I love all the posts saying "This isn't a good deal." or "Dell did this last year." etc. That is missing the point. I think the Mac mini is kinda a crappy machine for a few reasons, but I also think that it will sell like hotcakes to the iPod users and people new to digital photography/video that Apple is targeting. From the website http://www.apple.com/macmini/ it seems obvious to me that they are targeting PC users who just got an iPod from a few things.
1) From the first paragraph on that page:
And yes, Mac mini will take advantage of your two-button USB mouse with scroll-wheel and your favorite USB keyboard. Just plug them in.
2) From the second paragraph:
Manage your music for iPod or organize and share your digital pictures with ease.
For the average/. reader these things probably aren't that nice (especially since they probably won't be easily user serviceable). To your 50 year old father who wants to edit some pictures he takes with iPhoto and listen to Jimmy Buffet on his iPod (maybe this is just my dad) this might be a nice machine.
Anyway, in the article they described a system where the pen was a dumb device with some method of being identified (perhaps RFID...I forget if they mentioned a specific one). The pen does not have any memory of its own so you are not (as the last fifty posts have described it) copying onto flash memory and then dumping it onto a computer.
You are just telling a program running somewhere "This data should follow this pen". When you place the pen somewhere else the program then sends the data along.
This reminds of the chess piece that Ed got in Cowboy Bebop. She touched the chess piece to the board, the board read a serial number and connected over the net to the player who had sent out the chess piece.
I run an open access point and my neighbor does as well. Anything (and I mean anything) more than computer games and unimportant chat sessions I tunnel through ssh/ssl or something similar.
Why do I leave my access point open then? Because on average I only use maybe 3% of my bandwidth and I don't see any reason that one of my neighbors shouldn't be allowed to use some of it when I don't need it. When I first moved in and didn't have my own broadband yet I was very happy one of my neighbors left his router unsecured.
I'm actually quite suprised that more people on/. aren't in favor of open access points. They seem to fit very well into the whole 'information should be free' value system that many geeks have.
A few years ago I had a friend who was taking Ridilin. Being a person that believes medicine should always be the last option, I suggested he ask his doctor what other methods would help him with his ADHD. Since when I was younger I had an attention problem and after I started excersizing regularly it disapeered, I suggested he ask about something like that as well.
The doctor told him that he could try it out and he started excersizing and eating a lower carbohydrate (and much lower simple sugar) diet...and low and behold, his ADHD lessened substatially without medicine.
Your mileage may vary and IANAD, but if you can help your problem without medicine you will probably be better off in the long run. If it doesn't help the ADHD, excersize and a healthy diet will at least not hurt you : )
I have Buckeye Express at my apartment right now, and this is making me wonder. I have not/will not unlock my modem because I haven't paid for it, but I also don't know if I want to be affiliated with a group that wont solve issues with their customers on their own. Why did the FBI even need to get involved.
Normally, when something like this happens you dont let is run for a few months and then get the people arrested. They should have noticed right away that this was happening and can the users accounts, or at least give them a warning. Either way this is gay.
And whats with taking their computers? I can see this being prosecuted as a DMCA issue but thats still pretty far. I would be suing if I were them.
Now onto my question. Should I leave Buckeye-Express because of this, and will anyone else do so? Voting with our wallets would work if enough people did so?
When a lot of America was just sitting on the couch watching CNN you guys were working hard to keep information flowing to people like me who were away from a tv. I appreciate your work and knowledge (I know I certainly coulnd't do what you guys did). Nice work.
If it wasn't for groups like you and the different news programs, the people who are able to help out in the rescue efforts wouldn't even know there was a need.
If the webhost believes that they know where the assualt comes from, it can't hurt to try to fight back.
If they correctly identify the attackers and give them a dose of their own medicine, the attack will quickly stop.
If however the attacker is using computers that have been previously taken over, whats the damage? Those computers (more than likely only desktop's in some business or school) cant access the net for a small amount of time. No big deal. No one loses money and some college kid just can't check his email on that machine for a little bit. Big deal.
It looks to me like there is something to gain (the end of these attacks and such) and not very much to lose by striking back. It would be different if we were talkign about shooting at someone and hoping they were the real attacker, but we are talking about internet access.
On the other hand, businesses and the gov are really good at putting figures on damage that come out of nowhere. "Our connection was dos'd for a day and it cost us $10 billion."
There is a rather large difference between connecting "through" a satelite and connecting "to" a satelite. You are basically getting data that is transfered through a satelite. The satelite acts as a mirror or a peice of UTP cable, just providing a means for the data to get to you.
What the article is talking about is different. The satelite is actually part of the network and not just a transfer medium. They are talking "to" it. A paragraph in the article points this out:
Commercial communication service providers have implemented the Internet using communications satellites for more than two decades, but the satellites did not have their own Internet address and could not recognize Internet messages. The UoSAT-12 became the first orbiting spacecraft to use only standard Internet protocols and technologies for end-to-end communications.
Satelites have never really been used in this way before and I'm interested in it. It has the potential to speed up intercontinental communication quite a bit. I would think that it is a lot faster to bounce a signal through the air to a satelite to another satelite and then back to land on the other side of the planet than it is to pass the signal under the ocean via copper or fiber. Fiber is a faster medium for transfer but the routers and things slow it down.
On another note, it would be a lot of fun to play with this. Anyone want to upload the source for DeCSS to an orbiting satalite?
We get some bands (even small local ones). Maybe a large group of bands. Then we file a lawsuit against the groups that are attacking the mp3 format. We say that they are destroying our band's ONLY way of making money and that they are engaging in anti-competitive practices by making it impossible for "The Little Guy" to get his name out.
Would this be feasible? We wouldn't have the funding to do it ourselves, but once we start the fight others might pitch in.
Also, would the Justice Department (oxymoron?) pitch in? They attack MS, whey not the music industry?
While you guys are discussing media on linux, I have a question. What are the prospects of doing high end graphics and video on Be. It seems to be the perfect platform for it, and since it is only one distribution it would be a lot easier to develope (i would think).
The way it handles data I would think is much better for media than windows could ever be.
Isn't there a difference between free information (ie open source software and public info) and things that were meant to be payed for (such as music and games and such that you go buy)?
I am not a linux zealot or anything like that, but I do believe in open source. I have no interest in DVD so this is coming from the point of view of an outsider:
- First, although the company says that they will try to the program open, if it is not under the GNU then how can any open source advocate (i'm guessing a lot of the linux users are) possibly use these. If you are willing to buy closed source software just because it is the only thing out then you sound like a hypocrit (sp) to me
- Second, DVD in general violates the open source ethic. If a company can make a product and then can regulate the use of it to the extremes that the DVD producers are, there is nothing open at all about the product.
Idea.......Linus should just get the trademark for Linux, and then allow everyone to use it. that would keep all these morons from trying to profit on it. Is this workable though? (i dont know how trademarks really work)
Slashdot Mirror
I guess I should explain (I know, I'm late with this).
I have a dual processor G5 on my desk at work, and a pretty kick butt gaming computer at home. Comparatively, the mini is kinda crappy.
If you have a 3 year old HP or something it will be a nice upgrade though. My comment was from a gaming point of view which I didn't make clear.
1) From the first paragraph on that page:
2) From the second paragraph:
For the average
No of course not, this is /.
Anyway, in the article they described a system where the pen was a dumb device with some method of being identified (perhaps RFID...I forget if they mentioned a specific one). The pen does not have any memory of its own so you are not (as the last fifty posts have described it) copying onto flash memory and then dumping it onto a computer.
You are just telling a program running somewhere "This data should follow this pen". When you place the pen somewhere else the program then sends the data along.
This reminds of the chess piece that Ed got in Cowboy Bebop. She touched the chess piece to the board, the board read a serial number and connected over the net to the player who had sent out the chess piece.
I run an open access point and my neighbor does as well. Anything (and I mean anything) more than computer games and unimportant chat sessions I tunnel through ssh/ssl or something similar.
/. aren't in favor of open access points. They seem to fit very well into the whole 'information should be free' value system that many geeks have.
Why do I leave my access point open then? Because on average I only use maybe 3% of my bandwidth and I don't see any reason that one of my neighbors shouldn't be allowed to use some of it when I don't need it. When I first moved in and didn't have my own broadband yet I was very happy one of my neighbors left his router unsecured.
I'm actually quite suprised that more people on
A few years ago I had a friend who was taking Ridilin. Being a person that believes medicine should always be the last option, I suggested he ask his doctor what other methods would help him with his ADHD. Since when I was younger I had an attention problem and after I started excersizing regularly it disapeered, I suggested he ask about something like that as well.
The doctor told him that he could try it out and he started excersizing and eating a lower carbohydrate (and much lower simple sugar) diet...and low and behold, his ADHD lessened substatially without medicine.
Your mileage may vary and IANAD, but if you can help your problem without medicine you will probably be better off in the long run. If it doesn't help the ADHD, excersize and a healthy diet will at least not hurt you : )
I have Buckeye Express at my apartment right now, and this is making me wonder. I have not/will not unlock my modem because I haven't paid for it, but I also don't know if I want to be affiliated with a group that wont solve issues with their customers on their own. Why did the FBI even need to get involved.
Normally, when something like this happens you dont let is run for a few months and then get the people arrested. They should have noticed right away that this was happening and can the users accounts, or at least give them a warning. Either way this is gay.
And whats with taking their computers? I can see this being prosecuted as a DMCA issue but thats still pretty far. I would be suing if I were them.
Now onto my question. Should I leave Buckeye-Express because of this, and will anyone else do so? Voting with our wallets would work if enough people did so?
Just a thought.
When a lot of America was just sitting on the couch watching CNN you guys were working hard to keep information flowing to people like me who were away from a tv. I appreciate your work and knowledge (I know I certainly coulnd't do what you guys did). Nice work.
If it wasn't for groups like you and the different news programs, the people who are able to help out in the rescue efforts wouldn't even know there was a need.
if you can do this with one webcam and a pc, could you perhaps run another webcam to the side so as to get the z-axis involved too
it might not be too useful for this game but 3d would be better than 2d in some instances would it not?
If the webhost believes that they know where the assualt comes from, it can't hurt to try to fight back.
If they correctly identify the attackers and give them a dose of their own medicine, the attack will quickly stop.
If however the attacker is using computers that have been previously taken over, whats the damage? Those computers (more than likely only desktop's in some business or school) cant access the net for a small amount of time. No big deal. No one loses money and some college kid just can't check his email on that machine for a little bit. Big deal.
It looks to me like there is something to gain (the end of these attacks and such) and not very much to lose by striking back. It would be different if we were talkign about shooting at someone and hoping they were the real attacker, but we are talking about internet access.
On the other hand, businesses and the gov are really good at putting figures on damage that come out of nowhere. "Our connection was dos'd for a day and it cost us $10 billion."
-magicsloth
What the article is talking about is different. The satelite is actually part of the network and not just a transfer medium. They are talking "to" it. A paragraph in the article points this out:
Satelites have never really been used in this way before and I'm interested in it. It has the potential to speed up intercontinental communication quite a bit. I would think that it is a lot faster to bounce a signal through the air to a satelite to another satelite and then back to land on the other side of the planet than it is to pass the signal under the ocean via copper or fiber. Fiber is a faster medium for transfer but the routers and things slow it down.
On another note, it would be a lot of fun to play with this. Anyone want to upload the source for DeCSS to an orbiting satalite?
-magicsloth
What are the possibilities of this working?
We get some bands (even small local ones). Maybe a large group of bands. Then we file a lawsuit against the groups that are attacking the mp3 format. We say that they are destroying our band's ONLY way of making money and that they are engaging in anti-competitive practices by making it impossible for "The Little Guy" to get his name out.
Would this be feasible? We wouldn't have the funding to do it ourselves, but once we start the fight others might pitch in.
Also, would the Justice Department (oxymoron?) pitch in? They attack MS, whey not the music industry?
While you guys are discussing media on linux, I have a question. What are the prospects of doing high end graphics and video on Be. It seems to be the perfect platform for it, and since it is only one distribution it would be a lot easier to develope (i would think).
The way it handles data I would think is much better for media than windows could ever be.
Any thoughts?
Isn't there a difference between free information (ie open source software and public info) and things that were meant to be payed for (such as music and games and such that you go buy)?
I am not a linux zealot or anything like that, but I do believe in open source. I have no interest in DVD so this is coming from the point of view of an outsider:
- First, although the company says that they will try to the program open, if it is not under the GNU then how can any open source advocate (i'm guessing a lot of the linux users are) possibly use these. If you are willing to buy closed source software just because it is the only thing out then you sound like a hypocrit (sp) to me
- Second, DVD in general violates the open source ethic. If a company can make a product and then can regulate the use of it to the extremes that the DVD producers are, there is nothing open at all about the product.
Just a thought
Idea.......Linus should just get the trademark for Linux, and then allow everyone to use it. that would keep all these morons from trying to profit on it. Is this workable though? (i dont know how trademarks really work)
-sloth
bout time a console machine could do something useful
you can say what you want, but console games just suck with their lack of controls
im gonna stick with my dynamic binds in q2 and all:P
but now dreamcast is a cool option