Umm... For the most part Stanford Researchers == Google Researchers.
Google came about from a stanford research project. There's a good chance the people who are responsable for the speedup either allready knew about pagerank from working with the founders, or signed an nda.
I haven't read the article, but I bet it hints at that.
If he's mounting it on a cabinet just get some material that matches what those are made of. Build a frame, and make it so a piece of plexiglass can slide into it.
Shouldn't take more than an hour or two to build and finish with basic hand tools. Depending on the materials used it should cost anywhere from $25-$75
I wouldn't want to watch a movie in stop and go trafic since it's just that. If you glance away from trafic for a split second and the car in front of you stops you're going to rear end the guy in front of you. It may only be at 10 mph, but it's going to make your wallet hurt.
Could I chip an xbox mobo encased in 2mm of epoxy? Sure, but it would take longer than 5 minutes. Would I bother? Depends, but I sure would think twice.
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/download.php xbox bios replacement, no microsoft code. I mentioned in another thread that I'm thinking of chiping an xbox to make a mythtv front end. I intend to use cromwell in the chip, and just turn the chip off when I want to play an xbox game.
No DMCA violation, no copyright violation. Just a dual purpose piece of hardware. Just doing what microsoft wants sometimes, doing what I want other times.
That sounded almost like a defence of the DMCA, but I didn't mean it to. Hmmm.... Somebody must have laced my mountain dew.
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I'm considering using linux on xbox for a front end to mythtv, with the back end capture/storage on my main linux machine. Not exactly what you're looking for, but it is versitle (tivos are cool, but will never be versitle enough for a geek) and cheap, provided you have a linux machine allready.
$200 xbox (new, you can find used ones cheaper) $50 modchip (or try your luck with the 007 agent under fire hack, I've heard it's risky though) $80 new stereo tuner card (or get a mono or used one)
You can pretty much do everything short of capture with the xbox, and you get to have fun hacking stuff together.:) Add a new hd to your main linux box if you need to. I have 250gig online right now, once I archive some stuff I'll have enough space to get by for a bit.
We need a federal law with some that lets you go after:
1: The spammer themselves provided you can find them. AND/OR 2: The entity in the US that the spam was sent on behalf of. If they're trying to sell you something, or scam you, even if they didn't send the mail, they're the root cause.
and
3: You should be able to opt-out of any entity you directly do business with. Opt-in for any of their parters. If I buy something from Amazon I can opt out of recieving their mail. Their partners can not send mail unless I specificly ask for it. If the company gets bought, the opt-in does not transfer, except for one email informing me of that.
4: Here's the gray area; there needs to be some sort of failsafe. So for example, if I hate slashdot and I spam a million people telling them to buy a slashdot subscription. If the people who get the mail can't find me because I sent the mail from an open AP and bounced it off a server in Korea, slashdot gets screwed.
Disclaimer: I am not a spam expert (I do know a bit) I am not a lawyer I am not a lawmaker
Determine the best form of opportunism your system can support.
* For full opportunism, you'll need a static IP and and either control over your reverse DNS or an ISP that can add the required TXT + KEY Records for you.
* If you have a dynamic IP, and/or write access to forward DNS only, you can do initiate-only opportunism
* To protect traffic bound for real IPs behind your gateway, use this form of full opportunism.
So you'd only be able to use initiate-only opportunism. Oh well, still sucks.
Very few ISPs even let a user control their dns. So it's useless to 90%+ of the broadband users out there.
Note: I haven't read the article yet, but I'm pretty sure they're talking about reverse dns. I don't see any other way to do it off the top of my head.
The mythtv folks have the PVR-250 doing encoding fine, just no seek while watching a video with it yet.
Alan Cox contributed xfree drivers for the chipset these VIA mobos use. There are hooks to use the built in MPEG2 decoder, but a kernel interface needs to be written.
Yeah, but the prev gen macs aren't as good as the news ones as far as features go... In fall 04 when I'm ready to upgrade the powerbook (I alternate desktop/laptop upgrades every fall, fall 03 is time to upgrade the athlon) and apple just started shipping a new line of ultra cool 64bit 970 laptops, I'm not going to want an 'old' G4, but I don't want the problems associated with a brand new design. Just guessing, I'm thinking I may hit it right. If 64 bit laptops come out this comming winter, a revision should be due out by the next winter.
As far as retailers go, I bought this computer off of mac connection. It was supposed to be a refurb, but they sold it out from under me at the last minute. So I bitched and got a brand new one for $200 more than the refurb, and $300 less than a brand new one costs. Not a bad deal for me, they lost money on it though. (Apple hardware retail margins are VERY slim)
You compared an apple product to a car, which is pretty close to the truth. Apple's quality is usually pretty good, but, it's a good idea to wait for the second revision of the product before you buy. If you look back in the history of apple's notebooks you'll see random problems that they've fixed show up (the battery fire one sticks out)
I have a second generation 15" powerbook (known as the DVI) that fixed several of the problems with the first gen. I think some of the major diffs are the paint, less titanium in the hinges (less brittle), and the heat sink and main board designs.
I checked the same things when I got my car (first rev was 99/00, second rev that fixed problems was 01/02, I have an 02). Of course this is no good if you need a computer right away and can't just wait around for apple to fix the known problems with the hardware. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I'm ready to upgrade this one and the only notebook shipping is a brand new model.
Overall though, apple's generally really good about eventually admiting a problem and making it right for the owners. IBM may be the only other OEM that comes close, but they still have problems sometimes. The good thing about apple is they're under a microscope, would you see an article like this about an IBM or a Toshiba on slashdot? Maybe, but I doubt it. At least you know that others have problems and not just you.
Older phones that customers have come to rely on, and that they understand how to operate, must be replaced. While this only affects handsets that have to have their number changed (your old handset works great until you switch numbers), it's still a hassle for both the company and the customer:
So if a customer has an old phone, and wants to switch to a new number, isn't that the problem of the new carrier?
The company must trade a new phone to the customer at no charge. Since the phones are subsidized already, this only raises the loss the company takes on each handset it sells.
Who says they have to do that? If your phone was made in 1989, it's time to buy a new one. Seems like a stupid restriction.
Since the handset must be replaced, the customer has to go to a local store and actually physically trade the handset back. A typical trip to a store at this company can take three hours. Customers don't like that.
They're the ones who wanted to switch carriers, they need to get over it.
The customer must also remember to copy each item in their built-in phone book because there's no mechanism to move it from one handset to another. If they forget, their phone book is gone.
Like many of the problems you've listed, this could be fixed if we used a SIM-card system like the rest of the planet. Instead they decided to tie the phones to one carrier. I don't feel sorry for them ONE BIT. Their anti-competative nature brought it on themselves.
The customer must then learn how to add numbers to the phone book and operate the new handset. Some of the handsets, like the Samsung N100, have unresolved ideosyncratic problems with them (like, sometimes when you terminate a call, the handset hard-locks such that only removing and replacing the battery will resolve it, which isn't a fun operation when you use a leather case like most folks do). The customers get confused and then call customer service for help.
Sprint shouldn't sell defective products to their customers. I still don't feel sorry for them.
Anyway, most of the points you've brought up are because of sprint's own stupidity in the past. If numbers were portable between carriers (like going from POTS to cable telephone is here) and cell phone makers used sim cards/standards (no need to reenter address book, company just gives you a new card). Many problems would be solved.
If you want to blame your friends troubles on somebody, blame it on sprint, not the customers who want a feature that's a perfectly reasonable to want, and the rest of the planet gets.
The nice thing about having everybody rotate numbers is that telemarketer records have to be updated.
In the US it's illegal for a telemarker to call a cell phone, since it costs you money. (Boy, that sounds like spam...)
I ditched my land line years ago and haven't looked back. Some people say they don't like using a cell phone because they don't want to be reached. If you buy one with a 'power' button or a 'ringer volume' button, I don't see how it's a problem.
I'm just looking forward to being able to switch carriers and keep the same number I've had for almost 4 years now.
The thing that SUCKS about places like vonage and every other neat internet/wireless thing, is they just ignore certain cities. For some reason, out of the hundreds of area codes, I can't get one in my city. The 45th largest in the US by city size, 61st by metro area size (As of 2000, still growing). None of these companies can explain to me why my city gets overlooked, just a "we're expanding", but they never do.
Every time I see something new that's restricted by geography on slashdot, I think. "Cool, I'll see that in about 15 years if I'm lucky."
The main stumbling block to IPv6 that I see right now is that very few network people in the US know how to use it. Outside of the US, both in Europe and Asia, IPv6 is being deployed fairly widely, as they do not have the IPv4 address space availabable and allocated to make use of it except in servers and routers.
Yet another reason the US tech sector is going to fall behind in the comming years. Between complacency and greed, we're done for. I gotta move.
Open Source Software Procurement Preferences A small number of state legislators have introduced legislation that would require state governments to consider open source software when acquiring new software, and provide justification for using proprietary software products, including Microsoft's. Proposed legislation in Oregon (House Bill 2892) and Texas (Senate Bill 1579) seeks to establish a procurement bias for open source software, which would hurt competition and innovation in the software industry. Similar legislation will likely be introduced in other states as well. For more information on the procurement debate, visit the Initiative for Software Choice.
How is this going to hurt competition and innovation? If anything it'll help.
Before the bill:
"We bought software by microsoft, if it doesn't work, too bad."
After: "We went with closed microsoft product xxxx because opensource product yyyy isn't good enough in the following areas."
Or: "We went with open source product xxxx because microsoft product yyyy isn't good enough in the following areas."
Seems like the last point would encourage competition and innovation on microsoft or any other orginizations part.
"If you agree that you're liable in any way, then you have no alternative to monitor the networks," she said. "You're putting yourself in a position that you can't possibly fulfill."
This goes with what many people said years ago, networks, and possibly search engines should be common carriers. They shouldn't care anything about the content, they should just locate it and move it around. If the content happens to be 'illegal', go after the individual.
This student, and the uni's network staff didn't pirate 10 gazillion songs, other people did. Go after them. The brain dead napster lawsuit didn't help matters.
I'm waiting for the RIAA to sue google for letting people find mp3s, and AOL for running a broadband network that facilitates the sharing of illegal files.
Downloading the.debs over non-ssl is fine, but the sigs should be downloaded over ssl, not really for the encryption, but so that you know they really did come from debian.
Slashdot Mirror
Community site: http://playstation2-linux.com/
and
Source for kit: http://www.linuxplay.com/
I don't know much about it other than there are some restrictions on what it can do. Give it a look and see if it's what you want.
Umm... For the most part Stanford Researchers == Google Researchers.
Google came about from a stanford research project. There's a good chance the people who are responsable for the speedup either allready knew about pagerank from working with the founders, or signed an nda.
I haven't read the article, but I bet it hints at that.
If he's mounting it on a cabinet just get some material that matches what those are made of. Build a frame, and make it so a piece of plexiglass can slide into it.
Shouldn't take more than an hour or two to build and finish with basic hand tools. Depending on the materials used it should cost anywhere from $25-$75
I wouldn't want to watch a movie in stop and go trafic since it's just that. If you glance away from trafic for a split second and the car in front of you stops you're going to rear end the guy in front of you. It may only be at 10 mph, but it's going to make your wallet hurt.
I can chip an xbox in 5 minutes. It's cake.
Could I chip an xbox mobo encased in 2mm of epoxy? Sure, but it would take longer than 5 minutes. Would I bother? Depends, but I sure would think twice.
Just an idea...
Nope, try cromwell.
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/download.php
xbox bios replacement, no microsoft code. I mentioned in another thread that I'm thinking of chiping an xbox to make a mythtv front end. I intend to use cromwell in the chip, and just turn the chip off when I want to play an xbox game.
No DMCA violation, no copyright violation. Just a dual purpose piece of hardware. Just doing what microsoft wants sometimes, doing what I want other times.
That sounded almost like a defence of the DMCA, but I didn't mean it to. Hmmm.... Somebody must have laced my mountain dew.
I'm considering using linux on xbox for a front end to mythtv, with the back end capture/storage on my main linux machine. Not exactly what you're looking for, but it is versitle (tivos are cool, but will never be versitle enough for a geek) and cheap, provided you have a linux machine allready.
:) Add a new hd to your main linux box if you need to. I have 250gig online right now, once I archive some stuff I'll have enough space to get by for a bit.
$200 xbox (new, you can find used ones cheaper)
$50 modchip (or try your luck with the 007 agent under fire hack, I've heard it's risky though)
$80 new stereo tuner card (or get a mono or used one)
You can pretty much do everything short of capture with the xbox, and you get to have fun hacking stuff together.
Wouldn't recomend it to my mom though...
You completly missed what he was saying, before:
40 middlemen take cut, artist sees 1 penny
now, take away best buy/cd press/truckers, add apple, give label more cash, cut price, and:
30 middlemen take cut, artist sees 1 penny
still sucks for the artist
That should read, "with some teeth," or "with huge fangs."
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We need a federal law with some that lets you go after:
1: The spammer themselves provided you can find them.
AND/OR
2: The entity in the US that the spam was sent on behalf of. If they're trying to sell you something, or scam you, even if they didn't send the mail, they're the root cause.
and
3: You should be able to opt-out of any entity you directly do business with. Opt-in for any of their parters. If I buy something from Amazon I can opt out of recieving their mail. Their partners can not send mail unless I specificly ask for it. If the company gets bought, the opt-in does not transfer, except for one email informing me of that.
4: Here's the gray area; there needs to be some sort of failsafe. So for example, if I hate slashdot and I spam a million people telling them to buy a slashdot subscription. If the people who get the mail can't find me because I sent the mail from an open AP and bounced it off a server in Korea, slashdot gets screwed.
Disclaimer:
I am not a spam expert (I do know a bit)
I am not a lawyer
I am not a lawmaker
Take with salt. Flame on.
So you'd only be able to use initiate-only opportunism. Oh well, still sucks.
Very few ISPs even let a user control their dns. So it's useless to 90%+ of the broadband users out there.
Note: I haven't read the article yet, but I'm pretty sure they're talking about reverse dns. I don't see any other way to do it off the top of my head.
Anyone ever heard of this "iMovie" thing? No? Not even hardcore geeks have heard of it, much less the average joe?
Jeeze man, video editing exists on all platforms, just because you haven't heard of a certain linux editor, doesn't mean nobody edits movies.
The mythtv folks have the PVR-250 doing encoding fine, just no seek while watching a video with it yet.
Alan Cox contributed xfree drivers for the chipset these VIA mobos use. There are hooks to use the built in MPEG2 decoder, but a kernel interface needs to be written.
Yeah, but the prev gen macs aren't as good as the news ones as far as features go... In fall 04 when I'm ready to upgrade the powerbook (I alternate desktop/laptop upgrades every fall, fall 03 is time to upgrade the athlon) and apple just started shipping a new line of ultra cool 64bit 970 laptops, I'm not going to want an 'old' G4, but I don't want the problems associated with a brand new design. Just guessing, I'm thinking I may hit it right. If 64 bit laptops come out this comming winter, a revision should be due out by the next winter.
As far as retailers go, I bought this computer off of mac connection. It was supposed to be a refurb, but they sold it out from under me at the last minute. So I bitched and got a brand new one for $200 more than the refurb, and $300 less than a brand new one costs. Not a bad deal for me, they lost money on it though. (Apple hardware retail margins are VERY slim)
You compared an apple product to a car, which is pretty close to the truth. Apple's quality is usually pretty good, but, it's a good idea to wait for the second revision of the product before you buy. If you look back in the history of apple's notebooks you'll see random problems that they've fixed show up (the battery fire one sticks out)
I have a second generation 15" powerbook (known as the DVI) that fixed several of the problems with the first gen. I think some of the major diffs are the paint, less titanium in the hinges (less brittle), and the heat sink and main board designs.
I checked the same things when I got my car (first rev was 99/00, second rev that fixed problems was 01/02, I have an 02). Of course this is no good if you need a computer right away and can't just wait around for apple to fix the known problems with the hardware. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I'm ready to upgrade this one and the only notebook shipping is a brand new model.
Overall though, apple's generally really good about eventually admiting a problem and making it right for the owners. IBM may be the only other OEM that comes close, but they still have problems sometimes. The good thing about apple is they're under a microscope, would you see an article like this about an IBM or a Toshiba on slashdot? Maybe, but I doubt it. At least you know that others have problems and not just you.
*shrug*
Older phones that customers have come to rely on, and that they understand how to operate, must be replaced. While this only affects handsets that have to have their number changed (your old handset works great until you switch numbers), it's still a hassle for both the company and the customer:
So if a customer has an old phone, and wants to switch to a new number, isn't that the problem of the new carrier?
The company must trade a new phone to the customer at no charge. Since the phones are subsidized already, this only raises the loss the company takes on each handset it sells.
Who says they have to do that? If your phone was made in 1989, it's time to buy a new one. Seems like a stupid restriction.
Since the handset must be replaced, the customer has to go to a local store and actually physically trade the handset back. A typical trip to a store at this company can take three hours. Customers don't like that.
They're the ones who wanted to switch carriers, they need to get over it.
The customer must also remember to copy each item in their built-in phone book because there's no mechanism to move it from one handset to another. If they forget, their phone book is gone.
Like many of the problems you've listed, this could be fixed if we used a SIM-card system like the rest of the planet. Instead they decided to tie the phones to one carrier. I don't feel sorry for them ONE BIT. Their anti-competative nature brought it on themselves.
The customer must then learn how to add numbers to the phone book and operate the new handset. Some of the handsets, like the Samsung N100, have unresolved ideosyncratic problems with them (like, sometimes when you terminate a call, the handset hard-locks such that only removing and replacing the battery will resolve it, which isn't a fun operation when you use a leather case like most folks do). The customers get confused and then call customer service for help.
Sprint shouldn't sell defective products to their customers. I still don't feel sorry for them.
Anyway, most of the points you've brought up are because of sprint's own stupidity in the past. If numbers were portable between carriers (like going from POTS to cable telephone is here) and cell phone makers used sim cards/standards (no need to reenter address book, company just gives you a new card). Many problems would be solved.
If you want to blame your friends troubles on somebody, blame it on sprint, not the customers who want a feature that's a perfectly reasonable to want, and the rest of the planet gets.
The nice thing about having everybody rotate numbers is that telemarketer records have to be updated.
In the US it's illegal for a telemarker to call a cell phone, since it costs you money. (Boy, that sounds like spam...)
I ditched my land line years ago and haven't looked back. Some people say they don't like using a cell phone because they don't want to be reached. If you buy one with a 'power' button or a 'ringer volume' button, I don't see how it's a problem.
I'm just looking forward to being able to switch carriers and keep the same number I've had for almost 4 years now.
The thing that SUCKS about places like vonage and every other neat internet/wireless thing, is they just ignore certain cities. For some reason, out of the hundreds of area codes, I can't get one in my city. The 45th largest in the US by city size, 61st by metro area size (As of 2000, still growing). None of these companies can explain to me why my city gets overlooked, just a "we're expanding", but they never do.
Every time I see something new that's restricted by geography on slashdot, I think. "Cool, I'll see that in about 15 years if I'm lucky."
The main stumbling block to IPv6 that I see right now is that very few network people in the US know how to use it. Outside of the US, both in Europe and Asia, IPv6 is being deployed fairly widely, as they do not have the IPv4 address space availabable and allocated to make use of it except in servers and routers.
Yet another reason the US tech sector is going to fall behind in the comming years. Between complacency and greed, we're done for. I gotta move.
Open Source Software Procurement Preferences
A small number of state legislators have introduced legislation that would require state governments to consider open source software when acquiring new software, and provide justification for using proprietary software products, including Microsoft's. Proposed legislation in Oregon (House Bill 2892) and Texas (Senate Bill 1579) seeks to establish a procurement bias for open source software, which would hurt competition and innovation in the software industry. Similar legislation will likely be introduced in other states as well. For more information on the procurement debate, visit the Initiative for Software Choice.
How is this going to hurt competition and innovation? If anything it'll help.
Before the bill:
"We bought software by microsoft, if it doesn't work, too bad."
After:
"We went with closed microsoft product xxxx because opensource product yyyy isn't good enough in the following areas."
Or:
"We went with open source product xxxx because microsoft product yyyy isn't good enough in the following areas."
Seems like the last point would encourage competition and innovation on microsoft or any other orginizations part.
I just tried it with pine on redhat 7.2 and it worked fine, are you sure they're not using command (open apple) - o instead of control - o ?
"If you agree that you're liable in any way, then you have no alternative to monitor the networks," she said. "You're putting yourself in a position that you can't possibly fulfill."
This goes with what many people said years ago, networks, and possibly search engines should be common carriers. They shouldn't care anything about the content, they should just locate it and move it around. If the content happens to be 'illegal', go after the individual.
This student, and the uni's network staff didn't pirate 10 gazillion songs, other people did. Go after them. The brain dead napster lawsuit didn't help matters.
I'm waiting for the RIAA to sue google for letting people find mp3s, and AOL for running a broadband network that facilitates the sharing of illegal files.
*sigh*
Oops, I meant to say checksums. I was thinking about the md5 sums in rpms, I should have reread that before I posted.
Downloading the .debs over non-ssl is fine, but the sigs should be downloaded over ssl, not really for the encryption, but so that you know they really did come from debian.