Which is why I'm building my own OSS voting system. Go to www.herrvinny.com for screenshots, and the link in my.sig has the sourceforge project link. Anyone want to help test it out?
And this is exactly why I started my SourceForge project at https://sourceforge.net/projects/kbvote/. My voting system is going well, I'm working on interface refinements now. Screenshots are at herrvinny.com. Any UW-Madison people here, feel free to email me. I'd like some feedback too; I'm only an undergrad:-). And yes, I did submit it as a story, but it was rejected...
How on earth is this going to work? It's just a flag, a bit flipped to true, saying don't copy this. Yet, DTV's right now haven't been engineered to respond to this flag, and the signal format isn't changing, so there's nothing stopping you from using an old DTV and recording video in violation of the flag. Someone needs to just buy up lots of old DTV video cards so shows can be recorded when all new DTVs come with the flag "feature"
Just as a matter of interest, how do you signal to an audience that you're apt-ing? 99%+ of the people I talk to every day have no idea what apt even does, never mind whether they know about Linux and different distros.
Yes, I agree that the two major components of a search engine are hardware and the algorithm, but hardware is the easy part, IMHO. Think about it. Google simply throws away broken hardware instead of trying to fix it, that's how cheap it is. And on balance, how much hardware do you really need? A cluster of supercheap computers doesn't sound like a tall order. They don't even have to be really, 100% reliable. With the dot com crash, there are tons of empty buildings designed to do nothing but hold vast racks of computers. There's a huge warehouse near me that was converted into a server farm warehouse, and now it sits empty. Get a few of those and fill them up. Spidering is easy. It's easy to build a program that does nothing except search for links, follow them, and save the pages to disk.
The algorithm, on the other hand, is tricky. Google really innovated by deciding to rank pages based on the number of links they get. Google, or someone else, probably has that idea patented up the wazoo. Someone really has to come up with a new idea for indexing sites. Perhaps we need to go back to a Yahoo! style directory service, where actual humans rate the content? Or maybe we need some sort of AI to handle indexing? Easier said than done. Even user-ratings services, such as TopSites(Got a spam from them earlier today) have problems in that someone could easily rig up a bot to go vote multiple times. Anyone want to put in an idea on how the next gen search engine should work?
What about spam email writers that claim copyright on their email? I've seen dozens of emails that say "this message is intended for recipient x. Delete if you are not recipient" etc. Does copyright on spam still apply?
About a month ago,/. posted a story similar to this, and someone recommended software that, in essence, becomes the sound subsystem, and all audio went through it, so you could record even "protected" content. Anyone have the link to the software?
shouldn't that be "from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to zero instructions"? If it's one instruction that doesn't work, and every program has at least one bug and can be shortened one line, why can't we shorten to 0 instructions. Or even take the process further. Go to negative infinity instructions.
Really? I didn't know that. Right, I'll do the replace right now. Does anyone know how the compiler treats vote++ and ++vote during optimization? Thanks.
Yes, sorry mods, it's offtopic, but I wouldn't mind getting some direction.
Everybody is talking about what their favorite tablet would be, so what about building a kit and letting us build in the features we want? The PC World article says it'll cost $1900, but ouch, that's a bit much. Even new Windows based tablets are cheaper. Personally, I would want a tablet pc with a processor and ram barely able to run the OS, a reduced size keyboard (or no keyboard at all) and ethernet functionality. I don't need modem or wireless capability, nor do I need the touchpad. Why would I when I have the pen and a touchscreen? The best thing would be a kit form, with the following each available separately:
1 touchscreen (duh) 1 keyboard without touchpad 1 keyboard with touchpad Several different motherboards, with varying processors, # of ram, built in ethernet/modem/wireless functionality Several pen styles
I've been throwing around an idea recently. What if we could disassemble a touchscreen, put all the motherboard etc stuff in a separate box, then have a small wired connection to a screen? That way, you can stow the box in your backpack, and just use the touchscreen as you do a piece of paper. With batteries, you can use it as a notebook.
IANAL, and I hate to burst the bubble, but isn't that illegal? Working with others to manipulate a stock price? A better thing to do would be to check your stock portfolio, make sure you don't own any SCO or rivals of SCO stock, then send hordes of developers to continually post on finance message boards (can anyone say finance.yahoo.com) and convince people you have no financial interest in the matter, you're doing the Right Thing (TM) and tell people that it is your professional opinion that SCO should shove it.
Forgot to say, if anyone wants the kernel files, I'll gladly send you a CD of them. Unfortunately, UW Madison doesn't give undergrads web site space, nor do I have enough privately owned space to post them on the net.
After I read the previous SCO story, I went to the SCO ftp site and downloaded all the kernel files (the ones starting with kernel-source...) from ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/scolinux/server/4.0/updates/ SRPMS/. It's about 123 MB total, 10 files total. Does this make me a customer of SCO now? Can I demand to get the new SCO Linux files without having to agree to their worthless license?
would still smell as sweet. Gator by any other name would still smell as BAD!! SPYWARE, SPYWARE, SPYWARE!!! Or if you don't like that, what about loserware, slows-down-your-computerware, fuck-offware, virusware, a-piece-of-crapware, and all the other -wares.
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Microsoft won't have any trouble converting Red Hat users now.
Which is why I'm building my own OSS voting system. Go to www.herrvinny.com for screenshots, and the link in my .sig has the sourceforge project link. Anyone want to help test it out?
And this is exactly why I started my SourceForge project at https://sourceforge.net/projects/kbvote/. My voting system is going well, I'm working on interface refinements now. Screenshots are at herrvinny.com. Any UW-Madison people here, feel free to email me. I'd like some feedback too; I'm only an undergrad :-). And yes, I did submit it as a story, but it was rejected...
How are they going to replicate the clueless secretary that just gives away passwords to an intelligent sounding caller?
How on earth is this going to work? It's just a flag, a bit flipped to true, saying don't copy this. Yet, DTV's right now haven't been engineered to respond to this flag, and the signal format isn't changing, so there's nothing stopping you from using an old DTV and recording video in violation of the flag. Someone needs to just buy up lots of old DTV video cards so shows can be recorded when all new DTVs come with the flag "feature"
Just as a matter of interest, how do you signal to an audience that you're apt-ing? 99%+ of the people I talk to every day have no idea what apt even does, never mind whether they know about Linux and different distros.
Wait until they grow up and want to play Counterstrike, Duke Nukem, GTA, etc. Then see if they still want Linux.
No way.
Yes, I agree that the two major components of a search engine are hardware and the algorithm, but hardware is the easy part, IMHO. Think about it. Google simply throws away broken hardware instead of trying to fix it, that's how cheap it is. And on balance, how much hardware do you really need? A cluster of supercheap computers doesn't sound like a tall order. They don't even have to be really, 100% reliable. With the dot com crash, there are tons of empty buildings designed to do nothing but hold vast racks of computers. There's a huge warehouse near me that was converted into a server farm warehouse, and now it sits empty. Get a few of those and fill them up. Spidering is easy. It's easy to build a program that does nothing except search for links, follow them, and save the pages to disk.
The algorithm, on the other hand, is tricky. Google really innovated by deciding to rank pages based on the number of links they get. Google, or someone else, probably has that idea patented up the wazoo. Someone really has to come up with a new idea for indexing sites. Perhaps we need to go back to a Yahoo! style directory service, where actual humans rate the content? Or maybe we need some sort of AI to handle indexing? Easier said than done. Even user-ratings services, such as TopSites(Got a spam from them earlier today) have problems in that someone could easily rig up a bot to go vote multiple times. Anyone want to put in an idea on how the next gen search engine should work?
...Pokemon Colosseum comes out. I'll pick up a few FPS and flight sim games too. Rebel Strike looks like a winning game.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of solar flares... aimed directly at the Earth!
Forget it. If I want to play Command and Conquer, I'll do it on a full blown laptop.
What about spam email writers that claim copyright on their email? I've seen dozens of emails that say "this message is intended for recipient x. Delete if you are not recipient" etc. Does copyright on spam still apply?
Where's the OSS software? Can't find it on the company website.
that's it. thanks
About a month ago, /. posted a story similar to this, and someone recommended software that, in essence, becomes the sound subsystem, and all audio went through it, so you could record even "protected" content. Anyone have the link to the software?
Cool. Could I get a copy of that million word db?
shouldn't that be "from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to zero instructions"? If it's one instruction that doesn't work, and every program has at least one bug and can be shortened one line, why can't we shorten to 0 instructions. Or even take the process further. Go to negative infinity instructions.
Really? I didn't know that. Right, I'll do the replace right now. Does anyone know how the compiler treats vote++ and ++vote during optimization? Thanks.
Yes, sorry mods, it's offtopic, but I wouldn't mind getting some direction.
Just block all traffic coming from China... that's what I do for email...
I have a few spare 486 processors lying around. Any ideas on how to cook them?
Everybody is talking about what their favorite tablet would be, so what about building a kit and letting us build in the features we want? The PC World article says it'll cost $1900, but ouch, that's a bit much. Even new Windows based tablets are cheaper. Personally, I would want a tablet pc with a processor and ram barely able to run the OS, a reduced size keyboard (or no keyboard at all) and ethernet functionality. I don't need modem or wireless capability, nor do I need the touchpad. Why would I when I have the pen and a touchscreen? The best thing would be a kit form, with the following each available separately:
1 touchscreen (duh)
1 keyboard without touchpad
1 keyboard with touchpad
Several different motherboards, with varying processors, # of ram, built in ethernet/modem/wireless functionality
Several pen styles
I've been throwing around an idea recently. What if we could disassemble a touchscreen, put all the motherboard etc stuff in a separate box, then have a small wired connection to a screen? That way, you can stow the box in your backpack, and just use the touchscreen as you do a piece of paper. With batteries, you can use it as a notebook.
IANAL, and I hate to burst the bubble, but isn't that illegal? Working with others to manipulate a stock price? A better thing to do would be to check your stock portfolio, make sure you don't own any SCO or rivals of SCO stock, then send hordes of developers to continually post on finance message boards (can anyone say finance.yahoo.com) and convince people you have no financial interest in the matter, you're doing the Right Thing (TM) and tell people that it is your professional opinion that SCO should shove it.
Forgot to say, if anyone wants the kernel files, I'll gladly send you a CD of them. Unfortunately, UW Madison doesn't give undergrads web site space, nor do I have enough privately owned space to post them on the net.
After I read the previous SCO story, I went to the SCO ftp site and downloaded all the kernel files (the ones starting with kernel-source...) from ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/scolinux/server/4.0/updates/ SRPMS/. It's about 123 MB total, 10 files total. Does this make me a customer of SCO now? Can I demand to get the new SCO Linux files without having to agree to their worthless license?
would still smell as sweet. Gator by any other name would still smell as BAD!! SPYWARE, SPYWARE, SPYWARE!!! Or if you don't like that, what about loserware, slows-down-your-computerware, fuck-offware, virusware, a-piece-of-crapware, and all the other -wares.