Forget the parental fears. Try some more homophobic ones. Imagine being photographed in the changing rooms of your local gym or pool. I've heard that many gyms/pools have outright banned all phones in their changing rooms. Or imagine using the public facilities (Americans are embaressed by the word 'toilet') and having a camera-phone quickly stuck over the door of your stall. How would you like those photos posted on some fetish website?
Or try similar scenarios with children for some pedophilia-phobia (pedophobia?). And how about privacy concerns? Imagine someone re-programming your phone so that it takes a photo every x minutes and secretly sends the images to someone. It could be anyone with the right tools, information, and connections. CIA? DHS? The mob? The pervert down the street? They'll get lots of photos of the inside of your purse/bag/pocket/etc but will also get enough of your workplace and anything else to be of use. This works better than a hidden camera because you trust your camera-phone. You own it, so you control it. Don't you?
Actually, AMD didn't use the complete model numbers. Their clones were called the Am386 and Am486. Just guessing, but the use of the short numbers instead of the long (386 vs 80386) probably didn't help Intels case.
Really? You sound like the kind of ignorant jerk that would rent Ninja Scroll for a kid because it's a "cartoon" and obviously cartoons are for kids. Here's a clue: us adults also like to play games and watch "cartoons". There's a market there, quite a sizeable one. And in a capitalistic world, that means that someone will make games and cartoons for adults. Don't pre-judge something simply because of its medium.
These competitions are hardly scientific or well judged. The runner-up is a little pretty boy that (according to my brother) only got as far as he did with the teenage girl vote. And the dropping of Ricky-Lea a few weeks ago was controversial. Everyone was so confident of her performance that they forgot to actually vote for her! In the epic final show (...just after this break...) they had the final 12 contesants back and apparently Ricky-Lea's performance was much better than Casey. If a proper career can be made of this silly media circus, I'd give Ricky-Lea a much better chance than this voting aberation.
Yes, exactly. I must admit I am somewhat of a fanboy. I don't "pop up" like the grandparent post described, but I do come to these MySQL stories specifically looking for PostgreSQL comments. And sometimes I post, like now. But I don't go looking to troll or anything, just trying to advocate a great piece of software that I think gets far too little attention.
It's not unique to PostgreSQL. Any time people discover a great alternative to a well-known mainstream product, those people will use any forum to promote it. You might have heard of a thing called Linux. Do you really think you would have heard of Linux if you only paid attention to vendor ads and press releases?
"axe" is also a possible Futurama reference. In the first christmas episode (second season) Leela explains to Fry that he using an archaic pronounciation when he says "christmas", that they pronounce it as "ex-mas" (Xmas). She then adds that Fry says "ask" when they say "axe". You'll notice that from then on (not just that episode) the characters say "axe" instead of "ask".
Since you claim to have written both codebases, perhaps your difficulties say more about your ability to program in Perl (or any language) than about Perl itself. I've written a lot of Perl code and I couldn't think of (re)writting in a language where all variables are global (no namespaces) or other poorly thought-out "features".
Wow, thanks for all that scupper! I hadn't thought to look on the Gnome or Ximian websites. It's a shame that Novell has not kept its web site up to date and linked to the correct locations.
But where the f**k is Connector? After trudging through their website and resorting to a google search, I find the connector page and this download directory. Bloody useless. The page has instructions on using Red Carpet (what about SuSE?) and on the FTP site all I can see is a bunch of binary RPM's but nothing else. The debian-woody-i386 directory is empty and all the */source directories are emtpy. HELLO? Where's the f**king source? Am I missing something or has Novell just forgotten about releasing the source code? Nothing seems to have happened since the big announcement in May.
Wow, sounds good. I experienced something similar a few years ago when I had the chance to travel to Germany. Even though I was only in the country for a few weeks, I found that being immersed in a language was a great way to pick it up quickly. I had a pocket english-german dictionary in my small back-pack that I carried everywhere, but I didn't want to look like a tourist[1] and avoided taking it out in public. So I would wonder around town looking at signs, posters, labels, etc trying to make sense of it all. I'd be able to understand some of it, but I would try to remember the words I didn't know. Then a few times a day when I was back at my hotel room, I'd take out my dictionary and look up some of the words I'd seen. Then when I was out in the town again the sign(s) would make more sense. By doing things this way I probably forced my brain to do the work of remembering words and trying to decipher the language, instead of taking the lazy option of instantly looking it up. In this way I gradually learnt little pieces day by day.
Now, three weeks was nowhere near enough time to learn the language. I couldn't hold even a simple conversation in German, and still can't today. But I can see how the immersive experience would greatly help in learning a language.
[1] : In reality, being a blue-eyed blonde Aussie really helped me blend in. When I was with my two asian travelling companions (one was my boss at the time) everyone spoke english to us. But on a few occasions when I was alone I had the locals speaking german to me and I had to blurt out "sprechen sie englisch?" to get them to speak broken english for me.
I was surprised to find that nothing I had could read it. I guess the 15/16-bit formats are pretty much limited to graphics hardware. No one uses those formats to transport images, using 24-bit formats instead. I was surprised to find that Gimp 2.0 didn't have a raw format option.
(I'll post this one further up the chain after my last message was somhow modded "overrated" with no other mods)
Here's the technical details:
It's 640x480 in 16-bit 5-6-5 format. Big-endian of course (tripped me up initially on my x86 machine). The file is a dump of the whole frame buffer but only half is used.
Hope that helps.
You might be able to read it with Photoshop or something. I had to write a little C program to convert the packed 16-bit values into 24-bit ones. Then it was simple to pipe that through rawtopnm with some guessed dimensions. It's nothing spectacular, just a blank KDE desktop running with Ktip describing how you can minimize all windows with the desktop button.
Lets see....
The file is 1228800 bytes in size. Looking at a hexdump, it looks like 16-bit data. Unfortunately 614400 has many integer factors, including most of the likely widths/heights. If it's for NTSC then it's going to be 480 lines high, making it 1280x480. Bit of an odd resolution. It's not divisible by 576, so it can't be PAL. It could also be 800x768, 640x960, 1200x512...
Damn, I can't seem to find anything to convert packed 16/15-bit RGB data. I'll have to resort to writing a simple Perl or C program to convert it to a more widely recognized 24-bit raw format.
Gee, sounds a lot like Slashdot. See my three-digit uid? I've been here almost since Slashdot began. It was nice back then. Everyone was pretty nice. The occasional disagreement broke out, but all-in-all it was a pretty good discussion. Since then it's grown. The trolls have become downright professional. The flames are pretty vicious. Everyone's on a hair-trigger to jump out and defend any slight against their favourite OS, distribution, browser, MTA, MUA, or whatever. I don't know about everyone, but a lot of comments seem to be pretty self-concious about what they write, careful not to offend anyone or give the wrong impression. I know I usually am.
It's kinda sad in a way, but I guess it's what happens when any open-forum grows past a certain size.
Yes they do. And in the most wasteful mannner possible: brand-spanking-new Dells running WinXP with probably a pentium 4 under the hood. And then they run some terminal emulator to connect to a mainframe app. Now that's progress!
Indeed, one of the comments on the KernelTrap story suggests putting four G4's on a card (like this) and doing everything in software. You get serious performance with Altivec and low power consumption, even with four CPUs. Still a patent minefield though.
Yes, it is sad what has happened to Matrox. Their G-series of cards are still some of the best supported by Open Source drivers. It looks like they just abandoned Linux and Open Source with the release of their Parhelia (sp?) and P-series cards. I wonder why that happened. Perhaps there was a management change. Or perhaps their recent fall in popularity to nVidia and ATi have caused them to tighten up. They probably saw the code/doc contributions as a monetary and even IP loss. Oh well, there's still lots of second-hand G200, G400/G450, and G500/G550's out there for good prices. I've even seen a bunch of the quad-ouput variant of the G200 in a local computer fair.
But VBE is pretty x86/PC specific. And who says the VBE driver isn't some last-minute hack? I mean, after simple VGA compatibility, does anyone really use the VESA interface? It's likely to be a very low priority for video card manufacturers.
I believe one of the goals of this proposal is that the card would also easily work in PPC's, Alpha's, UltraSparc's, etc. He specifically mentions difficulties with closed-source BIOS's and the goal of being able to flash the device with an OpenBoot firmware to run on OB platforms (Sun, Apple, and others).
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Forget the parental fears. Try some more homophobic ones. Imagine being photographed in the changing rooms of your local gym or pool. I've heard that many gyms/pools have outright banned all phones in their changing rooms. Or imagine using the public facilities (Americans are embaressed by the word 'toilet') and having a camera-phone quickly stuck over the door of your stall. How would you like those photos posted on some fetish website?
Or try similar scenarios with children for some pedophilia-phobia (pedophobia?). And how about privacy concerns? Imagine someone re-programming your phone so that it takes a photo every x minutes and secretly sends the images to someone. It could be anyone with the right tools, information, and connections. CIA? DHS? The mob? The pervert down the street? They'll get lots of photos of the inside of your purse/bag/pocket/etc but will also get enough of your workplace and anything else to be of use. This works better than a hidden camera because you trust your camera-phone. You own it, so you control it. Don't you?
Actually, AMD didn't use the complete model numbers. Their clones were called the Am386 and Am486. Just guessing, but the use of the short numbers instead of the long (386 vs 80386) probably didn't help Intels case.
Really? You sound like the kind of ignorant jerk that would rent Ninja Scroll for a kid because it's a "cartoon" and obviously cartoons are for kids. Here's a clue: us adults also like to play games and watch "cartoons". There's a market there, quite a sizeable one. And in a capitalistic world, that means that someone will make games and cartoons for adults. Don't pre-judge something simply because of its medium.
These competitions are hardly scientific or well judged. The runner-up is a little pretty boy that (according to my brother) only got as far as he did with the teenage girl vote. And the dropping of Ricky-Lea a few weeks ago was controversial. Everyone was so confident of her performance that they forgot to actually vote for her! In the epic final show (...just after this break...) they had the final 12 contesants back and apparently Ricky-Lea's performance was much better than Casey. If a proper career can be made of this silly media circus, I'd give Ricky-Lea a much better chance than this voting aberation.
I didn't watch the show myself, but several other family members did. And my elitist, left-wing radio station of choice likes to mention it regularly. I find this latest blow to pedestrian entertainment to be a hoot. You couldn't write funnier stuff if you tried.
Yes, exactly. I must admit I am somewhat of a fanboy. I don't "pop up" like the grandparent post described, but I do come to these MySQL stories specifically looking for PostgreSQL comments. And sometimes I post, like now. But I don't go looking to troll or anything, just trying to advocate a great piece of software that I think gets far too little attention.
It's not unique to PostgreSQL. Any time people discover a great alternative to a well-known mainstream product, those people will use any forum to promote it. You might have heard of a thing called Linux. Do you really think you would have heard of Linux if you only paid attention to vendor ads and press releases?
"axe" is also a possible Futurama reference. In the first christmas episode (second season) Leela explains to Fry that he using an archaic pronounciation when he says "christmas", that they pronounce it as "ex-mas" (Xmas). She then adds that Fry says "ask" when they say "axe". You'll notice that from then on (not just that episode) the characters say "axe" instead of "ask".
Hence the comparison to the Borg from Star Trek and the topic icon here on Slashdot.
Since you claim to have written both codebases, perhaps your difficulties say more about your ability to program in Perl (or any language) than about Perl itself. I've written a lot of Perl code and I couldn't think of (re)writting in a language where all variables are global (no namespaces) or other poorly thought-out "features".
Or PostgreSQL.
Wow, thanks for all that scupper! I hadn't thought to look on the Gnome or Ximian websites. It's a shame that Novell has not kept its web site up to date and linked to the correct locations.
But where the f**k is Connector? After trudging through their website and resorting to a google search, I find the connector page and this download directory. Bloody useless. The page has instructions on using Red Carpet (what about SuSE?) and on the FTP site all I can see is a bunch of binary RPM's but nothing else. The debian-woody-i386 directory is empty and all the */source directories are emtpy. HELLO? Where's the f**king source? Am I missing something or has Novell just forgotten about releasing the source code? Nothing seems to have happened since the big announcement in May.
I'm hoping that listening to Rammstein will help. Because, man, I've been doing a lot of that! :)
We're all living in Amerika
Coca-Cola, Wonderbra
We're all living in Amerika
Amerika, Amerika
hey this german thing isn't so hard after all.... :)
Wow, sounds good. I experienced something similar a few years ago when I had the chance to travel to Germany. Even though I was only in the country for a few weeks, I found that being immersed in a language was a great way to pick it up quickly. I had a pocket english-german dictionary in my small back-pack that I carried everywhere, but I didn't want to look like a tourist[1] and avoided taking it out in public. So I would wonder around town looking at signs, posters, labels, etc trying to make sense of it all. I'd be able to understand some of it, but I would try to remember the words I didn't know. Then a few times a day when I was back at my hotel room, I'd take out my dictionary and look up some of the words I'd seen. Then when I was out in the town again the sign(s) would make more sense. By doing things this way I probably forced my brain to do the work of remembering words and trying to decipher the language, instead of taking the lazy option of instantly looking it up. In this way I gradually learnt little pieces day by day.
Now, three weeks was nowhere near enough time to learn the language. I couldn't hold even a simple conversation in German, and still can't today. But I can see how the immersive experience would greatly help in learning a language.
[1] : In reality, being a blue-eyed blonde Aussie really helped me blend in. When I was with my two asian travelling companions (one was my boss at the time) everyone spoke english to us. But on a few occasions when I was alone I had the locals speaking german to me and I had to blurt out "sprechen sie englisch?" to get them to speak broken english for me.
Downloaded with MiMMS and played with MPlayer. No Windows Media Player or Windows required.
Oh, and there shouldn't be a 't' in the protocol part of the URL:m v
mms://od-msn.msn.com/14/mbr/DTW_VirtualStuntman.w
(remove any spaces)
I was surprised to find that nothing I had could read it. I guess the 15/16-bit formats are pretty much limited to graphics hardware. No one uses those formats to transport images, using 24-bit formats instead. I was surprised to find that Gimp 2.0 didn't have a raw format option.
(I'll post this one further up the chain after my last message was somhow modded "overrated" with no other mods)
Here's the technical details:
It's 640x480 in 16-bit 5-6-5 format. Big-endian of course (tripped me up initially on my x86 machine). The file is a dump of the whole frame buffer but only half is used.
Hope that helps.
You might be able to read it with Photoshop or something. I had to write a little C program to convert the packed 16-bit values into 24-bit ones. Then it was simple to pipe that through rawtopnm with some guessed dimensions. It's nothing spectacular, just a blank KDE desktop running with Ktip describing how you can minimize all windows with the desktop button.
Lets see....
The file is 1228800 bytes in size. Looking at a hexdump, it looks like 16-bit data. Unfortunately 614400 has many integer factors, including most of the likely widths/heights. If it's for NTSC then it's going to be 480 lines high, making it 1280x480. Bit of an odd resolution. It's not divisible by 576, so it can't be PAL. It could also be 800x768, 640x960, 1200x512...
Damn, I can't seem to find anything to convert packed 16/15-bit RGB data. I'll have to resort to writing a simple Perl or C program to convert it to a more widely recognized 24-bit raw format.
Gee, sounds a lot like Slashdot. See my three-digit uid? I've been here almost since Slashdot began. It was nice back then. Everyone was pretty nice. The occasional disagreement broke out, but all-in-all it was a pretty good discussion. Since then it's grown. The trolls have become downright professional. The flames are pretty vicious. Everyone's on a hair-trigger to jump out and defend any slight against their favourite OS, distribution, browser, MTA, MUA, or whatever. I don't know about everyone, but a lot of comments seem to be pretty self-concious about what they write, careful not to offend anyone or give the wrong impression. I know I usually am.
It's kinda sad in a way, but I guess it's what happens when any open-forum grows past a certain size.
Yes they do. And in the most wasteful mannner possible: brand-spanking-new Dells running WinXP with probably a pentium 4 under the hood. And then they run some terminal emulator to connect to a mainframe app. Now that's progress!
You're confused with copyright. Patents cover ideas, not implementations.
Indeed, one of the comments on the KernelTrap story suggests putting four G4's on a card (like this) and doing everything in software. You get serious performance with Altivec and low power consumption, even with four CPUs. Still a patent minefield though.
Yes, it is sad what has happened to Matrox. Their G-series of cards are still some of the best supported by Open Source drivers. It looks like they just abandoned Linux and Open Source with the release of their Parhelia (sp?) and P-series cards. I wonder why that happened. Perhaps there was a management change. Or perhaps their recent fall in popularity to nVidia and ATi have caused them to tighten up. They probably saw the code/doc contributions as a monetary and even IP loss. Oh well, there's still lots of second-hand G200, G400/G450, and G500/G550's out there for good prices. I've even seen a bunch of the quad-ouput variant of the G200 in a local computer fair.
But VBE is pretty x86/PC specific. And who says the VBE driver isn't some last-minute hack? I mean, after simple VGA compatibility, does anyone really use the VESA interface? It's likely to be a very low priority for video card manufacturers.
I believe one of the goals of this proposal is that the card would also easily work in PPC's, Alpha's, UltraSparc's, etc. He specifically mentions difficulties with closed-source BIOS's and the goal of being able to flash the device with an OpenBoot firmware to run on OB platforms (Sun, Apple, and others).
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You obviously didn't look at the URL. It's an AOL host, FFS. Those are some very fat pipes indeed.