OK, Amazon.com, Buy.com, bn.com, and anyone else who wants in should set up a fund to hire someone to club the kneecaps of everyone involved in this stupid, stupid lawsuit. My usual style would be to hit them in the face with a frying pan, since it is almost impossible to misinterperet that action as anything other than sheer and utter revulsion and hate, but sometimes the frying pan just doesn't do the job.
I mean, seriously. This is one of those 'just when you had accepted the fact that things couldn't get any more stupid or pointless, you were harshly proven wrong' things. I'm going to patent candy and beachballs and start collecting royalty payments from kids, those pathological users of unlicensed intellectual property... (No, don't even try and apply logic to that one. Trust me, don't.)
I'm ready to put in $20 for the hitman. Who is with me? Hey, it worked for the blender source code.
(OK, I'm not an evil person. I really just wish they would drop the lawsuits and grow a spine and some clue. That would be far preferable to having to spend money on a hitman. I mean, uh, I hope nothing bad happens to them. But I'll probably smirk if something does. No, wait... If the police ask, I had nothing to do with it. Yeah, that's the ticket...)
o/~
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas A gigantic nuclear furnace Where Hydrogen is built into Helium At a temperature of millions of degrees o/~
Hey, someone had to say it.
Guess you'd better invest in a good heatsink (even though the speculation is that a 0.09 micron process will produce hammer chips that can survive with passive cooling...)
Wow. The only 2 bad things I can think of right now are that my paper is due rather soon, and that I can't moderate your comment up myself.
Those are excellent sources, all I had so far was John Gilmore's excellent "What's wrong with Content Protection" and a few articles on CD-R-assisted piracy.
Think about it, these issues are about who controls human knowledge. If anyone says this argument is stupid or pointless, ask them if they want to pay every time they turn on their tv, or if they want to hear the same songs on every radio station, or if they want to own and control their own works. It is still like you have your very own printing press. Make sure that isn't destroyed because media companies want to own everything.
I was only going to say what I said in my first paragraph, but the other things that followed it really re-enforce the need for open standards instead of proprietary formats. Free as in freedom, indeed.
If you want a reason to go to a library, do it for the online databases they subscribe to. Most impressive to me were the image databases, specifically the art museums and the AP photo archive (you can even search by predominant hue of the photo).
Check out www.libraries.rutgers.edu for an example of how much stuff is out there. Some of them are subscription-only, so see if there is a large school near you that has the same services. They have remote access capabilities, but I'll leave that up to the reader to figure out.
I'm not afraid to say it, librarians can be quite l33t. If you look at it from a pseudo-hacker perspective, they have access and control over massive massive amounts of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. They can help you find what you are loking for, too! Can it get bettter than that? Well, uh... Don't answer that one.:-)
Although it is amusing to see what happens to be filed under "throbbing elbow" on google, it can't always compete with all the specialized databases out there that your library might subscribe to. Give it a shot, worst thing that happens is that someone things you are a geek for going to the library. But hey, you are reading this comment, so what does that make you?:-) (a reader of this comment, nothing more)
I was going to do a research paper on something similar, but I couldn't find enough scholarly writings on the topic. My paper was going to go through how the music industry and technology interface, and how the technology and contract laws give them large ownership of music, and how if they moved to a digital distribution model (which they could) it would violate their previous business model based on artificial scarcity and monopolistic competition. (my research paper now deals with drug advertising and what it really costs, as wel as patents etc)
What it all boils down to is that the recording and movie industries are reaping the benefits of digital technologies (ease of duplication, ease of manipulation, ease of distribution, fidelity of media) and then working their hardest to deny those benefits to everyone else (ease of storage, duplication, reproduction, transport esp. networked transport, etc).
I won't even go into their 'right to virus' and 'p2p hax0rama' efforts...
For those about to become embarrased by saying Samhain out loud, it is generally pronounced as "So-wen" or "Sah-wen" (or sometimes "Sha-wayn" or "Sho-ween") due to some funky grammar that I can't completely grasp in its entirety. For a simple nmemonic, or whatever this might be called, flip the m upside-down to a w and then pronounce. Easy, no? I won't make spelling comments, since I'm on a laptop with a strange keyboard...
Yes, it is kind of funny how the replies go up in their default moderation points.:-)
Now i have that fatboy slim song stuck in my head... Even worse, I don't have any speakers to listen to it!
If anyone cares, it is called Sunset and here is some weird info about it. Jim Morrison? Why not.
http://www.oxfordstudent.com/2000-10-19/ox2/15 Bird of prey.... flying high... in the summer sky... flying high... gently pasing by...
hmm... anyone know what this plane sounds like? They let Concordes fly around habitated airports because they gain altitude so fast, but how does one keep a plane like this sort-of undercover? (ok, so the answer is 'not very well' it seems...)
it says that preorders are closed.:-( What does it mean? They needed 1000 to make a run, will they make a couple more...? Please?:-)
Your comment deserves more mod points, too.
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"The project you speak about is called Verve.... The project you speak of was one of them. I won't give away the end-product's name, but know this: The author gave a really in-depth, and well educated explanation for many aspects of both his system, and how Blender can be extended to make use of it."
"I apologize publically for spilling any info I shouldn't have about the name... I didn't see that I had already typed the name in my very first sentence, since the textarea box had moved it out of my view. (can we not make this bigger?)"
Was it called Verve or Verse ? I remember surfing through verse.sf.net but all the pretty things aren't coming up now... http://www.quelsolaar.com/technology/verse.html has at least some tiny info. I was impressed with their description of 'avatar in a room, with ball' and how it could be made to work. Metaverse, here we come! or... here comes it! or... uh... Lets go back to admiring the poetry of 'avatar in room, with ball':-)
The intuitive/sketchpad modeler looks cool, though. Combine that with a networked, update-enabled environment and you have the makings of worldcraft... A very interesting time indeed.
Someone needs to make cheap(er) 3d-vision eyewear...
While it is a great thing that the modem now works (better?) I would think an ethernet connection would be more exciting.
OK, pretend I'm not complaining, since I only just bought my dreamcast, and and trying to figure out what to do to make a good dreamcast linux cd.
Can someone figure out how to make a broadband adapter that doesn't cost $150 on ebay? Or even one that does, but doesn't cost $150 to make? (Step #n. Profit!)
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w00t!
Blessed are the sourcemakers.:-)
ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/blender/blender-so ur ce-2.25b.tar.gz
"You wanted it you got it....! Blender is OpenSource now. We are very sorry that the site is down now but we had to move the server because our previous ISP unplugged us last thursday! Stay tuned we will be up soon.
The source can be downloaded here"
Maybe I am a bad person... but the link under "here" doesn't seem to change on reload.
"Actually since this is such an anticipated release, I think the site was hammered before the article was finished submitting."
It was. I checked it this morning. Imagine, being slashdotted without assistance from slashdot.org ! The horrors! What [other] force in the universe is capable of such obliterative power?
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While I was poking around on www.blender3d.com yesterday, I clicked through one of the Links/Sponsors and found some fairly cool things.
The site is http://www.quelsolaar.com/ with 2 projects based on blender (I think, but they might not be) at http://www.quelsolaar.com/loqairou/screens.html and http://www.quelsolaar.com/quelsolaar/screens.html (a 3rd project lacks screenshots, but is a new experimental interface for blender, it says)
" In order to reasonably support the people expected to make social security claims over the next thirty years, taxes would have to be doubled at a minimum. "
The money is there. Taxes don't "need" to be doubled, but probably will, and probably before 30 years. There are lots of things that need to be fixed, at the very least get rid of corporate welfare for lots of companies, and try to eliminate government waste of money (most importantly in the defence industry).
I agree, though, things... won't be terribly pleasant.
btw, where does 'DeepFrtiz' the name come from? The team flag looks to be Germany, but where did the name come from? They are using an 8-CPU Compaq machine, also. (Good thing chess opening moves are public domain... otherwise the US Fritz would be making sure they didn't fall into the hands of free citizens! erm. or something like that...)
Unfortunately, this probably won't lessen repetitive stress injuries, which is one of the things it is, uh, aiming to do...
As for more 'natural' interactions, welll... hehehehehe (one can only hope it gets innovated into something better than the TFUI botch job that might still be covered by some patents.)
While I'm sure others have mentioned some novel uses, how about a 'killer app' for this technology? Why not finger painting? The only problem I see is that I don't know exactly where the processing is done... Does the device itself turn pinch/flick into cut/paste or does the device do a little processing and have the computer figure out what the gesture was? (I'm thinking that most of the processing goes on inside the device itself, since it says at the end of the article that it is plug-and-play and requires no special software. Perhaps it is just a keyboard/mouse to the computer?)
This is still pretty cool, just imagine playing something like the Best. Fighting Game. Ever. (Soul Calibur, IMO) using gestures instead of 'cycle-quarter left, x+y'. You could have hand-fu instead of finger-foo. hehe... Maybe I should trademark hand-fu.... or not.
What about other hand-tracking technologies? When gestures are mentioned, I think of the PowerGlove (or DataGlove, depending) and then I think of the Nintendo U-Force controller-thing. http://www.nesplayer.com/database/accessories/ufor ce.htm
Who knows, it could be cool. (Maybe I should read the previous article, too.)
if make menuconfig bombs out when you try to configure it with make menuconfig, do this with the following file: patch -p1 alsapatch.txt
the first line is --- lin... and the last line is the 2nd --
--- linux-2.5.40/sound/Config.in Tue Oct 1 04:06:30 2002 +++ linux-2.5/sound/Config.in Wed Oct 2 07:27:04 2002 @@ -31,10 +31,7 @@
if [ "$CONFIG_SND" != "n" -a "$CONFIG_ARM" = "y" ]; then
source sound/arm/Config.in
fi -if [ "$CONFIG_SND" != "n" -a "$CONFIG_SPARC32" = "y" ]; then - source sound/sparc/Config.in -fi -if [ "$CONFIG_SND" != "n" -a "$CONFIG_SPARC64" = "y" ]; then +if [ "$CONFIG_SND" != "n" -a "$CONFIG_SPARC32" = "y" ] || [ "$CONFIG_SND" != "n" -a "$CONFIG_SPARC64" = "y" ];then
source sound/sparc/Config.in
fi
"But Tori Amos herself can't be copied as easily. So in effect, this thread suggests that performers should use live concerts more often to promote record sales."
Or they should use live concerts to actually get paid...:-) OK, so I'm going forward in time here, but http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-09-15 -artists-rights_x.htm / http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/16/1214231.shtm l?tid=98
Slashdot Mirror
OK, Amazon.com, Buy.com, bn.com, and anyone else who wants in should set up a fund to hire someone to club the kneecaps of everyone involved in this stupid, stupid lawsuit. My usual style would be to hit them in the face with a frying pan, since it is almost impossible to misinterperet that action as anything other than sheer and utter revulsion and hate, but sometimes the frying pan just doesn't do the job.
I mean, seriously. This is one of those 'just when you had accepted the fact that things couldn't get any more stupid or pointless, you were harshly proven wrong' things. I'm going to patent candy and beachballs and start collecting royalty payments from kids, those pathological users of unlicensed intellectual property... (No, don't even try and apply logic to that one. Trust me, don't.)
I'm ready to put in $20 for the hitman. Who is with me? Hey, it worked for the blender source code.
(OK, I'm not an evil person. I really just wish they would drop the lawsuits and grow a spine and some clue. That would be far preferable to having to spend money on a hitman. I mean, uh, I hope nothing bad happens to them. But I'll probably smirk if something does. No, wait... If the police ask, I had nothing to do with it. Yeah, that's the ticket...)
How about being able to make smaller graphics clusters?
WireGL comes to mind, but apparently it is now part of the Chromium project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/chromium/
I figure that would be a groovy way to make use of multiple ports.
Anyone want to donate $150,000 to me for researching how cool Quake 3 or UT2003 looks on 16 monitors? Uh... for purely scientific research, of course.
"Besides, who said that a machine made with AMD Opteron processors has anything to do with vectors?"
:-)
Are you saying they should call it Vectoron?
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/whysunshine.h tm
o/~
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where Hydrogen is built into Helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
o/~
Hey, someone had to say it.
Guess you'd better invest in a good heatsink (even though the speculation is that a 0.09 micron process will produce hammer chips that can survive with passive cooling...)
OK, maybe there is something wrong with me, but all I can think of with rotate and resize is the following:
:-)
Rotate screen to view centerfold...
Resize pants.
I'm a bad bad person.
Wow. The only 2 bad things I can think of right now are that my paper is due rather soon, and that I can't moderate your comment up myself.
Those are excellent sources, all I had so far was John Gilmore's excellent "What's wrong with Content Protection" and a few articles on CD-R-assisted piracy.
Think about it, these issues are about who controls human knowledge. If anyone says this argument is stupid or pointless, ask them if they want to pay every time they turn on their tv, or if they want to hear the same songs on every radio station, or if they want to own and control their own works. It is still like you have your very own printing press. Make sure that isn't destroyed because media companies want to own everything.
I was only going to say what I said in my first paragraph, but the other things that followed it really re-enforce the need for open standards instead of proprietary formats. Free as in freedom, indeed.
If you want a reason to go to a library, do it for the online databases they subscribe to. Most impressive to me were the image databases, specifically the art museums and the AP photo archive (you can even search by predominant hue of the photo).
:-)
:-) (a reader of this comment, nothing more)
Check out www.libraries.rutgers.edu for an example of how much stuff is out there. Some of them are subscription-only, so see if there is a large school near you that has the same services. They have remote access capabilities, but I'll leave that up to the reader to figure out.
I'm not afraid to say it, librarians can be quite l33t. If you look at it from a pseudo-hacker perspective, they have access and control over massive massive amounts of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. They can help you find what you are loking for, too! Can it get bettter than that? Well, uh... Don't answer that one.
Although it is amusing to see what happens to be filed under "throbbing elbow" on google, it can't always compete with all the specialized databases out there that your library might subscribe to. Give it a shot, worst thing that happens is that someone things you are a geek for going to the library. But hey, you are reading this comment, so what does that make you?
"I don't know why the rest of the world didn't pick up it."
Because it was rated R and had less nudity than Logan's Run (rated PG, surprisingly. but made in the 1970s)
Hehe, just my opinion on the matter. Watch the credits if you want a little boobage from the movie.
I was going to do a research paper on something similar, but I couldn't find enough scholarly writings on the topic. My paper was going to go through how the music industry and technology interface, and how the technology and contract laws give them large ownership of music, and how if they moved to a digital distribution model (which they could) it would violate their previous business model based on artificial scarcity and monopolistic competition. (my research paper now deals with drug advertising and what it really costs, as wel as patents etc)
What it all boils down to is that the recording and movie industries are reaping the benefits of digital technologies (ease of duplication, ease of manipulation, ease of distribution, fidelity of media) and then working their hardest to deny those benefits to everyone else (ease of storage, duplication, reproduction, transport esp. networked transport, etc).
I won't even go into their 'right to virus' and 'p2p hax0rama' efforts...
For those about to become embarrased by saying Samhain out loud, it is generally pronounced as "So-wen" or "Sah-wen" (or sometimes "Sha-wayn" or "Sho-ween") due to some funky grammar that I can't completely grasp in its entirety. For a simple nmemonic, or whatever this might be called, flip the m upside-down to a w and then pronounce. Easy, no? I won't make spelling comments, since I'm on a laptop with a strange keyboard...
:-)
Yes, it is kind of funny how the replies go up in their default moderation points.
Now i have that fatboy slim song stuck in my head...
Even worse, I don't have any speakers to listen to it!
If anyone cares, it is called Sunset and here is some weird info about it. Jim Morrison? Why not.
http://www.oxfordstudent.com/2000-10-19/ox2/15
Bird of prey.... flying high... in the summer sky... flying high... gently pasing by...
hmm... anyone know what this plane sounds like? They let Concordes fly around habitated airports because they gain altitude so fast, but how does one keep a plane like this sort-of undercover? (ok, so the answer is 'not very well' it seems...)
I followed the link, was happy, then was ... less happy.
a sp ?CatalogID=4661&SearchYN=N&subFolderID=33
:-( What does it mean? They needed 1000 to make a run, will they make a couple more...? Please? :-)
http://hh141.hiphip.com/templates/frmTemplateE.
it says that preorders are closed.
Your comment deserves more mod points, too.
"The project you speak about is called Verve. ...
:-)
The project you speak of was one of them. I won't give away the end-product's name, but know this: The author gave a really in-depth, and well educated explanation for many aspects of both his system, and how Blender can be extended to make use of it."
"I apologize publically for spilling any info I shouldn't have about the name... I didn't see that I had already typed the name in my very first sentence, since the textarea box had moved it out of my view. (can we not make this bigger?)"
Was it called Verve or Verse ? I remember surfing through verse.sf.net but all the pretty things aren't coming up now... http://www.quelsolaar.com/technology/verse.html has at least some tiny info. I was impressed with their description of 'avatar in a room, with ball' and how it could be made to work. Metaverse, here we come! or... here comes it! or... uh... Lets go back to admiring the poetry of 'avatar in room, with ball'
The intuitive/sketchpad modeler looks cool, though. Combine that with a networked, update-enabled environment and you have the makings of worldcraft... A very interesting time indeed.
Someone needs to make cheap(er) 3d-vision eyewear...
While it is a great thing that the modem now works (better?) I would think an ethernet connection would be more exciting.
OK, pretend I'm not complaining, since I only just bought my dreamcast, and and trying to figure out what to do to make a good dreamcast linux cd.
Can someone figure out how to make a broadband adapter that doesn't cost $150 on ebay? Or even one that does, but doesn't cost $150 to make? (Step #n. Profit!)
w00t!
:-)
o ur ce-2.25b.tar.gz
Blessed are the sourcemakers.
ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/blender/blender-s
"You wanted it you got it....! Blender is OpenSource now. We are very sorry that the site is down now but we had to move the server because our previous ISP unplugged us last thursday! Stay tuned we will be up soon.
u rc e-2.25b.tar.gz
The source can be downloaded here"
Maybe I am a bad person... but the link under "here" doesn't seem to change on reload.
Please someone, promise to mirror this?
ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/blender.org/blender-so
"Actually since this is such an anticipated release, I think the site was hammered before the article was finished submitting."
It was. I checked it this morning. Imagine, being slashdotted without assistance from slashdot.org ! The horrors! What [other] force in the universe is capable of such obliterative power?
While I was poking around on www.blender3d.com yesterday, I clicked through one of the Links/Sponsors and found some fairly cool things.
The site is http://www.quelsolaar.com/ with 2 projects based on blender (I think, but they might not be) at http://www.quelsolaar.com/loqairou/screens.html and http://www.quelsolaar.com/quelsolaar/screens.html (a 3rd project lacks screenshots, but is a new experimental interface for blender, it says)
Some really cool stuff, coming real soon.
" In order to reasonably support the people expected to make social security claims over the next thirty years, taxes would have to be doubled at a minimum. "
... won't be terribly pleasant.
The money is there. Taxes don't "need" to be doubled, but probably will, and probably before 30 years. There are lots of things that need to be fixed, at the very least get rid of corporate welfare for lots of companies, and try to eliminate government waste of money (most importantly in the defence industry).
I agree, though, things
My mind is a little hazy on this, but I'm pretty sure Wing Commander had the McAuliffe system in it...
1.e4 followed by e5
d .htm
t m?PM=ss1 3_chess
then
2. Nf3 Nc6
Some notes on chess notation:
http://chess.about.com/library/ble21br
(it is common to omit the pawn designation, it seems)
Some opening moves (which was this one?):
http://chess.about.com/library/ble50ndx.h
The whole match:
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5 Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.Nc3 h6 10.b3 Ke8 11.Bb2 Be7 12.Rad1 a5 13.a4 h5 14.Ne2 Be6 15.c4 Rd8 16.h3 b6 17.Nfd4 Nxd4 18.Nxd4 c5 19.Nxe6 fxe6 20.Rxd8+ Kxd8 21.Bc1 Kc8 22.Rd1 Rd8 23.Rxd8+ Kxd8 24.g4 g6 25.h4 hxg4 26.Bg5 Bxg5 27.hxg5 Ke8 28.Kg2 ½-½
Hey, I learned something from the above links.
btw, where does 'DeepFrtiz' the name come from? The team flag looks to be Germany, but where did the name come from? They are using an 8-CPU Compaq machine, also. (Good thing chess opening moves are public domain... otherwise the US Fritz would be making sure they didn't fall into the hands of free citizens! erm. or something like that...)
Unfortunately, this probably won't lessen repetitive stress injuries, which is one of the things it is, uh, aiming to do...
As for more 'natural' interactions, welll... hehehehehe (one can only hope it gets innovated into something better than the TFUI botch job that might still be covered by some patents.)
While I'm sure others have mentioned some novel uses, how about a 'killer app' for this technology? Why not finger painting? The only problem I see is that I don't know exactly where the processing is done... Does the device itself turn pinch/flick into cut/paste or does the device do a little processing and have the computer figure out what the gesture was? (I'm thinking that most of the processing goes on inside the device itself, since it says at the end of the article that it is plug-and-play and requires no special software. Perhaps it is just a keyboard/mouse to the computer?)
... or not.
r ce.htm
This is still pretty cool, just imagine playing something like the Best. Fighting Game. Ever. (Soul Calibur, IMO) using gestures instead of 'cycle-quarter left, x+y'. You could have hand-fu instead of finger-foo. hehe... Maybe I should trademark hand-fu.
What about other hand-tracking technologies? When gestures are mentioned, I think of the PowerGlove (or DataGlove, depending) and then I think of the Nintendo U-Force controller-thing. http://www.nesplayer.com/database/accessories/ufo
Who knows, it could be cool. (Maybe I should read the previous article, too.)
if make menuconfig bombs out when you try to configure it with make menuconfig, do this with the following file: patch -p1 alsapatch.txt
the first line is --- lin... and the last line is the 2nd --
--- linux-2.5.40/sound/Config.in Tue Oct 1 04:06:30 2002
+++ linux-2.5/sound/Config.in Wed Oct 2 07:27:04 2002
@@ -31,10 +31,7 @@
if [ "$CONFIG_SND" != "n" -a "$CONFIG_ARM" = "y" ]; then
source sound/arm/Config.in
fi
-if [ "$CONFIG_SND" != "n" -a "$CONFIG_SPARC32" = "y" ]; then
- source sound/sparc/Config.in
-fi
-if [ "$CONFIG_SND" != "n" -a "$CONFIG_SPARC64" = "y" ]; then
+if [ "$CONFIG_SND" != "n" -a "$CONFIG_SPARC32" = "y" ] || [ "$CONFIG_SND" != "n" -a "$CONFIG_SPARC64" = "y" ];then
source sound/sparc/Config.in
fi
--
--
"But Tori Amos herself can't be copied as easily. So in effect, this thread suggests that performers should use live concerts more often to promote record sales."
:-) OK, so I'm going forward in time here, but http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-09-15 -artists-rights_x.htm / http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/16/1214231.shtm l?tid=98
Or they should use live concerts to actually get paid...