Since many n00b kernel hackers are intimidated by the sheer elitism of the "Core kernel hackers" on an open source project, I think that many people can (and have) learn a system by working on bugs related to obscure platforms.
It allows the person to solve a very domain specific problem, without getting trampled on by 10 other people working on the same issue.
If someone had a senior high school project, would you say "rewrite the kernel locking scheme", or "make this operating system run on a game boy". clearly one of those is more attratictive, and can breed future kernel locking scheme developers.
They claim a range of 42 to 75 fps for UT2004? I have a Pentium 2.4C and 5900 Ultra, and I get way over 100 frames per second at that resolution. Heck, I can probably get 100 frames a second at 1920x1200 if I tweaked everything.
I'm not sure that UT2004 is a CPU / GPU intensive product, so I'm a little surprised at their benchmarks..
link
i can't read the story, but a lot of comments suggest contacting the FBI
stoopid question but:
what law did they break?
if they used their own bandwidth, then they just sent packets to your public website, right?
This is kind of like some spammer emailing me saying "i currently spam you lots and lots and lots, if you give me *money* i'll stop spamming". Ironically, this is just one more piece of spam in my inbox. Why would this spam be criminal, and the thousands of XXX VIAGRA CIALIS XXX be fine?
you can steal hundreds of millions from shareholders and get a slap on the wrist. enron, adelphia, worldcom, dot-bubble, arthur anderson, xerox, tyco, haliburton, qwest, health south. where are the crack downs on these villains who steal real money from citizens? this doesnt even count the recent plague of ceo's stealing 10-20-30 million dollar salaries while golfing.
but if you duplicate binary bits that happen to form images when passed through an appropriate transmogrifier you go to jail for 3 years.
this people in this country are fooked! the only way to 'get ahead' in the new economy appears to be to break the rules and go for a winner take all one-time-fuck-everyone. if you want to survive, fuck your shareholders, fuck some government contract, fuck some competitor, send someone to die for oil, get a hundred million bucks, and then you're part of the "other half", you can live safely in your guarded conclave. sit at home, programming, sharing bits==go to jail.
its whistleblower versus pistol holder, demograns republicats one party system, they all gain from larger corporate subsidies.
i have no idea what your talking about "ping with the payload". does that mean fudge a ICMP packet with extra data in it?
why would incoming application level traffic be interpreted by the winmodem firmware?
are you talking out of your ass?
Google will not simply release a net-based office suite. You are forgetting their mission:
Company Overview
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
They may be hiring smart ppl from microsoft, but the vast majority of their high profile engineers are machine learning, ai, and engineering. They want to solve information access, not rebuilt office.net
I saw a talk by a MS VP at Waterloo in 1999. Basically he said that his kids tried to use his Windows PC, and they were like 2-4 years old, and they could figure out how to use anything, but they could not figure out double click.
So that is why as of Windows98 you can 'single click' on a icon, which is now a 'link'. And every neophyte now single clicks, then double clicks, then single clicks on the icon.
I will pick up this book to see if addresses an observation in my master's degree: prepositional information is traditionally presented in 2D formats such as signs, monitors, books, etc... Even 3D concepts such as maps are usually reduced to 2D when they are communicated or interacted with. My solution was using computer vision to pick out planar patches in the environments, and mapping good ol' 2D information onto those subspaces. http://roscohill.com/skool
Use the turn-taking nature of human audio and text communication makes it very easily to statistically extract who each member in the chatroom is talking with
Once you extract who knows whom you generate graphs of social interaction and come up with a pretty cool picture of the social network
Unfortunately IRC geeks mostly irritate each other and rarely speak twice.. the research would only show You would see CmdTaco as an unconnected node at the edge of the network.
Its a sad story, but a pilot who now works as a programmer at DCIEM (Defence R&D Canada) was a pilot during the cold war. He flew too close to a russian ship and was hit with some sort of laser. His eyes never recovered. A brilliant non-war technique to cause damage without any evidence. I know this coz my roommate worked at dciem.
I saw a talk by Steve Rambam at Hope 05. Besides a live demo of a database that freakin blew my mind (in a live demo in than 30 seconds, steve pulled up everything about a guy in the audience, including past roommates, active phone lines, and his mom's credit report using *ONLY HIS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER*).
his assertion is that privacy is dead, not because Big Brother in D.C. is watching, but because Big Defense Contrator is watching. The government, sick of trying to ram through legislation on what it can and can't do with data it collects on its citizens, is now sub-contracting all kinds of tasks. For example, perhaps the Feds can't do a nation-wide driver's license photo scan without inciting privacy concerns; however, if most of the states sub-contract out their photo processing to a contractor on advice from big brother, then that contractor hires itself to the big brother and sells *RESULTS* from some data mining query (but never the data itself), then big brother hasn't violated any privacy rights. Similarly for phone logs, criminal databases, airline data, medicare, drivers license, health databases, traffic tickets etc.
he told me the name of the database we should all really be afraid of, bigger than Echelon, but i forgot its name.
His bio for those who are interested: Steven Rambam is a licensed private investigator and the owner and CEO of Pallorium, Inc., an investigative agency with offices and affiliates throughout the world. During the past 23 years, he has conducted and coordinated investigations in more than 50 countries and in nearly every U.S. state and Canadian province. For the past 13 years, he has also been the owner and director of PallTech, an online service which provides database and investigative support services to investigative agencies, special investigative units (SIUs), and law enforcement. PallTech offers interactive and non-interactive access to nearly 600 data sources, including five major proprietary databases such as Skiptrace America and BusinessFinder America. The Skiptrace America database, which currently contains more than 5.3 billion unique records, is believed to be the largest individual reference database in the United States, excluding those databases maintained by the three U.S. credit bureaus. More than a decade ago Rambam forced the tightening of airport security in Texas airports by publicly exposing those airports' security flaws. In 1997 he exposed the presence in Canada of 162 Nazi war criminals and also conducted investigations which resulted in the prosecution and conviction of war criminals on murder charges. He is also the inspiration for "Rambam the detective" in Kinky Friedman's series of murder mysteries.
I almost placed an order with these guys 2 years ago!!! I was a huge transmetta buff and wanted a small laptop. They wanted to happily take my deposit, and ship me the unit when it came out in the fall of 2002! Anyways, I didn't bite.
anyways 2 years later, they are still claiming to have a unit "coming out in the fall".
If you want a tiny palmtop pc, check out the sony u-series, available in japan, or via dynamism.com importers.
The latest of the incredibly popular U-series, the 1.2 pound Sony Vaio U70/U50 is the lightest PC on the market. Among its many features: multiple quick-launch buttons on its glowing panel, transflective touchscreen TFT and fin-shaped stylus, pointing stick, scrolling control, external foldable keyboard, corded remote control, 1ghz processor, 20gb HDD, Windows XP, and much mor
is over 100 million on the new geforce cards. that is more than all P4 cpu's, except the p4ee which is 80% cache transistors. so start whining and bitching about cpu prices if you are gonna whine about gpu prices
wtf are they talking about -- i have a 1/4" 640x480 kopin lcd in my eyeglasses -- they have them up to 1280x1024 if you have the cash. that puts it at a dpi of around 4000. check http://www.microopticalcorp.com/Products/ for deets
Slashdot Mirror
finally found a google like that works :-)
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:lUcwBFt6qWcJ: gmerge.2ni.net/gmerge-Wallpaper.py+&hl=en&client=f irefox-a
(their initial links have been taken down..)
can someone put up their own mirror the exe / py script?
I smell a new series of real-world-based SIM-games.. Sim-EARTH. Sim-New-York ...
Since many n00b kernel hackers are intimidated by the sheer elitism of the "Core kernel hackers" on an open source project, I think that many people can (and have) learn a system by working on bugs related to obscure platforms.
It allows the person to solve a very domain specific problem, without getting trampled on by 10 other people working on the same issue.
If someone had a senior high school project, would you say "rewrite the kernel locking scheme", or "make this operating system run on a game boy". clearly one of those is more attratictive, and can breed future kernel locking scheme developers.
I'm not sure that UT2004 is a CPU / GPU intensive product, so I'm a little surprised at their benchmarks.. link
i can't read the story, but a lot of comments suggest contacting the FBI
stoopid question but:
what law did they break?
if they used their own bandwidth, then they just sent packets to your public website, right?
This is kind of like some spammer emailing me saying "i currently spam you lots and lots and lots, if you give me *money* i'll stop spamming". Ironically, this is just one more piece of spam in my inbox. Why would this spam be criminal, and the thousands of XXX VIAGRA CIALIS XXX be fine?
you can steal hundreds of millions from shareholders and get a slap on the wrist. enron, adelphia, worldcom, dot-bubble, arthur anderson, xerox, tyco, haliburton, qwest, health south. where are the crack downs on these villains who steal real money from citizens? this doesnt even count the recent plague of ceo's stealing 10-20-30 million dollar salaries while golfing.
but if you duplicate binary bits that happen to form images when passed through an appropriate transmogrifier you go to jail for 3 years.
this people in this country are fooked! the only way to 'get ahead' in the new economy appears to be to break the rules and go for a winner take all one-time-fuck-everyone. if you want to survive, fuck your shareholders, fuck some government contract, fuck some competitor, send someone to die for oil, get a hundred million bucks, and then you're part of the "other half", you can live safely in your guarded conclave. sit at home, programming, sharing bits==go to jail.
its whistleblower versus pistol holder, demograns republicats one party system, they all gain from larger corporate subsidies.
i have no idea what your talking about "ping with the payload". does that mean fudge a ICMP packet with extra data in it? why would incoming application level traffic be interpreted by the winmodem firmware? are you talking out of your ass?
i know -- its a killer app for CL / Maps.
some trolling hamster modded my post offtopic..
other projects i'd like to see:
maps.google.com / live 'Map of the Internet'
maps.google.com / live google news blurbs
even cooler: check out the first google map hack (it even blew the pants of the google maps crew):
http://paulrademacher.com/housing/
In related news, the babylonians have attacked the greeks, and the roman empire's power is waning.
Google will not simply release a net-based office suite. You are forgetting their mission: Company Overview Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. They may be hiring smart ppl from microsoft, but the vast majority of their high profile engineers are machine learning, ai, and engineering. They want to solve information access, not rebuilt office.net
I saw a talk by a MS VP at Waterloo in 1999. Basically he said that his kids tried to use his Windows PC, and they were like 2-4 years old, and they could figure out how to use anything, but they could not figure out double click.
So that is why as of Windows98 you can 'single click' on a icon, which is now a 'link'. And every neophyte now single clicks, then double clicks, then single clicks on the icon.
your post should read Since I live in Portland, this could be good for future prospects in the employment-in-interesting-low-paid jobs arena.
RTFM bitch. If you want it, hack it. first post. karma whore. linux rocks, m$ sucks.
Gnu's Not Unix
I will pick up this book to see if addresses an observation in my master's degree: prepositional information is traditionally presented in 2D formats such as signs, monitors, books, etc... Even 3D concepts such as maps are usually reduced to 2D when they are communicated or interacted with. My solution was using computer vision to pick out planar patches in the environments, and mapping good ol' 2D information onto those subspaces. http://roscohill.com/skool
I, for one, welcome our new Swahili overlords. Hail Jambo!
Of course you could...
Use the turn-taking nature of human audio and text communication makes it very easily to statistically extract who each member in the chatroom is talking with
Once you extract who knows whom you generate graphs of social interaction and come up with a pretty cool picture of the social network
Unfortunately IRC geeks mostly irritate each other and rarely speak twice.. the research would only show You would see CmdTaco as an unconnected node at the edge of the network.
can you spell "google"?
Its a sad story, but a pilot who now works as a programmer at DCIEM (Defence R&D Canada) was a pilot during the cold war. He flew too close to a russian ship and was hit with some sort of laser. His eyes never recovered. A brilliant non-war technique to cause damage without any evidence. I know this coz my roommate worked at dciem.
his assertion is that privacy is dead, not because Big Brother in D.C. is watching, but because Big Defense Contrator is watching. The government, sick of trying to ram through legislation on what it can and can't do with data it collects on its citizens, is now sub-contracting all kinds of tasks. For example, perhaps the Feds can't do a nation-wide driver's license photo scan without inciting privacy concerns; however, if most of the states sub-contract out their photo processing to a contractor on advice from big brother, then that contractor hires itself to the big brother and sells *RESULTS* from some data mining query (but never the data itself), then big brother hasn't violated any privacy rights. Similarly for phone logs, criminal databases, airline data, medicare, drivers license, health databases, traffic tickets etc.
he told me the name of the database we should all really be afraid of, bigger than Echelon, but i forgot its name.
His bio for those who are interested: Steven Rambam is a licensed private investigator and the owner and CEO of Pallorium, Inc., an investigative agency with offices and affiliates throughout the world. During the past 23 years, he has conducted and coordinated investigations in more than 50 countries and in nearly every U.S. state and Canadian province. For the past 13 years, he has also been the owner and director of PallTech, an online service which provides database and investigative support services to investigative agencies, special investigative units (SIUs), and law enforcement. PallTech offers interactive and non-interactive access to nearly 600 data sources, including five major proprietary databases such as Skiptrace America and BusinessFinder America. The Skiptrace America database, which currently contains more than 5.3 billion unique records, is believed to be the largest individual reference database in the United States, excluding those databases maintained by the three U.S. credit bureaus. More than a decade ago Rambam forced the tightening of airport security in Texas airports by publicly exposing those airports' security flaws. In 1997 he exposed the presence in Canada of 162 Nazi war criminals and also conducted investigations which resulted in the prosecution and conviction of war criminals on murder charges. He is also the inspiration for "Rambam the detective" in Kinky Friedman's series of murder mysteries.
anyways 2 years later, they are still claiming to have a unit "coming out in the fall".
If you want a tiny palmtop pc, check out the sony u-series, available in japan, or via dynamism.com importers.
The latest of the incredibly popular U-series, the 1.2 pound Sony Vaio U70/U50 is the lightest PC on the market. Among its many features: multiple quick-launch buttons on its glowing panel, transflective touchscreen TFT and fin-shaped stylus, pointing stick, scrolling control, external foldable keyboard, corded remote control, 1ghz processor, 20gb HDD, Windows XP, and much mor
is over 100 million on the new geforce cards. that is more than all P4 cpu's, except the p4ee which is 80% cache transistors. so start whining and bitching about cpu prices if you are gonna whine about gpu prices
wtf are they talking about -- i have a 1/4" 640x480 kopin lcd in my eyeglasses -- they have them up to 1280x1024 if you have the cash. that puts it at a dpi of around 4000. check http://www.microopticalcorp.com/Products/ for deets