First of all, my SB Live comes with a certain amount less sound distorting than the mobo-enabled card. If you have good speakers, you may notice that the internal cards seem to have more feedback or something similar.
Secondly... the Live does a much nicer job of the "surround" options - and supports digital out.
Thirdly - though many may not use it - the EAX panel allows for very interesting effects such as realtime distortions/etc. I'm still trying to figure out if I can create my own, but it's cool to plug my guitar into the inputs and then run it through the "distort" and "chorus" effects for output (cheap dist guitar).
And don't get attached
on
A Game of Thrones
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· Score: 3, Interesting
To any of the characters. Somehow, Martin allows the story to flow though the "focus" characters are constantly changing. In fact, several seemingly important or main characters are simply killed off.
I surprised the hell out of me at first, as most authors get attached to their characters. I have to quickly get through the next few chapters trying to figure out if the characters somehow survived (they didn't, they're good and dead).
Quite impressive, that the author can not only have the guts to kill off characters, but still keep the story in a good "flow" between books with various prior characters dead.
It comes with a scene where Sarah Conner is watching kids in a park, then starts yelling at everyone about impending doom, etc. A nuclear shockwave hits, park goes byebye and Sarah is reduced to a skeleton clinging to the fence.
Then she wakes up... and decides to go assassinate a poor defenceless geek who just happens to be involved in the future creation of skynet.
Only to those who can't tell the different between "Trek" and reality. Although there are a couple of cool scientific theories that present in Star Trek... overdedicated fans tend to overlook the fact that it's a TV show.
Usually if somebody starts talking about warp drives in relation to the resonent frequencies, it'll be a good tip-off.
It seems a lot of distros do this. I did know that RedHat has up2date, just never found as much use in it.
The nice thing about deb being though, that you don't have to apt-get update apache... it's just apt-get update (get list of packages, new security updates)
apt-get upgrade (apply new security upgrades)
It's actually like *shudder* windows update except a heck of a lot more reliable and none of that sneaky stuff that Redmond pulls.
About 2 weeks ago I was running RedHat. I would have been running around frantically trying to track down any patches I might have missed, version-checking my RPM's...etc etc.
Once I read this I was like "crap crap crap, a whole lotta patching to do"
Then I SSH'ed to my server...
And remembered I was running debian... apt-get update && apt-get upgrade...
I suddenly feel a lot better about the few hours it took me to make the switchover.
If I were running an MS server I would probably have had a near heart-attack by now. I've never needed the "newest-most-spectacular-greatest-ever-superd uper-new-version" of any of my daemons, so there's no problem at all with Deb, despite the arguements of many.
I'm guessing that the original intent of such a rule was due to prevent a bunch of sciencebabble (or whatever the equivilent to "technobabble") being used in court. It's easy to sound convincing if you use a lot of big words, coupled with a few common arguments, and a lot of technical mumbojumbo. As "normal" people, a jury would have a really hard time figuring out legitimate science from some believable crapulence.
That isn't to say that this doesn't shoot down a lot of legitimate science as well. I have to think about thinks like DNA evidence, etc, and what would have happened to such things when they weren't supported by the scientific community at large
just rename SPAM? I mean, the stuff never really had a good reputation in the first place. Rename it, maybe change it ever-so-slightly, try to market it as something other than a repulsive meat wanna-be.
And if you think spam is bad... how about "spork." I've never had the stuff, but with a name like that who would want to?
Does anyone remember the USB keyboards which used to have a USB-splitter built in - so that instead of taking of the only USB port on say, a laptop, you would actually come out with one extra.
I've been looking for these for ages, and I know MS used to make one, but nobody seems to have anything like that anymore. A USB keyboard with a built-in jack always seemed like a good idea to me (if you like USB keyboards), and a lot cheaper/more-convenient than buying a seperate hub just to get that extra port.
That this article says that Corbis is using the DCMA. So does that mean they're both using it... and if so isn't it a win-win situation? If either one of the large-corp-backed or large-corp entities loses out without settling, then the DCMA gets a firm kick in the pants.
Is it my imagination, or have MS and affiliates been doing a lot of nice things for us lately? First going after spammers, now Amazon. I shouldn't go to sleep tonight... I'm afraid if I wake this will all have been a dream.
Don't forget streaming audio/video... though I'm not sure when exactly that come along. And P2P is both a blessing and a curse.
You could also include a huge dissemination of ideas, art, and creativity that spawned from various webforms (esp flash) which would not have otherwise been able to exist.
browsing for porn. Would you like to:
a) View quality free XXX sites
b) Optimize your mouse/keyboard for better one-handed surfing
c) Find out how to clear your cache before mom comes home
True and false though. It's more sad that millionaires are seen to represent humanity over a country, but at least recognisable that while some countries think they represent the opinion of the majority of the world, the rest of the world tends to disagree.
Humanity could be represented by its pioneers, free-thinkers, humanitarians and risk-takers. If you want to represent the power of human ingenuity, an "hung-ho" individual with a revolutionary idea could represent humanity in that aspect.
It seems that some guy with a bright idea who invents the next equivilent to a "warp drive" would much better represent the the dreams of humanity than a millionaire with bucks-to-burn on R&D. However, that being said, the inventor would probably have to find funding somewhere. A private venture a shrewd millionaire who sees the promise in investing in such an inventor deserves at least part of the fame/history in such an event, and much more so than private corps or governments.
After all, we don't really expect a millionaire to make/invent the revolution, but maybe he/she could be a strong supporting foundation of it...
Linux is upheld in a great way by the users. You don't *have* to use the main debian servers, so as more users start creating their own mirrors - we could see one of two things:
a) More up-to-date stuff available as an apt/deb package
b) More crap as people put untested solutions up
I think that really, we'll see both (a) and (b), until such as timet as a set of more up-to-date but trustable debian nodes emerges on top.
Regardless, I just switched my main server from RH to debian... and anyone would be hard-pressed to tell me that RH handles better in a business environment... ven my laptop/w a desktop is run on a debian system and it runs much more efficiently than a more powerful system (CPU/RAM) did using RedHat.
Did the computers initally come with Windows XP Home (which is usually what consumer machines come with) or XP Pro? How about office?
Not to gainsay the fact that this expenditure is grossly high, I could see the army having to buy Pro after the initial machine+OS, and possible a better office.
Nope... but depending on their actions they may not have the right either. In particular... are they checking that everyone on their "nuke" list actually has real pirated material. In addition... how are they verifying against spoofed addresses, hijacked servers, etc etc.
Whilst I haven't heard of anyone I know having a hijacked kazaa - there was an article previously about a person who claimed a virus was downloading illegal porn onto his computer. I also had the pleasure of having an FTP server hacked at work (somebody left the anon login on - grrr) and filled with all kinds of trash... whose fault would that be if the RIAA had found mp3's before i took it offline for a good cleaning?
So, are they looking at an infastructure/physical situation test, a protocol test, or perhaps both?
While I'd expect the test system to make at least some use of existing infastructure, but perhaps they'll find something to replace the current TCP/IP protocol, or something more towards IPV6.
It will be interesting to see the evolution of the internet in such as way. The content has changed but much of the mechanism behind it is still rooted in legacy. I wonder if this is intended to be a full switchover or just an upgrade.
Oh, and I wonder if private entities (such as myself) can also participate to test it out...?
The "Private Surveillance" Icon might be a bit more difficult to see without fill-in. There are also several other things that could be noted, such as (including yours) whether the surveillance is:
Public (gov't) or Private (business/personal)
Monitored or Recorded
Publically available (can you check the
records)
Constant or only within certain hours
Also including ownership information would be nice, such as who's recording and how can they be contacted. Gov't surveillance can be done by third-parties at times I believe.
The OS concept is basic in the idea that you can view and/or modify (assuming that you have the skills) the functionality of a program being provided to your or your company. In many cases, it also means that the software itself may be free, and will permit personal modificatins, etc.
The OS community as a whole is a combination of people who fall into one or many categories:
a) With a goal to improve IT as a whole, by providing software to the global community that is without strangling license terms, hidden bugs/tricks, or other nasties
b) People that simply want to test their skills, and believe they have something to offer out to the world. The bored, the haxors, those that like to code in their free time.
c) The code-hippies - "code wants to be free", open-source is like free-love and such individuals tend to be highly anti-capitalism or anti-corporation.
Whilst I realize that many people may take offense to the "hippy" remark, you must understand that a lot of the reason the hippy era is looked down upon is because corporate culture one. The concept of "sharing information" for the betterment of everyone is something that has been around long before either hippies, coders, or Open Source - but it's something often quite common to all. I see us as a group with slightly radical ideas, but something real to offer that is becoming increasingly valuable as the corporate noose tightens on the world.
Many projects are (in most ways) free, and are a way of saying to the world, "this is my contribution. Value it, find use in it, and see that there is another way. If you can, take what we have given to you, improve on it, and give it back to the community."
Truly, I doubt that a roomful of OS geeks could get together and agree wholly on anything, but we could co-exist with the knowledge that at least at some level - we share a common cause and common roots. OS is quite possibly one of the few contenders left to give a little hopefulness to an increasingly corporate world, so let's hope we succeed.
Codebits used to have a lot on this, but the page has since moved and seems to be having permissions errors at this moment.
If you want, you could always email me (phormix at phormix dot com) and I can attempt to help you with your regexp woes - I've used a lot of multiline perl regexps for HTML processors, etc.
Either a slightly more advanced form of flash, HTML animations, or those interactive Java applets. Already we've got nice Java applets where you can browse cars interiors, houses, etc - perhaps video could be much the same except in a less of a "static scene" fashion.
How about internet TV? We're fast enough to manage that now in many locations - a nice subscription model to proper internet channels (more like real cable/sat channels than a lot of current 'clip' crap is) would be nice - in which case you could add clickable links in the show or whilst channel browsing, etc.
Not really a huge lot of applications beyond the current scope of the internet. The biggest use I see is advertising - such as if you can click the Pepsi can that Joey is holding on "friends" and get dumped into the latest Pepsi promo contest or website. It would be neat for Easter eggs as well - or things like one-click online VCR, etc etc.
Indeed, what I'm really looking for is a nicer way of managing a distributed user-base. Maybe there are better solutions for 'nix that I haven't seen... but currently one of the more common ones is still *ugh* NIS. Novell used to have some pretty sweet stuff for user-management, and their rights-management was decent too.
Of course, I replaced all those expen$ive novell $ervers as soon as I could... but I do look forward to seeing Novell finally get a hook into Linuxland and expect that they will make a product/products people will find is worth paying for.
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First of all, my SB Live comes with a certain amount less sound distorting than the mobo-enabled card. If you have good speakers, you may notice that the internal cards seem to have more feedback or something similar.
Secondly... the Live does a much nicer job of the "surround" options - and supports digital out.
Thirdly - though many may not use it - the EAX panel allows for very interesting effects such as realtime distortions/etc. I'm still trying to figure out if I can create my own, but it's cool to plug my guitar into the inputs and then run it through the "distort" and "chorus" effects for output (cheap dist guitar).
To any of the characters. Somehow, Martin allows the story to flow though the "focus" characters are constantly changing. In fact, several seemingly important or main characters are simply killed off.
I surprised the hell out of me at first, as most authors get attached to their characters. I have to quickly get through the next few chapters trying to figure out if the characters somehow survived (they didn't, they're good and dead).
Quite impressive, that the author can not only have the guts to kill off characters, but still keep the story in a good "flow" between books with various prior characters dead.
It comes with a scene where Sarah Conner is watching kids in a park, then starts yelling at everyone about impending doom, etc. A nuclear shockwave hits, park goes byebye and Sarah is reduced to a skeleton clinging to the fence.
Then she wakes up... and decides to go assassinate a poor defenceless geek who just happens to be involved in the future creation of skynet.
Only to those who can't tell the different between "Trek" and reality. Although there are a couple of cool scientific theories that present in Star Trek... overdedicated fans tend to overlook the fact that it's a TV show.
Usually if somebody starts talking about warp drives in relation to the resonent frequencies, it'll be a good tip-off.
It seems a lot of distros do this. I did know that RedHat has up2date, just never found as much use in it.
The nice thing about deb being though, that you don't have to apt-get update apache... it's just
apt-get update (get list of packages, new security updates) apt-get upgrade (apply new security upgrades)
It's actually like *shudder* windows update except a heck of a lot more reliable and none of that sneaky stuff that Redmond pulls.
About 2 weeks ago I was running RedHat. I would have been running around frantically trying to track down any patches I might have missed, version-checking my RPM's...etc etc.
d uper-new-version" of any of my daemons, so there's no problem at all with Deb, despite the arguements of many.
Once I read this I was like "crap crap crap, a whole lotta patching to do"
Then I SSH'ed to my server...
And remembered I was running debian...
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade...
I suddenly feel a lot better about the few hours it took me to make the switchover.
If I were running an MS server I would probably have had a near heart-attack by now. I've never needed the
"newest-most-spectacular-greatest-ever-super
Indeed, that's the one that I've been looking for. However, either they don't make it anymore, or the local retailers aren't carrying it.
I may be able to find one yet, having a laptop with only 1 USB port is a pain. As far as comfort/ease-of-use goes, how would you rate this keyboard?
I'm guessing that the original intent of such a rule was due to prevent a bunch of sciencebabble (or whatever the equivilent to "technobabble") being used in court. It's easy to sound convincing if you use a lot of big words, coupled with a few common arguments, and a lot of technical mumbojumbo. As "normal" people, a jury would have a really hard time figuring out legitimate science from some believable crapulence.
That isn't to say that this doesn't shoot down a lot of legitimate science as well. I have to think about thinks like DNA evidence, etc, and what would have happened to such things when they weren't supported by the scientific community at large
just rename SPAM? I mean, the stuff never really had a good reputation in the first place. Rename it, maybe change it ever-so-slightly, try to market it as something other than a repulsive meat wanna-be.
And if you think spam is bad... how about "spork." I've never had the stuff, but with a name like that who would want to?
Does anyone remember the USB keyboards which used to have a USB-splitter built in - so that instead of taking of the only USB port on say, a laptop, you would actually come out with one extra.
I've been looking for these for ages, and I know MS used to make one, but nobody seems to have anything like that anymore. A USB keyboard with a built-in jack always seemed like a good idea to me (if you like USB keyboards), and a lot cheaper/more-convenient than buying a seperate hub just to get that extra port.
That this article says that Corbis is using the DCMA. So does that mean they're both using it... and if so isn't it a win-win situation? If either one of the large-corp-backed or large-corp entities loses out without settling, then the DCMA gets a firm kick in the pants.
Is it my imagination, or have MS and affiliates been doing a lot of nice things for us lately? First going after spammers, now Amazon. I shouldn't go to sleep tonight... I'm afraid if I wake this will all have been a dream.
Don't forget streaming audio/video... though I'm not sure when exactly that come along. And P2P is both a blessing and a curse.
You could also include a huge dissemination of ideas, art, and creativity that spawned from various webforms (esp flash) which would not have otherwise been able to exist.
browsing for porn. Would you like to:
a) View quality free XXX sites
b) Optimize your mouse/keyboard for better one-handed surfing
c) Find out how to clear your cache before mom comes home
True and false though. It's more sad that millionaires are seen to represent humanity over a country, but at least recognisable that while some countries think they represent the opinion of the majority of the world, the rest of the world tends to disagree.
Humanity could be represented by its pioneers, free-thinkers, humanitarians and risk-takers. If you want to represent the power of human ingenuity, an "hung-ho" individual with a revolutionary idea could represent humanity in that aspect.
It seems that some guy with a bright idea who invents the next equivilent to a "warp drive" would much better represent the the dreams of humanity than a millionaire with bucks-to-burn on R&D. However, that being said, the inventor would probably have to find funding somewhere. A private venture a shrewd millionaire who sees the promise in investing in such an inventor deserves at least part of the fame/history in such an event, and much more so than private corps or governments.
After all, we don't really expect a millionaire to make/invent the revolution, but maybe he/she could be a strong supporting foundation of it...
In Canada. Not in the US, and not yet - but do you really think that current laws will survive the century?
Think, especially when gen old+crusty gets out of gov't, and gen-x starts getting in...
Linux is upheld in a great way by the users. You don't *have* to use the main debian servers, so as more users start creating their own mirrors - we could see one of two things:
/w a desktop is run on a debian system and it runs much more efficiently than a more powerful system (CPU/RAM) did using RedHat.
a) More up-to-date stuff available as an apt/deb package
b) More crap as people put untested solutions up
I think that really, we'll see both (a) and (b), until such as timet as a set of more up-to-date but trustable debian nodes emerges on top.
Regardless, I just switched my main server from RH to debian... and anyone would be hard-pressed to tell me that RH handles better in a business environment... ven my laptop
Perhaps somebody got annoyed with all the current anti-francophone sentiment worldwide?
:-)
I'm waiting for congress to find a french link and name it the a "freedom-virus" or maybe "anti-freedom-virus"
Did the computers initally come with Windows XP Home (which is usually what consumer machines come with) or XP Pro? How about office?
Not to gainsay the fact that this expenditure is grossly high, I could see the army having to buy Pro after the initial machine+OS, and possible a better office.
Nope... but depending on their actions they may not have the right either. In particular... are they checking that everyone on their "nuke" list actually has real pirated material. In addition... how are they verifying against spoofed addresses, hijacked servers, etc etc.
Whilst I haven't heard of anyone I know having a hijacked kazaa - there was an article previously about a person who claimed a virus was downloading illegal porn onto his computer. I also had the pleasure of having an FTP server hacked at work (somebody left the anon login on - grrr) and filled with all kinds of trash... whose fault would that be if the RIAA had found mp3's before i took it offline for a good cleaning?
So, are they looking at an infastructure/physical situation test, a protocol test, or perhaps both?
While I'd expect the test system to make at least some use of existing infastructure, but perhaps they'll find something to replace the current TCP/IP protocol, or something more towards IPV6.
It will be interesting to see the evolution of the internet in such as way. The content has changed but much of the mechanism behind it is still rooted in legacy. I wonder if this is intended to be a full switchover or just an upgrade.
Oh, and I wonder if private entities (such as myself) can also participate to test it out...?
Public (gov't) or Private (business/personal)
Monitored or Recorded
Publically available (can you check the records)
Constant or only within certain hours
Also including ownership information would be nice, such as who's recording and how can they be contacted. Gov't surveillance can be done by third-parties at times I believe.
All IMHO of course...
The OS concept is basic in the idea that you can view and/or modify (assuming that you have the skills) the functionality of a program being provided to your or your company. In many cases, it also means that the software itself may be free, and will permit personal modificatins, etc.
The OS community as a whole is a combination of people who fall into one or many categories:
a) With a goal to improve IT as a whole, by providing software to the global community that is without strangling license terms, hidden bugs/tricks, or other nasties
b) People that simply want to test their skills, and believe they have something to offer out to the world. The bored, the haxors, those that like to code in their free time.
c) The code-hippies - "code wants to be free", open-source is like free-love and such individuals tend to be highly anti-capitalism or anti-corporation.
Whilst I realize that many people may take offense to the "hippy" remark, you must understand that a lot of the reason the hippy era is looked down upon is because corporate culture one. The concept of "sharing information" for the betterment of everyone is something that has been around long before either hippies, coders, or Open Source - but it's something often quite common to all. I see us as a group with slightly radical ideas, but something real to offer that is becoming increasingly valuable as the corporate noose tightens on the world.
Many projects are (in most ways) free, and are a way of saying to the world, "this is my contribution. Value it, find use in it, and see that there is another way. If you can, take what we have given to you, improve on it, and give it back to the community."
Truly, I doubt that a roomful of OS geeks could get together and agree wholly on anything, but we could co-exist with the knowledge that at least at some level - we share a common cause and common roots. OS is quite possibly one of the few contenders left to give a little hopefulness to an increasingly corporate world, so let's hope we succeed.
I usually use s/old/new/gs or m/expr/gs in perl
Codebits used to have a lot on this, but the page has since moved and seems to be having permissions errors at this moment.
If you want, you could always email me (phormix at phormix dot com) and I can attempt to help you with your regexp woes - I've used a lot of multiline perl regexps for HTML processors, etc.
Either a slightly more advanced form of flash, HTML animations, or those interactive Java applets. Already we've got nice Java applets where you can browse cars interiors, houses, etc - perhaps video could be much the same except in a less of a "static scene" fashion.
How about internet TV? We're fast enough to manage that now in many locations - a nice subscription model to proper internet channels (more like real cable/sat channels than a lot of current 'clip' crap is) would be nice - in which case you could add clickable links in the show or whilst channel browsing, etc.
Not really a huge lot of applications beyond the current scope of the internet. The biggest use I see is advertising - such as if you can click the Pepsi can that Joey is holding on "friends" and get dumped into the latest Pepsi promo contest or website. It would be neat for Easter eggs as well - or things like one-click online VCR, etc etc.
Indeed, what I'm really looking for is a nicer way of managing a distributed user-base. Maybe there are better solutions for 'nix that I haven't seen... but currently one of the more common ones is still *ugh* NIS. Novell used to have some pretty sweet stuff for user-management, and their rights-management was decent too.
Of course, I replaced all those expen$ive novell $ervers as soon as I could... but I do look forward to seeing Novell finally get a hook into Linuxland and expect that they will make a product/products people will find is worth paying for.