It didn't take him 24 hours to circumvent it, probably less than 1 min.
It took him 24 hours after it was released to get around to looking at it and then realizing the stupid limitation, and then fixing it in..as i said.. less than a minute.
this is also the same reason why biodiesel does not get very much industrial support but rather heavier opposition from the oil cartel.
The US is the world's largest producer of corn. It can produce enough biodiesel to provide fuel for most of the world. The oil cartels are very scared of this fact. So they block research and development of this fuel.
You may think I'm just an anti-corporate hippy, but I got that bit of information from someone who works at Fleetguard (they make industrial grade oil filters for heavy machinery and trucks)..a subsidiary of Cummins Diesel Engines. Just to corroborate your theory..yes it's very similar to bug business involved in defense, copyright, oil/energy, telecomm, etc.
1) Create huge gallons of luria broth 2) Dump lots of colonies of geobacter into huge gallons of luria broth 3) insert conductive wires into luria broth 4) profit!!!
I've built two computers, mine and another friend's box. I purchased an asus a7v600 from newegg. This board supports ddr400 but I purchased an athlon xp 2800+ which only supports DDR333 so i purchased a stick of corsair vs512mb333 ram. I couldn't stop the computer from crashing in linux or windows when doing anything intensive, compiling, graphics, prime95, other benchmarks, you name it.
I tested the ram using memtest86, bought another 512 of kingston ram, bought an expensive antec sl400 power supply, and even bought another video card (ati r9600 se) to make sure none of those components were causing the instabilities (the original video card was an nvidia geforce fx 5500).
It ended up being that I had to set the ram speed in the bios to 266 (yes not 333 and not even auto) and that fixed all the problems. Now its very stable, and I've never had a single crash. Yes, I also tested different bios versions on auto and 333 speeds, but all caused crashing.
After all that time & money i put into that box I'm never buying another asus mobo ever again.
My friend on the other hand purchased a gigabyte k8ns-939 for his athlon 64 3200+. It's been rock solid without any problems whatsoever using optimal bios settings.
I'm purchasing gigabyte from now on if I decide to build another desktop system in the future.
The cheapest box you can build for yourself at zipzoomfly with equivalent specs except that you can't get 128mb of ddr333 ram so it has to come with 256mb, totals for $215.78.
Linux is improving but it doesn't make it as easy to do some common tasks that can be done easily in windows.
For example last night I was helping my dad burn an audio cd from a recording of a talk he made on our Creative muvo tx fm. I can't speak for other "ready made" distro's like fedora/ubuntu/linspire but most distro's out there are made for power users and require configuration (altering text config files, sudoing, or su -). I run a dual boot winxp+gentoo system and although my dad is patient (and was writing down everything) he did say it could be done much more quickly in winxp, which he is correct about.
So here are some things that needed to be done and are ideas to be added to linux distributions to make them more user friendly.
1) first we need to prepare linux to mount the muvo into the usb drive. Is there a distro which can *automatically* configure udev files (and create custom dev entries)? For now, I had to do this manually by putting in a custom udev entry for/dev/muvoTXFMhd* into/etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules . Case: If a distro doesn't want to use udev to do this then is there a distro which automatically checks dmesg to see what the/dev/sd* will be and then automatically configures a mountpoint in the user's home directory (so becoming root isn't necessary, e.g. adding entries to/etc/fstab into/mnt) ? Will the kernel even allow this? I doubt it because its too insecure for linux..honestly its a local security risk only and isn't going to allow an external intruder to zombify the box.
Your average user isn't gonna care about udev, what it does or how it works, or about/etc/fstab. He just wants to get the muvo to just work like in windows when it is plugged in and shows up in "my computer" as an additional drive E:.
2) ok so then after I put the entry into/etc/fstab (once again could this have been done automatically by the distro?), it was ready to mount. Hint: winxp/macos people hate typing commands unless they're in a word processor, typing emails, chatting, or browsing the web. Luckily Konqueror allows graphical mounting and unmounting as long as the entry is in/etc/fstab. You can just click the "Home" icon on the desktop -> devices -> muvoTXFMhd1
3) Now we open up k3b from the kde kicker, select new audio cd, with the konqueror still open to the wav file we want to burn we drag and drop the file into the newly created audio cd template area in k3b. Oops..it seems the wav file can't be read by k3b. K3b won't tell you what the problem is and even if it did tell you that it couldn't decode the ADIDblahblahPCM format that the muvo records to, your average user would have absolutely no clue what to do.
4) at this point my dad was completely lost. Now I had to figure out how to convert this wav file. First I tried lame'ing the file into an mp3 but this just produced a loud hissing noise. Then I found that the wav file can be dumped as an uncompressed wav in mplayer like this:
There's no escape from opening up a konsole and typing commands! Imagine telling a winxp user how to convert a wav to mp3 using a command line utility at the dos prompt (he would download his favorite gui application from download.com and do it using drag and drop methods). Now this could also be done easily in konqueror if there was a feature to just right click on the wav file -> convert with mplayer -> raw uncompressed pcm. Things need to be integrated and easy to find. I shouldn't have to install every little program under the sun to do one or two little tasks in any OS. Even decoding takes a while and this process took about 1.5mins. We have a decently fast athlon xp 2800+ w/512mb ram, but on some of the lower end machines i've seen prepackaged with linux this could
The internet/voip and other communication mediums have obsoleted the necessity for face to face contact and the costs associated with business travel. This is why (at least in the US) airlines are going bankrupt every single year. Only southwest manages to survive, but that's because they are like the walmart of the skies.
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screw playing games, no good games have come out since i played doom or wolf3d. I just want to do something constructive on this box..it's well worth the commodity prices we will have to shell out initially. no more than $550 after tax probably and another $100 for a decent harddrive. Not one game is gonna touch my machine.
It will probably run a run-of-the-mill 2.5" laptop HD, which I think currently maxes out at 120g (what kutaragi was referring to). So you don't have to pay any Sony tax to purchase that HD
I think kinko's still uses quark express, and if this is the case this is definately a large industrial user base of this software. I think quark are here to stay.
Here's the part which gives them powers without requiring a judicial subpoena.
"..is further amended by adding at the end the following new title:
Title VIII - Administrative subpoenas in national security investigations
Authorization to issue
Sec. 802 (a) In general the Directory of the [FBI] or a designee of the Director in a position not lower than Deputy Assistant Director at [FBI] headquarters or a Special Agent in Charge (including an 'acting' Special Agent in Charge) in a [FBI] field office designated by the Directory, may issue in writing and cause to be served a subpoena requiring - (1) production of any records or materials relevant to [investigation of] foreign intelligence information not concering a US person."
So what is this saying? If I'm a US Citizen that this doesn't apply to me? Furthermore...
"Sec. 805 (b) (1) Natural person - service of a subpoena upon a natural person may be made by personal delivery of the subpoena to that person... (2) Business entities and associations..subpoena may be made upon a domestic or foreign corporation that is subject to suit under a common name..."
What would kill the PC gaming market is being able to fully use a regular $10-15 PS2 (not playstation 2, the connector specification) keyboard and a mouse type device (some people prefer mouse rolling balls) on a console like xbox/ps2/ps3/xbox 360, and have that keyboard fully recognized by games.
Only then can we see MMORPG's, RTS, and the advanced functions of FPS games (readily crouching, side dodging..similar to looking around corners..yea some console games do this but using a mouse and a keyboard beats a stupid controller anyday) being fully implemented into console games. Think about the shortcut keys on RTS games, key 1 controls your army of orcs, 2 controls your catapults, 3 controls your wizards, 4 controls your flying monsters etc, etc (warcraft 3). I've never played MMORPG's but I couldn't imagine doing it on a stupid video game controller. And what about those space fighting and regular down to earth flight simulators with all those controls in the cockpit (this is why games like ace combat 5 could be so much more, but they have to dumb it down because of the stupid controller).
Honestly have the console manufacturers never thought about this? They must be completely retarded. If I had any say in it I would have thrown in the keyboard/mouse along with the PS1.
I think the PS3 has usb ports so you could use a wireless keyboard mouse combo..but will games support them? maybe and maybe not.
We knew this when redhat first said they were going to stop giving away free support back in april of 2003 and that RH9 would the the last "free" supported version. Furthermore we were told to look to the new Fedora distribution (core 1) which would be a separate entity from RH.
Who says you need VHDL expertise to be able to program an FPGA? There are lots of C to VHDL converters and here's an open source one. In any case VHDL was created a very long time ago and is even more simple than C or Basic in many aspects.
back in the day when men were men, we ran away with 22" CRT monitors and 35" tv's while being chased by police and dogs
Why CRT's and not LCD's for stereo and regular dis
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I also use stereo on SGI's Sony GDM CRT monitors and Viewsonic PF221 CRT monitors using Nuvision 3D's technology. They are about 1/3 of the price of CrystalEyes solutions and Nuvision3D glasses work with CrystalEyes stereo emitters too. The glasses are lighter too.
The problem with all these fancy schmancy LCD stereo displays is that they're made just for stereo (i.e. they look like shit if you try to use them for regular viewing, see this article). So why not get a nice CRT monitor (for no more than $600) with a larger viewable area that does regular viewing and stereo rather than an LCD that does stereo for probably more than triple the price?
QUAD CORE PROCESSORS BY NEXT YEAR?!@#$?!@?# Most people won't even have a regular amd64 by next year. Is this the product of 65nm design? The jump from 130nm to 90nm allowed for a dual core design, that's a drop of 40nm in transistor size, so that means the transistor size has to go to 50nm before we can have quad core?
..is something that no gentoo user should be without. I don't leave my computer on all the time so when I do turn it on after I get home from work I start launching lots of programs, with emerge --sync, and emerge -avuD world, and whatever else I might want remove or put into my system. It would be very nice to be able to be compiling updates in the background while I wh00p some ass in UT2K4!!!
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It didn't take him 24 hours to circumvent it, probably less than 1 min.
..as i said.. less than a minute.
It took him 24 hours after it was released to get around to looking at it and then realizing the stupid limitation, and then fixing it in
this is also the same reason why biodiesel does not get very much industrial support but rather heavier opposition from the oil cartel.
..a subsidiary of Cummins Diesel Engines. Just to corroborate your theory ..yes it's very similar to bug business involved in defense, copyright, oil/energy, telecomm, etc.
The US is the world's largest producer of corn. It can produce enough biodiesel to provide fuel for most of the world. The oil cartels are very scared of this fact. So they block research and development of this fuel.
You may think I'm just an anti-corporate hippy, but I got that bit of information from someone who works at Fleetguard (they make industrial grade oil filters for heavy machinery and trucks)
Somebody has to put an end to this.
yeah start using a "free as in beer" operating system and you'll never have to worry about OS software companies treating you like a thief ever again.
1) Create huge gallons of luria broth
2) Dump lots of colonies of geobacter into huge gallons of luria broth
3) insert conductive wires into luria broth
4) profit!!!
I've built two computers, mine and another friend's box. I purchased an asus a7v600 from newegg. This board supports ddr400 but I purchased an athlon xp 2800+ which only supports DDR333 so i purchased a stick of corsair vs512mb333 ram. I couldn't stop the computer from crashing in linux or windows when doing anything intensive, compiling, graphics, prime95, other benchmarks, you name it.
I tested the ram using memtest86, bought another 512 of kingston ram, bought an expensive antec sl400 power supply, and even bought another video card (ati r9600 se) to make sure none of those components were causing the instabilities (the original video card was an nvidia geforce fx 5500).
It ended up being that I had to set the ram speed in the bios to 266 (yes not 333 and not even auto) and that fixed all the problems. Now its very stable, and I've never had a single crash. Yes, I also tested different bios versions on auto and 333 speeds, but all caused crashing.
After all that time & money i put into that box I'm never buying another asus mobo ever again.
My friend on the other hand purchased a gigabyte k8ns-939 for his athlon 64 3200+. It's been rock solid without any problems whatsoever using optimal bios settings.
I'm purchasing gigabyte from now on if I decide to build another desktop system in the future.
Microcenter's cheapest computer is sold at $250 ($200 after rebate, http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results. phtml?product_id=0184679)
The cheapest box you can build for yourself at zipzoomfly with equivalent specs except that you can't get 128mb of ddr333 ram so it has to come with 256mb, totals for $215.78.
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Linux is improving but it doesn't make it as easy to do some common tasks that can be done easily in windows.
/dev/muvoTXFMhd* into /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules . Case: If a distro doesn't want to use udev to do this then is there a distro which automatically checks dmesg to see what the /dev/sd* will be and then automatically configures a mountpoint in the user's home directory (so becoming root isn't necessary, e.g. adding entries to /etc/fstab into /mnt) ? Will the kernel even allow this? I doubt it because its too insecure for linux ..honestly its a local security risk only and isn't going to allow an external intruder to zombify the box.
/etc/fstab. He just wants to get the muvo to just work like in windows when it is plugged in and shows up in "my computer" as an additional drive E: .
/etc/fstab (once again could this have been done automatically by the distro?), it was ready to mount. Hint: winxp/macos people hate typing commands unless they're in a word processor, typing emails, chatting, or browsing the web. Luckily Konqueror allows graphical mounting and unmounting as long as the entry is in /etc/fstab. You can just click the "Home" icon on the desktop -> devices -> muvoTXFMhd1
..it seems the wav file can't be read by k3b. K3b won't tell you what the problem is and even if it did tell you that it couldn't decode the ADIDblahblahPCM format that the muvo records to, your average user would have absolutely no clue what to do.
/mnt/muvo/voice/muvoTXFMRecording.wav
For example last night I was helping my dad burn an audio cd from a recording of a talk he made on our Creative muvo tx fm. I can't speak for other "ready made" distro's like fedora/ubuntu/linspire but most distro's out there are made for power users and require configuration (altering text config files, sudoing, or su -). I run a dual boot winxp+gentoo system and although my dad is patient (and was writing down everything) he did say it could be done much more quickly in winxp, which he is correct about.
So here are some things that needed to be done and are ideas to be added to linux distributions to make them more user friendly.
1) first we need to prepare linux to mount the muvo into the usb drive. Is there a distro which can *automatically* configure udev files (and create custom dev entries)? For now, I had to do this manually by putting in a custom udev entry for
Your average user isn't gonna care about udev, what it does or how it works, or about
2) ok so then after I put the entry into
3) Now we open up k3b from the kde kicker, select new audio cd, with the konqueror still open to the wav file we want to burn we drag and drop the file into the newly created audio cd template area in k3b. Oops
4) at this point my dad was completely lost. Now I had to figure out how to convert this wav file. First I tried lame'ing the file into an mp3 but this just produced a loud hissing noise. Then I found that the wav file can be dumped as an uncompressed wav in mplayer like this:
mplayer -ao pcm
There's no escape from opening up a konsole and typing commands! Imagine telling a winxp user how to convert a wav to mp3 using a command line utility at the dos prompt (he would download his favorite gui application from download.com and do it using drag and drop methods). Now this could also be done easily in konqueror if there was a feature to just right click on the wav file -> convert with mplayer -> raw uncompressed pcm. Things need to be integrated and easy to find. I shouldn't have to install every little program under the sun to do one or two little tasks in any OS. Even decoding takes a while and this process took about 1.5mins. We have a decently fast athlon xp 2800+ w/512mb ram, but on some of the lower end machines i've seen prepackaged with linux this could
The internet/voip and other communication mediums have obsoleted the necessity for face to face contact and the costs associated with business travel. This is why (at least in the US) airlines are going bankrupt every single year. Only southwest manages to survive, but that's because they are like the walmart of the skies.
helium3 ?
screw playing games, no good games have come out since i played doom or wolf3d. I just want to do something constructive on this box..it's well worth the commodity prices we will have to shell out initially. no more than $550 after tax probably and another $100 for a decent harddrive. Not one game is gonna touch my machine.
It will probably run a run-of-the-mill 2.5" laptop HD, which I think currently maxes out at 120g (what kutaragi was referring to). So you don't have to pay any Sony tax to purchase that HD
welcome our linux running PS3 overlords
I think kinko's still uses quark express, and if this is the case this is definately a large industrial user base of this software. I think quark are here to stay.
First we had the BSOD, blue screen of death,
then we had DLL hell
now we will have all out MSH, MicroSoft Hell
Here's the part which gives them powers without requiring a judicial subpoena.
..subpoena may be made upon a domestic or foreign corporation that is subject to suit under a common name..."
"..is further amended by adding at the end the following new title:
Title VIII - Administrative subpoenas in national security investigations
Authorization to issue
Sec. 802 (a) In general the Directory of the [FBI] or a designee of the Director in a position not lower than Deputy Assistant Director at [FBI] headquarters or a Special Agent in Charge (including an 'acting' Special Agent in Charge) in a [FBI] field office designated by the Directory, may issue in writing and cause to be served a subpoena requiring -
(1) production of any records or materials relevant to [investigation of] foreign intelligence information not concering a US person."
So what is this saying? If I'm a US Citizen that this doesn't apply to me? Furthermore...
"Sec. 805 (b) (1) Natural person - service of a subpoena upon a natural person may be made by personal delivery of the subpoena to that person...
(2) Business entities and associations
What is a natural person?
RTS games and shortcut keys:
..similar to looking around corners ..yea some console games do this but using a mouse and a keyboard beats a stupid controller anyday) being fully implemented into console games. Think about the shortcut keys on RTS games, key 1 controls your army of orcs, 2 controls your catapults, 3 controls your wizards, 4 controls your flying monsters etc, etc (warcraft 3). I've never played MMORPG's but I couldn't imagine doing it on a stupid video game controller. And what about those space fighting and regular down to earth flight simulators with all those controls in the cockpit (this is why games like ace combat 5 could be so much more, but they have to dumb it down because of the stupid controller).
..but will games support them? maybe and maybe not.
What would kill the PC gaming market is being able to fully use a regular $10-15 PS2 (not playstation 2, the connector specification) keyboard and a mouse type device (some people prefer mouse rolling balls) on a console like xbox/ps2/ps3/xbox 360, and have that keyboard fully recognized by games.
Only then can we see MMORPG's, RTS, and the advanced functions of FPS games (readily crouching, side dodging
Honestly have the console manufacturers never thought about this? They must be completely retarded. If I had any say in it I would have thrown in the keyboard/mouse along with the PS1.
I think the PS3 has usb ports so you could use a wireless keyboard mouse combo
We knew this when redhat first said they were going to stop giving away free support back in april of 2003 and that RH9 would the the last "free" supported version. Furthermore we were told to look to the new Fedora distribution (core 1) which would be a separate entity from RH.
they are all zombies with all their legalized weed smoking and techno trance listening
uhh.. you're looking for the "too much homework is bad for you" column ...you posted in the "batteries are limiting factors in mobile toys" column
Who says you need VHDL expertise to be able to program an FPGA? There are lots of C to VHDL converters and here's an open source one. In any case VHDL was created a very long time ago and is even more simple than C or Basic in many aspects.
back in the day when men were men, we ran away with 22" CRT monitors and 35" tv's while being chased by police and dogs
I also use stereo on SGI's Sony GDM CRT monitors and Viewsonic PF221 CRT monitors using Nuvision 3D's technology. They are about 1/3 of the price of CrystalEyes solutions and Nuvision3D glasses work with CrystalEyes stereo emitters too. The glasses are lighter too.
The problem with all these fancy schmancy LCD stereo displays is that they're made just for stereo (i.e. they look like shit if you try to use them for regular viewing, see this article). So why not get a nice CRT monitor (for no more than $600) with a larger viewable area that does regular viewing and stereo rather than an LCD that does stereo for probably more than triple the price?
like we didn't know this already?
QUAD CORE PROCESSORS BY NEXT YEAR?!@#$?!@?# Most people won't even have a regular amd64 by next year. Is this the product of 65nm design? The jump from 130nm to 90nm allowed for a dual core design, that's a drop of 40nm in transistor size, so that means the transistor size has to go to 50nm before we can have quad core?
..is something that no gentoo user should be without. I don't leave my computer on all the time so when I do turn it on after I get home from work I start launching lots of programs, with emerge --sync, and emerge -avuD world, and whatever else I might want remove or put into my system. It would be very nice to be able to be compiling updates in the background while I wh00p some ass in UT2K4!!!