>It's not that simple. The same laws that govern >one thing cannot always be easily applied to >other things. Things aren't so black and white. >Think of it like "hackers". A "hacker" goes to >prison longer than, someone who does, what we >consider, a worse crime.
>>BAM. An entire pallet of legal briefs drops out of the sky and lands on the pipsqueak with a little puff of dust. All that's left is his left hand, with a school ring on it, and his right hand, clutching a little briefcase. A groan is heard from under the pallet...
This is litterally true in a Federal case, it does actually take an army of clerks to manage all that goes into a very large contested lawsuit, though some law firms squeek by on a small platoon.
On one 'small' criminal case, just the duplicated information provided to the defense by the prostitution, contained 50 video tapes, over 100 audio tapes and some 20,000 to 30,000 pages of documents. Combined with the courts copies and you have a bit more than a pallet.
A criminal case is not the same as a large civil case, of course, but it's all I have personal information on. A civil case of this nature generates an almost inconceivable amount of paperwork.
Even if the Court accepted electronic documents, it's no guarantee that a tree will be saved, not all documents can be made electronic and there is still the working copies and those copies that are evidence. Then there is the internal court paperwork to track all this paperwork...oh, god I'm living in the movie Brazil!
I would like an IP over IP system that uses valid, normal looking data to hide exactly what's happening regardess of the data being carried.
From CodeCon, Invisible IRC networks, IP steganography etc: http://codecon.deor.org/program.html Of relevance here is http://peek-a-booty.org/ a privacy enhancement system described as a distributed anti-censorship application.
This discusses a means to use IP to hide outgoing data for nefarious purposes, this could also be used to hide your personal outgoing data which is becoming a nefarious activity.
Many more hits on the web that I don't need to post here. I can and do use encrypted pipes, SSH, SSL, PGP etc. In the CodeCon URL, which is very interesting, there are numerous mentions of privacy enhancing software and methods.
This is an exerpt from: http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?n ame=New s&file=article&sid=22
"They actually WANT us to use a voter-verified paper trail!
Avante produced the first voter-verifiable touch-screen voting machine, called Vote-Trakker. Harris interviewed Kevin Chung, Avante's founder, and though she's not finished yet -- she is putting this company through the same investigative process she used with ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia -- Harris noticed something different. This company actually seems to welcome disclosure.
Voting machines can be a good thing, IF the right safeguards are in place. But most voting machine companies (and many state officials) fight paper trails and hand audits tooth and nail. It's refreshing to see a company with enthusiasm about safeguards. (Paper trail? Hand-count audits to verify accuracy? Full disclosure of known errors and key people?) All for it, says Chung."
If five hundred people would buy one item at a store and badly fill out the rebate and file a class action suit when it bounced it would put the squeeze on them.
I purchased my new viewsonic monitor after christmas 2002 during the sales. I didn't bother to read the 'fine print' about it's expiration date so sat on it. I finally got around to noticing the paperwork and that the expiration date had been about three months from when I'd purchased it which in my case was about three days late. Quite angry at this I took the time to fill out the paperwork and send it in.
I really loath mail in rebates, but what I think is far scummier is the retailers who place this as the price of the merchandise in bold print and the real price in fine print. I've even seen several who have the rebate price on display when the rebate had expired. I normal do not deal with any company based on rebate price. I will not normally fill out any paperwork to get a delayed rebate deal. I only make purchase decisions based on full price and disregard the rebate. In this case the full price was a very good deal for the quality of the product.
Most rebates are not enough money for the time filling out their form, two photocopies, and postage plus the destruction of the box to get a UPC code. My only reason for filling out the paperwork was so that when it bounced I could see about causing the retailer as much grief as I could.
Well I got the check in the mail, I think I sent it in on March 5th or so and got it on April 15.
I loaded an old version of wine, fired up Quake II and proceeded to play the game. It was faster than in windows 98 and worked fine. I don't think I even bothered to get the linux version running.
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The very last part de_en can be substituted with your language but I don't have a list handy.
>>And even then, almost every cool trick on >>silicon is already patented, and protected that >>way. There is NO REASON WHATSOEVER TO NOT OPEN >> SOURCE DRIVERS. Get that into your head.
1) PRIDE/ARROGANCE My Kung Foo is better than 'yo Kung Foo and you can't have it just stick it in an use it you luser.
2) Caution/Fear: Due to the global nature of the international (mumble) and for the protection of intellectual property rights we.....blah.
>OK, OK, no reason to yell,I actualy agree with >you. I'm trying to build bridges and allay fears, >not beat people into submission, though.
When I first knew of an NDA or closed source driver. I was pretty much appalled, I am by nature and choice a tinker and to not have that, was to me, unforgivable. To this day I try to avoid buying anything I cannot get something I want for it, a part, a schematic, a still living engineer who designed it, etc. Though now it's a bit more difficult when taking apart a coffee pot to fix it may a be crime if it plays music and projects Juan Valdez dancing to Tina Turner on the ceiling at psycho-caffeinated[tm] speed. Damn, I'd probaby be breaking some law now if I just ripped the idiot timer out of one (uh, anti-tinker not the other one).
I believe Matrox was reluctant to share these specifications, now after 'gentling' as you say they are one of the most stable Xfree drivers around AND it's making them some additional money in the workstation market and probably got them some stable, free porting to every bizarre platform on the planet, whether it has a slot for it or not.
Mostly I was concerned that AMD as a serch term didn't work, as if it were not indexed. I did however follow links and find something, the page you submitted is a help and I thank you.
Great advice! Do this immediately so you can return it to the store, some manuf's will not repair one with bad pixels unless it exceeds some threshold.
And I've seen some pretty bad thresholds and one bad pixel drives me nuts.
I'm an aging tech and the monitor I'd purchase from a Russian (he carried it two blocks to my car) at a computer show five years ago had finally gotten to the point where it had fallen below the threshold of my eyesight. I needed a really good monitor that was bright, sharp and cheap.
It was Christmas time and there were numerous deals on computer hardware, some extremely good.
I went to several of the local electronics and computer stores looking for a monitor but most were pathetic, poor brightness as I could not easily see them in the store. Many had such poor convergence for whatever reason that the corners showed three distinct characters in red, green, blue rather than the white character it was supposed to be. Even a quick degauss didn't effect them. Sony, the monitor of my dreams, didn't look as good as I remembered, at least the display ones looked poor. LCD's were out due to the prices at the time, despite the drool left on the floor in front of them.
So, I ripped apart my current monitor and tweaked a few controls, not really doing much good but at least eating up an hour or two of time.
Then I went to a local office supply store to buy some pens and saw a flat screen crt monitor in the size I wanted that was so bright, it hurt to look at. It beamed out obscuring all other contenders on the shelves. It was crystal clear and was cheap. The convergence error was below my naked eye ability to see any defect. So after rapidly ripping out payment and buying it, I took it home. I really missed that Russian salesman, my back hurt after lugging this large monitor around.
It is a Viewsonic Ultrabright A70F+, I have to run it with Ultrabright mode off and with the brightness and contrast turned down. It was 280.00 dollars in 2002.
I had not even considered Viewsonic in my search and had been condescending to a friend who had purchased one, even though I hadn't seen it.
It's not really a problem. Anyone who doesn't have a personality or three, me, myself and Ralph, lying around must truly enjoy all the benefits of the internet.
I still see that after four years of inactivity databaseamerica still has all of mine except me, I love filling out forms.
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I wouldn't know I won't buy intel but tell me something. Is the Athon XP chip also an MP chip?
If you've ever used one of the source ports that allow more triggerable actions and used a 'zombie doll' you've designed a state machine.
For instance. When the player crosses a line I want the following to happen. I don't really know state semantics so it's in english which for a programmer is very poor. This can be as complex as you want, this is just a simple one:
Set up some moving floors that will carry an object (zombie doll).
Player crosses line. Open a door and release zombie doll. Zombie doll 1 moves, crosses a line and turns up the lighting. Zombie doll 1 moves crosses a line and opens trap door releasing monsters at player. Zombie doll 1 moves crosses a line and opens another door releasing Zombie doll 2 Zombie doll 2 moves crosses line opens exit for player. Zombie doll 1 stops. Zombie doll 2 moves crosses a line drops floor player may be on. Zombie doll 2 moves crosses line which turns pit floor into lava. Zombie doll 2 moves. Zombie doll 2 moves. Zombie doll 2 crosses line and opens an exit for the player. Zombie doll 2 stops.
A friend rendered a bloated complex microprocessor design into a state machine he placed on an eprom.
The eprom was clocked and some other chips added to step it through a rather complex routine. It could take input, it could 'make decisions' based on that input, all of it was encoded on the eeprom.
It required no microprocessor, minimal support hardware ect etc. Just a clock, an eprom, some logic chips and someone who knew state machines.
It was 1000 times less expensive than the buggy, non-working microprocessor design.
All he had to do was see what the customer wanted to do and purpose program it for that task. If it needed reporgramming, burn another eprom.
I would have to say that Linux and BSD among others have had a beneficial effect on the way Microsoft has been doing business. This is a step in the right direction and I hope that it encourages them to be more open in the future.
From reading the articles I'd have to say that developers of these devices are getting an excellent deal compared with the previous business model.
At a repair business I once worked at we had a Mansmann Tally dot matrix printer that had been dumped on us 'broken', after cleaning it and removing years worth of paper clogging it, it held up to at minimum 10 - 20 multipart forms per day for the next 10 years. It also put out about 110db of print head on metal noise, so it got a custom made wooden box shoved over it.
The Panasonic laser printer we had there was a tank, it was one of those non-cartridge, spill toner over every thing ones. Panasonic used to sell any piece you wanted for it, even pieces of assemblies, unlike some I could name. I don't know it's status now but it did great for 5 years when I left that comany. I'd alway chuckle when listening to other people complain about the cost of cartridges.
Right now I found a Panasonic KX-P1124i at a charity store for 6.99. I bought it and then bought a ribbon for 9.00. It didn't even need the ribbon. The paper for it is getting scarce, I used to get flimsy greenbar in the two sizes, wide and narrow but now all you can get is white. I could probably get greenbar but 1000 sheets of tractor fed paper for the less than the cost of 500 laser printer sheets isn't bad. And it really confuses younger computer users when you show them documents that have perf on the side.
Too many of the older laser printers no longer have any support, especially those that didn't generate 'streams of income' with cartridges and other 'made to fail' items.
Tupperware computing is not for me, to get better quaility I'm willing to, um, do resource reclaimation to acquire older hardware that I can still repair and use.
I've have noticed that the companies who made solid long lasting printers that did not jump on the tupperware bandwagon are no longer with us.
Tongue in Cheek: Does anyone have an interface for the PC that will drive one of those ancient 2 ton IBM band printers? The ones that IBM can't get companies to upgrade because, "We've had it for ages it's the best worker we have"......
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>It's not that simple. The same laws that govern >one thing cannot always be easily applied to >other things. Things aren't so black and white. >Think of it like "hackers". A "hacker" goes to >prison longer than, someone who does, what we >consider, a worse crime.
Ignorance and lawyers = new useless laws.
>>BAM. An entire pallet of legal briefs drops out of the sky and lands on the pipsqueak with a little puff of dust. All that's left is his left hand, with a school ring on it, and his right hand, clutching a little briefcase. A groan is heard from under the pallet...
This is litterally true in a Federal case, it does actually take an army of clerks to manage all that goes into a very large contested lawsuit, though some law firms squeek by on a small platoon.
On one 'small' criminal case, just the duplicated information provided to the defense by the prostitution, contained 50 video tapes, over 100 audio tapes and some 20,000 to 30,000 pages of documents. Combined with the courts copies and you have a bit more than a pallet.
A criminal case is not the same as a large civil case, of course, but it's all I have personal information on. A civil case of this nature generates an almost inconceivable amount of paperwork.
Even if the Court accepted electronic documents, it's no guarantee that a tree will be saved, not all documents can be made electronic and there is still the working copies and those copies that are evidence. Then there is the internal court paperwork to track all this paperwork...oh, god I'm living in the movie Brazil!
I would like an IP over IP system that uses valid, normal looking data to hide exactly what's happening regardess of the data being carried.
n d/
From CodeCon, Invisible IRC networks, IP steganography etc:
http://codecon.deor.org/program.html
Of relevance here is http://peek-a-booty.org/ a privacy enhancement system described as a distributed anti-censorship application.
Covert channels in the TCP/IP Protocol:
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_5/rowla
This discusses a means to use IP to hide outgoing data for nefarious purposes, this could also be used to hide your personal outgoing data which is becoming a nefarious activity.
Many more hits on the web that I don't need to post here. I can and do use encrypted pipes, SSH, SSL, PGP etc. In the CodeCon URL, which is very interesting, there are numerous mentions of privacy enhancing software and methods.
This is an exerpt from:n ame=New s&file=article&sid=22
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?
"They actually WANT us to use a voter-verified paper trail!
Avante produced the first voter-verifiable touch-screen voting machine, called Vote-Trakker. Harris interviewed Kevin Chung, Avante's founder, and though she's not finished yet -- she is putting this company through the same investigative process she used with ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia -- Harris noticed something different. This company actually seems to welcome disclosure.
Voting machines can be a good thing, IF the right safeguards are in place. But most voting machine companies (and many state officials) fight paper trails and hand audits tooth and nail. It's refreshing to see a company with enthusiasm about safeguards. (Paper trail? Hand-count audits to verify accuracy? Full disclosure of known errors and key people?) All for it, says Chung."
For several hundred dollars I'd have filed at minimum a small claims action.
That is the law and is always the case with even immediate coupons. You must pay the tax on the purchase amount prior to any rebates, coupons...
That money goes direct to the state.
If five hundred people would buy one item at a store and badly fill out the rebate and file a class action suit when it bounced it would put the squeeze on them.
/. did it it would grind them to a halt.
If
I purchased my new viewsonic monitor after christmas 2002 during the sales. I didn't bother to read the 'fine print' about it's expiration date so sat on it. I finally got around to noticing the paperwork and that the expiration date had been about three months from when I'd purchased it which in my case was about three days late. Quite angry at this I took the time to fill out the paperwork and send it in.
I really loath mail in rebates, but what I think is far scummier is the retailers who place this as the price of the merchandise in bold print and the real price in fine print. I've even seen several who have the rebate price on display when the rebate had expired. I normal do not deal with any company based on rebate price. I will not normally fill out any paperwork to get a delayed rebate deal. I only make purchase decisions based on full price and disregard the rebate. In this case the full price was a very good deal for the quality of the product.
Most rebates are not enough money for the time filling out their form, two photocopies, and postage plus the destruction of the box to get a UPC code. My only reason for filling out the paperwork was so that when it bounced I could see about causing the retailer as much grief as I could.
Well I got the check in the mail, I think I sent it in on March 5th or so and got it on April 15.
So that retailer is safe from me, for now.
I loaded an old version of wine, fired up Quake II and proceeded to play the game. It was faster than in windows 98 and worked fine. I don't think I even bothered to get the linux version running.
..collecting information about me?
~4.2million reference URLs snipped.
Searching the net for references to this is like poking your head in a tigers mount, every where you look teeth.
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96 superpercomputers can't be wrong! Fincen motto
Mutant 59: The plastic eaters.
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The very last part de_en can be substituted with your language but I don't have a list handy.
Sometimes the translations are very funny.
>>And even then, almost every cool trick on >>silicon is already patented, and protected that
>>way. There is NO REASON WHATSOEVER TO NOT OPEN
>> SOURCE DRIVERS. Get that into your head.
1) PRIDE/ARROGANCE My Kung Foo is better than 'yo Kung Foo and you can't have it just stick it in an use it you luser.
2) Caution/Fear: Due to the global nature of the international (mumble) and for the protection of intellectual property rights we.....blah.
>OK, OK, no reason to yell,I actualy agree with >you. I'm trying to build bridges and allay fears, >not beat people into submission, though.
When I first knew of an NDA or closed source driver. I was pretty much appalled, I am by nature and choice a tinker and to not have that, was to me, unforgivable. To this day I try to avoid buying anything I cannot get something I want for it, a part, a schematic, a still living engineer who designed it, etc. Though now it's a bit more difficult when taking apart a coffee pot to fix it may a be crime if it plays music and projects Juan Valdez dancing to Tina Turner on the ceiling at psycho-caffeinated[tm] speed. Damn, I'd probaby be breaking some law now if I just ripped the idiot timer out of one (uh, anti-tinker not the other one).
I believe Matrox was reluctant to share these specifications, now after 'gentling' as you say they are one of the most stable Xfree drivers around AND it's making them some additional money in the workstation market and probably got them some stable, free porting to every bizarre platform on the planet, whether it has a slot for it or not.
J.
Mostly I was concerned that AMD as a serch term didn't work, as if it were not indexed. I did however follow links and find something, the page you submitted is a help and I thank you.
Thank you, this is very informative and you deserve more than the zero moderation.
So I may have a brigded chip or linux just tells the bios to go to hell.
Konqueror does just fine as well, I have it set for an really moldy version of i.e.
Great advice! Do this immediately so you can return it to the store, some manuf's will not repair one with bad pixels unless it exceeds some threshold.
And I've seen some pretty bad thresholds and one bad pixel drives me nuts.
I'm an aging tech and the monitor I'd purchase from a Russian (he carried it two blocks to my car) at a computer show five years ago had finally gotten to the point where it had fallen below the threshold of my eyesight. I needed a really good monitor that was bright, sharp and cheap.
It was Christmas time and there were numerous deals on computer hardware, some extremely good.
I went to several of the local electronics and computer stores looking for a monitor but most were pathetic, poor brightness as I could not easily see them in the store. Many had such poor convergence for whatever reason that the corners showed three distinct characters in red, green, blue rather than the white character it was supposed to be. Even a quick degauss didn't effect them. Sony, the monitor of my dreams, didn't look as good as I remembered, at least the display ones looked poor. LCD's were out due to the prices at the time, despite the drool left on the floor in front of them.
So, I ripped apart my current monitor and tweaked a few controls, not really doing much good but at least eating up an hour or two of time.
Then I went to a local office supply store to buy some pens and saw a flat screen crt monitor in the size I wanted that was so bright, it hurt to look at. It beamed out obscuring all other contenders on the shelves. It was crystal clear and was cheap. The convergence error was below my naked eye ability to see any defect. So after rapidly ripping out payment and buying it, I took it home. I really missed that Russian salesman, my back hurt after lugging this large monitor around.
It is a Viewsonic Ultrabright A70F+, I have to run it with Ultrabright mode off and with the brightness and contrast turned down. It was 280.00 dollars in 2002.
I had not even considered Viewsonic in my search and had been condescending to a friend who had purchased one, even though I hadn't seen it.
It's not really a problem. Anyone who doesn't have a personality or three, me, myself and Ralph, lying around must truly enjoy all the benefits of the internet.
I still see that after four years of inactivity databaseamerica still has all of mine except me, I love filling out forms.
I wouldn't know I won't buy intel but tell me something. Is the Athon XP chip also an MP chip?
Kernel says:
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
I used search on their page and didn't find one article for AMD.
http://www.ucpros.com/Newsletter/newsletter%202002 %2010.htm#Sharp%20Builds%20Z80%20CPU%20on%20Glass
This seemed an appropriate choice to add.
If you've ever used one of the source ports that allow more triggerable actions and used a 'zombie doll' you've designed a state machine.
For instance. When the player crosses a line I want the following to happen. I don't really know state semantics so it's in english which for a programmer is very poor. This can be as complex as you want, this is just a simple one:
Set up some moving floors that will carry an object (zombie doll).
Player crosses line.
Open a door and release zombie doll.
Zombie doll 1 moves, crosses a line and turns up the lighting.
Zombie doll 1 moves crosses a line and opens trap door releasing monsters at player.
Zombie doll 1 moves crosses a line and opens another door releasing Zombie doll 2
Zombie doll 2 moves crosses line opens exit for player.
Zombie doll 1 stops.
Zombie doll 2 moves crosses a line drops floor player may be on.
Zombie doll 2 moves crosses line which turns pit floor into lava.
Zombie doll 2 moves.
Zombie doll 2 moves.
Zombie doll 2 crosses line and opens an exit for the player.
Zombie doll 2 stops.
A friend rendered a bloated complex microprocessor design into a state machine he placed on an eprom.
The eprom was clocked and some other chips added to step it through a rather complex routine. It could take input, it could 'make decisions' based on that input, all of it was encoded on the eeprom.
It required no microprocessor, minimal support hardware ect etc. Just a clock, an eprom, some logic chips and someone who knew state machines.
It was 1000 times less expensive than the buggy, non-working microprocessor design.
All he had to do was see what the customer wanted to do and purpose program it for that task. If it needed reporgramming, burn another eprom.
I would have to say that Linux and BSD among others have had a beneficial effect on the way Microsoft has been doing business. This is a step in the right direction and I hope that it encourages them to be more open in the future.
From reading the articles I'd have to say that developers of these devices are getting an excellent deal compared with the previous business model.
J.
At a repair business I once worked at we had a Mansmann Tally dot matrix printer that had been dumped on us 'broken', after cleaning it and removing years worth of paper clogging it, it held up to at minimum 10 - 20 multipart forms per day for the next 10 years. It also put out about 110db of print head on metal noise, so it got a custom made wooden box shoved over it.
The Panasonic laser printer we had there was a tank, it was one of those non-cartridge, spill toner over every thing ones. Panasonic used to sell any piece you wanted for it, even pieces of assemblies, unlike some I could name. I don't know it's status now but it did great for 5 years when I left that comany. I'd alway chuckle when listening to other people complain about the cost of cartridges.
Right now I found a Panasonic KX-P1124i at a charity store for 6.99. I bought it and then bought a ribbon for 9.00. It didn't even need the ribbon. The paper for it is getting scarce, I used to get flimsy greenbar in the two sizes, wide and narrow but now all you can get is white. I could probably get greenbar but 1000 sheets of tractor fed paper for the less than the cost of 500 laser printer sheets isn't bad. And it really confuses younger computer users when you show them documents that have perf on the side.
Too many of the older laser printers no longer have any support, especially those that didn't generate 'streams of income' with cartridges and other 'made to fail' items.
Tupperware computing is not for me, to get better quaility I'm willing to, um, do resource reclaimation to acquire older hardware that I can still repair and use.
I've have noticed that the companies who made solid long lasting printers that did not jump on the tupperware bandwagon are no longer with us.
Tongue in Cheek: Does anyone have an interface for the PC that will drive one of those ancient 2 ton IBM band printers? The ones that IBM can't get companies to upgrade because, "We've had it for ages it's the best worker we have"......