A cut, polished, precious gem calibre diamond with no significant flaws is quite rare. No doubt the cost to the consumer is marked up quite a bit, but it's a little like saying "theres only a few hundered dollars worth of materials in a Ferrari". It may be true, but there's a whole lot more to a Ferrari than some fiberglass, steel and aluminum.
Anyways, it's worth noting that the DeBeers monopoly got a huge kick in the kiwis a couple years ago when a small (for the industry) startup beat them to the discovery of huge diamond lodes up in the canadian arctic. I can't remember the name of them, but Discovery has been airing a documentary about the discovery.
He has gotten threatening phone calls and messages... The spammer is getting a taste of his own medicine
Threatening phone calls is a 'taste of his own medicine'? Telemarketers and spam annoy me, but they never threaten me bodily harm over the phone (or 'net)
Should spammers get some privacy protection too?"
No, only people who agree with the opinions of/. editors should get privacy protection. What kind of one sided flamebait is this?
If his home and business addresses are the same, that was stupid of him. I'm sure he'll correct that, and get a PO box and seperate phone line for the business.
What really makes you think you're justified to threaten and harass someone because they sent you junk ads in email? Yeah, it's annoying. So are people who drive 5 mph under the limit in the passing lane. But you cant threaten or assault them.
What a stupid article. Equal protection under the law. You're no more entitled to his home address than you are to any AC who crapfloods/. discussions.
>(possession of child porn is ALREADY illegal, why force ISPs to filter it?)
Not only is posession illegal, it's illegal to knowingly facilitate the distribution of child porn. This absolves the local ISP of liability.
Here's some more terrible affronts to your liberties. US Customs siezes tons of this shit each and every day. It's destroyed, and they dont publish a list of who sent it.
Of course, they cant prove that the address it was being sent to actually ordered it (and even if they did, they knew what it was), so they cant just lock them up. But you better believe their name shows up the next time a traffic cop pulls them over and runs an NCIC check.
The reason they dont is they dont want to abet pedophiles indirectly. They dont want the perverts along the border signing up with a MD ISP and leeching their fancy new list of filth.
It's not a slippery slope, its not about politics or ideologies. What your high school does is outside of this legislation, and up to the local districts. If someone found themself blocked, they have a recourse. They can bitch, go public, whatever, start a big scene here on slashdot.
If nazi-kkk-hatesite.com was blocked by this, I'd go as far as to defend their right to say what they want. Because that isn't illegal. Child pornography is.
If you dont see the difference between socialistworker.org and a child pornography site, you need to give your head a shake. Some things really are black and white.
Myself, I think they should disclose the list, but not for any of the reasons slashbots do. We have Megans Law which forces information about sex offenders to be made public to the communities they're released into. By extension, I want the list to add to my own firewall.
Child pornography is not "protected speech" by any means. It's a felony.
This is just some evidence to support a 200 year old theory from Lord Kelvin, at least that's how I read the article. It's not a new 'discovery' so much as some proof that we were right all along about the laws of voltage potential.
VESA is not a local bus architecture either
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You do have a SET BLASTER=PORT,DMA,IRQ system variable set, right?
It works fine. You probably just dont realize or remember how much a pain in the ass it was to get sound setup in Duke and other DOS titles at all.
Once you do, you stop taking DirectX for granted.
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It's easier to port from linux to win32 than vice-versa. There's a lot more win32 specific stuff thats tightly integrated into the OS (MFC, GDI, DirectX, etc, etc) than the other way around. All the linux libraries of note have a win32 port already (SDL, OpenGL etc)
(BTW this already compiles out of the box on win32, the submitter is wrong)
It has nothing to do with "linux programmers being better" at anything. A good programmer would just do things in that order for that simple reason.
The quotes he would say all the time annoyed me. The graphics looked patched together, it looked like a bunch of photographs on strings moving around. It didnt even look as seamless as doom did.
What was that stupid clone of Duke called, the 'samurai' one with Adam Sandler making constant racist 'engrish' comments?
Rendevous is a 'framework' that enables an amazing array of functionality in many different applications. For instance, in iChat I can use rendevous to converse with others on my local network, devoid of going through a central authority (server) on the internet.
Like there arent 9 gajillion and one 'chatting' applications out there already. I mean, c'mon, every comp sci student writes one to pass his intro to net programming class.
Others have pointed out that this exists on other systems. Emacs can do it, NetMeeting does it. Mainframes have been doing it for years (mostly by accident, of course - but I've used this 'quirk' many times when a tech is in the field, and I'm dialed in, and we can both work on the same bug at the same time)
I mean, hip hip hooray - it's rendezvous enabled. I fail to see whats new and exciting here.
So now I get modded down to oblivion for not becoming fully erect because someone did something with his mac that everyone else can do with their OS's of choice.
I mean, excuse me for not paying tribute to Steve Jobs little fiefdom. OSX is pretty, but not groundbreaking. It really doesnt impress me. So they got rendezvous. A nice API for people who 'dont get' TCP/IP.
And GNU doesn't consider the APL to be truly Open Source, but all that idealistic chatter is pretty much besides the point. Open or not, it's still a pain in the ass to have Macs and Windows and Linuxes all run side by side on the same network.
I'm so tired of the pissing contests. Who cares. Computers are computers are computers.
MS NetMeeting's whiteboard feature comes to MAC OS/X!
emacs can do this too, IIRC.
Can any submission related to Apple get posted to the front page?
This just in:
Apple has computers that run off of standard household power! Apple's new mega-impressive technology converts standard household current into usable DC power for the computer!
It works with both North American 120VAC 60Hz and European 240VAC 50Hz formats!
Matrox has written Linux drivers for their graphics cards, but the Linux drivers don't support TV-out. Why?
It's apparently because Linux doesn't have Macrovision support, and I guess Matrox doesn't want to be sued by the MPAA for releasing drivers that "enable piracy". So Linux users can't have a feature that has many legitimate uses, just because someone might tape a DVD onto a VHS tape with it.
That's a good conspiracy theory. Another theory is that linux cant dynamically add/remove display devices in userland at run time the way windows can.
You'd either have TV out enabled all the time, or CRT all the time, or both, but you wouldnt be able to switch at will.
It could also be because of the MODELINE nonsense in your xf89config. TV out has some pretty specific frequency requirements, and perhaps the ability to tweak those while enabled would damage the card, and then void the warranty - but if you voided the warranty with a matrox driver, you dont void the warranty, so they have to continually replace cards for all the 'tweakers' out there.
Or it could be that you're looking a gift horse in the mouth. Want all the features of the vid card to work? Fire up emacs and get a-crackin'.
BTW, IIRC macrovision is a hardware feature, not a software one. There is no 'linux support' to be written, save flipping it on via a hardware register. They're only required that it be present, it can be disabled as easily under windows (a registry tweak for most cards) as it could be under linux.
Isn't the largest issue with any support on Linux still the fact that very few companies are willing to put in the time to create Linux drivers let alone have have the decency to release the information on the chipsets to the public to allow 3rd party drivers to be created?
It's not like they're jerks about it. They dont make money from drivers, after all, so it's really in their best interests to create linux drivers.
But here's the rub.
#1) Releasing specs on chips like the EMU101k (for example) hurts their market position. That stuff is trade secrets, and patents and whatnot. nVidia doesnt just give out schematics for their new FX chips, after all. Nor does creative (or whomever) want to hand out their fancy-dancy sound chips.
#2) Creating drivers for linux is different from say, windows. To do so for windows, you get the Windows DDK (driver development kit), and create your driver. You need not interact with MSFT, unless you want the drivers signed when finished. There are rules set up for a windows driver, specs and all that. It's basically a matter of filling in the gaps with your code.
Contrast with the monolithic kernel that linux has. Creative would need to participate and coordinate with linus et al from start to finish. It's all still uncharted waters, largely, and just takes more man hours, and more expensive hours, as they pay higher-up engineers to deal with the whole thing.
If the linux kernel crew can nail down a 'spec' of sorts for drivers, and not require hardware manufacturers to deal with the kernel hackers to get their stuff directly supported, then they'd have no problem at all churning out a linux driver.
In short, the monolithic kernel is an albatross around linux' neck when it comes to wanting hardware support from the manufacturers.
but I'm afraid it might get significantly harder for humble college students such as myself to sample an artist's music before going out and buying a disc
I had a solution for that back in my university days that preceded napster and mp3s, for that matter.
It was called: FRIENDS
I'd say "Whatcha got there Stu?"
He'd say "Mr Bungle CD"
I'd say "it any good?"
He'd say "yeah, have a listen.. you can borrow it"
I'd say "Thanks"
It can work for you too.
Oh, wait, you want music without any social interaction or having to pay for it. Cant help ya there.
Their networks, their rules. We werent allowed to copy video games using school equipment either.
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What would you use this for? Leave your frozen pizza in there from the night before, and have it heat up as you drive home..
Cue Homer Simpson; "30 seconds!? But I'm hungry now!"
I guess you could put in a pound of beef or a chicken or something and then put it on defrost an hour or two before getting home.
Or, you could just sit the beef/chicken in the fridge (or in the shade on the counter) like people have been doing for a hundred years.
I can't for the life of me think of what this device does that warrants a 2000 dollar price tag.
The only thing its good at is costing a lot of money.
Seriously. Who is a good actor?
Mel Gibson? Vin Diesel?
Arnold Shwartzenegger?
Clint Eastwood?
Jack Nicholson?
Val Kilmer?
Or the 'mob guys': Pacino, Deniro, Pesci
Tell me that any of these brilliant actors dont just play every character with the exact same intonations and mannerisms.
Hollywood acting is just reading lines and looking pretty. Everything else is post production.
392! 3892! 7489!
feel free to use any of those if you're short on cash and cant upgrade just yet.
THEY ARE ALL OPEN SOURCE - FREE AS IN I'LL SUE YOU WHEN YOU GOT MONEY TO PAY!
I finally feel, for the first time in my 28 years, that humanity is actually doing something DIFFERENT and NEW
They've been doing this different new thing for 50 years or so. It'll be ready about the same time as the quantum computer and space elevator.
Picture two scientists sitting in a lab banging lumps of plastercine together and exclaiming "I think I saw a spark!"
A cut, polished, precious gem calibre diamond with no significant flaws is quite rare. No doubt the cost to the consumer is marked up quite a bit, but it's a little like saying "theres only a few hundered dollars worth of materials in a Ferrari". It may be true, but there's a whole lot more to a Ferrari than some fiberglass, steel and aluminum.
Anyways, it's worth noting that the DeBeers monopoly got a huge kick in the kiwis a couple years ago when a small (for the industry) startup beat them to the discovery of huge diamond lodes up in the canadian arctic. I can't remember the name of them, but Discovery has been airing a documentary about the discovery.
He has gotten threatening phone calls and messages ... The spammer is getting a taste of his own medicine
/. editors should get privacy protection. What kind of one sided flamebait is this?
/. discussions.
Threatening phone calls is a 'taste of his own medicine'? Telemarketers and spam annoy me, but they never threaten me bodily harm over the phone (or 'net)
Should spammers get some privacy protection too?"
No, only people who agree with the opinions of
If his home and business addresses are the same, that was stupid of him. I'm sure he'll correct that, and get a PO box and seperate phone line for the business.
What really makes you think you're justified to threaten and harass someone because they sent you junk ads in email? Yeah, it's annoying. So are people who drive 5 mph under the limit in the passing lane. But you cant threaten or assault them.
What a stupid article. Equal protection under the law. You're no more entitled to his home address than you are to any AC who crapfloods
it is for poopy heads.
Only dumheads use windows and not linux!
(just rebuilding my karma, thanks in advance mods)
>(possession of child porn is ALREADY illegal, why force ISPs to filter it?)
Not only is posession illegal, it's illegal to knowingly facilitate the distribution of child porn. This absolves the local ISP of liability.
Here's some more terrible affronts to your liberties. US Customs siezes tons of this shit each and every day. It's destroyed, and they dont publish a list of who sent it.
Of course, they cant prove that the address it was being sent to actually ordered it (and even if they did, they knew what it was), so they cant just lock them up. But you better believe their name shows up the next time a traffic cop pulls them over and runs an NCIC check.
Ummm. no.
The reason they dont is they dont want to abet pedophiles indirectly. They dont want the perverts along the border signing up with a MD ISP and leeching their fancy new list of filth.
It's not a slippery slope, its not about politics or ideologies. What your high school does is outside of this legislation, and up to the local districts. If someone found themself blocked, they have a recourse. They can bitch, go public, whatever, start a big scene here on slashdot.
If nazi-kkk-hatesite.com was blocked by this, I'd go as far as to defend their right to say what they want. Because that isn't illegal. Child pornography is.
If you dont see the difference between socialistworker.org and a child pornography site, you need to give your head a shake. Some things really are black and white.
Myself, I think they should disclose the list, but not for any of the reasons slashbots do. We have Megans Law which forces information about sex offenders to be made public to the communities they're released into. By extension, I want the list to add to my own firewall.
Child pornography is not "protected speech" by any means. It's a felony.
Any facts about this case from unbiased sources?
(NYT is no more than an editorial rag and Wired and Slashdot always have been)
I mean, perhaps he truly IS a material witness. Maybe the guy knows something.
You dont get picked up by the feds just for wearing a turban, no matter what michael or some columnist in the NYT tells you.
This is just some evidence to support a 200 year old theory from Lord Kelvin, at least that's how I read the article. It's not a new 'discovery' so much as some proof that we were right all along about the laws of voltage potential.
VESA is a standards orginization.
The VESA local bus was one (short lived) standard, as are the VESA 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 compliant display modes.
"VESA display modes" is absolutely correct. Try using google next time you want to sound like a techno whiz kid.
You do have a SET BLASTER=PORT,DMA,IRQ system variable set, right?
It works fine. You probably just dont realize or remember how much a pain in the ass it was to get sound setup in Duke and other DOS titles at all.
Once you do, you stop taking DirectX for granted.
It's easier to port from linux to win32 than vice-versa. There's a lot more win32 specific stuff thats tightly integrated into the OS (MFC, GDI, DirectX, etc, etc) than the other way around. All the linux libraries of note have a win32 port already (SDL, OpenGL etc)
(BTW this already compiles out of the box on win32, the submitter is wrong)
It has nothing to do with "linux programmers being better" at anything. A good programmer would just do things in that order for that simple reason.
I thought Duke Nuk'em 3D sucked.
The quotes he would say all the time annoyed me. The graphics looked patched together, it looked like a bunch of photographs on strings moving around. It didnt even look as seamless as doom did.
What was that stupid clone of Duke called, the 'samurai' one with Adam Sandler making constant racist 'engrish' comments?
Diff'rent strokes.
Last time I tired to play Duke in MS Windows, video worked, but couldn't get any sound. Duke just isn't the same without sound.
Use one of a few dozen soundblaster emulators, and everything will be hunky dory (SBLive comes with a good one). There are quite a few out there.
Rendevous is a 'framework' that enables an amazing array of functionality in many different applications. For instance, in iChat I can use rendevous to converse with others on my local network, devoid of going through a central authority (server) on the internet.
Like there arent 9 gajillion and one 'chatting' applications out there already. I mean, c'mon, every comp sci student writes one to pass his intro to net programming class.
Others have pointed out that this exists on other systems. Emacs can do it, NetMeeting does it. Mainframes have been doing it for years (mostly by accident, of course - but I've used this 'quirk' many times when a tech is in the field, and I'm dialed in, and we can both work on the same bug at the same time)
I mean, hip hip hooray - it's rendezvous enabled. I fail to see whats new and exciting here.
So now I get modded down to oblivion for not becoming fully erect because someone did something with his mac that everyone else can do with their OS's of choice.
I mean, excuse me for not paying tribute to Steve Jobs little fiefdom. OSX is pretty, but not groundbreaking. It really doesnt impress me. So they got rendezvous. A nice API for people who 'dont get' TCP/IP.
And GNU doesn't consider the APL to be truly Open Source, but all that idealistic chatter is pretty much besides the point. Open or not, it's still a pain in the ass to have Macs and Windows and Linuxes all run side by side on the same network.
I'm so tired of the pissing contests. Who cares. Computers are computers are computers.
MS NetMeeting's whiteboard feature comes to MAC OS/X!
emacs can do this too, IIRC.
Can any submission related to Apple get posted to the front page?
This just in:
Apple has computers that run off of standard household power! Apple's new mega-impressive technology converts standard household current into usable DC power for the computer!
It works with both North American 120VAC 60Hz and European 240VAC 50Hz formats!
That's a good conspiracy theory. Another theory is that linux cant dynamically add/remove display devices in userland at run time the way windows can.
You'd either have TV out enabled all the time, or CRT all the time, or both, but you wouldnt be able to switch at will.
It could also be because of the MODELINE nonsense in your xf89config. TV out has some pretty specific frequency requirements, and perhaps the ability to tweak those while enabled would damage the card, and then void the warranty - but if you voided the warranty with a matrox driver, you dont void the warranty, so they have to continually replace cards for all the 'tweakers' out there.
Or it could be that you're looking a gift horse in the mouth. Want all the features of the vid card to work? Fire up emacs and get a-crackin'.
BTW, IIRC macrovision is a hardware feature, not a software one. There is no 'linux support' to be written, save flipping it on via a hardware register. They're only required that it be present, it can be disabled as easily under windows (a registry tweak for most cards) as it could be under linux.
Isn't the largest issue with any support on Linux still the fact that very few companies are willing to put in the time to create Linux drivers let alone have have the decency to release the information on the chipsets to the public to allow 3rd party drivers to be created?
It's not like they're jerks about it. They dont make money from drivers, after all, so it's really in their best interests to create linux drivers.
But here's the rub.
#1) Releasing specs on chips like the EMU101k (for example) hurts their market position. That stuff is trade secrets, and patents and whatnot. nVidia doesnt just give out schematics for their new FX chips, after all. Nor does creative (or whomever) want to hand out their fancy-dancy sound chips.
#2) Creating drivers for linux is different from say, windows. To do so for windows, you get the Windows DDK (driver development kit), and create your driver. You need not interact with MSFT, unless you want the drivers signed when finished. There are rules set up for a windows driver, specs and all that. It's basically a matter of filling in the gaps with your code.
Contrast with the monolithic kernel that linux has. Creative would need to participate and coordinate with linus et al from start to finish. It's all still uncharted waters, largely, and just takes more man hours, and more expensive hours, as they pay higher-up engineers to deal with the whole thing.
If the linux kernel crew can nail down a 'spec' of sorts for drivers, and not require hardware manufacturers to deal with the kernel hackers to get their stuff directly supported, then they'd have no problem at all churning out a linux driver.
In short, the monolithic kernel is an albatross around linux' neck when it comes to wanting hardware support from the manufacturers.
...that you need a spell checker.
Here's looking forward to a linux box that does more than beep through the PC speaker.
But first let me set up a printer without staying up all night pulling out my hair, thanks.
You never even thought of it until just now.
C'mon, admit it.
Accept no substitutes.
This was already posted A HREF=http://slashdot.org> here!
but I'm afraid it might get significantly harder for humble college students such as myself to sample an artist's music before going out and buying a disc
I had a solution for that back in my university days that preceded napster and mp3s, for that matter.
It was called: FRIENDS
I'd say "Whatcha got there Stu?"
He'd say "Mr Bungle CD"
I'd say "it any good?"
He'd say "yeah, have a listen.. you can borrow it"
I'd say "Thanks"
It can work for you too.
Oh, wait, you want music without any social interaction or having to pay for it. Cant help ya there.
Their networks, their rules. We werent allowed to copy video games using school equipment either.