I guess there should be a "-5 Swedish" option when talking about home network connections.
In their eastern neighbour Finland I pay about... 0-10€ per month 1Mbps (HomePNA) line. (I'm yet to receive a bill for that connection after 9 months, no idea if they have just forgot me or if it's included in the rent.)
Sweden is not the riches country in the world but somehow they have been able to pull great stunt making Internet truly "free" for everyone.. As in you don't have to have incomes that allow you to pay 1000€ per month for a such connection.
Where I live a 10/10 Mbps (fiber) connection with no restraints costs about 1000€/month plus 1500€ installation.
Could someone please explain to the uninformed why does teaching about what happened in the 20th century bother some religious people, in this case holocaust and muslims?
While I sympatise the families and friends of those who were just killed by this random lunatic I cannot stop being stunned why do people do this (in USA)?
Here, in Finland we have I guess enough guns... If I really wanted to get one, I probably could get one in 24 hrs or faster, as would everyone.
It is just that here, when people face problems big as this shooter must had faced people tend to start by killing themselves and from there moving on to killing other people. This of course results in less collateral damage.
Another things I cannot connect are "university" and "people shooting each other". Ok people are shooting at each other in places with poor education and so on, dealing with drugs perhaps, but I don't understand how and why are guns related to school.
At least here you go to school to learn things, perhaps you have your own world domination plan but you want to know "stuff" before you can own the world. You don't got to school to settle your personal problems.
At least in Finland, I can walk to every place that I suspect might have records on me and ask to be given those records, and the company or what ever, even the police have to comply. AFAIK you can also ask the data to be deleted.
Also, AFAIK according to Finnish law Microsoft (which does have a company in Finland too) they should have in the open a document (or upon request) that specifies what information is being collected in to their registers.
Too bad I don't use Windows:) but anyways.. I'm not a lawyer. It's just common sense that companies can't keep what ever records they want — secretly at least.
I wonder how much would it had cost Lycos to just give those emails back. Sending a message like (and unlocking the account) could had given them that $15 and possibly some nice karma:
Hi, you can go to this address to unlock your Lycos email account with your old password!
Please remember next time that accounts get locked up if they are un-used more than 30 days. You can avoid this by upgrading your account to for only $15.
Please note that this special offer is only available for your account, and it will expire in 10 days from now.
I mean, how much does it cost to be nice to people? I cannot see how this move made Lycos save or make any money..
Doesn't this make H.264 only free of the two patents held by Qualcomm? There has to be dozens and dozens of other patents used as AFAIK H.264 is just a profile (AVC) of MPEG-4?
And afaik again, MPEG-4 is very far from being patent encumbered.
While I acknowledge knowning little about different blurring algorithms could someone enlight a bit how much of "unblurring" can be done? I realize there are some "sharpen" filters in Photoshop and Gimp but AFAIK they all seem to be based on highlighting edges or something like that.
As in the TFA, the Bill Gates picture has a small part of it blurred (his face). Could it be possible to calcute all the possible variations that give the same bitmap as the original when filtered with gaussian blur? What I glanced from gaussian blur page the group including all the possible solutions has to be finite, I guess, while being very huge..
This combined with a monkey (or bored computer user) could "help" refine the patter by selecting the most likely variation until the user is satisfied. Or is this something for which there already exists programs?
Don't the consumer protection laws come before any EULA you might agree? As in if the EULA forbids something that is provided by the laws of a country and the user does have every legal right to use bought software (not having shared license key or whatever) won't the EULA then be rendered void?
At very least the customer should be able to get their money back, and then buy another license or save few hundred bucks and go with some other operating system.
Are there any consumer protection laws in USA btw? I have hard time believing that this could be a problem in Scandinavian countries.
Not that I was a developer or really knew anything about the implementations of todays graphics cards I think that off screen rendering has been supported for some time.
For example game F.E.A.R. did take use of, among other things the off screen rendering, or straight to textrure when multiple surveillance cameras were rendered on a monitor in the game world.
The way I see it, the chip itself doesn't have to know so much about how many tasks are using it, it's the drivers or perhaps even higher level software that does the scheduling of "graphic-requests". But then again this is all speculation:)
A computer operating system that allows you to actually change (upgrade for example) the hardware without having to buy a new license!
What kind of a moron came up with an idea like that? Sure it's nice for users but hey how is Microsoft going to make any money anymore?:(
Well... Only the time will tell. I just hope this won't push Microsoft away from the revenues. Though the more user-friendly approach gives it a nice new twist.
Hopefully we will see a new "virus" war, hasn't it been quite a while since the last one?
(Or maybe I have just missed it, partly because at least I'm not aware of running any viruses on my Kubuntu system. Though, I guess most of people whose computers host viruses don't have the slightest clue it even being possible. Maybe I should at least check for rootkits:) )
Well I'm using latest Kubuntu and opening an.svg file (random from net, the onlyone though) resulted not in a svg file but konqueror asking me what to do.
Though this could just be kubuntu sucking it again.
Actually the best results would be seen when the user uploads the big file he/she wants to share (with his/her friends) in 25 parts to the tracker. Then all his/hers friends could start maxing out their bandwidth very early.. This would be much more faster even in the case of having 5 friends who access the file(s) and much more faster than using ftp/etc unless you have enough bandwidth to saturate at least 4 of your friends links..
In case you haven't noticed, high quality TS is nowdays always better than SCREENER, sometimes even better than a dvd screener (no stupid banners rolling over).
I would pay 5-10€ per movie for:
Fast delivery (not in 24h-92h hours as in with 1Mbps link I've got at the moment)
High quality, both sound and video, or at least the quality of current 2CD scene xvid releases.
That I can play it using mplayer or xine or whatever. (READ: no windows media player, no real media player)
At it's current state, the hunting down warez and the risk of it beats the crap out of jumpy rental dvd's for example.
And another thing, few days back I got this movie Black Hawk Down DVD, a cheap bargain but it's a legal copy. Why don't they use the full DVD resolution, there's a lot of wasted frame area unused... Couldn't they afford to make a quality DVD transfer? I don't get it... I know I'd be really pissed off I had paid 60€ for it.. Also the dvd is authored with some buggy software, making it impossible for mplayer to find finnish subtitles for example! Just great..
I don't mean to troll or hurt anyone's feelings:) But the obivious question; what are the advantages of running Linux on Mac hardware?
As far as I've read, Linux can be run on iBooks but the hardware support is seriously lacking, which disables some important functions like power saving.. I doubt that Apple has yet documents available on controlling G5's fan system, enabling driver writing?
Again, as far as I've read different articles and reviews about OS X, it seems like heaven on earth for most Linux users.. Including something like extremely nice user interface, stable system, quality programs, programming tools, ability to run most linux applications with a recompiling.. Not that I had ever used a mac, there ain't too many around here. Hopefully my next computer will be one.
So back to the point; is there some long term goal like full G5 support or is this some "just for fun" stuff?
Just guessing over here but maybe Sony Music or whatever it's called are in this lawsuit also? Also I wouldn't be surprised if Sony owned stocks here and stocks here on other major/less major music companies, by which tieing it to this case.
Not that I read the article.
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It looks like the lawyers found some html guide and changed the picture back to original, or something like that.
Too bad.. That "new" slogan looked good. Respect to the defacer for the (first?) stylish defacement.
Arts is a truly remarkable system, at least scalability-wise, as here it is able to produce skips and strange decoding errors no matter how modern x86 runs it!
On my old Pentium-II 333MHz 384MB a 5-10% CPU use while playing mp3's was almost a great achievement, but boy, was I surprised when I got a new system a year ago (Athlon XP 1800+, KT400 based), arts was still able to use those 5-10% CPU and producing all the same kind of errors and skips..
I love arts.
To be serious for a moment.. I'm not sure whether a Microsoft like approach to handling multimedia is right. It sounds good on paper, but would it be possible to accomplish, without overcomplicating things (again)?
First, if you've had reasoned it a bit, having a defense [system] BEFORE you get attacked gives you much greater chances of not having [so many] lives lost.
Secondly, I doubt that asteroid and ballistic missle defenses are so different cases, that none of the research outcome of ballistic missile defenses projects couldn't be utilized later on with asteroid defenses.. Though, defending with lasers against asteroids might be way off... Well....:)
I guess it was too much to expect from a press release or what ever, but I still hoped to find something which would had been a hint that id has read some comments of their dull doom 3.
I'm not saying that I won't play it, nor am I not saying that many wont buy the expansion set but I'm saying that many wont enjoy playing it.
I'm hoping they'd come up with something more than:
Enter a room
Kill the first monster
Turn around, kill the second monster
Go through the room, looking for supplies
Kill the third monster in front of the medkit
Jump to 1.
Hoping for everyone's sake, please id use more of the potential of doom3 and concept of scary game.
I think that the one thing which is wrong here is that Microsoft is also pushing it's own Windows Media format (*.wm[va]) with own codecs.
What makes this a problem is that coupling the only player capable of [legally] playing these files gives Microsoft an unfair advantage over everything else.
No user wants to install for example a media player. A Windows user sees a.rm or.mov on a page, he/she might not click it because then new software might have to be installed, the user might look for a.wmv before installing some plugin.
Installing might be a non-wanted process because of the time taken, which gets irritating when it's taking more than zero seconds. Another thing that makes installing unwanted is the huge misuse of install-new-plug-in feature by dangerous spyware/adware/whatever-ware.
heh, the parent and other replies are really fun to read, especially if you are finnish:) so just to clear some things up, though i guess there are pretty easy to guess in case you have seem other pifast screenshots..
laskenta = calculation
alkaa = to begin
on (form of verb 'olla') = is
valmis = ready
vaihe = phase
as in if you didn't already guess by the zillion different language pifast screenshots posted on slashdot, it means "The Calculation begins".
and if you are really low on c[ao]ffeine:
yksi = one
kaksi = two
kolme = three
neljä = four
i actually am really low on c[ao]ffeine and i need some sleep, it's 6:17 in the morning over here and i'm wondering why the fuck am i posting to slashdot.
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I guess there should be a "-5 Swedish" option when talking about home network connections.
In their eastern neighbour Finland I pay about ... 0-10€ per month 1Mbps (HomePNA) line. (I'm yet to receive a bill for that connection after 9 months, no idea if they have just forgot me or if it's included in the rent.)
Sweden is not the riches country in the world but somehow they have been able to pull great stunt making Internet truly "free" for everyone.. As in you don't have to have incomes that allow you to pay 1000€ per month for a such connection.
Where I live a 10/10 Mbps (fiber) connection with no restraints costs about 1000€/month plus 1500€ installation.
Could someone please explain to the uninformed why does teaching about what happened in the 20th century bother some religious people, in this case holocaust and muslims?
While I sympatise the families and friends of those who were just killed by this random lunatic I cannot stop being stunned why do people do this (in USA)?
Here, in Finland we have I guess enough guns ... If I really wanted to get one, I probably could get one in 24 hrs or faster, as would everyone.
It is just that here, when people face problems big as this shooter must had faced people tend to start by killing themselves and from there moving on to killing other people. This of course results in less collateral damage.
Another things I cannot connect are "university" and "people shooting each other". Ok people are shooting at each other in places with poor education and so on, dealing with drugs perhaps, but I don't understand how and why are guns related to school.
At least here you go to school to learn things, perhaps you have your own world domination plan but you want to know "stuff" before you can own the world. You don't got to school to settle your personal problems.
Why would you have to pay at all?
At least in Finland, I can walk to every place that I suspect might have records on me and ask to be given those records, and the company or what ever, even the police have to comply. AFAIK you can also ask the data to be deleted.
Also, AFAIK according to Finnish law Microsoft (which does have a company in Finland too) they should have in the open a document (or upon request) that specifies what information is being collected in to their registers.
Too bad I don't use Windows :) but anyways.. I'm not a lawyer. It's just common sense that companies can't keep what ever records they want — secretly at least.
I wonder how much would it had cost Lycos to just give those emails back. Sending a message like (and unlocking the account) could had given them that $15 and possibly some nice karma:
I mean, how much does it cost to be nice to people? I cannot see how this move made Lycos save or make any money..
Doesn't this make H.264 only free of the two patents held by Qualcomm? There has to be dozens and dozens of other patents used as AFAIK H.264 is just a profile (AVC) of MPEG-4?
And afaik again, MPEG-4 is very far from being patent encumbered.
While I acknowledge knowning little about different blurring algorithms could someone enlight a bit how much of "unblurring" can be done? I realize there are some "sharpen" filters in Photoshop and Gimp but AFAIK they all seem to be based on highlighting edges or something like that.
As in the TFA, the Bill Gates picture has a small part of it blurred (his face). Could it be possible to calcute all the possible variations that give the same bitmap as the original when filtered with gaussian blur? What I glanced from gaussian blur page the group including all the possible solutions has to be finite, I guess, while being very huge..
This combined with a monkey (or bored computer user) could "help" refine the patter by selecting the most likely variation until the user is satisfied. Or is this something for which there already exists programs?
Don't the consumer protection laws come before any EULA you might agree? As in if the EULA forbids something that is provided by the laws of a country and the user does have every legal right to use bought software (not having shared license key or whatever) won't the EULA then be rendered void?
At very least the customer should be able to get their money back, and then buy another license or save few hundred bucks and go with some other operating system.
Are there any consumer protection laws in USA btw? I have hard time believing that this could be a problem in Scandinavian countries.
Please correct me if I am wrong :)
Not that I was a developer or really knew anything about the implementations of todays graphics cards I think that off screen rendering has been supported for some time.
For example game F.E.A.R. did take use of, among other things the off screen rendering, or straight to textrure when multiple surveillance cameras were rendered on a monitor in the game world.
The way I see it, the chip itself doesn't have to know so much about how many tasks are using it, it's the drivers or perhaps even higher level software that does the scheduling of "graphic-requests". But then again this is all speculation :)
A computer operating system that allows you to actually change (upgrade for example) the hardware without having to buy a new license!
What kind of a moron came up with an idea like that? Sure it's nice for users but hey how is Microsoft going to make any money anymore? :(
Well... Only the time will tell. I just hope this won't push Microsoft away from the revenues. Though the more user-friendly approach gives it a nice new twist.
Hopefully we will see a new "virus" war, hasn't it been quite a while since the last one?
(Or maybe I have just missed it, partly because at least I'm not aware of running any viruses on my Kubuntu system. Though, I guess most of people whose computers host viruses don't have the slightest clue it even being possible. Maybe I should at least check for rootkits :) )
Well I'm using latest Kubuntu and opening an .svg file (random from net, the onlyone though) resulted not in a svg file but konqueror asking me what to do.
Though this could just be kubuntu sucking it again.
Actually the best results would be seen when the user uploads the big file he/she wants to share (with his/her friends) in 25 parts to the tracker. Then all his/hers friends could start maxing out their bandwidth very early.. This would be much more faster even in the case of having 5 friends who access the file(s) and much more faster than using ftp/etc unless you have enough bandwidth to saturate at least 4 of your friends links..
In case you haven't noticed, high quality TS is nowdays always better than SCREENER, sometimes even better than a dvd screener (no stupid banners rolling over).
I would pay 5-10€ per movie for:
At it's current state, the hunting down warez and the risk of it beats the crap out of jumpy rental dvd's for example.
And another thing, few days back I got this movie Black Hawk Down DVD, a cheap bargain but it's a legal copy. Why don't they use the full DVD resolution, there's a lot of wasted frame area unused... Couldn't they afford to make a quality DVD transfer? I don't get it... I know I'd be really pissed off I had paid 60€ for it.. Also the dvd is authored with some buggy software, making it impossible for mplayer to find finnish subtitles for example! Just great..
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:Xn01EiS_IAcJ: www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx%3Fart%3D919+&h l=en
I don't mean to troll or hurt anyone's feelings :) But the obivious question; what are the advantages of running Linux on Mac hardware?
As far as I've read, Linux can be run on iBooks but the hardware support is seriously lacking, which disables some important functions like power saving.. I doubt that Apple has yet documents available on controlling G5's fan system, enabling driver writing?
Again, as far as I've read different articles and reviews about OS X, it seems like heaven on earth for most Linux users.. Including something like extremely nice user interface, stable system, quality programs, programming tools, ability to run most linux applications with a recompiling.. Not that I had ever used a mac, there ain't too many around here. Hopefully my next computer will be one.
So back to the point; is there some long term goal like full G5 support or is this some "just for fun" stuff?
As pointed out in many scene nfo's, many groups dislike their warez being let out in public networks.
I wouldn't be surprised if many groups had connections to "bad guys" who have lots and lots of zombies :).
Just guessing over here but maybe Sony Music or whatever it's called are in this lawsuit also? Also I wouldn't be surprised if Sony owned stocks here and stocks here on other major/less major music companies, by which tieing it to this case.
Not that I read the article.
It looks like the lawyers found some html guide and changed the picture back to original, or something like that.
Too bad.. That "new" slogan looked good. Respect to the defacer for the (first?) stylish defacement.
I can't find the slashdot story quickly enough but this has been all over slashdot already, just look at the date in the forums; 24-02-2004, 15:42.
Not that it'd make the case mod less "attractive" -- great piece of work imho.
Arts is a truly remarkable system, at least scalability-wise, as here it is able to produce skips and strange decoding errors no matter how modern x86 runs it!
On my old Pentium-II 333MHz 384MB a 5-10% CPU use while playing mp3's was almost a great achievement, but boy, was I surprised when I got a new system a year ago (Athlon XP 1800+, KT400 based), arts was still able to use those 5-10% CPU and producing all the same kind of errors and skips..
I love arts.
To be serious for a moment.. I'm not sure whether a Microsoft like approach to handling multimedia is right. It sounds good on paper, but would it be possible to accomplish, without overcomplicating things (again)?
First, if you've had reasoned it a bit, having a defense [system] BEFORE you get attacked gives you much greater chances of not having [so many] lives lost.
Secondly, I doubt that asteroid and ballistic missle defenses are so different cases, that none of the research outcome of ballistic missile defenses projects couldn't be utilized later on with asteroid defenses.. Though, defending with lasers against asteroids might be way off... Well.... :)
I guess it was too much to expect from a press release or what ever, but I still hoped to find something which would had been a hint that id has read some comments of their dull doom 3.
I'm not saying that I won't play it, nor am I not saying that many wont buy the expansion set but I'm saying that many wont enjoy playing it.
I'm hoping they'd come up with something more than:
Hoping for everyone's sake, please id use more of the potential of doom3 and concept of scary game.
I think that the one thing which is wrong here is that Microsoft is also pushing it's own Windows Media format (*.wm[va]) with own codecs.
What makes this a problem is that coupling the only player capable of [legally] playing these files gives Microsoft an unfair advantage over everything else.
No user wants to install for example a media player. A Windows user sees a .rm or .mov on a page, he/she might not click it because then new software might have to be installed, the user might look for a .wmv before installing some plugin.
Installing might be a non-wanted process because of the time taken, which gets irritating when it's taking more than zero seconds. Another thing that makes installing unwanted is the huge misuse of install-new-plug-in feature by dangerous spyware/adware/whatever-ware.
heh, the parent and other replies are really fun to read, especially if you are finnish :) so just to clear some things up, though i guess there are pretty easy to guess in case you have seem other pifast screenshots..
as in if you didn't already guess by the zillion different language pifast screenshots posted on slashdot, it means "The Calculation begins".
and if you are really low on c[ao]ffeine:
i actually am really low on c[ao]ffeine and i need some sleep, it's 6:17 in the morning over here and i'm wondering why the fuck am i posting to slashdot.