The inference may be that the companies in question can do whatever they want as they have the cash for the legal system (as dictated by mega corps), and the control and perpentuation of a working populace (who are dictated into a mono, narrow view point by media spewed by the mega corps, aka 15 yo demographic syndrome). The extension of copyright has effectively used the power of (cough) democratically elected government to establish a monopoly on novelty, and arguably a monopoly on imagination, or the instantiation thereof. The reasoning that has extended copyright laws is the same reasoning behind the cracking down on sharing.
The only consolation being that the whole self consuming shit swirl is collapsing under its authoritarian weight. Being splashed with shit is acceptible in the process of a chorus backed vestigilization, an appropriate reaction to the realization of the commodification and narrow minded manipulation of knowledge for the benefit of the few. Burn hollywood burn, or expidite the removal of your collective heads from your collective asses, whichever comes first. We're talking no less than the popular guidance and progress of mankind, as dictated by those that make broken rule. Use tech to route around this crap, the squawk of an industry swimming in its own ill echoes and deserved of ruin. Use the tech to archive the worthy, build the tech to circumvent the systems of the authoritarians, reward artists directly (financially or otherwise), integrate the gathered knowledge, learn from learning and share and share alike. See this flagillation as what it is, an opportunity to learn the lessons of greed, corruption and marketing feedback.
I've run dual boards for the last 5 years, and I agree: flexible for upgrades and smoother processing. AMD seem to have caught on, perhaps. I run a dual MP2000+ (erm, or did until the POS AMD fan failed and blew one of them) and the big benefit I'd see moving to a newer ath64 based system is memory/bus speed. However, to have a dual ath64 system is (way) out of my price range. To start requires a dual opteron board (~$400) and a single opteron (~$800+). Having a homebrew dual opteron top-of-the-line box would easily come in at the $3k range after all. Factor in power consumption and it seems that SMP isn't such a great thing. Perhaps dual cores will solve this, or maybe stackable metrinet micro-atx. There is always the athlon xp to mp and wire multiplier hacks (cheap MP2800+s)... I'm going the single ath64 (3500+) route, myself, due to "Cool and Quiet", pci-e and higher bus speed.
Asynchronous event driven models are the way to go for changing content. They're trickier to code, but require less bandwidth and are more responsive. Perhaps a bit of a privacy issue, at some level (registration with source), but easy to implement, failure resistent distributed asynchronous networks have much applicability, not just to RSS.
Tying your ethics to the financial (especially the attention sapping, crap spewing advertising industry financial) cannot be all that healthy. Good products sell themselves thru word of mouth (erm, word of hand) and research. This is even more relevant in the internet domain, as communication is much swifter. Feel guilty? Throw a link to a good product in irc chat or email a link to a friend. The reference will mean much more coming from a trusted source.
Meh, I'll take exception to this. Multitasking can be great. The key is prioritization, keep focused and reduce interruptions, keeping only the worthy balls up in the air. I think it's more of the case of reacting to situations we've never had the chance to experience before. Sure, its new, but learn and grow from the experience. Most people don't have the foggiest idea of multitasking or its benefits, and taking the negative stance simply re-enforces the commonplace.
My informal, unscientific 6 time filtration made C$17.99 Potters vodka taste smoother, perhaps equivalient to a C$30 vodka. Worth the effort. From reading above, it would seem the filter is not good for more than filtering a couple bottles. Cost of disposable filters and pitcher makes it a close call, price-wise. Has that nice 'home brew' touch to it, tho. Be forwarned: run some water thru the filter a few times to get rid of the particles in the new filter.
Slightly off topic, but I found a bug within eclipse which was more easily documented with a screen cap movie. With a bit of research, I stumbled on vncrec and vnc2swf via this tutorial. Vncrec is excellent, producing good captures in the proprietary.vnc format, which obviously requires the viewer to have vncrec installed. Vnc2swf is perhaps a bit tricky to setup and the swf's it provides are of good quality, as shown here, and being flash(4) is nice and cross platform, relying on the ming libraries for encoding. I'm still researching audio mixing, but it should be possible to record in real-time to mp3 and multiplex into the output swf via vnc2swf's -soundfile param. Recording in this manner would be _great_ for complex api documentation, complex state-dependante bug reports, and other documentation applications.
So, hrm, add the advertiser provider host to/etc/hosts removing the ability to deliver. Further, reverse the protocol, respond to request and deliver other custom banners in place. Kind of like what Steve Mann is doing, but in a virtual environment. Much easier, also, as the ads are already conveniently packaged, with no need to visually identify advertising.
I've an SL5500, and it's a great little device, so flexible with such a great community. Battery life is a bit poor, and the screen a bit small (both fixed in newer Zaurus'). I use it for ebook reading, audio, and traditional PDA apps. Took me 10min to figure out how to cross-compile a binaural beat generator to it. MPlayer goes like a charm. Really a shame to see it go, perhaps it is too challenging for the masses, but then again, most of the masses have little opportunity to learn from the challenges of complex systems.
Showed my 5500 to a salesman at London Drugs and he was quite impressed. This 3 year old device has features not found in their stock. Took down the information I provided about it, but obviously didn't spark a buying frenzy. Too bad. The price of my next zaurus is going to be significantly higher.
I'm planning to have a Athlon 64 3400+ Mobile as the core of my next desktop. Low power (cool), cheap (relatively), and fast. Those Pentium M chips are expensive for their performance.
2nd Last page of GeForce review mentions the power draw and that it is most-likely that the 6600 can get away without a 2nd power connector by using the beefier power from the PCI-E bus. Nice to see a power comparison...
120W for an idle video card is quite high. I'm considering a mobile ath64 3400+ powered desktop system, and the CPU only draws 85W. Eventual goal is a fixed mount solar/wind powered watercooled mobile visualization workstation in a camper... because it can be done and because the winters are too long and cold up here in Canada.
I've been thinking of surround stereoscopic gaming a bit, and the same solution may apply, if it's not overkill... that is to have a pcie xinerama setup, using dual head dvi cards. Each xinerama screen correlates to a display. On each display is a piece of the video/rendered environment. For video, a video mutator of some sort would be needed to be coded, perhaps as an element in gstreamer, each segment going to a full screen sdl window. For a virtual environment, it's a bit easier, with multiple viewports, the rendering of each going to a sdl window the size of the destination screen. With a couple dual head cards, appropriate software and four (homebrew) projectors, it would be possible to have a wall sized immersive steroscopic environment.
I'm unsure about the possibility/status of opengl accelleration across both xinerama screens on a single card, and also accelleration across multiple screens on multiple cards, but the theory is sound, and the tech is (nearly) there.
There's a few schools here (ab.ca) which are teaching out of hallways and closets. The parents too busy or sedated to care and the system to thick and pressured to respond.
Datahands took care of my carpal tunnel, tho I've yet to find an employer that would ever invest in one for their employees. Put 'em on the end of the arms of a good chair and there is no better.
Or you could encourage a system that does not rely on negative re-inforcement for the purposes of developing behaviour required to prop up its' archaic, unevolving, stagnant, corrupt and easily corruptable network. There is no software of greater worth than software that is given. How many burritos does one need, exactly?
I'd offer that m$ have gotten themself into a corner with their stance on DRM and backing large industry. There are not many forward-thinking ventures in this area, as most business models tend to squeeze cash from their manufactured community, having not yet figured out that a vital community is maintained through the cooperative fostering and the free involvement of free thinking individuals. A loose self interested cooperative.
Perhaps a comparison between the bonzai and the ancient jungle. Rigid nano control versus emergent niches. A good bonzai master does not pretend to go against the nature of tree, however. It could be argued that MS is too big to be good.
Personally, I think they should take their cash, set up a good dozen isolated coder communes and evolve a new direction for themselves, one that doesn't involve tieing up the legal system, blanket enforcement and predation. They have enough to change the rules, to shatter the 'office supply' mentality. Without a drastic shift, they're screwed (well as screwed as a giant monopoly can be). They've missed the beauty that is open source, and, as it lies, seem doomed to be tied to a life of fostering servitude. Like moss looking up at the flowering canopy.
FYI, allofmp3 (and others) offer tracks much cheaper and in higher quality than itms. Quality at allofmp3 (due to great backend) varies from 24k mp3 ->.ogg ->.flac ->.wav. One pays by the bits dl'd, not by the track.
I was going to comment on the increasing lack of openness in the 'States, but it's looks to falling on dead (or perhaps ears in love with being sold the sweet stench of mass broadcasted self defeat). At best, this kind of action could be seen as an interesting experiment in social organization, however, I think it's more the case that inevitably the one way forward seems so right because it's the only way that's permitted (overtly or not). What are the chances that the right way forward appeals to the 16 year old male demographic. Embrace the homogeny. Stick that in your database and mine it.
I'm sure this must have been thought of, but what about a fission bootstrap? Produce enough burst electricity to create an appropriate environment for sustainable (and then productive) fusion, and have the fusion reactor take over when it can cover it's own requirements, shutting down the fission. There would still be waste and the increased potential for accident with fission, but only during the bootstrap process... possible?
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The only consolation being that the whole self consuming shit swirl is collapsing under its authoritarian weight. Being splashed with shit is acceptible in the process of a chorus backed vestigilization, an appropriate reaction to the realization of the commodification and narrow minded manipulation of knowledge for the benefit of the few. Burn hollywood burn, or expidite the removal of your collective heads from your collective asses, whichever comes first. We're talking no less than the popular guidance and progress of mankind, as dictated by those that make broken rule. Use tech to route around this crap, the squawk of an industry swimming in its own ill echoes and deserved of ruin. Use the tech to archive the worthy, build the tech to circumvent the systems of the authoritarians, reward artists directly (financially or otherwise), integrate the gathered knowledge, learn from learning and share and share alike. See this flagillation as what it is, an opportunity to learn the lessons of greed, corruption and marketing feedback.
I've run dual boards for the last 5 years, and I agree: flexible for upgrades and smoother processing. AMD seem to have caught on, perhaps. I run a dual MP2000+ (erm, or did until the POS AMD fan failed and blew one of them) and the big benefit I'd see moving to a newer ath64 based system is memory/bus speed. However, to have a dual ath64 system is (way) out of my price range. To start requires a dual opteron board (~$400) and a single opteron (~$800+). Having a homebrew dual opteron top-of-the-line box would easily come in at the $3k range after all. Factor in power consumption and it seems that SMP isn't such a great thing. Perhaps dual cores will solve this, or maybe stackable metrinet micro-atx. There is always the athlon xp to mp and wire multiplier hacks (cheap MP2800+s)... I'm going the single ath64 (3500+) route, myself, due to "Cool and Quiet", pci-e and higher bus speed.
Asynchronous event driven models are the way to go for changing content. They're trickier to code, but require less bandwidth and are more responsive. Perhaps a bit of a privacy issue, at some level (registration with source), but easy to implement, failure resistent distributed asynchronous networks have much applicability, not just to RSS.
Tying your ethics to the financial (especially the attention sapping, crap spewing advertising industry financial) cannot be all that healthy. Good products sell themselves thru word of mouth (erm, word of hand) and research. This is even more relevant in the internet domain, as communication is much swifter. Feel guilty? Throw a link to a good product in irc chat or email a link to a friend. The reference will mean much more coming from a trusted source.
Meh, I'll take exception to this. Multitasking can be great. The key is prioritization, keep focused and reduce interruptions, keeping only the worthy balls up in the air. I think it's more of the case of reacting to situations we've never had the chance to experience before. Sure, its new, but learn and grow from the experience. Most people don't have the foggiest idea of multitasking or its benefits, and taking the negative stance simply re-enforces the commonplace.
My informal, unscientific 6 time filtration made C$17.99 Potters vodka taste smoother, perhaps equivalient to a C$30 vodka. Worth the effort. From reading above, it would seem the filter is not good for more than filtering a couple bottles. Cost of disposable filters and pitcher makes it a close call, price-wise. Has that nice 'home brew' touch to it, tho. Be forwarned: run some water thru the filter a few times to get rid of the particles in the new filter.
If it's a display issue, the excellend AdBlock extension may help out.
Comparing human sexuality to dimebag fabricated economies on the backs of the poor and desperate is beneath even the republicans.
slow systems more addictive than the inability to diagnose their slowness.... get a real fucking job, asshat politicos.
Cold? Yep, still cold.
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Slightly off topic, but I found a bug within eclipse which was more easily documented with a screen cap movie. With a bit of research, I stumbled on vncrec and vnc2swf via this tutorial. Vncrec is excellent, producing good captures in the proprietary .vnc format, which obviously requires the viewer to have vncrec installed. Vnc2swf is perhaps a bit tricky to setup and the swf's it provides are of good quality, as shown here, and being flash(4) is nice and cross platform, relying on the ming libraries for encoding. I'm still researching audio mixing, but it should be possible to record in real-time to mp3 and multiplex into the output swf via vnc2swf's -soundfile param. Recording in this manner would be _great_ for complex api documentation, complex state-dependante bug reports, and other documentation applications.
So, hrm, add the advertiser provider host to /etc/hosts removing the ability to deliver. Further, reverse the protocol, respond to request and deliver other custom banners in place. Kind of like what Steve Mann is doing, but in a virtual environment. Much easier, also, as the ads are already conveniently packaged, with no need to visually identify advertising.
Showed my 5500 to a salesman at London Drugs and he was quite impressed. This 3 year old device has features not found in their stock. Took down the information I provided about it, but obviously didn't spark a buying frenzy. Too bad. The price of my next zaurus is going to be significantly higher.
4*200G=800G, 4*$120=$480 <-- seagate 7.5k 200G 3.5" SATA hd
Sure SCSI is a bit faster, the drives a bit cooler, and the data a bit safer but put the $8k to better use, I say.
I'm planning to have a Athlon 64 3400+ Mobile as the core of my next desktop. Low power (cool), cheap (relatively), and fast. Those Pentium M chips are expensive for their performance.
2nd Last page of GeForce review mentions the power draw and that it is most-likely that the 6600 can get away without a 2nd power connector by using the beefier power from the PCI-E bus. Nice to see a power comparison...
120W for an idle video card is quite high. I'm considering a mobile ath64 3400+ powered desktop system, and the CPU only draws 85W. Eventual goal is a fixed mount solar/wind powered watercooled mobile visualization workstation in a camper... because it can be done and because the winters are too long and cold up here in Canada.
I'm unsure about the possibility/status of opengl accelleration across both xinerama screens on a single card, and also accelleration across multiple screens on multiple cards, but the theory is sound, and the tech is (nearly) there.
The cached chapter list is available thru google.
Datahands took care of my carpal tunnel, tho I've yet to find an employer that would ever invest in one for their employees. Put 'em on the end of the arms of a good chair and there is no better.
Or you could encourage a system that does not rely on negative re-inforcement for the purposes of developing behaviour required to prop up its' archaic, unevolving, stagnant, corrupt and easily corruptable network. There is no software of greater worth than software that is given. How many burritos does one need, exactly?
There's a good chance that if we focus SETI on protien unfolding we'll find g0d.
Perhaps a comparison between the bonzai and the ancient jungle. Rigid nano control versus emergent niches. A good bonzai master does not pretend to go against the nature of tree, however. It could be argued that MS is too big to be good.
Personally, I think they should take their cash, set up a good dozen isolated coder communes and evolve a new direction for themselves, one that doesn't involve tieing up the legal system, blanket enforcement and predation. They have enough to change the rules, to shatter the 'office supply' mentality. Without a drastic shift, they're screwed (well as screwed as a giant monopoly can be). They've missed the beauty that is open source, and, as it lies, seem doomed to be tied to a life of fostering servitude. Like moss looking up at the flowering canopy.
FYI, allofmp3 (and others) offer tracks much cheaper and in higher quality than itms. Quality at allofmp3 (due to great backend) varies from 24k mp3 -> .ogg -> .flac -> .wav. One pays by the bits dl'd, not by the track.
I was going to comment on the increasing lack of openness in the 'States, but it's looks to falling on dead (or perhaps ears in love with being sold the sweet stench of mass broadcasted self defeat). At best, this kind of action could be seen as an interesting experiment in social organization, however, I think it's more the case that inevitably the one way forward seems so right because it's the only way that's permitted (overtly or not). What are the chances that the right way forward appeals to the 16 year old male demographic. Embrace the homogeny. Stick that in your database and mine it.
I'm sure this must have been thought of, but what about a fission bootstrap? Produce enough burst electricity to create an appropriate environment for sustainable (and then productive) fusion, and have the fusion reactor take over when it can cover it's own requirements, shutting down the fission. There would still be waste and the increased potential for accident with fission, but only during the bootstrap process... possible?