Who said anything about wanting to be treated like real journalists ? Journalists work ridiculous hours, get thrown all over the world and get crappy pay. At least in IT you get a decent salary....
You magical magical man.... thank you. I'll download it immediately.
Forget it with Linux
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I have exactly this motherboard (EPIA-M series), and have been trying to run linux on it as a home a/v pc. It runs really well under Win2k, but for linux there's no X DRI driver, and the mpeg2 decoder hardware is inaccessible (and VIA won't release specs to OSS devs).
VIA's linux support for this thing sucks *seriously*. They have binary only drivers that don't work, and don't respond to open-source developers (even VIA's own forums are filled with people who complain about not receiving any reply to linux requests).
Alan Cox has made comments in the past referring to the strangeness of VIA: (paraphrase from memory) "any vendor that doesn't push chip specs at O/S developers is strange in my book". This doesn't stop with the O/S.
They're protecting the internals of this thing hard, and they're isolating the free O/S userbase in the process.
Yeah I have heaps of relatives that just so happen to have done all those really embarassing things that I don't want to own up to.
Who's really teaching this course ? It wouldn't be YOU would it ?
Not true... I bought a Suica (the name of the aforementioned smart card) completely anonymously 6 or 12 months ago, and have been happily charging and recharging it since then with cash.
They definitely don't *require* it... but if you want to buy a long term pass eg 3 monthly unlimited between 2 set stations, then yes, you do give them your id. The savings are not really that much though, so it's not worth it.
Not to mention having been commonplace in Japan for over 2 years. I can't agree more with this dracken.
When I read this I thought "wait a minute... video phones have been out here in Japan for almost 12 months, yet we're still talking about phones with still cameras in them ? Did I end up in the Internet Archive site by mistake ?"
I think if this was of any importance or interest whatsoever, someone a little more upmarket and respected than www.israel21c.org would be carrying the story... this is basically tabloid journalism on the internet, yet somehow it got on Slashdot.
Hmmm... methinks someone upstairs in Slashdot wanted to start a stone-throwing session.
Does anyone have any links to comparable stats on other services (eg email on iMode in Japan) ? I heard once that NTT Docomo's iMode mail server gets 800 million messages a day, of which only 200 million are legitimate addresses.
Under that kind of load, 7.5% lost messages would be a good figure... in my experience I lose around 10% of messages each day. That's not really lose though, cause it's just that they arrive a week after I send them. The joy of spam....
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Is it just me, or does this sound like a college assignment that some professor gave out, and only one guy in the class had the balls to post it to Slashdot for research ?
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Who said anything about wanting to be treated like real journalists ? Journalists work ridiculous hours, get thrown all over the world and get crappy pay. At least in IT you get a decent salary....
You magical magical man .... thank you. I'll download it immediately.
I have exactly this motherboard (EPIA-M series), and have been trying to run linux on it as a home a/v pc. It runs really well under Win2k, but for linux there's no X DRI driver, and the mpeg2 decoder hardware is inaccessible (and VIA won't release specs to OSS devs).
VIA's linux support for this thing sucks *seriously*. They have binary only drivers that don't work, and don't respond to open-source developers (even VIA's own forums are filled with people who complain about not receiving any reply to linux requests).
Alan Cox has made comments in the past referring to the strangeness of VIA: (paraphrase from memory) "any vendor that doesn't push chip specs at O/S developers is strange in my book". This doesn't stop with the O/S.
They're protecting the internals of this thing hard, and they're isolating the free O/S userbase in the process.
Yeah I have heaps of relatives that just so happen to have done all those really embarassing things that I don't want to own up to. Who's really teaching this course ? It wouldn't be YOU would it ?
I have a suica that lets me go anywhere, and you just charge it with cash ... I've had it for 12 months or so.
Not true ... I bought a Suica (the name of the aforementioned smart card) completely anonymously 6 or 12 months ago, and have been happily charging and recharging it since then with cash.
... but if you want to buy a long term pass eg 3 monthly unlimited between 2 set stations, then yes, you do give them your id. The savings are not really that much though, so it's not worth it.
They definitely don't *require* it
-- from SHINAGAWA, JAPAN
Not to mention having been commonplace in Japan for over 2 years. I can't agree more with this dracken.
... video phones have been out here in Japan for almost 12 months, yet we're still talking about phones with still cameras in them ? Did I end up in the Internet Archive site by mistake ?"
When I read this I thought "wait a minute
It's all in that one word, isn't it ?
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I think if this was of any importance or interest whatsoever, someone a little more upmarket and respected than www.israel21c.org would be carrying the story ... this is basically tabloid journalism on the internet, yet somehow it got on Slashdot.
... methinks someone upstairs in Slashdot wanted to start a stone-throwing session.
Hmmm
Does anyone have any links to comparable stats on other services (eg email on iMode in Japan) ? I heard once that NTT Docomo's iMode mail server gets 800 million messages a day, of which only 200 million are legitimate addresses. Under that kind of load, 7.5% lost messages would be a good figure ... in my experience I lose around 10% of messages each day. That's not really lose though, cause it's just that they arrive a week after I send them. The joy of spam ....
R
ZD: Are you aware then, of any complaints being made to the ABA?
RA: I haven't read of any.
I always suspected Richard Alston was illiterate.
Is it just me, or does this sound like a college assignment that some professor gave out, and only one guy in the class had the balls to post it to Slashdot for research ?
I'm surprised you can even browse the article on that PC