I was watching discovery channel the other day, and there was the Kodak guy very bitter about not having taken a lead on the Digital market. He kept on saying that the film market is still the thing to do and then moving onto movie film formats pointed out that every single acadamy nomintated movie was done on Kodak film.
I'm a good FPS player, when ever I get on an online game there are half the people who bitch about me cheating, but I'm not. And I know this happens to several others.
The anti-cheat stuff like punkbuster is pretty solid now, and the only complaints I have are from noobs.
In light of this, a honor system like that in America's Army is a very nice bonus. But this does not seem to solve the problem at all. I think it would be better if game servers are dedicated to three different classes of players (newbies, intermediate and expert). That should help solve the unevenness in some games.
Most online FPS use punkbuster or something similar now, and cheats are almost non-existant. You might wanna try out America's Army, it's a free download and free online FSP shooter (pretty detailed and fun).
Well, I would not go so far as to judge BBC based on this report by Stephen Evans. Wait out and see what happens. This is not the first time Mr. Evans has tainted a community in order to paint his finaincal backers in a better light.
Wednesday, and the BBC Today programme's Stephen Evans files
a shock exclusive revealing how European politicians pirated
popular music - by refusing to raise the duration of copyright
beyond fifty years. The piece, a barely concealed plug for
EMI's attempts to get Euro copyright limits upped to the 95
years of the recent US, was shocking and exclusive only in
the sense of being shockingly exclusive to one side of the
story. Evans, most famous for being that BBC correspondent
in the WTC on September 11th, commiserated with EMI that
their hard-earned 1950s properties might be finally be
free for everyone to enjoy via the criminal practices of the
public domain and European law. "Why should companies invest
big money now to record the classics of tomorrow if they
*can't keep the profits they make*?" he pondered. Even
Laughing Larry Lessig - prompted by the righteous hordes of
the Brass Eye mailing list - chipped in to marvel at the
bias of the show. You'd think that the Todayians would know
that there might be at least some controversy on the topic -
especially when their own higher-ups are talking to Lessig
about reforming the BBC's own copyrights to be a bit more
public domain friendly. Less of the nation speaking unto nation:
maybe the BBC's left hand could have a word with the right?
"... Although I don't like the idea, and I'm glad I never went through it, I suppose its analogue would be mandatory drug tests in sports"
No, mandatory drug tests in sports is not a proper analogy. A better one would be mandatory soft-drug tests at work places, specially those that do not involve very physically demanding work (programmers?).
Hi, I'm using an acm-ppp device and the Badness/kernel panic bug still exists, this has been there since 2.5.something and has not been patched. It's very annoying, fills syslog with Badness output and eventually disables pppd with k-panic.
As shown below.
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: cdc_acm 3-3:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM deviceBadness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:121Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: Call Trace: Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [local_bh_enable+133/144] local_bh_enable+0x85/0x90 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1169403/2870650] ppp_async_input+0x2d7/0x5a0 [ppp_async] Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1166374/2870650] ppp_asynctty_receive+0x52/0xb0 [ppp_async] Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [flush_to_ldisc+160/272] flush_to_ldisc+0xa0/0x110 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_sleep_on+1947600/2407885] acm_read_bulk+0xbf/0x140 [cdc_acm] Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+162921/2870650] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x25/0x40 [usbcore] Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1216947/2870650] dl_done_list+0x11f/0x130 [ohci_hcd] Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1219352/2870650] ohci_irq+0x84/0x170 [ohci_hcd] Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+163002/2870650] usb_hcd_irq+0x36/0x60 [usbcore] Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [handle_IRQ_event+58/112] handle_IRQ_event+0x3a/0x70 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [do_IRQ+145/304] do_IRQ+0x91/0x130 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [rest_init+0/96] _stext+0x0/0x60 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [rest_init+0/96] _stext+0x0/0x60 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [default_idle+35/48] default_idle+0x23/0x30 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [cpu_idle+44/64] cpu_idle+0x2c/0x40 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [start_kernel+332/352] start_kernel+0x14c/0x160 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [unknown_bootoption+0/256] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x100 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:121 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: Call Trace: Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [local_bh_enable+133/144] local_bh_enable+0x85/0x90 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1166389/2870650] ppp_asynctty_receive+0x61/0xb0 [ppp_async] Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [flush_to_ldisc+160/272] flush_to_ldisc+0xa0/0x110 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_sleep_on+1947600/2407885] acm_read_bulk+0xbf/0x140 [cdc_acm] Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+162921/2870650] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x25/0x40 [usbcore] Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1216947/2870650] dl_done_list+0x11f/0x130 [ohci_hcd] Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1219352/2870650] ohci_irq+0x84/0x170 [ohci_hcd] Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+163002/2870650] usb_hcd_irq+0x36/0x60 [usbcore] Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [handle_IRQ_event+58/112] handle_IRQ_event+0x3a/0x70 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [do_IRQ+145/304] do_IRQ+0x91/0x130 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [rest_init+0/96] _stext+0x0/0x60 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [rest_init+0/96] _stext+0x0/0x60 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [default_idle+35/48] default_idle+0x23/0x30 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [cpu_idle+44/64] cpu_idle+0x2c/0x40 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [start_kernel+332/352] start_kernel+0x14c/0x160 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [unknown_bootoption+0/256] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x100 Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel:
I'm amazed Homer didn't consult compaq/hp on this. Compaq FAQ: Where do I find the "Any" key on my keyboard? (FAQ2859)
The term "any key" does not refer to a particular key on the keyboard. It simply means to strike any one of the keys on your keyboard or handheld screen.
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2) support for larger system memory sizes. This won't help you in video games, but it will help you doing high end photoshop, and other applications (provided you spend the money to get more memory put into your system)
How would this not help games? My "Republic : The Revolution" supports only systems with 512 MB of ram or more.
I think the cheaper the ram becomes the more we'd see programmers making unoptimized memory hogging games and thus games in general would become highly dependent on a large memory system.
It says the spell checker comes for Messenger and Composer, now woulnd't it be a great idea to use the spellchecker functionality within the browser as well? Such as within forms? Maybe someone should request this a a feature. I for one would use it:)
That is the temperature at which carbon grows up in to diamond. That's not a running temp, that's a production temp, you can't achive this temp even in a regular labotory.
I have to point that ATI drivers are a lot more polished now (than even Nvidia). They've really outdone themselves (specially on XP). But, it's still a bit lacking for Linux. I have a 9700 PRO (9500 softmod). And I should point out that ATI does listen to their customers, infact they are improving the Linux drivers a lot more and have recently called for beta testing of these drivers and hired new programmers to work on them. ATI drivers are probably the best out there now (for XP) vs Nvidia. I know this cause I have friends with FX boards and their drivers are still lacking for what their cards can do. While my softmodded 9500 can do a lot more.
My MAC is usually autogenerated using lines like above, it would never be the default factory setting, I think changing the MAC address wouldn't be a problem for these people. What might be a problem is RIAA lobbying to outlaw wireless or make criminals out of those who make these networks.
I got a reply back from them, it's rather generic machine generated reply, but in a way it's pretty positive I guess. (At least they didn't say no).
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We apologize for any problems you have encountered with BuyMusic.com. We appreciate your comments and suggestions and will use them to help improve our products and services when making future decisions. Thanks again for your feedback.
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Order Number: I really like the fact that you have a service like this up. I'll gladly be a customer of your service if you could fix some of the following issues.
1. Support Linux and BSD's on your site.
2. Give alternatives to WMA, I'd rather download in MP3 or OGG (preferably), since I would like to get quality and I'd like you to respect my rights as a customer.
Till the above conditions are met, unfortunatly, I canno't be a customer of your site, neither can I recommend your site to any of my friends (infact, I'd steer them onto apple's site).
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Who said our Death Star was a Borge sphere, didn't you know Borg liked squares?
Nothing to see here, please move on...
We'd all be old people.
It was the conservative columnist Robert Novak, who first wrote of the identity.
But he is not in prison.
Neither would Rove go to prison.
The adminstration would take care of their peope. And this would become a page 3 story the next terror attack happens.
No sign on the pigeon networks either. Must be a dud.
This just out from MSFT:
No you're wrong they used Kodak stock to shoot all three LOTR. Source
:)
Sorry about the delay in replying
I was watching discovery channel the other day, and there was the Kodak guy very bitter about not having taken a lead on the Digital market. He kept on saying that the film market is still the thing to do and then moving onto movie film formats pointed out that every single acadamy nomintated movie was done on Kodak film.
... that no such console exists.
This is a great game, Just adventure gave it an A+.
.. etc.
I played it a bit last week, and it's definitly worth checking out.
Btw, it's kinda hybrid game, like System Shock, Deus Ex
I like this game, I can even recommend it for children.
I'm a good FPS player, when ever I get on an online game there are half the people who bitch about me cheating, but I'm not. And I know this happens to several others.
The anti-cheat stuff like punkbuster is pretty solid now, and the only complaints I have are from noobs.
In light of this, a honor system like that in America's Army is a very nice bonus. But this does not seem to solve the problem at all. I think it would be better if game servers are dedicated to three different classes of players (newbies, intermediate and expert). That should help solve the unevenness in some games.
Most online FPS use punkbuster or something similar now, and cheats are almost non-existant. You might wanna try out America's Army, it's a free download and free online FSP shooter (pretty detailed and fun).
Here is a piece that comes from Lessig and was found in Free Sklyarov mailing list.
Nielsen,P - ChessBrain [E94]
Guinness record attempt, 30.01.2004
1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.e4 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 a5 8.Re1 exd4 9.Nxd4 Bd7 10.Bg5 Nc6 11.Nxc6 Bxc6 12.f3 Qd7 13.Qd2 Rfe8 14.Rac1 h5 15.Kh1 Nh7 16.Bh6 Bxh6 17.Qxh6 Re5 18.Nd5 Rae8 19.Qd2 b6 20.Bd3 Qd8 21.Rf1 Nf6 22.b3 Bb7 23.Qc2 Nd7 24.f4 R5e6 25.e5 c6
No, mandatory drug tests in sports is not a proper analogy. A better one would be mandatory soft-drug tests at work places, specially those that do not involve very physically demanding work (programmers?).
Acutally this is a much discussed bug, it has already been fixed (As of last night) in Andrew Morton's patch set 2.6.0-test11-mm1.
Andrew is in charge of 2.6 now and he'd probably include this patch in 2.6.1.
Specially the patch that would fix this problem would be this and it could be applied to the vanilla 2.6.0 kernel without any problem.
Hi, I'm using an acm-ppp device and the Badness/kernel panic bug still exists, this has been there since 2.5.something and has not been patched. It's very annoying, fills syslog with Badness output and eventually disables pppd with k-panic.
As shown below.
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: cdc_acm 3-3:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM deviceBadness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:121Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: Call Trace:
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [local_bh_enable+133/144] local_bh_enable+0x85/0x90
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1169403/2870650] ppp_async_input+0x2d7/0x5a0 [ppp_async]
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1166374/2870650] ppp_asynctty_receive+0x52/0xb0 [ppp_async]
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [flush_to_ldisc+160/272] flush_to_ldisc+0xa0/0x110
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_sleep_on+1947600/2407885] acm_read_bulk+0xbf/0x140 [cdc_acm]
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+162921/2870650] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x25/0x40 [usbcore]
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1216947/2870650] dl_done_list+0x11f/0x130 [ohci_hcd]
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1219352/2870650] ohci_irq+0x84/0x170 [ohci_hcd]
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+163002/2870650] usb_hcd_irq+0x36/0x60 [usbcore]
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [handle_IRQ_event+58/112] handle_IRQ_event+0x3a/0x70
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [do_IRQ+145/304] do_IRQ+0x91/0x130
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [rest_init+0/96] _stext+0x0/0x60
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [rest_init+0/96] _stext+0x0/0x60
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [default_idle+35/48] default_idle+0x23/0x30
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [cpu_idle+44/64] cpu_idle+0x2c/0x40
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [start_kernel+332/352] start_kernel+0x14c/0x160
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [unknown_bootoption+0/256] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x100
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel:
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:121
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: Call Trace:
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [local_bh_enable+133/144] local_bh_enable+0x85/0x90
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1166389/2870650] ppp_asynctty_receive+0x61/0xb0 [ppp_async]
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [flush_to_ldisc+160/272] flush_to_ldisc+0xa0/0x110
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_sleep_on+1947600/2407885] acm_read_bulk+0xbf/0x140 [cdc_acm]
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+162921/2870650] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x25/0x40 [usbcore]
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1216947/2870650] dl_done_list+0x11f/0x130 [ohci_hcd]
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+1219352/2870650] ohci_irq+0x84/0x170 [ohci_hcd]
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [__crc_blk_start_queue+163002/2870650] usb_hcd_irq+0x36/0x60 [usbcore]
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [handle_IRQ_event+58/112] handle_IRQ_event+0x3a/0x70
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [do_IRQ+145/304] do_IRQ+0x91/0x130
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [rest_init+0/96] _stext+0x0/0x60
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [rest_init+0/96] _stext+0x0/0x60
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [default_idle+35/48] default_idle+0x23/0x30
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [cpu_idle+44/64] cpu_idle+0x2c/0x40
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [start_kernel+332/352] start_kernel+0x14c/0x160
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel: [unknown_bootoption+0/256] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x100
Dec 18 01:30:12 ubik kernel:
Racism on /. is simply shameful.
Compaq FAQ: Where do I find the "Any" key on my keyboard? (FAQ2859)
2) support for larger system memory sizes. This won't help you in video games, but it will help you doing high end photoshop, and other applications (provided you spend the money to get more memory put into your system)
How would this not help games? My "Republic : The Revolution" supports only systems with 512 MB of ram or more.
I think the cheaper the ram becomes the more we'd see programmers making unoptimized memory hogging games and thus games in general would become highly dependent on a large memory system.
It says the spell checker comes for Messenger and Composer, now woulnd't it be a great idea to use the spellchecker functionality within the browser as well? Such as within forms? Maybe someone should request this a a feature. I for one would use it :)
That is the temperature at which carbon grows up in to diamond. That's not a running temp, that's a production temp, you can't achive this temp even in a regular labotory.
I have to point that ATI drivers are a lot more polished now (than even Nvidia). They've really outdone themselves (specially on XP). But, it's still a bit lacking for Linux. I have a 9700 PRO (9500 softmod). And I should point out that ATI does listen to their customers, infact they are improving the Linux drivers a lot more and have recently called for beta testing of these drivers and hired new programmers to work on them. ATI drivers are probably the best out there now (for XP) vs Nvidia. I know this cause I have friends with FX boards and their drivers are still lacking for what their cards can do. While my softmodded 9500 can do a lot more.
ifdown eth0
ifconfig eth0 hw ethr 00:DE:AD:00:19:84
ifup eth0
My MAC is usually autogenerated using lines like above, it would never be the default factory setting, I think changing the MAC address wouldn't be a problem for these people. What might be a problem is RIAA lobbying to outlaw wireless or make criminals out of those who make these networks.
I got a reply back from them, it's rather generic machine generated reply, but in a way it's pretty positive I guess. (At least they didn't say no).
From: "BuyMusic.com Customer Support"
Hello,
Thank you for writing to us.
We apologize for any problems you have encountered with BuyMusic.com. We appreciate your comments and suggestions and will use them to help improve our products and services when making future decisions. Thanks again for your feedback.
We appreciate your business.
Sincerely,
Team buy.com
www.buy.com
Original Message Follows:
Order Number:
I really like the fact that you have a service like this up. I'll gladly be a customer of your service if you could fix some of the following issues.
1. Support Linux and BSD's on your site.
2. Give alternatives to WMA, I'd rather download in MP3 or OGG (preferably), since I would like to get quality and I'd like you to respect my rights as a customer.
Till the above conditions are met, unfortunatly, I canno't be a customer of your site, neither can I recommend your site to any of my friends
(infact, I'd steer them onto apple's site).
Please consider these issues.
Thank you.
Sorry, here is the e-mail.
support@customerservice.buymusic.com