So what sort of chips are they planning to manufacture with such bleeding edge technologies? Is IBM trying to squeeze into the PC processor market or is this for more custom jobs?
How do you get even a small community to agree to undertake something like this and when problems do arise who is responsible for the technical support?
Let me get this straight...
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Haiku vs Spam
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So basically all mail programs wanting to be able to week out spam (which will almost certainly be a consumer demand) will either:
Have to register with this company which I have every suspicion will be gobbled up by M$ eventually or
Create a different copyrighted digital watermark and all mailers will have to be able to identify all others watermarks, which will certainly start battles over which marks are better than others or
A standard watermark becomes "open source" at which point the whole thing becomes almost unenforceable again.
The question has never been one of whether the software is free or not but whether the software's souce codes (or at least all data formats) are freely available to the public. IMHO (and I think other's as well) ANY software, except that for defense, that is obtained, for compensation or not, by a public (govenmental) entity should be required to have all of its technical details (souce, formats, protocols etc) available to any citizen within the community in question. Otherwise it makes it that much harder to change in the future and without change there can be no growth. If M$ opens its source then I won't have a problem but until that day comes I think it wise for government to stay divested as much as possible from such sandtraps.
I think I would have to re-chord the thing for vi/bash/Linux (ESC looks pretty hard to get to and I don't really need INSERT et al). That's cool though since the guy is providing the source code I can re-chord to anything I like. As far as I'm concerned the neatest thing about this article is that it provides free documentation on how to build one (I've already got a couple ATMEL microcontrollers sitting around at home doing nothing anyway).:)
Hmmm... I was looking over the specs on the page you linked to and it says 2x DVD-R and 1x DVD-RW. Is 1x writing for DVDs the same speed as 1x writing for CDs? If so, doesn't it take a decade and a half just to write one of those suckers?
IANAL but I'm pretty sure Windoze being insecure is *not* a trade secret. (Plus based on the number of "it's old news" messages it's not been a secret of any type for a *long* time).
Excuse me, but isn't a bit pretentious to pan the not-even-shot film simply because its plot relies on religious themes? Yes, in the case of Narnia, those themes are directly related to Christianity, but despite being *agnostic* I would argue that Christians have as much right to their beliefs as anyone else, including athiests. I don't want to get into the whole belief/fact debate necessarily but let's just say that neither side, in my opinion, can *prove* conclusively that their philosophy is so superior to the other as to marginalize it out of existance.
I know it's hard, and I always get into this argument with my Catholic parents, but I think we *all*, Christians, Jews, Muslims, agnostics, and atheists need to make sure we always remember to preface our assertions about the world with the simple notion, "I'm don't know for sure, but I *believe*...," and leave it at that.
I, for one, have no problem with these classic tales of companionship, loyalty, and mysiticism that captured my imagination when I was young. I hope they make these films, and I hope that everyone gives them their chance and weighs them on their merits.
Site's starting to report connection refused already. Wow.
Makes me wonder though, since it seems that just about every site that's linked to by the italic bit of a Slashdot article goes down shortly, would an article that directly cites slashdot.org slashdot slashdot?;)
Years ago, a friend of mine had recounted a tale of an Airbus rebooting on the tarmac for reasons the pilots described as the "big red light" being on. Guess it's not just the sexy aircraft that needs to shake its rebootie from time to time.
(Pertaining to the MS living room part of the topic)
It sounds to me like someone (Mandrake maybe?) needs to come out with a Linux distro that mates well with the Wal-Boxen that are coming out now so that a plug-and-play competitor is available. I'd sure buy one (especially if it could also be DirecTV compatible somehow). I know TiVo's out there and has fine Linux support but an open-source variation that doesn't require a monthly fee would be something I'd be interested in.
I didn't notice anything in the article indicating which standard they were planning on using. It would sure seem short-sighted to deploy 802.11b right now with 802.11a starting to spin up. Anyone know the details here?
One thing I like about this is how cheap the boxes seem to be. I'm not sure one can get much cheaper than $600 that via mail-order for a 2GHz machine, et al. Gentlemen, start 'yer farmin'!
It has been my experience at least that companies regularly hide things I would consider features because they don't want to deal with customer support issues surrounding those features. This more often happens, so it seems, when the feature involved is either complicated or delicate (or both for that matter).
... you can buy 200 250V/120uF caps from digikey for around $1.15 per if you buy 200, or $2.15 in one-sy quantities. The time necessary to disassemble all the cameras is probably worth more than that to me (although I probably wouldn't have enough drive to build the gauss gun anyway).
The problem here is that every time someone comes up with a better "fog" effect or new shiny texture that the hardware can't handle, the hardware needs to be changed to deal with it. At least in software when innovations come out to make the images *look* better (not animate faster), studios can take advantage of them.
That being said, it would seem reasonable to use equipment like that to do real-time checking of actors/characters. Use the fast HW cards for prototyping and then use the slow software to make it look presentable.
Very cool concept. I like how it feels like I'm falling into what I was thinking. However, I'm pretty sure I'm faster on my Zaurus thumbboard than I would be with this sort of hunt-and-slide interface.
If memory serves, isn't there a satellite that is, although dead, still orbiting Mars? Wouldn't it be funny if it decided to start chattering all of the sudden to get the SETI folks all hot 'n bothered?:)
Why not just block the links?
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Blogspace vs. NPR
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I mean, sheesh, it's not like it's THAT hard to check the referrer in certain areas of the site (perhaps everything except index.html) and give the users a "We don't allow linking to this site" or better yet just redirect 'em to the front door when coming from an outside machine. Since NPR hasn't (apparently) done this it hasn't done due diligence and thus should have no legal grounds here. If they *REALLY* don't want linking then stop it technologically and just deal with the complaints therein.... just my.02...
That's odd. I didn't read anything in the article indicating whether or not they were using fetal stem cells as opposed to adult stem cells (which you may recall the administration *DOES* endorse). It seems to me that it is possibile that the advance came along regardless of the political climate you are complaining about. Does anyone out there have a quote one way or another on this from another news source?
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So what sort of chips are they planning to manufacture with such bleeding edge technologies? Is IBM trying to squeeze into the PC processor market or is this for more custom jobs?
How do you get even a small community to agree to undertake something like this and when problems do arise who is responsible for the technical support?
- Have to register with this company which I have every suspicion will be gobbled up by M$ eventually or
- Create a different copyrighted digital watermark and all mailers will have to be able to identify all others watermarks, which will certainly start battles over which marks are better than others or
- A standard watermark becomes "open source" at which point the whole thing becomes almost unenforceable again.
IANAL, but did I miss something here?The question has never been one of whether the software is free or not but whether the software's souce codes (or at least all data formats) are freely available to the public. IMHO (and I think other's as well) ANY software, except that for defense, that is obtained, for compensation or not, by a public (govenmental) entity should be required to have all of its technical details (souce, formats, protocols etc) available to any citizen within the community in question. Otherwise it makes it that much harder to change in the future and without change there can be no growth. If M$ opens its source then I won't have a problem but until that day comes I think it wise for government to stay divested as much as possible from such sandtraps.
I think I would have to re-chord the thing for vi/bash/Linux (ESC looks pretty hard to get to and I don't really need INSERT et al). That's cool though since the guy is providing the source code I can re-chord to anything I like. As far as I'm concerned the neatest thing about this article is that it provides free documentation on how to build one (I've already got a couple ATMEL microcontrollers sitting around at home doing nothing anyway). :)
Hmmm... I was looking over the specs on the page you linked to and it says 2x DVD-R and 1x DVD-RW. Is 1x writing for DVDs the same speed as 1x writing for CDs? If so, doesn't it take a decade and a half just to write one of those suckers?
Just curious...
IANAL but I'm pretty sure Windoze being insecure is *not* a trade secret. (Plus based on the number of "it's old news" messages it's not been a secret of any type for a *long* time).
: )
I know it's hard, and I always get into this argument with my Catholic parents, but I think we *all*, Christians, Jews, Muslims, agnostics, and atheists need to make sure we always remember to preface our assertions about the world with the simple notion, "I'm don't know for sure, but I *believe*...," and leave it at that.
I, for one, have no problem with these classic tales of companionship, loyalty, and mysiticism that captured my imagination when I was young. I hope they make these films, and I hope that everyone gives them their chance and weighs them on their merits.
Site's starting to report connection refused already. Wow.
;)
Makes me wonder though, since it seems that just about every site that's linked to by the italic bit of a Slashdot article goes down shortly, would an article that directly cites slashdot.org slashdot slashdot?
Good thing Bill was wrong... so far anyway, hopefully forever.
Years ago, a friend of mine had recounted a tale of an Airbus rebooting on the tarmac for reasons the pilots described as the "big red light" being on. Guess it's not just the sexy aircraft that needs to shake its rebootie from time to time.
(Pertaining to the MS living room part of the topic)
It sounds to me like someone (Mandrake maybe?) needs to come out with a Linux distro that mates well with the Wal-Boxen that are coming out now so that a plug-and-play competitor is available. I'd sure buy one (especially if it could also be DirecTV compatible somehow). I know TiVo's out there and has fine Linux support but an open-source variation that doesn't require a monthly fee would be something I'd be interested in.
I didn't notice anything in the article indicating which standard they were planning on using. It would sure seem short-sighted to deploy 802.11b right now with 802.11a starting to spin up. Anyone know the details here?
One thing I like about this is how cheap the boxes seem to be. I'm not sure one can get much cheaper than $600 that via mail-order for a 2GHz machine, et al. Gentlemen, start 'yer farmin'!
It has been my experience at least that companies regularly hide things I would consider features because they don't want to deal with customer support issues surrounding those features. This more often happens, so it seems, when the feature involved is either complicated or delicate (or both for that matter).
... you can buy 200 250V/120uF caps from digikey for around $1.15 per if you buy 200, or $2.15 in one-sy quantities. The time necessary to disassemble all the cameras is probably worth more than that to me (although I probably wouldn't have enough drive to build the gauss gun anyway).
What sort of premiums are necessary to get life insurance that covers you at 70000 feet?
Or do I need thicker glasses? :)
OTOH:
- Total screen resolution is 1536x1024, my Dell Inspiron 8000 is 1600x1200 (albeit probably nicer on a larger canvas I suppose)
- That second screen looks a little fragile to me.
- The whole thing seems *BULKY* to me (my Dell is as big as I would want to get).
- No 3D chipset support at all, 8MB VGA (a little tight there!)
- That price tag.
- All new drivers that Linux won't support for a while
Novel idea, but with some serious drawbacks and a high pricetag, I think I'll be sticking with my current Linux laptop for a while longer...The problem here is that every time someone comes up with a better "fog" effect or new shiny texture that the hardware can't handle, the hardware needs to be changed to deal with it. At least in software when innovations come out to make the images *look* better (not animate faster), studios can take advantage of them.
That being said, it would seem reasonable to use equipment like that to do real-time checking of actors/characters. Use the fast HW cards for prototyping and then use the slow software to make it look presentable.
It's a good think I upgraded my hard drive last night. Sheesh!
Very cool concept. I like how it feels like I'm falling into what I was thinking. However, I'm pretty sure I'm faster on my Zaurus thumbboard than I would be with this sort of hunt-and-slide interface.
If memory serves, isn't there a satellite that is, although dead, still orbiting Mars? Wouldn't it be funny if it decided to start chattering all of the sudden to get the SETI folks all hot 'n bothered? :)
I mean, sheesh, it's not like it's THAT hard to check the referrer in certain areas of the site (perhaps everything except index.html) and give the users a "We don't allow linking to this site" or better yet just redirect 'em to the front door when coming from an outside machine. Since NPR hasn't (apparently) done this it hasn't done due diligence and thus should have no legal grounds here. If they *REALLY* don't want linking then stop it technologically and just deal with the complaints therein. ... just my .02 ...
That's odd. I didn't read anything in the article indicating whether or not they were using fetal stem cells as opposed to adult stem cells (which you may recall the administration *DOES* endorse). It seems to me that it is possibile that the advance came along regardless of the political climate you are complaining about. Does anyone out there have a quote one way or another on this from another news source?