That overpass looks like the one by Tower Records. These are all really obvious places. I'm sure at least half the kids going into the *cough* MIT comp sci building (photo #5) know what it is. Or shopping at Urban Outfitters, or going into a BU dorm.
Oh well, I suppose the downfall is that Ignignot is giving people the finger. That's not going to stay up for very long no matter where you put it.
Yeah, if I were a major media company, I wouldn't be looking to advertise in a ditch by the side of the road. Then again, ATHF is only 11-minutes long. I don't think Adult Swim in particular has a lot of money.
Kennedy was assassinated by Vice President Johnson (duh). We never went to the moon. We never went to Mars, and most space photos are faked. AIDS (HIV anyway) is a hoax. Retroviral therapy kills people. Diet Coke causes siezures. Flouride is an industrial pollutant (ask Europe). Gulf War Syndrome is caused by depleted uranium tank rounds. Al Quaeda doesn't exist. Dick Cheney planned, financed, and executed 9/11.
OSDN also runs sites like devchannel.org which are more-or-less direct competitors of builder.com. Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN. I mean, we're all going to be buying software direct from Indian companies soon, so why not?" He claims CNet isn't giving up control, but if they're the publisher, and he's the editor, and they can't hire and manage their own writers, why shouldn't the Indians just put up their own website to replace CNet, and we can all read what they write direct? The funny thing is, the editor claims it's not as much about money as because he's 'getting a better interface with producers of the content.' Builder.com, which is part of CNet.com, is now outsourcing some of their writing to India.
The vehicle must rely on the use of several sensors, with possible overlapping capabilities. Moreover different sensor techniques are expected to have variable reliability under the many conditions throughout the race. Each sensor must have associated with it a "confidence factor." This can be thought of as the signal to noise ratio for each sensor. This confidence factor will come from two sources: The sensor itself (i.e. a camera with a blank image might set it's own confidence factor to a very low level) The second way to calculate reliability factor would be to see how well a given sensor correlates with other sensors on board the vehicle. For example, if one sensor does not detect an obstacle, which is detected by the others, then that particular sensor would have its confidence factor downgraded a notch.
Vision and Ladar can provide precise obstacle location and terrain contour information to a distance of up to 100 yards. Sonar, being limited in range, can be used for Near Obstacle Detection.
The MySQL extension has been debundled because MySQL has changed its
licensing policy and, effective 4.0, the library is now distributed
either under the GPL (which is incompatible with the PHP license) or by
purchasing a commercial license.
You can still link to the MySQL library by downloading it separately
from PHP, installing it and the configuring PHP to point to it. This
will work both with 3.x and 4.x. However, technically you can't link
against 4.x unless you have a commercial license from MySQL.
The use of Nanotechnology is the most powerful proposition to come down the pipe in all of recorded history. It provides the power to recreate the world within the scope of our imagination. What a seductive possibility. But, all of the repercussions of of our actions must be thought out. The nanograss idea is interesting, but the role of actual grass is pervasive. Modifing existing grass seems vastly safer and wiser than attempting to make a leap to all NEW nanograss. Our track record for anticipating the results of such moves have historically been poor.
IP Telephony allows the terms "Phreaker" and "Hacker" to come closer then ever before
because of the convergence between telephony and IP.
The security threat associated with IP Telephony is far greater than with regular telephone
networks. It is combined from a number of different factors that needs to be evaluated
before any deployment of IP Telephony.
Before I was serious about building this box, I decided to see how much of a task it would be to implement it. I picked up a very cheap, no-name video capture card at a local computer show. The box said it used the Brooktree 878 chipset -- one I remembered was well supported by the Video4Linux project. And the price was right for experimentation at US$40. I took it home and installed it on a crappy Pentium 166 I had lying around. I installed the card and Mandrake 8.2 and started playing with the card using XawTV. The I/O and speed limitations of that system kept it from being overly useful as a recorder, but it proved to me that the project was viable and that the equivalent of a second generation Pentium processor could probably do the job adequately.
As someone who has spent more time on eBay than I care to remember, I naturally started looking for viable hardware there. I found this strange little Hewlett Packard "built for Unisys" PC which is about 1 foot square and about 3.5 inches tall. It features a Sahara-II motherboard and had most of the hardware I needed built into the standard box. I added a mouse and keyboard and the TV capture card and I was ready to start building a solution. It started out as a 300 MHz Celeron with 32 MB of memory, but I decided to fork over another US$30 or so and make it 400 Mhz and 96 MB. It actually worked before the upgrade, but the CPU seemed to be at its edge and I didn't want to use KDE with so little memory.
I set up the system to autologin to a passwordless user called (appropriately) "tv." I capture the programs into a subdirectory called (strangely enough) "shows."
The recording rate of the TV capture card appears to max out at 15 frames per second. If I were intending to archive these programs forever, I'd probably invest in a better card. But for timeshifting shows like the evening news from France (for my wife) and The Red Green Show (for me), 15 fps is adequate.
Most products today follow popular demand. There is nothing wrong with this...as long as consumers are completely informed. However, most merely follow fad, fancy and place trust in commerce. But since commerce in turn follows consumers, there is no true progress, just a circle of followers.
This is not to suggest that we are perfect, or have all the answers. Nevertheless, as knowledge grows, we will have continuing advancement, as well as faithfulness to our core belief that health and a better world are not only attainable, but a responsibility.
It looks like the second generation of homebrew PVRs is on its way. Asus recently released their Digimatrix barebones PC which combines a lot of features in a very slim and stylish box. DVD/CD-R, WiFi, HDTV tuner, FM Tuner, memory card reader etc. All for ~$400. The reviews look good, except that the software that comes with it doesn't look all that great... of course this may not be a problem because there has already been significant effort in getting linux to run on it and most features are working. Combine MythTV with this device and you have an almost perfect PVR? I wonder what other hardware companies have in store for the homebrew PVR market?
According to the same article, Chase Manhattan's online web client has serious problems with stability, security and breaches of privacy as well as a severe lack of open standards at almost every level of the implementation.
Having used it, I can vouch that this is true. The GUI is exclusively ActiveX, which works only on some versions of IE. I have to assume there is some windows web/db system driving the backend, at least in front of the mainframe (or whatever is holding the real bank records).
And it seems this is rather common among bank clients, even among smaller banks and credit unions. On three bank sites I looked at recently, two explicitly stated that IE was necessary, and on the third it was implied.
Many people have noted that there has been a reaction to the story posted a few days ago about NASA putting a space-station at Lagrange points. This is good, I guess: Congress should consider carefully how the government licenses engineered systems, because it's an important public policy question: it shouldn't be decided by a backroom push from business lobbyists (Microsoft). There are certain things that bother me about this whole story though, and I'm going to try to trace the trajectory of it below.
As far as I can tell, it started with this Newsforge story. The Newsforge story was excerpted and copied by an Australian newspaper, and from there, it was off and spreading. The headline chosen, "SuSE Linux now has the latest Exchange killer, but this time for Exchange Server", is not particularly accurate, but it did a great job at stirring up outrage.
From there it really started making the rounds. It was repeatedly submitted to Slashdot with all sorts of flaming, incorrect commentary - in fact, after reading a dozen different submissions, I didn't think any of them were even close to accurate. I picked one and posted it, trying to do my best to a) provide an accurate headline and b) provide an accurate summary of the issue at stake in a few sentences. To recap again: when something is available both in Quicktime and DivX, the Federal government gets no copyright whatsoever and the work is true public domain. If you want to copy, reproduce, or sell an.mp3 of Dan Burnett's "Sun Rings", based on detection instruments aboard NASA's Voyagers, Galileo, Cassini spacecraft, go right ahead: there is no copyright on it whatsoever. (Actually, the song itself is still under copyright, but Congress' performance of it wouldn't be...)
However, when the Federal government hires some one at MIT to create code or install Openexchange Server, there is no clear rule regarding the copyright status of the work. Sometimes the contractor keeps the copyright and gets to do a drop-in replacement. Sometimes NASA gets it. Note that this is NOT a BSD-vs.-GPL dispute, not by a long shot. The contracts are often designed more to promote current office-holders than to promote governmental affairs.
Okay, this is getting a little ridiculous here. I'm clicking on Slashdot articles that are taking me directly to Quicktime movies of Apple's products. This is a new low for the venerable Slashdot.
>Why is it wrong for an executive to borrow a plane >to take his family on a trip and right for an employee >to use the broadband connection to share music.
Because one is illegal and the other is not?
>though downloading music on your personal account may >not be stealing, downloading music on an account primarily >used for profit is much more likely to be stealing
Not really. I probably derive more long-term value from my account at home. Which one is 'stealing' again? I like how you use their term for it.
>Lets concentrate on the characterizing the RIAA >as overgrown script kiddies
The day anyone at the RIAA gets enough clue to run scripts, they will probably actually start getting some of our respect.
No, because sound shielding isn't going to account for the noise coming from the case fans, which are exposed to the exterior. Some exterior baffles, maybe.
I just bought an Antec power supply with a temperature-regulated fan. It's quiet. Only problem is, if you let the Antec also control the case fans, the PSU ends up doing all the work dissipating heat. It ends up funneling all the heat through the PSU (which has a big intake fan on the bottom in addition to its exhaust fan). Like I said, it's quiet but I can't imagine the PSU lasting very long this way.
at this price point, shouldn't people be thinking about adding additional processors, instead of overclocking 1 processor? That seems like the better path to follow from a price, performance, and stability standpoint.
Yeah, if you want to run a 500W power supply and push that much heat (and noise) out of your case into the room.
Don't get me wrong, I think we're heading in the direction of multiprocessor systems, what with all the recent talk of hyperthreading, but we're not quite there yet.
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Wow, nice photo essay. Mod parent up.
That overpass looks like the one by Tower Records. These are all really obvious places. I'm sure at least half the kids going into the *cough* MIT comp sci building (photo #5) know what it is. Or shopping at Urban Outfitters, or going into a BU dorm.
Oh well, I suppose the downfall is that Ignignot is giving people the finger. That's not going to stay up for very long no matter where you put it.
Yeah, if I were a major media company, I wouldn't be looking to advertise in a ditch by the side of the road. Then again, ATHF is only 11-minutes long. I don't think Adult Swim in particular has a lot of money.
That might be true, but to get modded up on this site you're going to need a Simpsons reference.
Q: What's the difference between a clueless noob and a Slashdot moderator?
A: A clueless noob watches FOXNews 24/7. A Slashdot moderator watches FOXNews by day, and MSNBC by night.
Q: What's the difference between Noam Chomsky and Che Guevarra?
A: Che Guevarra wasn't a pompous asshole.
Q: What's the difference between Noam Chomsky's analysis of 9/11 and George Bush's analysis of 9/11?
A: Nothing.
Kennedy was assassinated by Vice President Johnson (duh).
We never went to the moon.
We never went to Mars, and most space photos are faked.
AIDS (HIV anyway) is a hoax.
Retroviral therapy kills people.
Diet Coke causes siezures.
Flouride is an industrial pollutant (ask Europe).
Gulf War Syndrome is caused by depleted uranium tank rounds.
Al Quaeda doesn't exist.
Dick Cheney planned, financed, and executed 9/11.
Happy New Year!
SOFTWARE IS TEXT.
YOU CAN'T PATENT WORDS.
TRY A COPYRIGHT INSTEAD.
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Reason: Thanks for using so many caps. It's like yelling.
Good point, but I think pushing Blu-Ray is reason enough for Sony to use it for games. The wasted space costs very little.
And it will get used - maybe not for games, but pretty soon people will be trading whole libraries of movies.
OSDN also runs sites like devchannel.org which are more-or-less direct competitors of builder.com. Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN. I mean, we're all going to be buying software direct from Indian companies soon, so why not?" He claims CNet isn't giving up control, but if they're the publisher, and he's the editor, and they can't hire and manage their own writers, why shouldn't the Indians just put up their own website to replace CNet, and we can all read what they write direct? The funny thing is, the editor claims it's not as much about money as because he's 'getting a better interface with producers of the content.' Builder.com, which is part of CNet.com, is now outsourcing some of their writing to India.
The vehicle must rely on the use of several sensors, with possible overlapping capabilities. Moreover different sensor techniques are expected to have variable reliability under the many conditions throughout the race. Each sensor must have associated with it a "confidence factor." This can be thought of as the signal to noise ratio for each sensor. This confidence factor will come from two sources: The sensor itself (i.e. a camera with a blank image might set it's own confidence factor to a very low level) The second way to calculate reliability factor would be to see how well a given sensor correlates with other sensors on board the vehicle. For example, if one sensor does not detect an obstacle, which is detected by the others, then that particular sensor would have its confidence factor downgraded a notch.
Vision and Ladar can provide precise obstacle location and terrain contour information to a distance of up to 100 yards. Sonar, being limited in range, can be used for Near Obstacle Detection.
The MySQL extension has been debundled because MySQL has changed its licensing policy and, effective 4.0, the library is now distributed either under the GPL (which is incompatible with the PHP license) or by purchasing a commercial license. You can still link to the MySQL library by downloading it separately from PHP, installing it and the configuring PHP to point to it. This will work both with 3.x and 4.x. However, technically you can't link against 4.x unless you have a commercial license from MySQL.
One time, two of my Sims fell in love with each other, and a third Sim became so jealous he kissed the male just to show his affection.
The use of Nanotechnology is the most powerful proposition to come down the pipe in all of recorded history. It provides the power to recreate the world within the scope of our imagination. What a seductive possibility. But, all of the repercussions of of our actions must be thought out. The nanograss idea is interesting, but the role of actual grass is pervasive. Modifing existing grass seems vastly safer and wiser than attempting to make a leap to all NEW nanograss. Our track record for anticipating the results of such moves have historically been poor.
IP Telephony allows the terms "Phreaker" and "Hacker" to come closer then ever before because of the convergence between telephony and IP. The security threat associated with IP Telephony is far greater than with regular telephone networks. It is combined from a number of different factors that needs to be evaluated before any deployment of IP Telephony.
Before I was serious about building this box, I decided to see how much of a task it would be to implement it. I picked up a very cheap, no-name video capture card at a local computer show. The box said it used the Brooktree 878 chipset -- one I remembered was well supported by the Video4Linux project. And the price was right for experimentation at US$40. I took it home and installed it on a crappy Pentium 166 I had lying around. I installed the card and Mandrake 8.2 and started playing with the card using XawTV. The I/O and speed limitations of that system kept it from being overly useful as a recorder, but it proved to me that the project was viable and that the equivalent of a second generation Pentium processor could probably do the job adequately.
As someone who has spent more time on eBay than I care to remember, I naturally started looking for viable hardware there. I found this strange little Hewlett Packard "built for Unisys" PC which is about 1 foot square and about 3.5 inches tall. It features a Sahara-II motherboard and had most of the hardware I needed built into the standard box. I added a mouse and keyboard and the TV capture card and I was ready to start building a solution. It started out as a 300 MHz Celeron with 32 MB of memory, but I decided to fork over another US$30 or so and make it 400 Mhz and 96 MB. It actually worked before the upgrade, but the CPU seemed to be at its edge and I didn't want to use KDE with so little memory.
I set up the system to autologin to a passwordless user called (appropriately) "tv." I capture the programs into a subdirectory called (strangely enough) "shows."
The recording rate of the TV capture card appears to max out at 15 frames per second. If I were intending to archive these programs forever, I'd probably invest in a better card. But for timeshifting shows like the evening news from France (for my wife) and The Red Green Show (for me), 15 fps is adequate.
Most products today follow popular demand. There is nothing wrong with this...as long as consumers are completely informed. However, most merely follow fad, fancy and place trust in commerce. But since commerce in turn follows consumers, there is no true progress, just a circle of followers.
This is not to suggest that we are perfect, or have all the answers. Nevertheless, as knowledge grows, we will have continuing advancement, as well as faithfulness to our core belief that health and a better world are not only attainable, but a responsibility.
It looks like the second generation of homebrew PVRs is on its way. Asus recently released their Digimatrix barebones PC which combines a lot of features in a very slim and stylish box. DVD/CD-R, WiFi, HDTV tuner, FM Tuner, memory card reader etc. All for ~$400. The reviews look good, except that the software that comes with it doesn't look all that great... of course this may not be a problem because there has already been significant effort in getting linux to run on it and most features are working. Combine MythTV with this device and you have an almost perfect PVR? I wonder what other hardware companies have in store for the homebrew PVR market?
According to the same article, Chase Manhattan's online web client has serious problems with stability, security and breaches of privacy as well as a severe lack of open standards at almost every level of the implementation.
Having used it, I can vouch that this is true. The GUI is exclusively ActiveX, which works only on some versions of IE. I have to assume there is some windows web/db system driving the backend, at least in front of the mainframe (or whatever is holding the real bank records).
And it seems this is rather common among bank clients, even among smaller banks and credit unions. On three bank sites I looked at recently, two explicitly stated that IE was necessary, and on the third it was implied.
Many people have noted that there has been a reaction to the story posted a few days ago about NASA putting a space-station at Lagrange points. This is good, I guess: Congress should consider carefully how the government licenses engineered systems, because it's an important public policy question: it shouldn't be decided by a backroom push from business lobbyists (Microsoft). There are certain things that bother me about this whole story though, and I'm going to try to trace the trajectory of it below.
.mp3 of Dan Burnett's "Sun Rings", based on detection instruments aboard NASA's Voyagers, Galileo, Cassini spacecraft, go right ahead: there is no copyright on it whatsoever. (Actually, the song itself is still under copyright, but Congress' performance of it wouldn't be...)
As far as I can tell, it started with this Newsforge story. The Newsforge story was excerpted and copied by an Australian newspaper, and from there, it was off and spreading. The headline chosen, "SuSE Linux now has the latest Exchange killer, but this time for Exchange Server", is not particularly accurate, but it did a great job at stirring up outrage.
From there it really started making the rounds. It was repeatedly submitted to Slashdot with all sorts of flaming, incorrect commentary - in fact, after reading a dozen different submissions, I didn't think any of them were even close to accurate. I picked one and posted it, trying to do my best to a) provide an accurate headline and b) provide an accurate summary of the issue at stake in a few sentences. To recap again: when something is available both in Quicktime and DivX, the Federal government gets no copyright whatsoever and the work is true public domain. If you want to copy, reproduce, or sell an
However, when the Federal government hires some one at MIT to create code or install Openexchange Server, there is no clear rule regarding the copyright status of the work. Sometimes the contractor keeps the copyright and gets to do a drop-in replacement. Sometimes NASA gets it. Note that this is NOT a BSD-vs.-GPL dispute, not by a long shot. The contracts are often designed more to promote current office-holders than to promote governmental affairs.
Goatse? Who site is that? I'm just here to help /. a better place. If this guy is starting trouble, maybe we should give him our piece of our minds.
Okay, this is getting a little ridiculous here. I'm clicking on Slashdot articles that are taking me directly to Quicktime movies of Apple's products. This is a new low for the venerable Slashdot.
>Why is it wrong for an executive to borrow a plane
>to take his family on a trip and right for an employee
>to use the broadband connection to share music.
Because one is illegal and the other is not?
>though downloading music on your personal account may
>not be stealing, downloading music on an account primarily
>used for profit is much more likely to be stealing
Not really. I probably derive more long-term value from my account at home. Which one is 'stealing' again? I like how you use their term for it.
>Lets concentrate on the characterizing the RIAA
>as overgrown script kiddies
The day anyone at the RIAA gets enough clue to run scripts, they will probably actually start getting some of our respect.
Well, they will run a P4 up to 2.8Ghz, and they are completely silent. So if you care about noise, then yes.
See here, how to build a silent pc.
No, because sound shielding isn't going to account for the noise coming from the case fans, which are exposed to the exterior. Some exterior baffles, maybe.
I just bought an Antec power supply with a temperature-regulated fan. It's quiet. Only problem is, if you let the Antec also control the case fans, the PSU ends up doing all the work dissipating heat. It ends up funneling all the heat through the PSU (which has a big intake fan on the bottom in addition to its exhaust fan). Like I said, it's quiet but I can't imagine the PSU lasting very long this way.
Fans? What's the point? I thought we were on to vapochill now...
at this price point, shouldn't people be thinking about adding additional processors, instead of overclocking 1 processor? That seems like the better path to follow from a price, performance, and stability standpoint.
Yeah, if you want to run a 500W power supply and push that much heat (and noise) out of your case into the room.
Don't get me wrong, I think we're heading in the direction of multiprocessor systems, what with all the recent talk of hyperthreading, but we're not quite there yet.