I was thinking about something the other day, it might interest all of you -- make fake wireless nets using the Cybiko.
For a bit of explaination, here goes -- the Cybiko is a small 'toy' directed at teenagers -- it has all the usual PDA features, but the most interesting is that it posesses short-rage wireless capabilities.
It has an SDK, so I had the idea of making an app and some drivers so that you could connet the Cybiko to your serial port and communicate with other people with the same Cybiko setup. THe speed are limited to about 200kb/sec (IIRC) but they're cheap at 129 USD per unit, and multipule units could communicate with each other.
It dependes on what part of the argument theou're basing it on; as for the last line "are games more fun than they were 10 years ago", I'd have to say 'yes' -- mostly because of the advent of multiplayer gaming; playing against a human bean is much more fulfilling than an AI.
But there are some noticable let downs as well. Most current games (with some notable exceptions) are relying too much on technical merit and not enough on design or inspiration. Most single-player games of today are completely devoid of anything resembing an enveloping story line or interesting characters; I'll still pull my Apple//c out of mothballs every few weeks just to play Ultima IV because it's a story I've been engrossed in for well over 10 years.
In short, I don't think the advance in 3D design is taking anything away from the experience, but I don't thing advanced 3d Design is enough to make a game 'fun', either.
It does seem a bit self-centered, doesn't it? After we (the US) left a plaque up there inscribed witht he phrase "...we came in peace for all mankind..."
However, I really think there should be an historial preservation of the site -- the New Mexio group is on the right track, they just need to change their verbiage a bit.. maybe to a "United Nations Historical site"?
This is a great thing for those of use that use laptops on a daily basis and hope to use use *nix-based handhelds soon... at least here in the USA... to keep over-zealous law-enforcment officials at bay;
Now, IAMAL[?], but here is how I got it explained to me: Items on your person fall under the dictates of law governing search and siezure. If you have a cabinet in your home, the police are allowed to search is if they have probable cause; but if you have a safe in you your home, you are not required to volunteer the combination to it without a subpeona. Goes the same for passwords and crypto, too, AFAIK. They can put me in the squad car, but until they get a court order, I don't have to tell them the password to my PDA or my GPG/PGP secret key passphrase.
This is a good thing, because an over-zealous officer could start dinking around on you laptop and find some incrimitation evidence (violating S&C Law), but tell the judge that he found 'by accident'. Who is the judge going to believe? But if you have it all locked up tight, nothing short of a circuit court judge can force you to unlock it.
And please not my gratuitous use of the phrase 'over-zealous'. The VAST majority of law officers are decent human beings - its just those choice few emmy-award winners that makes everyones life hell.
At the very least put a pasword on your PDA, laptop, and modified-laptop-car-MP3-Player. Especially the MP3 player -- Ms. Spears would be so pissed if she found out I downloaded all 50 remixes of "I'm a closet dyke" off Napster:)
..and they never will. Security is put there to keep the honest people honest. If someone is hell-bend of getting past a super-whizbang scheme, they will; Simple as that. I'm reminded of something 'taco said of DVDs in a past GiS eposide: "..they don't understand; if we can view it, we can rip it."
Seems odd he would say that, since the RISC processors in the new AS/400's are the same (archetecture wise) as any Regular PowerPC; the only difference really is that the CPUs in a Silverlake are optimized for straight proccess crunching, not FPU like a G3.
As for the older CISC designed from the rackmount days, Linux is already sucessfuly booting.. well, to a single-user shell, at least:)
One thing I just thought about: If this is indeed factual, and you will *require* a new case, will Intel patent the design of said case? If you want to run a P-IV are you going to have to buy an OFFICIAL Pentium-IV(or at least Intel sanctioned) case?
Another thing-- Unless they change where the IO block is (where the keyboard, serial, and mouse connectors are), perhaps you could drop it in an ATX case and build your own heat sink? Or will Intel indeed change the very form factor to keep us from doing this?
I was reading through the letter, in the section where it says:
...or any other device designed to circumvent CSS, violates the DMCA. The district court granted a permanent injunction against (1) posting on any Internet site, or in any other way manufacturing, importing or offering to the public, providing, or otherwise trafficking in DeCSS or any other technology primarily designed to circumvent CSS, and (2) linking any Internet web site, either directly or through a series of links...
First of all, define 'circumvent'. It my knowledge, the code used in DeCSS was writting by reverse-engineering CSS encoded data and such; Does this mean that anything that is clean-room'ed is 'circumventing' or illegal? In my mind, circumventing is like finding a way around (cira = 'around') a certian thing. DeCSS just decrypts the data in the same way any other program or DVD player does. It's not like you stole someones private key or anything. I have some friends why reverse-engineered the protocol for Nokia-to-PC communication -- have they 'Circumvented' it? Are they in the wrong? or is circumvention just a big word meaning "They didn't ask us for permission first"?
Going on this, though, I take that to mean that anything that can decode DeCSS encoded data is in violation; Including every DVD player ever made. of course, thats silly to think; the DVD-CCA then has Carde-banche to decide whether a company is fairly using CSS Decryting code or if they are circumventing it; they could just say company XXX's DVD player is illegalling decrypting DVDs, and therefore putting company XXX out of business -- and I'm Sure DVD-CCA Execs are not above accepting bribes from big name companies that don't want competition.
Oh, yeah, and the next part of my Rant. There is the line "linking any Internet web site, either directly or through a series of links" in there. Which means that if you link to a site, and they link to another site, etc, and someone down the line has a DeCSS link, are you all therefore breaking the law? Hell, even the MPAA web site had a link to 2600.com for quite a while.
One thing that the Mister Lucas has said on many occasions that that he *is* trying to get to the point of making a completely CG film that looks real; I'm not sure if we'll ever get to it, and I don't care. Yes, CGI is great and wonderful, but there is still this amazing sense of being envelped by a story that only live actors can give you.
Robert Llewelyn(sp?) may have looked like a bearskin run in his Chewbacca suit, but I think feel he was more believable than Jar Jar Binks and all his 2300 hours of rendering time. Just because something can be done, doesn't mean it should be done.
But then again, it's George's studio, he's paying for this himself.. so do we really have the right to bitch?
The thing that people seem to forget is that serial anime (like GBZ or Gundam Wing) are the asian counterpart of US cartoons.. Most series anime lacks deep plots or interesting philisphical meaning because it's being marketed primarily to 10-year-olds. I mean, if you want detailed explorations of a charaters motivations, got watch 'LA Law'. GBZ is about action, plain and simple, and any witty dialogue that gets thrown in, well, it's probably stuff that the editor forgot to edit in the cutting room. Hell, if we were all 9 years old, Techni would fscking 0wn.
The other side of this is Film Anime -- Stuff like 'Ghost in the Shell' and 'Lain' that, while possessing action sequences, are more about exploring issues and meanings verse 'pink shit' coming out of ones forhead. I dare you to get a pre-teen to sit still during 'Lain'.
Even better: Naster charges nothing; these guys have the oddacity to sell this stuff. I don't understand how this could be in any way legal (unless the company is operation in some extraterritorial capacity).
Here is a big question folx: How did Contentville get it's grubby little hands on your thesis in the first place? Are they bribing professors for photocoppies of their inbox? Don't the acedemic people care about the privacy and effort of their students?
...here's a random thought: Don't get Contentville to take down your papers; assuing your PhD thesis actually/got/ you your PhD, charge them royalties for the time you took to write it -- the the hourly rate your degree commands!
The BBC Linkage has a quick blurb that he "hated" being Obi-Wan. This is a real surprise to me, seeing as how it did it so brilliantly. Does anyone know the reason/WHY/ he disliked the role? I even believe the line "threw away all his fan mail unopened" is used. What on earth could make him so bitter? Watching E4 will never be the same again.
You know what, you're absolutly right -- this is news for Rob Malda.
Why?
Because Slashdor is Rob's invention! Guess what, if you watch his bio on TheSync, you clearly hear him say something along the lines of "to post stuff about things I like".
This is Mr. Taco's place, and he has every right to post the stories he wants too because he made nearly everything you see here.
I remember a hubub around my area a few years ago about Gas/jet turbine hybrids. A local company was really getting spiffy about taking the newest Saturn cars, ripping out the Engines and dropping in a small peetrolium powered jet turbine that in turn ran a generator for an electric motor. Reported something like 100 MPG but was really, really loud.
Still they said they could do a conversion on a Saturn for about 5k USD. If tey could Lick the sound problem, It wouldn't be too bad..
But then again, you'd have to be a rocket scientist (literally) to fix the damn thing:)
Say what? QT 4 surely does stream. The problem is that at slow speed (anything less than bonded ISDN) it sucks. Its' "Fat Pipe" codecs are the best available, though.
It's called being ubiquitous. Even thought RN is their "enemy", Quicktime Technologies like the Sorensen Codec are the best thing going for high-bandwidth video (RealNetworks still 0wnz low speed, though). If it deleivers better quality, people will demand it. And where ya' gonna get the tools to compress a video for Quicktime? Apple, of course. Suppose you want to be one of the heard and use Sorensen? Apple Owns the IP to it, so they get more cash.
I'm more surprised that RealNetworks did design they're own high bandwidth/quality codec. They certainly have the resources to do so.
Can't site an exact web site, but for the longest time, the technopop site had a disclaimer at the bottom saying Tight WAS NOT going to run BE or BeIA. It's gone now, but I'm pretty sure they are not going to use it.
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Nose chip? Well, its not quite my dream ass chip yet, but dangnabbit is cience isn't getting closer -- just at the wrong end of the body. >
"This post was pointless. If this post has had a point, it would have stood up and waved a little blue flag that says 'hey, I have a point here.'"
While I wouldn't normally say this, because I'm against intentional crippling of software (in general), but please leave OUT support for SNA and Twinax! Two dead technologies they are, that no one seems to be willing to let go of-- so maybe if they were unable to use them, they may convert over to something more MODERN like.. Token ring or Arcnet:) (groan from gallery)
Actually, if this is a problem for you (like is is for me), then the answer is obvious : Get an old box, like a 386, drop on a modem and an NE2000 and IP Masq it.. not that I've got my set up to work yet or anything **grin**
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I was thinking about something the other day, it might interest all of you -- make fake wireless nets using the Cybiko.
For a bit of explaination, here goes -- the Cybiko is a small 'toy' directed at teenagers -- it has all the usual PDA features, but the most interesting is that it posesses short-rage wireless capabilities.
It has an SDK, so I had the idea of making an app and some drivers so that you could connet the Cybiko to your serial port and communicate with other people with the same Cybiko setup. THe speed are limited to about 200kb/sec (IIRC) but they're cheap at 129 USD per unit, and multipule units could communicate with each other.
It dependes on what part of the argument theou're basing it on; as for the last line "are games more fun than they were 10 years ago", I'd have to say 'yes' -- mostly because of the advent of multiplayer gaming; playing against a human bean is much more fulfilling than an AI.
//c out of mothballs every few weeks just to play Ultima IV because it's a story I've been engrossed in for well over 10 years.
But there are some noticable let downs as well. Most current games (with some notable exceptions) are relying too much on technical merit and not enough on design or inspiration. Most single-player games of today are completely devoid of anything resembing an enveloping story line or interesting characters; I'll still pull my Apple
In short, I don't think the advance in 3D design is taking anything away from the experience, but I don't thing advanced 3d Design is enough to make a game 'fun', either.
It does seem a bit self-centered, doesn't it? After we (the US) left a plaque up there inscribed witht he phrase "...we came in peace for all mankind..."
However, I really think there should be an historial preservation of the site -- the New Mexio group is on the right track, they just need to change their verbiage a bit.. maybe to a "United Nations Historical site"?
This is a great thing for those of use that use laptops on a daily basis and hope to use use *nix-based handhelds soon... at least here in the USA... to keep over-zealous law-enforcment officials at bay;
:)
Now, IAMAL[?], but here is how I got it explained to me: Items on your person fall under the dictates of law governing search and siezure. If you have a cabinet in your home, the police are allowed to search is if they have probable cause; but if you have a safe in you your home, you are not required to volunteer the combination to it without a subpeona. Goes the same for passwords and crypto, too, AFAIK. They can put me in the squad car, but until they get a court order, I don't have to tell them the password to my PDA or my GPG/PGP secret key passphrase.
This is a good thing, because an over-zealous officer could start dinking around on you laptop and find some incrimitation evidence (violating S&C Law), but tell the judge that he found 'by accident'. Who is the judge going to believe? But if you have it all locked up tight, nothing short of a circuit court judge can force you to unlock it.
And please not my gratuitous use of the phrase 'over-zealous'. The VAST majority of law officers are decent human beings - its just those choice few emmy-award winners that makes everyones life hell.
At the very least put a pasword on your PDA, laptop, and modified-laptop-car-MP3-Player. Especially the MP3 player -- Ms. Spears would be so pissed if she found out I downloaded all 50 remixes of "I'm a closet dyke" off Napster
..and they never will. Security is put there to keep the honest people honest. If someone is hell-bend of getting past a super-whizbang scheme, they will; Simple as that. I'm reminded of something 'taco said of DVDs in a past GiS eposide: "..they don't understand; if we can view it, we can rip it."
"that chip"?
:)
Seems odd he would say that, since the RISC processors in the new AS/400's are the same (archetecture wise) as any Regular PowerPC; the only difference really is that the CPUs in a Silverlake are optimized for straight proccess crunching, not FPU like a G3.
As for the older CISC designed from the rackmount days, Linux is already sucessfuly booting.. well, to a single-user shell, at least
One thing I just thought about: If this is indeed factual, and you will *require* a new case, will Intel patent the design of said case? If you want to run a P-IV are you going to have to buy an OFFICIAL Pentium-IV(or at least Intel sanctioned) case?
Another thing-- Unless they change where the IO block is (where the keyboard, serial, and mouse connectors are), perhaps you could drop it in an ATX case and build your own heat sink? Or will Intel indeed change the very form factor to keep us from doing this?
I was reading through the letter, in the section where it says:
First of all, define 'circumvent'. It my knowledge, the code used in DeCSS was writting by reverse-engineering CSS encoded data and such; Does this mean that anything that is clean-room'ed is 'circumventing' or illegal? In my mind, circumventing is like finding a way around (cira = 'around') a certian thing. DeCSS just decrypts the data in the same way any other program or DVD player does. It's not like you stole someones private key or anything. I have some friends why reverse-engineered the protocol for Nokia-to-PC communication -- have they 'Circumvented' it? Are they in the wrong? or is circumvention just a big word meaning "They didn't ask us for permission first"?
Going on this, though, I take that to mean that anything that can decode DeCSS encoded data is in violation; Including every DVD player ever made. of course, thats silly to think; the DVD-CCA then has Carde-banche to decide whether a company is fairly using CSS Decryting code or if they are circumventing it; they could just say company XXX's DVD player is illegalling decrypting DVDs, and therefore putting company XXX out of business -- and I'm Sure DVD-CCA Execs are not above accepting bribes from big name companies that don't want competition.
Oh, yeah, and the next part of my Rant. There is the line "linking any Internet web site, either directly or through a series of links" in there. Which means that if you link to a site, and they link to another site, etc, and someone down the line has a DeCSS link, are you all therefore breaking the law? Hell, even the MPAA web site had a link to 2600.com for quite a while.
I'll shut up now.
You are so right. Sorry for the brain fart.
One thing that the Mister Lucas has said on many occasions that that he *is* trying to get to the point of making a completely CG film that looks real; I'm not sure if we'll ever get to it, and I don't care. Yes, CGI is great and wonderful, but there is still this amazing sense of being envelped by a story that only live actors can give you.
Robert Llewelyn(sp?) may have looked like a bearskin run in his Chewbacca suit, but I think feel he was more believable than Jar Jar Binks and all his 2300 hours of rendering time. Just because something can be done, doesn't mean it should be done.
But then again, it's George's studio, he's paying for this himself.. so do we really have the right to bitch?
Eh, probably.
The thing that people seem to forget is that serial anime (like GBZ or Gundam Wing) are the asian counterpart of US cartoons.. Most series anime lacks deep plots or interesting philisphical meaning because it's being marketed primarily to 10-year-olds. I mean, if you want detailed explorations of a charaters motivations, got watch 'LA Law'. GBZ is about action, plain and simple, and any witty dialogue that gets thrown in, well, it's probably stuff that the editor forgot to edit in the cutting room. Hell, if we were all 9 years old, Techni would fscking 0wn.
The other side of this is Film Anime -- Stuff like 'Ghost in the Shell' and 'Lain' that, while possessing action sequences, are more about exploring issues and meanings verse 'pink shit' coming out of ones forhead. I dare you to get a pre-teen to sit still during 'Lain'.
Eh, fuck it. So be it.
Even better: Naster charges nothing; these guys have the oddacity to sell this stuff. I don't understand how this could be in any way legal (unless the company is operation in some extraterritorial capacity).
/got/ you your PhD, charge them royalties for the time you took to write it -- the the hourly rate your degree commands!
Here is a big question folx: How did Contentville get it's grubby little hands on your thesis in the first place? Are they bribing professors for photocoppies of their inbox? Don't the acedemic people care about the privacy and effort of their students?
...here's a random thought: Don't get Contentville to take down your papers; assuing your PhD thesis actually
The BBC Linkage has a quick blurb that he "hated" being Obi-Wan. This is a real surprise to me, seeing as how it did it so brilliantly. Does anyone know the reason /WHY/ he disliked the role? I even believe the line "threw away all his fan mail unopened" is used. What on earth could make him so bitter? Watching E4 will never be the same again.
You know what, you're absolutly right -- this is news for Rob Malda.
Why?
Because Slashdor is Rob's invention! Guess what, if you watch his bio on TheSync, you clearly hear him say something along the lines of "to post stuff about things I like".
This is Mr. Taco's place, and he has every right to post the stories he wants too because he made nearly everything you see here.
Deal with it. Just fricking deal.
I remember a hubub around my area a few years ago about Gas/jet turbine hybrids. A local company was really getting spiffy about taking the newest Saturn cars, ripping out the Engines and dropping in a small peetrolium powered jet turbine that in turn ran a generator for an electric motor. Reported something like 100 MPG but was really, really loud.
:)
Still they said they could do a conversion on a Saturn for about 5k USD. If tey could Lick the sound problem, It wouldn't be too bad..
But then again, you'd have to be a rocket scientist (literally) to fix the damn thing
Say what? QT 4 surely does stream. The problem is that at slow speed (anything less than bonded ISDN) it sucks. Its' "Fat Pipe" codecs are the best available, though.
It's called being ubiquitous. Even thought RN is their "enemy", Quicktime Technologies like the Sorensen Codec are the best thing going for high-bandwidth video (RealNetworks still 0wnz low speed, though). If it deleivers better quality, people will demand it. And where ya' gonna get the tools to compress a video for Quicktime? Apple, of course. Suppose you want to be one of the heard and use Sorensen? Apple Owns the IP to it, so they get more cash.
I'm more surprised that RealNetworks did design they're own high bandwidth/quality codec. They certainly have the resources to do so.
BTW, I meant that in humour, but my Pseudo-HTML tags didn't take.
Their using the Airport? Extraplanetary AppleTalk?
If The Apple Airport can beam a signal into orbit, then why can't I keep a stable connection to it when I'm 10 meters away from it?
Can't site an exact web site, but for the longest time, the technopop site had a disclaimer at the bottom saying Tight WAS NOT going to run BE or BeIA. It's gone now, but I'm pretty sure they are not going to use it.
Nose chip? Well, its not quite my dream ass chip yet, but dangnabbit is cience isn't getting closer -- just at the wrong end of the body. >
"This post was pointless. If this post has had a point, it would have stood up and waved a little blue flag that says 'hey, I have a point here.'"
While I wouldn't normally say this, because I'm against intentional crippling of software (in general), but please leave OUT support for SNA and Twinax! Two dead technologies they are, that no one seems to be willing to let go of-- so maybe if they were unable to use them, they may convert over to something more MODERN like.. Token ring or Arcnet :) (groan from gallery)
*cough* Flamembait *cough* Meta-Moderation here PLEASE! Pitiful Intel slut...
Well, you *have* heard of eternal, havent you :)
Actually, if this is a problem for you (like is is for me), then the answer is obvious : Get an old box, like a 386, drop on a modem and an NE2000 and IP Masq it.. not that I've got my set up to work yet or anything **grin**