We need AI that can properly officiate, by golly! AI that can tell when someone is diving to the ice or pretending to be fouled. Once we don't have to worry about humans making bad calls, Shaq won't be able to gripe...the Toronto Maple Leafs won't be able to get boarding calls...Superbowl playoffs that have fumbles will really be called fumbles...
I like the sounds of this, but I wonder about the legality of selling these players in the US. If the player is capable of playing DVDs, then the technology inside will necessarily involve either unlicensed or reverse-engineered decoding software. The former would be piracy/IP theft, and the latter (legitimate IMHO) would run afoul of the DMCA.
Nothing is wrong with Raleigh...I work downtown and live in north Raleigh. However, the Research Triangle Park is sandwiched between Raleigh, Cary, Durham, and Chapel Hill. Therefore, if you are going to bill this as an RTP party, oughtn't it to be in the Triangle? I mean, Durham and Chapel Hill are 20 miles from Raleigh....that's a decent amount of distance.
I noticed a party for the folks in the Triangle (theoretically) at Tir na Nog (Party 53). Why you would pick a place in downtown Raleigh for an RTP party is beyond me, but what the heck...They really should provide a map to the place.
I'm quite aware that humans have limited A/V ranges, both in terms of spectrum and perception (e.g., I'm stuck with glasses and don't have perfect pitch). Still, unless I failed to gather something, you can't project an non-humanly-visible spectrum from film onto a screen (yeah, if everyone switches to digital, and you have IR or UV sources, maybe). Same thing goes with the audio portion. You can jack up something's frequency until it annoys every animal in a 1 mile radius, but are consumer electronics capable of detecting that? Particularly, are they capable of detecting it amid the backdrop of all the other spectrum noise out there?
If you really want to do something, maybe bounce a low RF signal around a theatre or something...but even that is susceptible to being cracked....
Don't these guys have anyone/technical/ advising them? Let's say I go to a Big Budget Movie with Anti-Piracy Watermark (TM) and take my Anti-Piracy CamCorder (TM) with me to bootleg the movie. (I don't do that sort of thing, but this is an example...)
We'll ignore for the minute that most of the piracy of movies that goes on is by insiders. We'll also ignore the fact that you can get the movie from less than legal channels without taping it, allowing you to actually enjoy the movie in the theatre rather than taping it.
Back to my case. If I'm taping this movie, there are two suppositions involved related to watermarking: audio and visual. The technical question is: How on earth do you put watermarking in a visual medium without people seeing it and in an audible medium without people hearing it? On a movie screen, if you put a visual watermark in, even on every Nth frame, it's still going to be apparent that something is going on. Likewise with an audible watermark. If you insert some kind of sound clip, you have to avoid the low frequencies (it'll be drowned in the bass) and the high frequencies (people will take notice).
I don't frankly see a legitimate technical way to do this. Sure, you can try putting in embedded electronic codes to keep someone from copying something (e.g., CD/DVD to tape), but there will still be enough legacy devices running around that you can't retrofit, and in any case, people will crack the protection-scheme-of-the-month.
Maybe I've missed something (please let me know what, if I have), but I don't see that these propsed laws are technically feasible. Mind, I'm not inclined toward protectionist laws anyway, which is all this is. There's no difference between trying to get laws passed to prevent people from exercising their right to fair use and trying to get laws passed to increase tariffs on, say, steel. In this regard, unfortunately, the Bush administration is likely to be supportive of the recording industry...after all, we can't let the high-rolling Hollywood execs (who fund political campaigns) suffer in abject poverty because of the thieving consumers.
you must have missed the/. article last year (don't have a link handy, sorry) that politicians someplace (UK, I think) were considering doing just that. The plan was to pack a GPS and a speed governor in every vehicle, and depending on where the GPS said you were, the governor would limit you to the speed limit on the road. I would be continually amazed at all the really stupid stuff governments and corporate executives try to do (come to think of it, there really isn't a whole lot of difference except that in democratic countries there are laws against what the former can do while corporations run roughshod) except that I've seen so much of it I just shake my head at the next ocurrence of stupidity.
That was kinda my point...Sawfish and E, as I understand, are both independent wm's that/usually/run with Gnome (though not necessarily)...therefor, if we are going to mention one or more wm's that work with Gnome, let's not leave out the best of them all:)
I'm actually surprised that they ever went with Sawfish, since it has all sorts of nifty extras (differently themed windows, for example). From the two screenshots I was able to find of Metacity, it looked like a bland Gnome. Given that Sun was a major purveyor of CDE and olwm, I'm not the least bit surprised that they've switched to a tamer wm. I still think they're missing out, but I guess the philosophy behind the decision is "these machines are made for work, not glitz." Not for me...I use Gnome + E.16 at work....single monitor (makes me wish for my dual-head box at home...) with the same desktop look and feel as my home desktop (see more recent shots).
Well...once when I was a missionary in California City, I got a call from someone alledging to be from the Bakersfield FOP. He asked if I would be interested in giving them money. I replied with "I'm a missionary, so I don't have a whole lot of money...but if you're interested, I could arrange to have some missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints some share a message about Jesus Christ." He hung up pretty quickly...
I've heard commercials on TV lately advertising products that you can put between the jack and the phone that actually block telemarketers. Does anyone have any experience with these devices? DO they work? Which is the best one to get?
Matrox has provided some really good support in the form of driver software and forums for various flavors of Windows and Linux. I believe there is also some level of FreeBSD support. I would be surprised if this one didn't have non-Windows support. I can't speak for non-x86 support.
As one person once said, "the traffic roundabout is evidenced of the misplaced belief in the basic goodness of human nature."
So far the only good story I've heard WRT a roundabout was told by one of the English denizens of #slashdot. It seems he was driving his car when the gas pedal stuck...and the brakes wouldn't work. Fortunately, he had already entered a roundabout, so he just kept cruising around it until he ran out of gas.
More to the point, they got that tech from us...I seem to recall that they actually paid for the plans and went and constructed their own version based on those plans. Given that it is probably typical Russian space engineering, I think I'd rather buy a Kia.
For example, they are building the 540 outer loop around Raleigh. Also, DC and other cities have two concentric beltlines, usually (iirc), one with an odd digit and one with an even digit.
Cary (which was recently featured in a National Geographic issue (like...July 2001 or something)) is a city on the southwest of Raleigh and the southeast of Chapel Hill (relatively speaking). It's where the high-lifestyle crowd live because they like to pay for a high rent district. (That's not a troll...just the truth). It has wierd intersecting and name-changing roads all over the place. It has at least two roads which circle the city and intersect with each other. I get horribly lost whenever I go there. In fact, the words I dread hearing when someone starts giving me directions there are It's easy to find, because I know immediately I'm going to wind up lost.
Lest you think that I joke or exaggerate, I'm told that "Cary" is also an acronym for "Containment area for relocated Yankees."
not infighting yet...but this being a market system, it won't be long before others do it too. Why do you think there are, say, more than one car company offering 0.0% rates? Why do you figure that when one airline lowers its rates, many others do too? Why do you think that when WordPerfect still existed, both it and Microsoft were offering competitive upgrades from the other's products?
If I have the choice between Mandrake at $40 and Red Hat at $40 and Red Hat offers a $10 discount. and (for whatever reason) I'm not going to download the iso from someplace, doesn't it make more sense to go with the Red Hat offering?
Other companies in this market are going to see it, and I have no doubt that there will be some pricing adjustments. The nice thing about a "Competitive upgrade" pricing model is that you get to charge full price and then, if someone takes the time and effort to prove that they are switching, give a refund. This is nicer than a straight price cut because you get full price for most of the software you sell, while giving the illusion that it is cheaper.
I'm thinking that the installers probably had trouble with such an archaic OS:)
I've been on the Red Hat upgrade path since 4.2, and in my experience, any time you want to move up a major revision number, your best bet is to back up anything you want to keep, wipe the disk, repartition, make a clean install, and restore from backup. I'm not sure what changed between the 4.x and 5.x series, but between 5.x and 6.x, they changed network config stuff, apache's location (iirc), the default window manager, and a bunch of other stuff. The 6.x to 7.x change was fairly radical too. They moved all the networking stuff to xinetd, moved the wm to Sawfish and Ximian, moved apache (again), switched to openSSH, etc.
The whole point (usually) of offering competitive upgrades is to get someone to switch to your product, but in this case, I think it would be better to make that offer to Windows users (e.g., send in your authorized Windows media and key with a purchase of Red Hat Linux and we'll pay you the cost of the Microsoft tax) than it does to compete with other Linux vendors. This kind of internecine fighting is what let Micrsoft get a foot in the door on UNIX to begin with. The last thing we need is fragmentation and infighting in the Linux space.
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Guess you'll just have to root for Detroit then...
We need AI that can properly officiate, by golly! AI that can tell when someone is diving to the ice or pretending to be fouled. Once we don't have to worry about humans making bad calls, Shaq won't be able to gripe...the Toronto Maple Leafs won't be able to get boarding calls...Superbowl playoffs that have fumbles will really be called fumbles...
You get the idea...
By the way...Go 'Canes!!
I like the sounds of this, but I wonder about the legality of selling these players in the US. If the player is capable of playing DVDs, then the technology inside will necessarily involve either unlicensed or reverse-engineered decoding software. The former would be piracy/IP theft, and the latter (legitimate IMHO) would run afoul of the DMCA.
Nothing is wrong with Raleigh...I work downtown and live in north Raleigh. However, the Research Triangle Park is sandwiched between Raleigh, Cary, Durham, and Chapel Hill. Therefore, if you are going to bill this as an RTP party, oughtn't it to be in the Triangle? I mean, Durham and Chapel Hill are 20 miles from Raleigh....that's a decent amount of distance.
I noticed a party for the folks in the Triangle (theoretically) at Tir na Nog (Party 53). Why you would pick a place in downtown Raleigh for an RTP party is beyond me, but what the heck...They really should provide a map to the place.
I'm quite aware that humans have limited A/V ranges, both in terms of spectrum and perception (e.g., I'm stuck with glasses and don't have perfect pitch). Still, unless I failed to gather something, you can't project an non-humanly-visible spectrum from film onto a screen (yeah, if everyone switches to digital, and you have IR or UV sources, maybe). Same thing goes with the audio portion. You can jack up something's frequency until it annoys every animal in a 1 mile radius, but are consumer electronics capable of detecting that? Particularly, are they capable of detecting it amid the backdrop of all the other spectrum noise out there?
If you really want to do something, maybe bounce a low RF signal around a theatre or something...but even that is susceptible to being cracked....
Don't these guys have anyone /technical/ advising them? Let's say I go to a Big Budget Movie with Anti-Piracy Watermark (TM) and take my Anti-Piracy CamCorder (TM) with me to bootleg the movie. (I don't do that sort of thing, but this is an example...)
We'll ignore for the minute that most of the piracy of movies that goes on is by insiders. We'll also ignore the fact that you can get the movie from less than legal channels without taping it, allowing you to actually enjoy the movie in the theatre rather than taping it.
Back to my case. If I'm taping this movie, there are two suppositions involved related to watermarking: audio and visual. The technical question is: How on earth do you put watermarking in a visual medium without people seeing it and in an audible medium without people hearing it? On a movie screen, if you put a visual watermark in, even on every Nth frame, it's still going to be apparent that something is going on. Likewise with an audible watermark. If you insert some kind of sound clip, you have to avoid the low frequencies (it'll be drowned in the bass) and the high frequencies (people will take notice).
I don't frankly see a legitimate technical way to do this. Sure, you can try putting in embedded electronic codes to keep someone from copying something (e.g., CD/DVD to tape), but there will still be enough legacy devices running around that you can't retrofit, and in any case, people will crack the protection-scheme-of-the-month.
Maybe I've missed something (please let me know what, if I have), but I don't see that these propsed laws are technically feasible. Mind, I'm not inclined toward protectionist laws anyway, which is all this is. There's no difference between trying to get laws passed to prevent people from exercising their right to fair use and trying to get laws passed to increase tariffs on, say, steel. In this regard, unfortunately, the Bush administration is likely to be supportive of the recording industry...after all, we can't let the high-rolling Hollywood execs (who fund political campaigns) suffer in abject poverty because of the thieving consumers.
you must have missed the /. article last year (don't have a link handy, sorry) that politicians someplace (UK, I think) were considering doing just that. The plan was to pack a GPS and a speed governor in every vehicle, and depending on where the GPS said you were, the governor would limit you to the speed limit on the road. I would be continually amazed at all the really stupid stuff governments and corporate executives try to do (come to think of it, there really isn't a whole lot of difference except that in democratic countries there are laws against what the former can do while corporations run roughshod) except that I've seen so much of it I just shake my head at the next ocurrence of stupidity.
That was kinda my point...Sawfish and E, as I understand, are both independent wm's that /usually/run with Gnome (though not necessarily)...therefor, if we are going to mention one or more wm's that work with Gnome, let's not leave out the best of them all :)
see what a bad girl you are? :}
I'm actually surprised that they ever went with Sawfish, since it has all sorts of nifty extras (differently themed windows, for example). From the two screenshots I was able to find of Metacity, it looked like a bland Gnome. Given that Sun was a major purveyor of CDE and olwm, I'm not the least bit surprised that they've switched to a tamer wm. I still think they're missing out, but I guess the philosophy behind the decision is "these machines are made for work, not glitz." Not for me...I use Gnome + E .16 at work....single monitor (makes me wish for my dual-head box at home...) with the same desktop look and feel as my home desktop (see more recent shots).
Let's string him up for failing to mention the other very important wm that runs with Gnome.
and I'm still looking for a gf...besides...one doesn't usually have one's secretary living in one's house...at least, not that I'm aware of...
Well...once when I was a missionary in California City, I got a call from someone alledging to be from the Bakersfield FOP. He asked if I would be interested in giving them money. I replied with "I'm a missionary, so I don't have a whole lot of money...but if you're interested, I could arrange to have some missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints some share a message about Jesus Christ." He hung up pretty quickly...
I've heard commercials on TV lately advertising products that you can put between the jack and the phone that actually block telemarketers. Does anyone have any experience with these devices? DO they work? Which is the best one to get?
Matrox has provided some really good support in the form of driver software and forums for various flavors of Windows and Linux. I believe there is also some level of FreeBSD support. I would be surprised if this one didn't have non-Windows support. I can't speak for non-x86 support.
I only see two monitor ports on the back of that puppy...(and oh the agony of knowing I already have a G450 running dual under Linux....)
The screen caps make me drool
As one person once said, "the traffic roundabout is evidenced of the misplaced belief in the basic goodness of human nature."
So far the only good story I've heard WRT a roundabout was told by one of the English denizens of #slashdot. It seems he was driving his car when the gas pedal stuck...and the brakes wouldn't work. Fortunately, he had already entered a roundabout, so he just kept cruising around it until he ran out of gas.
female ec material isn't likely to be on /. ...but what the heck, I'm desparate ;)
More to the point, they got that tech from us...I seem to recall that they actually paid for the plans and went and constructed their own version based on those plans. Given that it is probably typical Russian space engineering, I think I'd rather buy a Kia.
For example, they are building the 540 outer loop around Raleigh. Also, DC and other cities have two concentric beltlines, usually (iirc), one with an odd digit and one with an even digit.
Cary (which was recently featured in a National Geographic issue (like...July 2001 or something)) is a city on the southwest of Raleigh and the southeast of Chapel Hill (relatively speaking). It's where the high-lifestyle crowd live because they like to pay for a high rent district. (That's not a troll...just the truth). It has wierd intersecting and name-changing roads all over the place. It has at least two roads which circle the city and intersect with each other. I get horribly lost whenever I go there. In fact, the words I dread hearing when someone starts giving me directions there are It's easy to find, because I know immediately I'm going to wind up lost.
Lest you think that I joke or exaggerate, I'm told that "Cary" is also an acronym for "Containment area for relocated Yankees."
not infighting yet...but this being a market system, it won't be long before others do it too. Why do you think there are, say, more than one car company offering 0.0% rates? Why do you figure that when one airline lowers its rates, many others do too? Why do you think that when WordPerfect still existed, both it and Microsoft were offering competitive upgrades from the other's products?
If I have the choice between Mandrake at $40 and Red Hat at $40 and Red Hat offers a $10 discount. and (for whatever reason) I'm not going to download the iso from someplace, doesn't it make more sense to go with the Red Hat offering?
Other companies in this market are going to see it, and I have no doubt that there will be some pricing adjustments. The nice thing about a "Competitive upgrade" pricing model is that you get to charge full price and then, if someone takes the time and effort to prove that they are switching, give a refund. This is nicer than a straight price cut because you get full price for most of the software you sell, while giving the illusion that it is cheaper.
I'm thinking that the installers probably had trouble with such an archaic OS :)
I've been on the Red Hat upgrade path since 4.2, and in my experience, any time you want to move up a major revision number, your best bet is to back up anything you want to keep, wipe the disk, repartition, make a clean install, and restore from backup. I'm not sure what changed between the 4.x and 5.x series, but between 5.x and 6.x, they changed network config stuff, apache's location (iirc), the default window manager, and a bunch of other stuff. The 6.x to 7.x change was fairly radical too. They moved all the networking stuff to xinetd, moved the wm to Sawfish and Ximian, moved apache (again), switched to openSSH, etc.
The whole point (usually) of offering competitive upgrades is to get someone to switch to your product, but in this case, I think it would be better to make that offer to Windows users (e.g., send in your authorized Windows media and key with a purchase of Red Hat Linux and we'll pay you the cost of the Microsoft tax) than it does to compete with other Linux vendors. This kind of internecine fighting is what let Micrsoft get a foot in the door on UNIX to begin with. The last thing we need is fragmentation and infighting in the Linux space.