Anyone who went to elementary school in the 70's ought to remember the cafeteria milk cartons with little factoids about Pioneer, Voyager, and a bunch of other spacecraft. I wonder if anyone has pictures of those old things?
Generally there are huge savings in building your own high-end box. Do this...check out the specs on a $2000+ system from Alienware (fine machines I might add). Spec out the parts from newegg or elsewhere, and you could build that box (and only the box) for about $1000 or less.
Lower end machines, forget it...buy Dell/WalMart/Whatever, prices are way low on those, you can't beat them there.
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There are military contractor already on this one, but they're using flat panels. A camera could capture the image behind you and project that image on the front part of your 'suit'. Doesn't need to be a sharp, perfectly aligned image either. Just get the color and intensity right.
The US Army already wants this one...-->
http://www.aro.army.mil/phys/Nanoscience/sec4nano. htm
This reminds me of a time when the U.S. hesitated to attack Iraqi targets for fear of offending Muslims during Rammadan...I'm sure the gesture was lost on any of the victims.
Making the following quote relavent to the story is left as an exercise to the reader...
We train men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it's obscene! Col. Walter E. Kurtz
We can bitch all we want on/., but I think we owe it to ourselves to reply (civilly) to letters@forbes.net...I did.
I think that John Dvorak's 4/16 column somewhat misses the point of PVR technology by characterizing it as a way to free-load one's way around the commercials on TV broadcasts. Yes, that is one of the features available to a PVR user, but likening it to MP3 sound technology that enables users to "steal" copyrighted material is just plain off-the-mark.
Skipping the commercials ranks dead last on my PVR to-do list. Actually, I don't mind watching television commercials...when they're relevant or entertaining. Just look at the popularity of www.adcritic.com. I'll go there just to watch commercials that are sometimes more entertaining than the shows that they sponsor.
I use my PVR to watch the programs that I'm interested in, when I'm most able to watch them...period. As I've grown older, staying awake long enough to catch Saturday Night Live at 11:30 on Saturday, has become a biological impossibility...and catching the 5pm local news, a scheduling impossibility.
Perhaps the next time I'm watching TechTV's "Silicon Spin" (which I record regularly), I can fast-forward through Mr. Dvorak's blathering commentary and watch the commercials. They're sometimes pretty entertaining.
But only to people in my company who work in places where radio reception is a joke.
Would(can) this affect Joe's like me who are encoding live radio and streaming it for personal use?
Streaming live radio is easy...and fun...and can be done without the expressed written permission of the commissioner of Baseball,Basketball,NFL,Howard Stern, or anyone. (Don't worry, I'm not charging anything or runnning my own commercials;-P)
Just get a cheap radio, line it in to you line-in audio port, fire up some streaming software (M$ Media encoder is strangely priced right(free)) and viola'...your buddies in the shielded LAN bunker can listen to mediocre quality radio. The source is already inside the firewall so we're not killing our internet connection. Hell...with 100 Mb ethernet, who cares?)
I'm [ever | rather] upper class high society
God's gift to ballroom notoriety
I always fill my ballroom
The event is never small
The social pages say I've got
The biggest balls of all
CHORUS:
I've got buckyballs
I've got buckyballs
And they're such buckyballs
Dirty buckyballs
And he's got buckyballs
And she's got buckyballs
But we've got the buckiest...balls of them all
And my balls are always bouncing
My ballroom always full
And everybody cums and cums again
If your name is on the guest list
No one can take you higher
Everybody says I've got
Great balls of fire
CHORUS
Some balls are held for charity
And some for fancy dress
But when they're held for pleasure
They're the balls that I like best
My balls are always bouncing
To the left and to the right
It's my belief that my buckyballs
Should be held every night
CHORUS
And I'm just itching to tell you about them
Oh we had such wonderful fun
Seafood cocktail, crabs, crayfish...
Andre:
No, the DIRTY work is done in USER-SPACE and the file is written down with standard commands now. The XOR calculations originally proposed for the drive would have made the DRIVE do the DIRTY work.
And now a reading from the book of Schneier (Applied Cryptography)
I. Discover the length of the key by a procedure known as counting
coincedences. XOR the ciphertext against itself shifted various numbers of bytes, and count those bytes that are
equal. If the displacement is a multiple of the key length, then something over 6 percent of the bytes will be equal.
If it is not, then less that 0.4 percent will be equal. This is called the index of coincidence. The smallest
displacement that indicates a multiple of the key length is the length of the key.
II. Shift the ciphertext by that length and XOR it with itself. This removes the key and leaves you with plaintext XORed
with the plaintext shifted the length of the key.
It may be time to dust off my abacuss and sharpen up the crayons.
Aw, c'mon guy's...pop up windows are the best platform-independent version of 'whack a mole' out there. I've gotten good at nailing them before the script can execute the next window pop.
I don't think he's out there trying to scare Napster users and/or the technical community.
This kind of technically wreckless rhetoric is usually reserved for stockholders. He's probably just trying to keep Sony shareholders from freaking out over the massive publicity that Napster, Gnutella..et al have recieved over the last few months.
None of what he says has to be true or even Sony's intentions. So long as the stock analyst and shareholders stay in a 'hold' or 'buy' pattern, his job is done.
Although classifiying Brittney Spears music as 'Intellectual Property' is troublesome, that's a different argument altogether...
--Heard on NPR last week--
I saw someone do this for Jon before. I thought I'd continue the tradition by running it through MS Word's AutoSummarize. It went from 4 pages to 1. Enjoy!
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Media hotshots and junkies were breathing heavily last week after Salon and CBS.com announced layoffs and APBNews.com had a near-death experience. These and other new media "setbacks" prompted some gleeful, almost poignant predictions that old media might return from the grave. The media war of the future isn't between "old" and "new" media, already meaningless terms, but between Open and Closed media. What's the future of media? What are all the rumblings about struggling online media? Was all of this a watershed moment for new media? Maybe old-time journalism could rebound, after all? Maybe the media universe would right itself. If there is a central idea that conventional media have willfully failed to grasp, it's that the future of information belongs to Open Media, even when AOL/Time-Warner gets its lawyers and lobbyists lined up. What exactly characterizes the Open Media? Open Media sites embrace interactivity; they reflect ideas, commentary and information from a wide range of sources, especially their readers. Links are a universal signature of an Open Media site, a way to use Net architecture to maximum advantage. Open Media are ascending all across the information spectrum. There was considerable if short-sighted rejoicing in old media offices with the spate of so-called "new media" problems. Media watchers also cited Slate.com's struggles to become viable (it's massively subsidized by Microsoft and promoted on MS sites from MSN.com to MSNBC, and is still struggling for audience) and they were obsessively monitoring the super-hyped launch of Inside.com, a mega-media gossip and news site from a company that actually calls itself "PowerfulMedia, Inc." With perspective-narrowing narcissism, the Times described Slate as "the online magazine with probably the highest profile in online journalism?" Mainstream media are fascinated with themselves. How did the traditional media, once a populist, working-class information medium, fall so totally, even suicidally, in love with themselves? Open Media operate in striking contrast, thanks in part to the distributed architecture that makes up the Net's infrastructure. Open Media can't claim anything close to perfection. These sites are often hostile, chaotic, and unreliable. The architecture of conventional media, designed mostly to sell information, has been closed for generations. One of the first Web sites run by mainstream journalists -- its editor is Michael Kinsley, former editor of The New Republic, Slate became synonymous in many traditionalist's minds with Web journalism. Open Media have thrived on very different principles -- they offer decentralized, digitally-empowered media populism. Why are the conventional media so hobbled with it comes to grasping this? The media industry itself became a huge story, especially as entertainment, news, information and popular culture began overlapping. On the Net, Open media offered sites, reporters and commentary drawn from increasingly far-flung sources on an ever-widening variety of topics. Closed media have at best only a vague sense of this transformations. In a medium where amateur news and information sites routinely draw hundreds of thousands of hits a day, Slate was unable to get more than a relative handful of people to pay a modest subscription fee despite the movement of tens of millions of people online, and sooned abandoned the idea of charging readers. In fact, many "old media" sites on the Web, from Slate to Washingtonpost.com, remain subsidized media, a luxury rarely afforded new or Open Media. Selling criticism, cultural and political commentary and point-of-view in a medium driven by cheap and plentiful information is rough. In media, this often seems the hardest thing for pulications to do, online or off. Thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands, of people write and gather information on Web pages, sites, Weblogs, mailing lists and messaging systems. Readers have access to the reporters and editorial figures on the Web site. Any successful media site of the future has to begin with that understanding, since it affects news consumers so directly. People in significant numbers won't pay for access to general news sites that charge for information. Open Media are not only the wave of the future, but the hot information commodity of the present. Open media are the only media that can thrive in the 21st Century, that can connect with young consumers, incorporate new information technologies, draw large numbers and make money in the Digital Age. Unlike traditional media, they don't have to adapt to the Net. Open Media sites grasp that online, news is organic, continuous, participatory. Open Media editors can be plenty autocratic, and they make lots of decisions. Open Media aren't uninterested in profit - quite the opposite. Proprietary sites on the Net have particular problems with this idea. In the 21st century, Closed Media can't compete either economically or creatively with the vibrant culture of open information sites.
This is my PocketPC. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My PocketPC is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it, as I must master my life. Without me my PocketPC is useless. Without my PocketPC, I am useless. I must boot my PocketPC true. I must hack faster than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must hack him before he hacks me. I will. Before God I swear this creed. My PocetPC and myself are defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviours of my life. So be it.. . until there is no enemy... but peace. Amen. Good night ladies!
Probably not your CPU, but your monitor.....maybee
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You know a truly moral haXor would NEVER send up an ActiveX thingy that MIGHT drastically increase your refresh rate far beyond the capabilities of your monitor! (poof)
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together
IMHO, we're going to start seeing lots of every day items contain some kind of intelligence. Not that this hasn't already happened...it will just get cheaper and easier to build a HUD into your ordinary eyeglasses (or contacts, corneal implant...whatever.
I think that the kicker here is the dramatic reduction in power consumption. You can now avoid or reduce most of that analog infrastructure to power your cool new device (sorry for the pun...couldn't resist). Every time Transmeta makes a new chip, we'll get closer to ubiquitous solar powered devices. Can't complain about that.
Slashdot Mirror
Would a Beowulf cluster of these be called a MIRV?
At last we will get justice for Team Fortress 2.
Actually, it turns out that Informations really wants to be tied up and spanked!
Since most ClearChannel events are lip-synched anyway, getting a CD copy of the concert shouldn't be too difficult.
Technically speaking, those would be *cheese* cartons by now. Pix?
Anyone who went to elementary school in the 70's ought to remember the cafeteria milk cartons with little factoids about Pioneer, Voyager, and a bunch of other spacecraft. I wonder if anyone has pictures of those old things?
Generally there are huge savings in building your own high-end box. Do this...check out the specs on a $2000+ system from Alienware (fine machines I might add). Spec out the parts from newegg or elsewhere, and you could build that box (and only the box) for about $1000 or less.
Lower end machines, forget it...buy Dell/WalMart/Whatever, prices are way low on those, you can't beat them there.
There are military contractor already on this one, but they're using flat panels. A camera could capture the image behind you and project that image on the front part of your 'suit'. Doesn't need to be a sharp, perfectly aligned image either. Just get the color and intensity right. The US Army already wants this one...--> http://www.aro.army.mil/phys/Nanoscience/sec4nano. htm
hmmmmm...$15 snorkel hooked up to a window clip. Yeah...they'd pull you over regardless (just for being weird).
However, I'd make a real interesting mobile beer bong!!!
Would(can) this affect Joe's like me who are encoding live radio and streaming it for personal use?
Streaming live radio is easy...and fun...and can be done without the expressed written permission of the commissioner of Baseball,Basketball,NFL,Howard Stern, or anyone. (Don't worry, I'm not charging anything or runnning my own commercials ;-P)
Just get a cheap radio, line it in to you line-in audio port, fire up some streaming software (M$ Media encoder is strangely priced right(free)) and viola'...your buddies in the shielded LAN bunker can listen to mediocre quality radio. The source is already inside the firewall so we're not killing our internet connection. Hell...with 100 Mb ethernet, who cares?)
CHORUS: I've got buckyballs I've got buckyballs And they're such buckyballs Dirty buckyballs And he's got buckyballs And she's got buckyballs But we've got the buckiest...balls of them all
And my balls are always bouncing My ballroom always full And everybody cums and cums again If your name is on the guest list No one can take you higher Everybody says I've got Great balls of fire
CHORUS
Some balls are held for charity And some for fancy dress But when they're held for pleasure They're the balls that I like best My balls are always bouncing To the left and to the right It's my belief that my buckyballs Should be held every night
CHORUS
And I'm just itching to tell you about them Oh we had such wonderful fun Seafood cocktail, crabs, crayfish...
Ball sucker.
And now a reading from the book of Schneier (Applied Cryptography)
It may be time to dust off my abacuss and sharpen up the crayons.
Aw, c'mon guy's...pop up windows are the best platform-independent version of 'whack a mole' out there. I've gotten good at nailing them before the script can execute the next window pop.
Okay...how 'bout being forced to quarter FBI snooping devices in you ISP? Hey, cops are looking more like soldiers every day.
This kind of technically wreckless rhetoric is usually reserved for stockholders. He's probably just trying to keep Sony shareholders from freaking out over the massive publicity that Napster, Gnutella..et al have recieved over the last few months.
None of what he says has to be true or even Sony's intentions. So long as the stock analyst and shareholders stay in a 'hold' or 'buy' pattern, his job is done.
Although classifiying Brittney Spears music as 'Intellectual Property' is troublesome, that's a different argument altogether... --Heard on NPR last week--
Yep, I got redirected to a page here telling me to stop slacking off and get back to work. "Restricted site" as I remember.
For the benefit of those trapped behind the berlin firewall (filter), could somebody mirror or paste the article contents here?
Large corporate filters don't like us to visit seedy places like HNN.
Mucho Thanks
I saw someone do this for Jon before. I thought I'd continue the tradition by running it through MS Word's AutoSummarize. It went from 4 pages to 1. Enjoy!
-------------------------
Media hotshots and junkies were breathing heavily last week after Salon and CBS.com announced layoffs and APBNews.com had a near-death experience. These and other new media "setbacks" prompted some gleeful, almost poignant predictions that old media might return from the grave. The media war of the future isn't between "old" and "new" media, already meaningless terms, but between Open and Closed media.
What's the future of media? What are all the rumblings about struggling online media?
Was all of this a watershed moment for new media? Maybe old-time journalism could rebound, after all? Maybe the media universe would right itself.
If there is a central idea that conventional media have willfully failed to grasp, it's that the future of information belongs to Open Media, even when AOL/Time-Warner gets its lawyers and lobbyists lined up. What exactly characterizes the Open Media? Open Media sites embrace interactivity; they reflect ideas, commentary and information from a wide range of sources, especially their readers. Links are a universal signature of an Open Media site, a way to use Net architecture to maximum advantage. Open Media are ascending all across the information spectrum. There was considerable if short-sighted rejoicing in old media offices with the spate of so-called "new media" problems. Media watchers also cited Slate.com's struggles to become viable (it's massively subsidized by Microsoft and promoted on MS sites from MSN.com to MSNBC, and is still struggling for audience) and they were obsessively monitoring the super-hyped launch of Inside.com, a mega-media gossip and news site from a company that actually calls itself "PowerfulMedia, Inc."
With perspective-narrowing narcissism, the Times described Slate as "the online magazine with probably the highest profile in online journalism?"
Mainstream media are fascinated with themselves. How did the traditional media, once a populist, working-class information medium, fall so totally, even suicidally, in love with themselves? Open Media operate in striking contrast, thanks in part to the distributed architecture that makes up the Net's infrastructure. Open Media can't claim anything close to perfection. These sites are often hostile, chaotic, and unreliable. The architecture of conventional media, designed mostly to sell information, has been closed for generations. One of the first Web sites run by mainstream journalists -- its editor is Michael Kinsley, former editor of The New Republic, Slate became synonymous in many traditionalist's minds with Web journalism. Open Media have thrived on very different principles -- they offer decentralized, digitally-empowered media populism. Why are the conventional media so hobbled with it comes to grasping this?
The media industry itself became a huge story, especially as entertainment, news, information and popular culture began overlapping. On the Net, Open media offered sites, reporters and commentary drawn from increasingly far-flung sources on an ever-widening variety of topics.
Closed media have at best only a vague sense of this transformations.
In a medium where amateur news and information sites routinely draw hundreds of thousands of hits a day, Slate was unable to get more than a relative handful of people to pay a modest subscription fee despite the movement of tens of millions of people online, and sooned abandoned the idea of charging readers. In fact, many "old media" sites on the Web, from Slate to Washingtonpost.com, remain subsidized media, a luxury rarely afforded new or Open Media. Selling criticism, cultural and political commentary and point-of-view in a medium driven by cheap and plentiful information is rough.
In media, this often seems the hardest thing for pulications to do, online or off.
Thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands, of people write and gather information on Web pages, sites, Weblogs, mailing lists and messaging systems. Readers have access to the reporters and editorial figures on the Web site. Any successful media site of the future has to begin with that understanding, since it affects news consumers so directly. People in significant numbers won't pay for access to general news sites that charge for information. Open Media are not only the wave of the future, but the hot information commodity of the present. Open media are the only media that can thrive in the 21st Century, that can connect with young consumers, incorporate new information technologies, draw large numbers and make money in the Digital Age. Unlike traditional media, they don't have to adapt to the Net. Open Media sites grasp that online, news is organic, continuous, participatory. Open Media editors can be plenty autocratic, and they make lots of decisions. Open Media aren't uninterested in profit - quite the opposite. Proprietary sites on the Net have particular problems with this idea. In the 21st century, Closed Media can't compete either economically or creatively with the vibrant culture of open information sites.
This is my PocketPC. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My PocketPC is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it, as I must master my life. Without me my PocketPC is useless. Without my PocketPC, I am useless. I must boot my PocketPC true. I must hack faster than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must hack him before he hacks me. I will. Before God I swear this creed. My PocetPC and myself are defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviours of my life. So be it .. . until there is no enemy ... but peace. Amen. Good night ladies!
I think that the kicker here is the dramatic reduction in power consumption. You can now avoid or reduce most of that analog infrastructure to power your cool new device (sorry for the pun...couldn't resist). Every time Transmeta makes a new chip, we'll get closer to ubiquitous solar powered devices. Can't complain about that.
Aw c'mon!!! Anyone could have guessed Hatch's web sever was some old Novell NLM.