatures. which, considering debian's scrutiny, i'd be surprised if it didn't)
Firstly, if our system of free speech relies upon rich liberals, we're all screwed. Rich liberals are the ones we have to thank for the "Parental Advisory" stamps that wal-mart and friends use as a binary indicator for deciding which albums are good enough quality to sell.
As the person you're replying to pointed out, there will never be one opinion in charge of all the media because it will be too easy for someone who caters to another viewpoint to move in and take market share.
this assumes that political agenda is what drives these companies.
politics are secondary. money drives these companies.
so why not own the widest variety of large networks as possible, giving the broadest possible spectrum of opinion/politics as possible, and then you're the only one making a profit in the media industry.
once you have that accomplished, you get to set the bar to an "affordable" level (I'm of the opinion that the masses eat only from what they're fed) and narrow content availablility to a manageable scale.
this road paved with purchases of other companies that are financially struggling but are undervalued at the time of purchase (AOL/Time/Warner/Netscape/AllYourBase)
and so "Free Speech" is protected in that there is a diverse opinion available, except making your own opinion available, or better yet, making money anywhere as an artist/musician/talk show host gets harder to do without signing away your art/music/voice/likeness to a large company.
I don't really have a problem with one company owning newspapers/radio stations/tv stations, but when the price/availability for others to maintain the same kind of network gets to be unaffordable (I.E. rising FCC Fees, skyrocketing equipment costs) then only the rich get heard.
not sure where i'm going with this but i think my point is that its not just what's being said or what's being heard but who's saying that which is being heard.
That said, i don't think its the FCC's place to regulate this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing we're to rely on the DOJ for. but the FCC has been known to cater to the monopolies (like the baby bells) in the past, and that's still going almost unchecked by the other agencies of government.
from what I read, the $3k card is designed for render farms, if I understood correctly (i'm not 100% that i did, but i at least understood some of it)the cards talk directly to each other for fast mutli-machine rendering.
/AAA Architecture and Design decides its time to finish up with their rendering project, it cuts render time down significantly, and since there are so few new cards out there that do exactly this, yea the price is going to be steep. and hell this is the kinda marketing that empires are built on.
in order to get a real return on the investment, you need to buy more than one (let's say 32) and then the fastest agp8x machine you can get your hands on, and don't forget software licenses. so even though the card is $3k, to use the card well, you need to spend around $250K, $96K of which goes to nvidia...this is all top-of the head/google calculator math, but i'm just trying to get a general idea across....this card isn't for gamers, like at all....they probably want gamers NOT to buy this card....this is for the movies and the designers/architects.
This is an enhanced version of the QFX3K, with a daughter card that sits on top of the board, mezzanine style. This board provides such functionalities as "Framesynch" multi-system synchronization and "Genlock" for synchronization to an external source input. The Framesynch connections are the sockets that look similar to Ethernet jacks. These provide the ability to have multiple systems working on a single model and rendering contiguous pieces of it, for example, while displayed at the same time on a larger screen format. The Genlock connector is the coaxial plug on the card. However, we're looking at the standard version of the Quadro FX 3000 here for our test purposes, so that's what we'll be focusing on in this showcase.
that means that when Pixar
I would think that George Lucas, Pixar, and friends have something to do with that.
Its really not worth my time to snail-mail them my opt-out request, and the website with the opt-out info seemed to only have instructions on how to snail-mail the opt-out request and what info to include, in fact it was the exact same info that was in the PDF I was emailed a week ago regarding this.
Its a stupid lawsuit if you ask me, not that it has absolutely no merit, but I really don't think its a very big problem/inconvenience.
Apparently, a couple other people here agree with me, i wonder how much register.com would save if they had an online opt-out form.
personally, I almost never burn a CD anymore for linux installers.....too much hassle. its much easier to me to create the network install floppy and pick a mirror(now a torrent-based install floppy would be uber-cool) the most complicated thing about this is writing down the server host name and the URL that contains the RPMs. once that's done, you begin the normal install process and you're only downloading exactly what you need in order to get a proper installation. creating the floppy is easy, just download the images/network.img (pcmcia.img for laptops) and use dd (winrawrite for windows) to create the boot floppy this is a very old practice, I know. but I'm mostly writing for those who don't. so conserve plastic/aluminum, bandwidth, and time and use the network install instead
I don't watch MSN's security flaws very closely (an almost impossible task from what i have seen) but it seems to me that the security flaws are in their client, not thier servers. In fact, i've heard of only a few successful breakins to microsoft's core messaging servers (probably because i stopped watching around the time they started swtiching to windows for their servers.)
actually, I have on my desk 4 AMD Thunderbird (950+Mhz) CPUs all dead from heat and all were properly installed with the fans still spinning, one of them was from my personal workstation. I don't know about the XP or later series, but from what i've seen, there's at least SOME credibility to the heat damage argument, also, the famous tom's hardware videos (i'm sure if you look, you'll find them) demonstrate pretty well that amd has a flawed thermal management system compared to the pentium. (even though running a CPU at all deserves the loss of said CPU, dying fans happen every day, and that really just doesn't deserve the loss of a whole CPU.)
so this lawsuit is probably gonna take a good while to go through the courts and all....it definitely won't be over before the october date when this list is distributed and publicly accessible......so let's say a pig flys in to the courtroom to deliver a snowball from hell and a note attatched that the telemarketers must win their lawsuit or all the judges get a wedgie from hitler (and the telemarketers win). now they have probably one of the largest compiled lists of valid contact information in history, and its their own fault for letting themselves get duped into giving out their contact info so easily. hopefully, "Funny" is the appropriate modreation.
They're looking for a soft place to put the knife
Do you have a friend or relative that would be interested in work for Black Mesa?
SOOooo I looked around on their website....nope...can'e download an entire package of OpenLinux....and then I thought....wait a second..support! shouldn't ceasing support of a product that they sold a few weeks ago put them under some kinda liability?? so i dug around on the ftp site....and it didn't take to long to find exactly what i was looking for. ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Work station/CSSA-2003-020.0/SRPMS/.
The Linux kernel packed in source RPM format! yes, they ARE still distributing the source code for very thing which they believe contains their own proprietary code!
I am on the board of directors, you can send me payment for creating your siblings via paypal.
I'm curious to see how this effects companies like the one that I work for. I'm a foxpro developer for a company that writes software specifically for local government offices. The reason we only write software for local government is because their needs are special enough that software really does need to be specially written for them. In our case its pretty much database software. So even though offices may be required to consider open source software, it wouldn't really be very easy to move their data and software to an open sourced operating system like linux. also I'm pretty sure that a lot of these guys already know what software and hardware they're going to use before they even get started on the bidding process. That said, I'm personally very ready for if the government offices do want to start using open-source software, I'm a big lover of free software and would like if we wound up rewriting our software for an open platform.
don't forget LudicrouslyHighFrequency
Well here the cable internet is cox and from what i've seen they use some weird system and IPs change pretty frequently. We have another dsl provider that has static IP for work i'm gonna try and talk to my boss about using it as a router and putting my server up at the office. we'll just have to see.
DirecTV is the only residential provider in my area that provides static IP, hopefully i'll run across somewhere else. btw the support phone number has a message basically saying that they are shutting down within the next 30 days and to please not call them anymore.
What a marketing nightmare! Can you imagine these teeming masses of ppl that don't know what speed processor they have, much less whether or not the thing supports USB (or often much more than how old the damn thing is) going out there and trying to buy software for MacOS and then calling support to figure out why the CD they bought says for Mac Only and then the software guys trying to explain that just because they run MacOS, they don't necessarily have a Mac. or worse yet, a mac user going out and buying software that says "made for mac" and then learning that the vendor goofed and they have now bought PC SOFTWARE.
one of the key central ideas to the mac is being completely usable by the people who have never heard of the x86, or the powerpc, or the 680x0,
or even (for that matter) linux or bsd
the other half of that idea is for these people to never ever ever have to learn what any of those things are, much less what they do.
maybe down the road things will be easier, but right now the proprietary hardware is still better than the x86(64-bit words since the first ppc) and its still much easier to use.
the people I know in the media/"art" industry know very well what they get from a mac. they turn it on, do their work, and turn it off. and they don't have to do any noticeable amount of work just so that they can do their work.
personally i'm not one of these people, I like my interface my way, but I grew up with the mac so I understand their point.
Jobs obviously has a big woody for all those pc users, along with the rest of apple, but i doubt they're going to allow their name associated with something that could be called confusing.
fixed the problem. holding option on startup is apparently not implemented in the origional line of iMacs; it did squat. booting from an OS9 CD wouldn't allow the volume to mount (unreadable volume, erase?) but after booting from the OSX CD and running first aid on the hard drive a few times, then booting from a debian CD to see if i could mount the drive HFS and see little more than a file called Where_Have_All_My_Files_Gone? I rebooted once more from the OS/9.1 CD and used the old startup disk control panel to select the hard drive as the boot device (my 7100 seemed to be a much better sport about this kinda thing, btw) and then i was able to boot to OS9, and use the new startup disk control panel to boot from OSX.