Android comes from the greek root andro- meaning man. The word "androgynous" comes from the gree words for both Man and Woman and means having both male and female qualities.
Since this machine is female in form, it should not be called an android, but a gynoid.:-)
Great, a hybrid with all of the disadvantages of a compact (slow-sucky lens, lag, over-reliance on digital view-finder) with all of the disadvantages of a DSLR (heavy, big).
I'm sure this will appeal to the "my first big camera" crowd who find the choice of lenses from Nikon and Canon intimidating, however they could have bought a Canon Digital Rebel or the equally awesome Nikon D70s, which would both produce better shots and allow customers to preserve their investments in lenses.
I think compacts are great... and I also think that Casio and Panasonic make the best compacts. Compacts are more about electronics than optics - you dont care about a little bit of vignetting when the camera is smaller than a credit card.
On the other hand a big SLR is a magnificent thing - the glass is carefully crafted to suit a particular photographic need and will usually deliver superior results in a narrow set of circumstances. A good SLR needs to have perfect optics, plus a number of mechanical components that are entirely absent from compacts.
Bottom line; Compacts and SLRs are different things. Most keen photographers own both. I think this is neither.
1 x Nikon D70s - Ths award winning machine does nothing other than take photographs very well. Dispite not having the highest megapixel count, this SLR comes with great optics and a sensor that delivers vivid colour and gret low-light sensitivity.
1 x Nokia Series-6 phone; This award winning range of Symbian phones comes with SDKs in Python, Java and C++; Possibly the most extendable range of phones ever built. You can still buy phones without cameras in them, but snap them up while you get a chance.
Result: A smaller, more OSS friendly phone, A bigger but much better camera... one that's likely to teach you a few things about photography.:-)
Another way to support independant sci-fi is to listen to Escape Pod, the weekly science-fiction podcast magazine.
I'm not involved in this project, but I have been a frequent donor. I think EP is a very important project. To some extent, the sci-fi and fantasy genres are dominated by the feature film, the novel and the long-running series. The traditional vehicle for short stories, magazines, have a dwindling readership, and do not have the distribution that they once had at their peak.
EP seeks to create an audience, and perhaps one day a market for short, original science-fiction stories. I think this is a very noble and important cause.
Please tune in. I hope you enjoy it. You can find it listed on all good podcast directories.
As a mainly KDE user, it pains me to say this but the new Gnome work looks really awesome.
As these two projects mature, we can see the very different directions they are pushing towards, and consequently why we need both KDE and Gnome.
KDE rules in the domain of features: KDE is all singing and dancing and has such an enormous wealth of life enhancing dooh-dads.
Gnome rules in it's simplicity and professionalism; It may not do as much as KDE but what it does is done very well and is more likely to appeal to a non-technical audience.
I love my Nikon D70s - It goes where I go. I use an aincient AF50mm 1.8 lens (no Zoom for me) which lets in an awful lot of light. It's not the tiniest toy in the box, but it is certainly one of the most statisfying.
http://hellebore.aa.stodge.org/episode8.html
This guy makes an art-form out of purposefully discarding casettes full of strange and alarming music; He calls what he does tape-dropping, and while technically the same thing can be done with CDs, he appreciates the rough-seedy aspect of casette-tapes.
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Of course Rails isnt the only completely F/OSS web application framework; Rails is best when you want to put relational data online: It's edge is it's simplicity.
On the other hand remember Zope - If you can get your head around Aqusition, the ZODB and Product Deveopment then Zope is a super-fast development platform.
So sony have devised a scene that will make almost all music lovers turn to the net before attempting to buy a CD; Your FLAC, OGG or MP3 torrent files are easily converted to whatever format you want, eventually playable on everything.
Meanwhile, Sony's cruddy WMA files are locked in a pathetic audio-format ghetto. You wont even be able to play these files on Sony HD Walkman devices.
Yes, and with a precedent like that, it will not be long before every server has to have a wiretap for any kind of communication (not just spoken or audio).
Imagine, when you buy a new server or firewall, the company that pre-installed it has to give a root password to the government so that you cannot possibly run any kind of unauthorised communications service.
The whole point of VOIP, is that it becomes so easy to set up your own private voip exchange. You dont need to use your ISP for anything other than carrying encrypted TCP/IP.
So all you really need is a VoIP system like Asterix and Pingtel, plus some standard VPN software at the sites where you need to use it.
So with off-the-shelf and open-source software you can create a network that is both isolated from and most likely incompatible with federal wiretaps.
http://madonna.nick.music.stodge.org/
This is a PHP based tarpit of confusion designed to annoy the ??IA enough to stop spidering your server. You need to be able to run apache virtual hosts, but do not need any database (it all runs of config files).
You can read all about this tarpit on my wiki. Patches and improvements are welcomed.
Actually I think the rig would be fine - the silence would be caused by electromagnetic destruction of your own car's electrical system. Chances are that your in-car entertainment and engine management are burnt out and useless. The next time this car moves is when the tow-truck takes it to the scrap-yard.
moral: do not operate portable directional EMP generator in close proximity to vehicle electronics.
Of course, you could have operated said device out-side of your car but you didnt mention that... did you!:-)
I'm not a member of the silly SEO guild, but all my Nigritude Ultramarine can be yours! I have started an auction on eBay - anybody who seriously wants to win can pay me $1 (or whatever it comes to), and in return I will give them a few hundred links from my reasonably well-ranked sites.
You shall have my sword... I will fight for your honor!
I just bought myself an iRiver iHP-140. I chose it because of OGG Vorbis support and complete lack of DRM. If you want, this machine can act like a regular USB hard disk. If you want to load some music, just copy files onto it.
I've put together some notes on getting the iRiver H-Series (iHp-140, 120 and 110) to work nicely wtith Linux. Please take a look here.
Read the story; He never actually installed Linux on his hardware - he installed it in a virtual PC (A PC emulating a 'generic' PC).
The problem most likely comes from the author's confusion between a real and virtual computer. His REAL PC might have had a perfectly ordinary mainstream video card. That does not mean that the emulated PC has the same features, or could use the same driver.
If he had manually configured his virtual linux installation as sound-blaster compatible it probably would have worked, but then again who knows what kind of sound hardware the latest version of MS VPC likes to emulate.
This also explains why he was able to run Windows 95 and Gentoo on the same computer - imagine trying to build a real computer that will happily run both.
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Android comes from the greek root andro- meaning man. The word "androgynous" comes from the gree words for both Man and Woman and means having both male and female qualities.
:-)
Since this machine is female in form, it should not be called an android, but a gynoid.
Great, a hybrid with all of the disadvantages of a compact (slow-sucky lens, lag, over-reliance on digital view-finder) with all of the disadvantages of a DSLR (heavy, big).
I'm sure this will appeal to the "my first big camera" crowd who find the choice of lenses from Nikon and Canon intimidating, however they could have bought a Canon Digital Rebel or the equally awesome Nikon D70s, which would both produce better shots and allow customers to preserve their investments in lenses.
I think compacts are great... and I also think that Casio and Panasonic make the best compacts. Compacts are more about electronics than optics - you dont care about a little bit of vignetting when the camera is smaller than a credit card.
On the other hand a big SLR is a magnificent thing - the glass is carefully crafted to suit a particular photographic need and will usually deliver superior results in a narrow set of circumstances. A good SLR needs to have perfect optics, plus a number of mechanical components that are entirely absent from compacts.
Bottom line; Compacts and SLRs are different things. Most keen photographers own both. I think this is neither.
1 x Nikon D70s - Ths award winning machine does nothing other than take photographs very well. Dispite not having the highest megapixel count, this SLR comes with great optics and a sensor that delivers vivid colour and gret low-light sensitivity.
:-)
1 x Nokia Series-6 phone; This award winning range of Symbian phones comes with SDKs in Python, Java and C++; Possibly the most extendable range of phones ever built. You can still buy phones without cameras in them, but snap them up while you get a chance.
Result: A smaller, more OSS friendly phone, A bigger but much better camera... one that's likely to teach you a few things about photography.
Another way to support independant sci-fi is to listen to Escape Pod, the weekly science-fiction podcast magazine.
I'm not involved in this project, but I have been a frequent donor. I think EP is a very important project. To some extent, the sci-fi and fantasy genres are dominated by the feature film, the novel and the long-running series. The traditional vehicle for short stories, magazines, have a dwindling readership, and do not have the distribution that they once had at their peak.
EP seeks to create an audience, and perhaps one day a market for short, original science-fiction stories. I think this is a very noble and important cause.
Please tune in. I hope you enjoy it. You can find it listed on all good podcast directories.
As a mainly KDE user, it pains me to say this but the new Gnome work looks really awesome. As these two projects mature, we can see the very different directions they are pushing towards, and consequently why we need both KDE and Gnome. KDE rules in the domain of features: KDE is all singing and dancing and has such an enormous wealth of life enhancing dooh-dads. Gnome rules in it's simplicity and professionalism; It may not do as much as KDE but what it does is done very well and is more likely to appeal to a non-technical audience.
I love my Nikon D70s - It goes where I go. I use an aincient AF50mm 1.8 lens (no Zoom for me) which lets in an awful lot of light. It's not the tiniest toy in the box, but it is certainly one of the most statisfying.
The last group to alledge that Windows viruses are written by linux hackers was SCO. They also blamed their 2004 DDOS attacks on Linux zealots.
:-)
This ignores the blatently obvious fact that the defining characteristic of a Linux Developer is that they develop for Linux.
I doubt a knowledge of the Linux Kernel will provide an awful lot of help writing a microsoft dot-net virus.
I suspect that most malware for windows was written by Windows developers!
http://hellebore.aa.stodge.org/episode8.html This guy makes an art-form out of purposefully discarding casettes full of strange and alarming music; He calls what he does tape-dropping, and while technically the same thing can be done with CDs, he appreciates the rough-seedy aspect of casette-tapes.
Of course Rails isnt the only completely F/OSS web application framework; Rails is best when you want to put relational data online: It's edge is it's simplicity.
On the other hand remember Zope - If you can get your head around Aqusition, the ZODB and Product Deveopment then Zope is a super-fast development platform.
So sony have devised a scene that will make almost all music lovers turn to the net before attempting to buy a CD; Your FLAC, OGG or MP3 torrent files are easily converted to whatever format you want, eventually playable on everything. Meanwhile, Sony's cruddy WMA files are locked in a pathetic audio-format ghetto. You wont even be able to play these files on Sony HD Walkman devices.
My tarpit scripts are all GPL2'd for your lawbot defeating pleasure.
Yes, and with a precedent like that, it will not be long before every server has to have a wiretap for any kind of communication (not just spoken or audio).
Imagine, when you buy a new server or firewall, the company that pre-installed it has to give a root password to the government so that you cannot possibly run any kind of unauthorised communications service.
The whole point of VOIP, is that it becomes so easy to set up your own private voip exchange. You dont need to use your ISP for anything other than carrying encrypted TCP/IP.
So all you really need is a VoIP system like Asterix and Pingtel, plus some standard VPN software at the sites where you need to use it.
So with off-the-shelf and open-source software you can create a network that is both isolated from and most likely incompatible with federal wiretaps.
freenode.org, now powered by Verisign inc... (somehow I cannot see it happen).
I wrote that article! :-)
RIAA Pit of Confusion... enjoy. Patches and suggestions are very welcome.
About the RIAA Pit of Confusion.
And an example.
The source code is available and patches / improvements are most welcome.
It exists!
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http://wiki.stodge.org/index.php?page=RIAA+Pit+
You can see an example here:
http://usher.nico.music.stodge.org/
http://madonna.nick.music.stodge.org/ This is a PHP based tarpit of confusion designed to annoy the ??IA enough to stop spidering your server. You need to be able to run apache virtual hosts, but do not need any database (it all runs of config files). You can read all about this tarpit on my wiki. Patches and improvements are welcomed.
Actually I think the rig would be fine - the silence would be caused by electromagnetic destruction of your own car's electrical system. Chances are that your in-car entertainment and engine management are burnt out and useless. The next time this car moves is when the tow-truck takes it to the scrap-yard.
:-)
moral: do not operate portable directional EMP generator in close proximity to vehicle electronics.
Of course, you could have operated said device out-side of your car but you didnt mention that... did you!
It sure does... I think it's better that way. It was probably stupid to think that anybody would pay even $1 for this scheme.
I dont think SEO peopke have any money to spend.
I'm not a member of the silly SEO guild, but all my Nigritude Ultramarine can be yours! I have started an auction on eBay - anybody who seriously wants to win can pay me $1 (or whatever it comes to), and in return I will give them a few hundred links from my reasonably well-ranked sites.
You shall have my sword... I will fight for your honor!
You need this:
S er ies+Linux+Synchronisation
http://wiki.stodge.org/index.php?page=iRiver+H-
I just bought myself an iRiver iHP-140. I chose it because of OGG Vorbis support and complete lack of DRM. If you want, this machine can act like a regular USB hard disk. If you want to load some music, just copy files onto it.
I've put together some notes on getting the iRiver H-Series (iHp-140, 120 and 110) to work nicely wtith Linux. Please take a look here.
Read the story; He never actually installed Linux on his hardware - he installed it in a virtual PC (A PC emulating a 'generic' PC).
The problem most likely comes from the author's confusion between a real and virtual computer. His REAL PC might have had a perfectly ordinary mainstream video card. That does not mean that the emulated PC has the same features, or could use the same driver.
If he had manually configured his virtual linux installation as sound-blaster compatible it probably would have worked, but then again who knows what kind of sound hardware the latest version of MS VPC likes to emulate.
This also explains why he was able to run Windows 95 and Gentoo on the same computer - imagine trying to build a real computer that will happily run both.