Funny I can understand, but why is this insightful? Can something automatically not be great if it's in Flash? It's an animated presentation w/ synced sound, not an ecommerce site. This is exactly the kind of thing that Flash was originally invent for.
If you want to get an sense of how deeply the hand of Hollywood penetrates
the skull-socks of their congressional puppets, dig the letter sent to Tom Poe
by one of his state's senators. I've emphasized the relevant parts:
Dear Mr. Poe:
Thank you for contacting me to express your concerns about the intellectual
property rights and the public domain. I appreciate hearing from you.
I understand your concerns about ensuring that. This issue is very controversial
because Congress must protect intellectual property rights
while still allowing ordinary Internet users to have access to public domain
content. I appreciate hearing your suggestion for a tag system.
I am carefully reviewing a number of proposals to address this issue, and
as I do so, I will keep your views in mind.
Again, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with me. For more
information about my work for Nevada, my role in the United States Senate Leadership,
or to subscribe to regular e-mail updates on the issues that interest you, please
visit my Web site at http://reid.senate.gov. I look forward to hearing from
you in the near future.
My best wishes to you.
Sincerely, HARRY REID United States Senator
On Thursday evening I shared this with Phil Windley, the CIO and blogger-in-chief
of the State of Utah, and in the discussion that followed it became clear to
us both exactly what kind of plans guys like Reid have in mind for the Net's
natives: Indian reservations.
Like Hollywood, these guys see the Net as a distro system for industry-controlled
intellectual property, and the public domain as a small preserve off to the
side somewhere. Thank you for giving us this fine land with all the free building
material. Now go off someplace where you can hunt and gather stuff that has
no commercial value. And bury your dead while you're at it. They're starting
to stink.
...
[Later...] I've been told that the very same letter quoted above has been going
out from the offices of other elected officials. If that's the case, it's even
creepier. Does anybody know? Is this thing just Sen. Reid's boilerplate, or
is a much more massive cut & paste job?
Doc made a front row MD recording. I'll be putting it up eventually along w/ the rest my OSCON recordings. It will probably come across better than the transcript.
If you're using a Windows machine, try out K-Meleon.
This is a fast Mozilla-based browser which runs great on slower machines (I've run this on old P5/K6 machines). It compares favorably in speed to NN4 or IE4 and adds in conveniences like background page loading, popup stopping, and of course all the standards compliance (HTML, CSS, DOM) that Gecko/Spidermonkey provides.
BTW, this is not a route that Netscape/AOL could have persued as their sole (or primary) strategy. Unless you've forgotten what Microsoft did with Win32 when OS/2 tried the same thing?
Re:Spielberg annoys to the end
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Minority Report
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One interesting little question you might want to ask at the end of Minority Report is whether Pre-Crime really got shut down or if it's all just a HALO'd dream.
Of course, like in AI, Minority Report's ending suffers from a sloppiness of execution that makes you really have to reach for the ambiguity when it should be put in front of you.
The flagrant sneakernetting involved the workstation connected to the precogs. I don't think you'd want to have that machine on a network, no matter how much you trust your sysadmins.;)
Sitting back a second, I remembered the just-passed anniversary of Tiananmen square. So much for the "ideal" ways of the east.
Uh, news flash, Tianamen Square happened in Beijing. That's the PRC, not Taiwan (ROC). Of course, for someone who equates the western world as the US and Canada, maybe the fact that they are completely different goverments (and political systems! Communist state vs Multiparty Democracy) is comparatively trivial.
As to the rest of your post... While I will agree that it's a positive thing, for some reason I don't think that OSS will 'save the world'. And while it doesn't look like the end of the world yet, between the stuff going on in geo-politics and in terms of environmental trends, I'm not betting on a bright and rosy future.
As a nitpick to your nitpick, the efforts that are underway are actually primarily to convert to a MPL/GPL/LGPL triple license. The Relicensing FAQ you point to actually addresses the NPL/MPL tangle in relicensing.
More information on the special rights and differences between the MPL and NPL are available in the MPL/NPL FAQ.
So, I'm unclear if they were trying to use the iPlanet Messaging Server (which seems like a good idea?), but which wouldn't require everyone to be using the crappy NS6.2 Mail Client (recent builds of Mozilla are very much improved, although since the iMS supports standard IMAP/POP3/LDAP, there shouldn't be problems with using other clients except by company policy) or if they were trying to use the older Netscape Messenging Server or a custom AOLmail solution?
We're doing a rollout of iMS now, and the only problems we're running across are primary policy related (the stupid desire to phase out 20yo email addresses in 6 months when they can be kept indefinitely as aliases in the LDAP system), although I must say that losing procmail (and all server-side execution on mail) really smarts.
hParnoff Coproration announced developing a CMOS sensor which could capture VGA images with 17 stops of dynamic range. Here's a link to the press release on dpreview
The mindset you describe is exactly that of OpenBSD. Say what you will about Theo as a person, but for out of the box security, OpenBSD is hard to beat.
My current preference for Linux is to install a Debian minimum install and apt-getting or compiling exactly what I want. There's a bit more work involved (setting up PAM, logins, wheel, netfilter), but I prefer the certain things about Linux better (apt-get, ReiserFS and/proc among other things) .
If you haven't tried RBrowser, give it a spin. It's not perfect, but it works well. It's currently in beta for free (after which, you'll need to pay for SSH/SFTP support).
Have you tried turning up the volume to around 20 and using an external volume control (you can buy one from radio shack or make one from a spare pot. if you have one).
I found that that greatly improved the audio quality.
I'm glad that someone brought up the eGroup. It's definitely a great resource. I had added some links back when I was into it (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nexiimp3/links).
I've had my NEX II since the beginning of the summer, and it's a pretty good deal... when it works. It does have some annoying problems: it's finicky with flash cards (I've had problems with detection of high quality Viking and Kingston cards. I just have to fiddle until it detects). Also, granted the 1.4 firmware update finally added resume (good lord, finally; it had been promised since before I got the player), but it doesn't work w/ WMA (flame if you must, until Ogg Vorbis is supported [not anytime soon], it's much better at 96kbps), and there's still noo song order control (is it that much to ask to be able to play an album in order?), and no FAT32 support (not a biggie, but as cards get larger...)
For the price the NEXII is awesome, and it's pretty much the best MP3 player out there short of an iPod (fuck SDMI), but it does have it's problems, among them being retarded firmware programmers. There have been multiple calls for them to release the source for the firmware. A lot of us would be more than happy to hack on it. (this isn't really feasible as they've probably licensed code for use in the NEX, but you wish they could fix some interface niggles).
I've been using a pair of Sennheiser HD580's and Grado SR-60's for portable listening for the past two years. Definitely well worth the money (the Grado's are probably the best headphones you can get for the under $100 price range [I've heard good things the new Sennheiser HD495's, but haven't had first hand experience), the discontinued HD580's I got for $200, but apparently new ones can still be found online - they're going for about $150 or so, a steal).
I'm looking to get the Musical Fidelity X-Can v2 headphone amps, but it looks like no one in the US seems to carry them anymore.
mod_gzip takes advantage of HTTP 1.1's Content-Encoding standards. Most modern browsers (ie4+, ns4.5+) support gzip encoding. mod_gzip will automatically send a file uncompressed if either HTTP 1.1 or gzip encoding isn't supported.
mod_bzip2 would be pretty useless. i don't know of any major browser supports bzip2 encoding. fwiw, mozilla 0.9.5 supports: gzip, deflate, compress, ns4.78win supports: gzip, and ie5.5win supports: gzip, deflate
Slashdot Mirror
A full mirrors list of people who've emailed me to be added is at the bottom of the page.
/. reader, I should probably move that above the fold...
Admittedly, with the short attention spans of the average
Funny I can understand, but why is this insightful? Can something automatically not be great if it's in Flash? It's an animated presentation w/ synced sound, not an ecommerce site. This is exactly the kind of thing that Flash was originally invent for.
grammar nazis! run! ;)
Actually fax is probably better. They're still worried about anthrax...
Although their apparently most responsive to checks.
Mod throttle is set up. It should 503 to a mirror on ibiblio. We'll see I guess...
The pause button works for me? What platform / version are you on? (I programmed the actionscript for this thing btw)
Directly related, from Doc's blog the day after:
Doc made a front row MD recording. I'll be putting it up eventually along w/ the rest my OSCON recordings. It will probably come across better than the transcript.
If you're using a Windows machine, try out K-Meleon.
This is a fast Mozilla-based browser which runs great on slower machines (I've run this on old P5/K6 machines). It compares favorably in speed to NN4 or IE4 and adds in conveniences like background page loading, popup stopping, and of course all the standards compliance (HTML, CSS, DOM) that Gecko/Spidermonkey provides.
You might want to take a look at Adam Lock's Mozilla ActiveX Projects that aims to do exactly that.
BTW, this is not a route that Netscape/AOL could have persued as their sole (or primary) strategy. Unless you've forgotten what Microsoft did with Win32 when OS/2 tried the same thing?
One interesting little question you might want to ask at the end of Minority Report is whether Pre-Crime really got shut down or if it's all just a HALO'd dream.
Of course, like in AI, Minority Report's ending suffers from a sloppiness of execution that makes you really have to reach for the ambiguity when it should be put in front of you.
The flagrant sneakernetting involved the workstation connected to the precogs. I don't think you'd want to have that machine on a network, no matter how much you trust your sysadmins. ;)
Uh, news flash, Tianamen Square happened in Beijing. That's the PRC, not Taiwan (ROC). Of course, for someone who equates the western world as the US and Canada, maybe the fact that they are completely different goverments (and political systems! Communist state vs Multiparty Democracy) is comparatively trivial.
As to the rest of your post... While I will agree that it's a positive thing, for some reason I don't think that OSS will 'save the world'. And while it doesn't look like the end of the world yet, between the stuff going on in geo-politics and in terms of environmental trends, I'm not betting on a bright and rosy future.
As a nitpick to your nitpick, the efforts that are underway are actually primarily to convert to a MPL/GPL/LGPL triple license. The Relicensing FAQ you point to actually addresses the NPL/MPL tangle in relicensing.
More information on the special rights and differences between the MPL and NPL are available in the MPL/NPL FAQ.
Currently, there are only a few bits left to be relicensed: Have You Seen These Hackers?
this is a good one. the headers are forged.
So, I'm unclear if they were trying to use the iPlanet Messaging Server (which seems like a good idea?), but which wouldn't require everyone to be using the crappy NS6.2 Mail Client (recent builds of Mozilla are very much improved, although since the iMS supports standard IMAP/POP3/LDAP, there shouldn't be problems with using other clients except by company policy) or if they were trying to use the older Netscape Messenging Server or a custom AOLmail solution?
We're doing a rollout of iMS now, and the only problems we're running across are primary policy related (the stupid desire to phase out 20yo email addresses in 6 months when they can be kept indefinitely as aliases in the LDAP system), although I must say that losing procmail (and all server-side execution on mail) really smarts.
That should say 'Sarnoff Corporation'
hParnoff Coproration announced developing a CMOS sensor which could capture VGA images with 17 stops of dynamic range. Here's a link to the press release on dpreview
Well, not quite a high-powered laser, but some of you might remember the controversial shoot the crap out of the iMac Epinions ad.
The mindset you describe is exactly that of OpenBSD. Say what you will about Theo as a person, but for out of the box security, OpenBSD is hard to beat.
My current preference for Linux is to install a Debian minimum install and apt-getting or compiling exactly what I want. There's a bit more work involved (setting up PAM, logins, wheel, netfilter), but I prefer the certain things about Linux better (apt-get, ReiserFS and /proc among other things) .
If you haven't tried RBrowser, give it a spin. It's not perfect, but it works well. It's currently in beta for free (after which, you'll need to pay for SSH/SFTP support).
Paul,
Have you tried turning up the volume to around 20 and using an external volume control (you can buy one from radio shack or make one from a spare pot. if you have one).
I found that that greatly improved the audio quality.
I'm glad that someone brought up the eGroup. It's definitely a great resource. I had added some links back when I was into it (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nexiimp3/links).
I've had my NEX II since the beginning of the summer, and it's a pretty good deal... when it works. It does have some annoying problems: it's finicky with flash cards (I've had problems with detection of high quality Viking and Kingston cards. I just have to fiddle until it detects). Also, granted the 1.4 firmware update finally added resume (good lord, finally; it had been promised since before I got the player), but it doesn't work w/ WMA (flame if you must, until Ogg Vorbis is supported [not anytime soon], it's much better at 96kbps), and there's still noo song order control (is it that much to ask to be able to play an album in order?), and no FAT32 support (not a biggie, but as cards get larger...)
For the price the NEXII is awesome, and it's pretty much the best MP3 player out there short of an iPod (fuck SDMI), but it does have it's problems, among them being retarded firmware programmers. There have been multiple calls for them to release the source for the firmware. A lot of us would be more than happy to hack on it. (this isn't really feasible as they've probably licensed code for use in the NEX, but you wish they could fix some interface niggles).
I've been using a pair of Sennheiser HD580's and Grado SR-60's for portable listening for the past two years. Definitely well worth the money (the Grado's are probably the best headphones you can get for the under $100 price range [I've heard good things the new Sennheiser HD495's, but haven't had first hand experience), the discontinued HD580's I got for $200, but apparently new ones can still be found online - they're going for about $150 or so, a steal).
I'm looking to get the Musical Fidelity X-Can v2 headphone amps, but it looks like no one in the US seems to carry them anymore.
mod_gzip takes advantage of HTTP 1.1's Content-Encoding standards. Most modern browsers (ie4+, ns4.5+) support gzip encoding. mod_gzip will automatically send a file uncompressed if either HTTP 1.1 or gzip encoding isn't supported.
mod_bzip2 would be pretty useless. i don't know of any major browser supports bzip2 encoding. fwiw, mozilla 0.9.5 supports: gzip, deflate, compress, ns4.78win supports: gzip, and ie5.5win supports: gzip, deflate