Orange are also a fixed line ISP. I think you will find that their £5/month package is for ADSL over PSTN, not cellar broadband. Their HSDPA cellular broadband is more like £25/month last time I checked.
If you get an iPod, then it is your toy to keep. If you get $1000, then your wife will start planning how to spend the money on home improvements or the like, and you won't get to spend it on what you want. Even if you don't have that kind of wife, you will still feel compelled to save some of it, and think carefully about how to spend the rest.
For myself, I would probably still take the $1000, but if it was only $400, then I would probably take the iPod, as that way I have the toy without having to justify it to myself or anyone else.
Cinemascope and Technicolor. I loved the widescreen of Cinemascope and the soft vibrant colors of Technicolor.
Hey, I work for Technicolour! and it still exists, ...though it has now been swallowd up by Thomson creative services.
Technicolour is still in the film busness. Where I work cans of exposed film arrive all the time from film studios, and the rush prints are dispatched out again. The factory also makes prints for showing in the cinema. For example, at the moment, the warehouse at the London site is full of prints of Pride & Predudice for dispatch over the next few days
Colours in film have changed because of improvements in process technology. Modern film makers (usualy) want the image on screen to match what they filmed as closely as possible, so as the technology has improved, the colours have become more realistic.
So you can save a bunch of.flac files on your (Samba) server, and have them appear as.wav files as well, with the server converting them as they are requested.
I dare say you could also arrange conversion to mp3 and ogg on the fly as well, though obously not fast enough to keep a 48x cd writer happy.
I would agree with you on the nForce drivers (*), however, my experece with VIA has been good recently. I have an Athlon64 based system with a Via KT800 chipset that runs linux perfectly. All the chipset drivers (Networking, DMA, CpuFreq, HW-monitoring Graphics etc) are driven by open source drivers that are part of the standard 2.6 Linux kernel, without any closed source or non-standard patches.
Having said that, It is running in 32 bit mode, rather than 64.
On the other hand, IMHO, the situation is getting worse with intel chipsets. From what I could tell when I was making a buying decison, there are no open source drivers for their recent integrated graphics, so if you want to use it, you are stuck with either: 1. Stock Redhat, nothing non-standard allowed. 2. Alien (or suchlike) & A weekend trying to get everying working correctly. (And a tainted kernel) 3. Crappy VESA graphics with hardly any acceleration and no 3D.
* Though the situation is getting a lot better, now that reverse engeneered drivers are making it into the 2.6 series Kernels.
The Register, have reproduced a letter to them from Adrian McMenamin, the Press Officer of the European Parliamentary Labor Party.
The letter contains the the particularly juicy quote:
I see the development of OSS being halted - I should know, I have written several Linux kernel modules. Claims that the DMCA is coming to Europe are ridiculous.
A grep for his name in the 2.6.3 linux source tree does not return anything, so I suspect he may be lying about his kernel modules, just like he is lying about DMCA in Europe. (The EUCD, which is like the DMCA, but stricter in some areas, was ratified in the UK a few months ago).
Does anyone know anything about Adrian McMenamin?. Has he in fact made any useful contribution to OSS?
I wonder if game makers will offer dual-versions of games -- an ad-free version for $99 and an add-supported version for $29? Given people's tendency to by the cheaper option, wonder which version will have the highest sales?
If the ads get to annoying, then they will probably be removed by the same cracking crews who remove copy protection and the like. Hopefully the game software houses know this, and will limit the annoy level of their products so that their costumers don't go for pirate versions instead
However, considering how annoying copy protection can be now, I doubt it.
For example, I have decided that I like UT 2004 enough to buy it, but I will not do so until I have a No-CD crack, as I hate having to put the game CD in every time I want to play.
Last weekend I invited five friends to my home for a LAN party.
Though we had other games, we spent a large amount of time playing
the
UT 2004 demo.
IMHO, it is a very good game. it is also free, and does not have any
annoying copy protection to worry about.
I think that everyone there decided it was a good game and worth
buying. Likewise, if you host many games of UT 2004 at your LAN, then
Epic will probably thank you for all the converts you will create.
As it is freely downloadable and redistributable, you can reasonably
claim you have permission to use it.
What really matters in search engines are trust,
relevance, speed and features. In other categories competition might be
strong, but it is hard to see that Microsoft-branded search engine
could easily be as trusted as google in near future.
Let us not forget that the battle is for Mr Average internet user, not
for cluefull slashdot readers
Most internet users have no reason to miss-trust microsoft, and it
will not occur to them that Microsoft will do anything other than
provide the best search engine they can. They will not attribute to
malice, what could be attributed to incompetence. We know that
Microsoft will skew the search results away from their competitors, and
in favor of the paid for listings, but most people will not think of
that.
If you attempt to download the huge e-mail via pop3, and the transfer aborts, you have to start again.
with a webmail like interface, you can use a download manager to fetch it reliably.
A good interface would also show mutiple attachment seperately, so that individual parts can be downloaded one by one. This would be usefull if someone sends you a bunch of digital photos, all attached to one e-mail.
This area of research is similar to what I did as a chemistry post graduate.
After a bit of googling, I found the researcher's home page: http://www.chem.purdue.edu/Faculty/wilker.h tm
I also found the page for his research group. Linked from it, was a more detailed description of the chemistry involved: http://www.chem.purdue.edu/wilker/adhes ives.htm
Unfortunately, while I could find a number of links to actual publications in peer-reviewed chemistry journals, all where subscription sites.
The article benchmarks three different boards with integrated
graphics solutions (Intel i865G , nForce2, & SIS 651) using both
the
integrated
graphics hardware, and a $50 graphics card.
Unsurprisingly, in 3D applications, all have quite
poor performance, only
the
nForce 2 system has acceptable performance with even older games at low
resolution.
More important to your question, They also run
comparative benchmarks using windows office applications, with both
the integrated graphics, and the $50 card. The graphs clearly show,
that
there is no effective difference in performance, and that the benchmark
results are largely CPU bound.
In concussion, I would not expect integrated graphics to hut
general computing performance. Though I would of course check that
the graphics performance is adequate, as it may not be possible to
update in the future.
As it stands, region codes are what allow the staggered release dates to work -- sure, the American version is out, but that doesn't do Joe British Consumer any good because the *AVERAGE* DVD consumer doesn't have a region-free DVD player (the average Slashdot poster is apparently another story).
Actually, the average British consumer does appear to be clued up about region codes, and is likely to own an unlocked player. These days, the average print advertisement for a DVD player, placed in national newspapers by a mainstream electrical chain, will mention that the player is region free, or can easily be unlocked in the list of features.
This is despite the fact that now that the EUCD (European Copyright Directive) has been ratified, region hacking is probably illegal
Serously, the anaconda site will be in for a very heavy slahsdoting. They have links to two isos on the page that slashdot links to. How many will click on those links? how many will be disapointed?
The filesisze are BTW:
sarge-2003-11-25-bin1.iso 688,074,752 bytes
sarge-2003-11-25-bin2.iso 42,174,464 bytes
ie, about 720 Megabytes in total.
I would consider putting up a torrent link myself, but I don't have a large enough pipe to download those files before the site (inevetably) goes down.
Slashdot Mirror
Orange are also a fixed line ISP. I think you will find that their £5/month package is for ADSL over PSTN, not cellar broadband. Their HSDPA cellular broadband is more like £25/month last time I checked.
Dude, in case you did not know, Ferrari is owned by Fiat who also own Alpha Romeo.
Fiat have a reputation for cheap functonal, but unexciting cars, with a tendency to go wrong. Not unlike Dell.
Someone has already done it.
Check out wabbellab It is a marble madness style game for Nokia Series 60 smart-phones, that uses the phone's camera to detect tilt of the phone. Source code is available under a GNU Licence.
I have a copy on my phone. It works, but is quite hard to use.
Mod parent up;
Mod parent up.
Mod parent up
If you get an iPod, then it is your toy to keep. If you get $1000, then your wife will start planning how to spend the money on home improvements or the like, and you won't get to spend it on what you want. Even if you don't have that kind of wife, you will still feel compelled to save some of it, and think carefully about how to spend the rest.
For myself, I would probably still take the $1000, but if it was only $400, then I would probably take the iPod, as that way I have the toy without having to justify it to myself or anyone else.
Hey, I work for Technicolour! and it still exists,
...though it has now been swallowd up by Thomson creative services.
Technicolour is still in the film busness. Where I work cans of exposed film arrive all the time from film studios, and the rush prints are dispatched out again. The factory also makes prints for showing in the cinema. For example, at the moment, the warehouse at the London site is full of prints of Pride & Predudice for dispatch over the next few days
Colours in film have changed because of improvements in process technology. Modern film makers (usualy) want the image on screen to match what they filmed as closely as possible, so as the technology has improved, the colours have become more realistic.
Single page version:
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2496
Thanks.
Found this useful software:
.flac files on your (Samba) server, and have them appear as .wav files as well, with the server converting them as they are requested.
http://file-ext-map.sourceforge.net/
It's a Samba 2.2 virtual file extension.
So you can save a bunch of
I dare say you could also arrange conversion to mp3 and ogg on the fly as well, though obously not fast enough to keep a 48x cd writer happy.
I would agree with you on the nForce drivers (*), however, my experece with VIA has been good recently. I have an Athlon64 based system with a Via KT800 chipset that runs linux perfectly. All the chipset drivers (Networking, DMA, CpuFreq, HW-monitoring Graphics etc) are driven by open source drivers that are part of the standard 2.6 Linux kernel, without any closed source or non-standard patches.
Having said that, It is running in 32 bit mode, rather than 64.
On the other hand, IMHO, the situation is getting worse with intel chipsets. From what I could tell when I was making a buying decison, there are no open source drivers for their recent integrated graphics, so if you want to use it, you are stuck with either:
1. Stock Redhat, nothing non-standard allowed.
2. Alien (or suchlike) & A weekend trying to get everying working correctly. (And a tainted kernel)
3. Crappy VESA graphics with hardly any acceleration and no 3D.
* Though the situation is getting a lot better, now that reverse engeneered drivers are making it into the 2.6 series Kernels.
The Register, have reproduced a letter to them from Adrian McMenamin, the Press Officer of the European Parliamentary Labor Party.
The letter contains the the particularly juicy quote:
A grep for his name in the 2.6.3 linux source tree does not return anything, so I suspect he may be lying about his kernel modules, just like he is lying about DMCA in Europe. (The EUCD, which is like the DMCA, but stricter in some areas, was ratified in the UK a few months ago).
Does anyone know anything about Adrian McMenamin?. Has he in fact made any useful contribution to OSS?
If the ads get to annoying, then they will probably be removed by the same cracking crews who remove copy protection and the like. Hopefully the game software houses know this, and will limit the annoy level of their products so that their costumers don't go for pirate versions instead
However, considering how annoying copy protection can be now, I doubt it.
For example, I have decided that I like UT 2004 enough to buy it, but I will not do so until I have a No-CD crack, as I hate having to put the game CD in every time I want to play.
Last weekend I invited five friends to my home for a LAN party.
Though we had other games, we spent a large amount of time playing the UT 2004 demo.
IMHO, it is a very good game. it is also free, and does not have any annoying copy protection to worry about.
I think that everyone there decided it was a good game and worth buying. Likewise, if you host many games of UT 2004 at your LAN, then Epic will probably thank you for all the converts you will create.
As it is freely downloadable and redistributable, you can reasonably claim you have permission to use it.
Paste the flowing into a registry file (*.reg) Then double click on it. (Or make the equivalent hacks to the registry by hand)
It works in Win2K, and NT4, I don't know about other windows versions.
Let us not forget that the battle is for Mr Average internet user, not for cluefull slashdot readers
Most internet users have no reason to miss-trust microsoft, and it will not occur to them that Microsoft will do anything other than provide the best search engine they can. They will not attribute to malice, what could be attributed to incompetence. We know that Microsoft will skew the search results away from their competitors, and in favor of the paid for listings, but most people will not think of that.
Mr Average will chose a search engine based on
That reminds me of funny thing a friend of mine who often goes to LAN parties with me once said.
On this occasion, when I was struggling to get my 19" CRT monitor from my car to the hall he said:
"You should buy a small monitor just for LAN parties, everyone I know eventually gets a 14 inch just for humping"
(Humping is British slang for "Carrying something heavy")
This was a few years ago, before LCD screens became affordable, or suitable for games.
If you attempt to download the huge e-mail via pop3, and the transfer aborts, you have to start again.
with a webmail like interface, you can use a download manager to fetch it reliably.
A good interface would also show mutiple attachment seperately, so that individual parts can be downloaded one by one. This would be usefull if someone sends you a bunch of digital photos, all attached to one e-mail.
This area of research is similar to what I did as a chemistry post graduate.
h tm
s ives.htm
After a bit of googling, I found the researcher's home page:
http://www.chem.purdue.edu/Faculty/wilker.
I also found the page for his research group. Linked from it, was a more detailed description of the chemistry involved:
http://www.chem.purdue.edu/wilker/adhe
Unfortunately, while I could find a number of links to actual publications in peer-reviewed chemistry journals, all where subscription sites.
Africa ftp://ftp.is.co.za/applications/gimp/ Australia ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/ / /
Netherlands
http://gnu.kookel.org/ftp/gimp/ /
http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/
ftp://gimp.zeta.org.au/gimp/gimp/ Austria ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/gimp/gimp/ Finland ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/graphics/packages/gimp/ France ftp://ftp.minet.net/pub/gimp/
http://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gimp/ Germany ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/gim p/
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/ Greece ftp://sunsite.ics.forth.gr/sunsite/pub/gimp/ Ireland ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/
http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ Japan ftp://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/packages/gimp
ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/graphics/tools/gimp/
http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
ftp://ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/
ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/ Korea ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/tools/X11/ftp.gimp.org
ftp://gnu.kookel.org/pub/gimp/ Norway ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/gimp/ Poland ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/Linux/gimp/
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/ Romania ftp://ftp.kappa.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ Russia ftp://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/unix/graphics/gimp/mirror
http://gimp.tsuren.net/mirror/gimp/
Please reply
Funny I was just reading an article over on Tom's Hardware guide about that
The article benchmarks three different boards with integrated graphics solutions (Intel i865G , nForce2, & SIS 651) using both the integrated graphics hardware, and a $50 graphics card.
Unsurprisingly, in 3D applications, all have quite poor performance, only the nForce 2 system has acceptable performance with even older games at low resolution.
More important to your question, They also run comparative benchmarks using windows office applications, with both the integrated graphics, and the $50 card. The graphs clearly show, that there is no effective difference in performance, and that the benchmark results are largely CPU bound.
In concussion, I would not expect integrated graphics to hut general computing performance. Though I would of course check that the graphics performance is adequate, as it may not be possible to update in the future.
Actually, the average British consumer does appear to be clued up about region codes, and is likely to own an unlocked player. These days, the average print advertisement for a DVD player, placed in national newspapers by a mainstream electrical chain, will mention that the player is region free, or can easily be unlocked in the list of features.
This is despite the fact that now that the EUCD (European Copyright Directive) has been ratified, region hacking is probably illegal
Serously, the anaconda site will be in for a very heavy slahsdoting. They have links to two isos on the page that slashdot links to. How many will click on those links? how many will be disapointed? The filesisze are BTW: sarge-2003-11-25-bin1.iso 688,074,752 bytes sarge-2003-11-25-bin2.iso 42,174,464 bytes ie, about 720 Megabytes in total. I would consider putting up a torrent link myself, but I don't have a large enough pipe to download those files before the site (inevetably) goes down.