This makes me wonder why DSS (Digital Spread Spectrum) technology hasn't been incorporated into most home wireless devices (like those wireless X10 cameras)...it provides privacy and the signal is unjammable AND it's been around since WWII.
Wow! Maybe I should fill out my tax return to the Portugese government instead:- )
(It would be nice to see the Government of Canada "get it" like this when it comes to technology)
"Windows is great for stuff like this."
I don't see how a version of QuickTax or the like is so great on Windows and would not be great on Linux if companies like Intuit could get their shit together...of course something cool like a KTax applet or a tax module for GNUCash would be ideal, but I could settle for a Linux version of QuickTax;- )
[i]Apropos of nothing, I saw a movie in the theaters a few days ago. At the official start time, the lights dimmed. Then there were 14 minutes of commercials (Pepsi, hair mousse, cologne, etc.) followed by 13 minutes of movie trailers (which are also advertising), followed by a few minutes of junk, followed by a 100-minute movie. I can't imagine why people would want to download movies when they have that great theater experience to compare against.[/i]
Let's not forget the 10 minute lecture targetted at the paying audience on how piracy hurts the little guy...never the mega-corporation behind it...
"But the right of private modification is also an important right that needs to be sustained, he said."
I know the LGPL allows private (proprietary) code to be linked with free (open) libraries.
How does the GPL v2 support private modifications? If you pass it on to someone, you must pass on the source......wouldn't changing this damage the whole premise behind the GPL and Open-Source software?
Hmmm...it's too bad the continuity couldn't come from FFIV (FFII USA)...that one had the most realistic characters and interesting storyline as far as I'm concerned. I don't know how much of a run for it's money the "Xenosaga" will be...I pretty much fell asleep at and lost interest in Xenogears...
"The story takes place two years after Earth was saved from Meteor at the end of Final Fantasy VII"
Wow, I thought it this sort of thing was against Squaresoft's requirement that the FF series have no sense of continuity...the reason I won't be seeing it is because of their other requirement that every game in (or movie about) the series be considerably worse than the last...
With our current socio-economic problems (especially IP laws) we're in no position to be mixing our bodies with software and/or hardware.
I think the supplements this gentleman is taking are giving him unexpected brain damage...
There's much to be said for the damage TV can cause (mostly to do with spoon-fed repetitive messages hitting your ears), but video games have their own distinct type of brain-abuse.
My discovery of this was realized this last year when I connected my old NES (after not having played any games of any kind for about 10 years) and experienced nostalgia by plugging in my old "Contra" cartridge (which I'd spent 14 hours a day in front of for years as a kid). I started to play it and it was like I'd never left the damn thing - I hit evey jump, killed every enemy and basically finished the game on 1 try, without a certain code from the old days:- )
This was 10 YEARS LATER!!
My point is that (according to psychological theory) the way we learn is by developing pathways through our neurons which give us reflexes and reactions to certain stimuli. Video games (the old ones at least) have VERY specific reflex requirements to VERY specific stimuli (How many seconds do have to kill that alien - usually less than 1/2...how many different ways to kill him...without the EXACT same thumb twitch?)
This obviously results in focused but deep pathways in your neurons which will never be overwritten - a permanent fixture in your brain.
So while some people may not call being a master at "Contra" for the rest of your existence a waste - I regret it and would much rather know how to play the piano (for example) in exchange for that mental real-estate.
I've personally been a victim of this, sitting in the waiting room with a broken wrist for about 10.5 hours - I seriously doubt that this is strictly due to "extreme cases" that were ahead of me.
I must definitely agree that in Canada they make an effort to "show you" that they're underfunded and overworked. I would have been much more convinced, however, if I didn't see my potential doctors on a perpetual coffee break!
- Okay first the claim that Apple's "OS" and hardware was light years ahead of the PC is nonsense...sure all the pretty-clicky stuff was 10 years ahead, but the design (no multitasking/interrupts, user/system memory segmentation, etc...) was 10 years BEHIND!
- The first version of windows that didn't suck was not shipped in 1995, rather the first "pretty" version of windows was shipped that year. A version of windows that doesn't suck has never been shipped.
- Even if Apple had licensed their "technology" they would have been pounded into the dust because try as they might - nobody can play as dirty as Microsoft.
The problem with most Linux utils is that they're tied to each distro. I could easily say I love Portage or RPM but how useful are these outside their respective distributions?
OK, I'm no mathematician and although the Clay Mathematics Institute is offering $1 million to anyone who proves this theory.
I'm offering a case of beer to anyone who can make sense of any 3 words after "It states that..."
Slashdot Mirror
I would LOVE to know how k3b will record 80GB to a CD...
This makes me wonder why DSS (Digital Spread Spectrum) technology hasn't been incorporated into most home wireless devices (like those wireless X10 cameras) ...it provides privacy and the signal is unjammable AND it's been around since WWII.
Where'd you get knoppix 3.8? None of the mirrors have it available...
What sort of complete rubbish is this? IE is more of a "de facto" nuisance rather than any sort of "standard"!
Wow! Maybe I should fill out my tax return to the Portugese government instead :- )
(It would be nice to see the Government of Canada "get it" like this when it comes to technology)
"Windows is great for stuff like this." I don't see how a version of QuickTax or the like is so great on Windows and would not be great on Linux if companies like Intuit could get their shit together...of course something cool like a KTax applet or a tax module for GNUCash would be ideal, but I could settle for a Linux version of QuickTax ;- )
[i]Apropos of nothing, I saw a movie in the theaters a few days ago. At the official start time, the lights dimmed. Then there were 14 minutes of commercials (Pepsi, hair mousse, cologne, etc.) followed by 13 minutes of movie trailers (which are also advertising), followed by a few minutes of junk, followed by a 100-minute movie. I can't imagine why people would want to download movies when they have that great theater experience to compare against.[/i] Let's not forget the 10 minute lecture targetted at the paying audience on how piracy hurts the little guy...never the mega-corporation behind it...
Probably using FrontPage to create it...
Shouldn't the article be written by someone like Rob Davis to be taken even half seriously?
Agreed, ignorant and horrible!
Maybe after a week they'll realize that Portage is the best package manager of them all and dump the rest ;- )
"But the right of private modification is also an important right that needs to be sustained, he said." I know the LGPL allows private (proprietary) code to be linked with free (open) libraries. How does the GPL v2 support private modifications? If you pass it on to someone, you must pass on the source... ...wouldn't changing this damage the whole premise behind the GPL and Open-Source software?
...and what about /opt?
Are we talking about the game "America's Army" here or what?
Hmmm...it's too bad the continuity couldn't come from FFIV (FFII USA)...that one had the most realistic characters and interesting storyline as far as I'm concerned. I don't know how much of a run for it's money the "Xenosaga" will be...I pretty much fell asleep at and lost interest in Xenogears...
"The story takes place two years after Earth was saved from Meteor at the end of Final Fantasy VII"
Wow, I thought it this sort of thing was against Squaresoft's requirement that the FF series have no sense of continuity...the reason I won't be seeing it is because of their other requirement that every game in (or movie about) the series be considerably worse than the last...
With our current socio-economic problems (especially IP laws) we're in no position to be mixing our bodies with software and/or hardware. I think the supplements this gentleman is taking are giving him unexpected brain damage...
There's much to be said for the damage TV can cause (mostly to do with spoon-fed repetitive messages hitting your ears), but video games have their own distinct type of brain-abuse. My discovery of this was realized this last year when I connected my old NES (after not having played any games of any kind for about 10 years) and experienced nostalgia by plugging in my old "Contra" cartridge (which I'd spent 14 hours a day in front of for years as a kid). I started to play it and it was like I'd never left the damn thing - I hit evey jump, killed every enemy and basically finished the game on 1 try, without a certain code from the old days :- )
This was 10 YEARS LATER!!
My point is that (according to psychological theory) the way we learn is by developing pathways through our neurons which give us reflexes and reactions to certain stimuli. Video games (the old ones at least) have VERY specific reflex requirements to VERY specific stimuli (How many seconds do have to kill that alien - usually less than 1/2...how many different ways to kill him...without the EXACT same thumb twitch?)
This obviously results in focused but deep pathways in your neurons which will never be overwritten - a permanent fixture in your brain.
So while some people may not call being a master at "Contra" for the rest of your existence a waste - I regret it and would much rather know how to play the piano (for example) in exchange for that mental real-estate.
I've personally been a victim of this, sitting in the waiting room with a broken wrist for about 10.5 hours - I seriously doubt that this is strictly due to "extreme cases" that were ahead of me. I must definitely agree that in Canada they make an effort to "show you" that they're underfunded and overworked. I would have been much more convinced, however, if I didn't see my potential doctors on a perpetual coffee break!
See the -zrcrop, and -xineramascreen flags for mplayer/mencoder i.e. "man mencoder" from the command-line
Wonder what the penalty would be for hacking this system? Can't see it being any more than fraud...and that's if you get caught :- )
- Okay first the claim that Apple's "OS" and hardware was light years ahead of the PC is nonsense...sure all the pretty-clicky stuff was 10 years ahead, but the design (no multitasking/interrupts, user/system memory segmentation, etc...) was 10 years BEHIND!
- The first version of windows that didn't suck was not shipped in 1995, rather the first "pretty" version of windows was shipped that year. A version of windows that doesn't suck has never been shipped.
- Even if Apple had licensed their "technology" they would have been pounded into the dust because try as they might - nobody can play as dirty as Microsoft.
The problem with most Linux utils is that they're tied to each distro. I could easily say I love Portage or RPM but how useful are these outside their respective distributions?
I've always found them clunky and useless...but I know some Linux guru out there will make the world's first supercomputer comprised of PDA's...
OK, I'm no mathematician and although the Clay Mathematics Institute is offering $1 million to anyone who proves this theory. I'm offering a case of beer to anyone who can make sense of any 3 words after "It states that..."