Finally, displaying ads while Linux is booting would be a part of the official kernel. We could get driver support for the "fat fingers" line of keyboards too.
Also, the color scheme could be more patriotic. Red, white and blue consoles and hardcoded American flags in the framebuffer background. These things should be mandatory. Have you got your American flag pin by the way It's so classy even the president got one!
This would sort out the SCO problem too. The rest of the world have much saner judicial systems, so battle it out in the crazy ol'US where it belongs.
I'm not quite sure what the iDrive is, but I read a story about the malaysian financial minister. He was going to a meeting in a brand new BMW, with computer driven everything. Suddenly, the embedded computer crashed which caused the doors to lock without a way to open them. Same for the windows and the hole in the roof.
As it was 200+ degrees fahrenheit, he was almost cooked before a maintenance man managed to smash the bullet proof windows with a sledge.
Why is this a Slashdot story? It's a common trick. In the early days of harddrives, the drive logic was certainly more fragile than now, and I've salvaged several disks this way.
It's not difficult either, even I could make the swap in thirty minutes, and I'm a total klutz at electronics and soldering.
Yes, broadband over powerlines has proven to be a technological dead end. It's been tested over here for several years, and it's just not worth it compared to already installed adsl or cable.
The power companies is doing one thing right though, with every new long span high voltage line they're laying, they're twirling fiber with the lines. That's the future. A fiber channel into each and every home.
Who really cares? Guess they're handy if you use your phone a lot, but not for the average joe.
What I want is bluetooth cans (or headphones, for the Americanly challenged). That would be the end of wires for me when I'm on the road with my laptop. And it would be nice to actually use the built in bluetooth in my laptop for something (other than uploadin porn movies to my Nokia).
There is this Korean firm (Openbrain) which have developed bluetooth cans, but this page has been present for more than a year, and they still don't list any retailers anywhere in the world.
Over in Europe we've had services like this for at least two years.
Some just show your location based on the current base station you're connected to, and some are more sophisticated and uses some kind of triangulation (maybe based on what base stations you have been in contact with the last minutes? I don't know).
I've tried it a couple of times, and it's seems to be quite accurate give or take some fifty meters.
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Spaceballs is still active and making demos for the Amiga. Wayfarer and State of the Art were great demos.
Lonestarr later sold the video/vector packing routine in SOTA to a games company if I recall correctly.
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The real party is traditionally just outside the convention hall, and is called the Boozembly (greets to the hardcore elite, you know who you are).
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Agreed.. still the Amiga demos with lot's of 3d is very impressive considering the relative amount of processing power. People like Offa, Rubberduck and Kalms of TBL, Juliet&Case of CNCD, Antibyte of Scoopex etc. really pushed those poor m68k's for every last cycle.
But still, the most enjoyable demos today are those golden oldies like Enigma by Phenomena (Azatoth was my hero), Mental Hangover by Scoopex, Voyage by Razor 1911 and Hardwired by The Silents DK and Crionics.
Oh, the memories:)
Check out Back to the roots for some nice Amiga demoscene nostalgia. Pouet.net is also a nice resource for demoscene information.
If you want to describe a feeling of comfort and satisfaction, by all means say you are ``content'', but using it as a noun to describe written and other works of authorship is worth avoiding. That usage adopts a specific attitude towards those works: that they are an interchangeable commodity whose purpose is to fill a box and make money. In effect, it treats the works themselves with disrespect.
Those who use this term are often the publishers that push for increased copyright power in the name of the authors (``creators'', as they say) of the works. The term ``content'' reveals what they really feel.
As long as other people use the term ``content provider'', political dissidents can well call themselves ``malcontent providers''.
From http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWgoring.htm:
Gustave Gilbert, an intelligence officer, interviewed Hermann Goering at Nuremberg on 18th April, 1946.
We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."
"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
The problem with "mastered for radio" is only a problem with the most commercial, most stupid and least interesting music. The music which is made for MTV and radio play. If you didn't listen to such stupid music, this wouldn't bother you at all.
I agree with you that the US legal system looks like a sham, at least if you regard big cases that make it to the media. I'm not well enough acquainted with it to say if this is a general issue at all levels, but one has to wonder.
What I'm really interested in, is information on any grassroots movements to reform it. Are there anybody working on this (ie. not through the legal system, like for example EFF, but on the system itself)?
I would really like to be part of a movement that's aiming at changing the status quo.
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Linux 2.6.0-english and 2.6.0.american-english.
Finally, displaying ads while Linux is booting would be a part of the official kernel. We could get driver support for the "fat fingers" line of keyboards too.
Also, the color scheme could be more patriotic. Red, white and blue consoles and hardcoded American flags in the framebuffer background. These things should be mandatory. Have you got your American flag pin by the way It's so classy even the president got one!
This would sort out the SCO problem too. The rest of the world have much saner judicial systems, so battle it out in the crazy ol'US where it belongs.
No, I have no idea.
Crazy American units.
I'm not quite sure what the iDrive is, but I read a story about the malaysian financial minister. He was going to a meeting in a brand new BMW, with computer driven everything. Suddenly, the embedded computer crashed which caused the doors to lock without a way to open them. Same for the windows and the hole in the roof.
As it was 200+ degrees fahrenheit, he was almost cooked before a maintenance man managed to smash the bullet proof windows with a sledge.
"Cartoon Network" is airing a show called "Adult Swim"?
You Americans are sick.
Why is this a Slashdot story? It's a common trick. In the early days of harddrives, the drive logic was certainly more fragile than now, and I've salvaged several disks this way.
It's not difficult either, even I could make the swap in thirty minutes, and I'm a total klutz at electronics and soldering.
Yes, broadband over powerlines has proven to be a technological dead end. It's been tested over here for several years, and it's just not worth it compared to already installed adsl or cable.
The power companies is doing one thing right though, with every new long span high voltage line they're laying, they're twirling fiber with the lines. That's the future. A fiber channel into each and every home.
I'm not going to complete the reasoning and look like a terminally radical Commie Pinko Dirtbag
More like a hardcore capitalist.
But, you're right of course.
What do expect from a socialist, bordering on communistic, country that harbors terrorists and supports the french terrorist apologists?
Distributing files via dcc from IRC channels is certainly a novel idea.
Here are some other URLs for you:
That's kinda ironic after yesterdays article on Contiki, now isn't it?
Who really cares? Guess they're handy if you use your phone a lot, but not for the average joe.
What I want is bluetooth cans (or headphones, for the Americanly challenged). That would be the end of wires for me when I'm on the road with my laptop. And it would be nice to actually use the built in bluetooth in my laptop for something (other than uploadin porn movies to my Nokia).
There is this Korean firm (Openbrain) which have developed bluetooth cans, but this page has been present for more than a year, and they still don't list any retailers anywhere in the world.
Not only are they going to be addicted to a new game, they'll bankrupt them too.
in the old world.
Over in Europe we've had services like this for at least two years.
Some just show your location based on the current base station you're connected to, and some are more sophisticated and uses some kind of triangulation (maybe based on what base stations you have been in contact with the last minutes? I don't know).
I've tried it a couple of times, and it's seems to be quite accurate give or take some fifty meters.
Spaceballs is still active and making demos for the Amiga. Wayfarer and State of the Art were great demos.
Lonestarr later sold the video/vector packing routine in SOTA to a games company if I recall correctly.
The real party is traditionally just outside the convention hall, and is called the Boozembly (greets to the hardcore elite, you know who you are).
Agreed.. still the Amiga demos with lot's of 3d is very impressive considering the relative amount of processing power. People like Offa, Rubberduck and Kalms of TBL, Juliet&Case of CNCD, Antibyte of Scoopex etc. really pushed those poor m68k's for every last cycle.
But still, the most enjoyable demos today are those golden oldies like Enigma by Phenomena (Azatoth was my hero), Mental Hangover by Scoopex, Voyage by Razor 1911 and Hardwired by The Silents DK and Crionics.
Oh, the memories :)
Check out Back to the roots for some nice Amiga demoscene nostalgia. Pouet.net is also a nice resource for demoscene information.
Quoting ESR:
If you want to describe a feeling of comfort and satisfaction, by all means say you are ``content'', but using it as a noun to describe written and other works of authorship is worth avoiding. That usage adopts a specific attitude towards those works: that they are an interchangeable commodity whose purpose is to fill a box and make money. In effect, it treats the works themselves with disrespect. Those who use this term are often the publishers that push for increased copyright power in the name of the authors (``creators'', as they say) of the works. The term ``content'' reveals what they really feel.
As long as other people use the term ``content provider'', political dissidents can well call themselves ``malcontent providers''.
How much is that measured in sane units? Like the royal dutch kilometer?
And are you saying thirty five thousand miles or thirty five point.. miles?
If it's thirty five miles, then isn't .2196 a bit excessive?
From http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWgoring.htm :
Gustave Gilbert, an intelligence officer, interviewed Hermann Goering at Nuremberg on 18th April, 1946.
We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."
"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
The problem with "mastered for radio" is only a problem with the most commercial, most stupid and least interesting music. The music which is made for MTV and radio play. If you didn't listen to such stupid music, this wouldn't bother you at all.
Or at least drive up their bandwidth bills
ping -f -s 20240 www.sco.com
"Depending on the input power the temperature can easily go up to 1000C or more."
Network failure is bad, but isn't the fire risk an even greater danger?
Sure it's glass, but the problem is with the heat buildup (hence the reference to different effects) in the bends.
I agree with you that the US legal system looks like a sham, at least if you regard big cases that make it to the media. I'm not well enough acquainted with it to say if this is a general issue at all levels, but one has to wonder.
What I'm really interested in, is information on any grassroots movements to reform it. Are there anybody working on this (ie. not through the legal system, like for example EFF, but on the system itself)?
I would really like to be part of a movement that's aiming at changing the status quo.
Yes we Americans can certainly be daft in our naming our laws.
This is on par with the godawfully named P.A.T.R.I.O.T act.
I'm still waiting for the J.I.N.G.O.I.S.M act.