I occasionally run it, just to see if anything managed to get through. Low and behold, it found four cookies. I don't consider cookies to be spyware, at all.
My network consists of a windows machine and two linux boxen, all behind a FreeBSD router. The windows box (my main machine) has absolutely no firewall, antivirus, or spyware protection. I use this little known thing called common sense. Using common sense, and other software such as Firefox, Thunderbird, and other assorted non-Microsoft/vulnerable stuff, I have remained virus free for as long as I can remember.
Common sense saves money, and computer resources. It's a shame more people don't know how to use it.
Don't waste your time by going out of your way to block access to IRC. The people who want to chat on IRC during class will find a way, either by Chatzilla, a java client, or a php/perl html client somewhere. These people aren't children, they're adults. If they want to sit on IRC during class, that's their loss. They're paying for the classes.
This is basically the stance my college takes on computer usage. You can do almost anything you want on the college computers (providing you don't screw 'em up), because if you don't pay attention during class it's your loss.
The prediction is for a magnitude 6.4 or greater earthquake to occur between January 5 and September 5, 2004, within a 12,440 sq. miles area of southern California...
Last time I checked, this was called an educated guess.
All links in the story are dead. Any chance the Slashdot editors could put a little notice on the submit page saying something to the effect of "If you think this page will be slashdotted, check this box to make all links point to the Coral Cache"", then it would append ".nyud.net:8090" to all links in the story, or a [Cache] link: "Check out blah blah's site [cache] for more info".
This would take care of the 'Slashdot can't cache stories because it would rob people of ad profits' thing, because it'll give the submitted the option to cache the pages, and it would still provide an uncached link.
Microsoft Research Asia hopes Google-surpassing technology comes from a group of '10 researchers... working on new ways to drill deep into the Internet and select and organize the information found there.
Microsoft Research Asia hopes Google-surpassing technology comes from a group of '10 researchers locked in a small windowless room getting paid $0.10 an hour and all the rice they can eat working on new ways to drill deep into the Internet and select and organize the information found there.'
Actually I'd say that those type of mp3 players are in the minority. The only ones I can think of offhand that convert to their own formats are the RCA Lyra and pretty much any 'mp3' player Sony makes (they all convert music to ATRAC3 format).
I don't think anyone is really saying that North Korea isn't allowed to have nuclear weapons. But the fact that they do have them now is a bit scary, considering the current leadership seems a bit crazy.
I don't know of any mp3 players that won't play a non-drm file. Almost any mp3 player will play DRM-WMA files, but they still play plain old mp3 as well. There are a few that only allow one way transfers (to the player only, not back to your pc), but most allow two-way transfers (including Rio).
As far as I know, the only mp3 player to natively support Ogg Vorbis at the moment is the Rio Karma. Some iRiver players have the ability to play Vorbis as well, but afaik the firmware that allows this is still beta.
If you're looking for a decent CD based mp3 player, I'd highly recommend looking into the Rio SP250. Before I bought my Rio Karma, I had one of these for a few years and absolutely loved it. I don't think you can find 'em new anymore, but you should be able to find it on eBay. It'll play mp3's or wma files off a CD, as well as normal audio cds. Great battery life too.
Do you have the source to your software available for all to use, free of charge? No? Didn't think so.
These guys aren't claiming to have invented a java media player, they simply ported an open source codec to a different platform. And they're doing it for free, for anyone to benefit.
As far as I know, it's only preloading stuff that won't change between now and the time the game ships. Graphics, sounds, levels, anything that's done. The actual game engine itself probably won't load until you pay for the game. I'm sure someone will eventually figure out how to decrypt the cache file, but it won't do much good without the game engine itself.
July 13, 2004 - 20:06 It's 2014, and life is the same. Only better By Robert J. Sawyer
As a science-fiction writer, my job is predicting the future. And that's gotten harder with each passing year. Moore's law tells us that computing power doubles every 18 months. If that holds up -- and i believe it will, with breakthroughs in nanotechnology, new techniques of producing three-dimensional circuits, and new substrates for microprocessors -- then in 10 short years, we will have computers 128 times more powerful than those that exist today. Can anyone guess how that much computing muscle, widely available and inexpensively priced, will affect our day-to-day lives? Well, let's find out.
Here are some of my predictions for a typical day in late 2014; feel free to track me down in 10 years' time and tell me i'm wrong!
Our mornings will still begin with waking up. But forget the old-fashioned alarm-clock buzzer. Tomorrow's bedside clock will be a sophisticated brainwave monitor. It'll keep track of your sleep cycle, gently bringing up the room lights at precisely the right time so that you'll feel rested, not cardiac arrested, as you awake.
Today, your coffee can be brewed while you sleep; tomorrow's robokitchen will have an entire hot (but low carb!) breakfast waiting for you. Also waiting will be an electronic-ink newspaper, with stories geared to your particular interests culled from sources worldwide (with foreign-language news automatically translated into English).
Of course, you aren't the only one who has to get going in the morning. Your spouse and kids will be taken care of, too -- with smart toilets analyzing their urine and sensor-rich toothbrushes checking their saliva to make sure everything is ticketyboo; most health problems will be caught early and be trivial to correct.
Your spouse might telecommute -- perhaps half of all white-collar workers will do so in 2014 -- but you might still have to physically go to your office. Along the way you'll take your kids to school.
No point quizzing them on facts as you travel along, though. In a world in which any information can be easily accessed anywhere, mere memorization is no longer part of the curriculum. But analysis of information -- knowing how to think -- ah, that's the ticket!Naturally, your electric car will drive itself, communicating with millions of chips that have been steamrollered into the asphalt covering our roadways. No more traffic accidents; no more gridlock.
Once you've dropped the kids off -- yes, learning can be done online at home, but socialization still happens best in a real school and at a real playground -- you will use the rest of your commute time productively, catching up on full-motion-video e-mail and reading reports (or having them read to you by totally realistic voice synthesizers). You'll arrive at your office relaxed.
Throughout the day, your wristband -- a combination cellphone, PDA, camera, and e-book display, all controlled by spoken commands -- will be your lifeline.
You'll have just one phone number, good worldwide with no long-distance or roaming charges, and the wristband will screen calls for you, with a computer-generated avatar kicking in to deal with most routine matters.
Still, even 10 years from now, much business will require face-time. No problem. One major wall of your office in, say, Toronto, will be a vast flatscreen, showing you your company's Vancouver office. You'll be able to walk up to the wall and chat with whomever is depicted as casually as if you were both sharing the same water cooler.
Your cubicle will have a smart wall of its own, giving every worker the appearance of having a window; yours might show real-time footage of Lake Louise, assuming that global warming hasn't melted the adjacent glaciers and flooded everything. And no matter which office chair you sit on, it will adjust automatically to your body's proportions.
Of course, we'll all live in an enhanced reality. T
What ever happened to 64bit colour displays and videocards? I remember there being a bit of a buzz about it a few years ago, haven't heard anything since.
.NET seems to be a nice development platform and all, but the one thing I've never seen the point of is Microsoft developing Windows Longhorn using.NET. The whole point of.NET was cross-platform compatability right? Last time I checked, Windows only ran on x86. Am I missing something?
Slashdot Mirror
I occasionally run it, just to see if anything managed to get through. Low and behold, it found four cookies. I don't consider cookies to be spyware, at all.
My network consists of a windows machine and two linux boxen, all behind a FreeBSD router. The windows box (my main machine) has absolutely no firewall, antivirus, or spyware protection. I use this little known thing called common sense. Using common sense, and other software such as Firefox, Thunderbird, and other assorted non-Microsoft/vulnerable stuff, I have remained virus free for as long as I can remember.
Common sense saves money, and computer resources. It's a shame more people don't know how to use it.
Don't waste your time by going out of your way to block access to IRC. The people who want to chat on IRC during class will find a way, either by Chatzilla, a java client, or a php/perl html client somewhere. These people aren't children, they're adults. If they want to sit on IRC during class, that's their loss. They're paying for the classes.
This is basically the stance my college takes on computer usage. You can do almost anything you want on the college computers (providing you don't screw 'em up), because if you don't pay attention during class it's your loss.
The prediction is for a magnitude 6.4 or greater earthquake to occur between January 5 and September 5, 2004, within a 12,440 sq. miles area of southern California ...
Last time I checked, this was called an educated guess.
And how is that different then when a site is slashdotted? At least the majority can visit it said site.
All links in the story are dead. Any chance the Slashdot editors could put a little notice on the submit page saying something to the effect of "If you think this page will be slashdotted, check this box to make all links point to the Coral Cache"", then it would append ".nyud.net:8090" to all links in the story, or a [Cache] link: "Check out blah blah's site [cache] for more info".
This would take care of the 'Slashdot can't cache stories because it would rob people of ad profits' thing, because it'll give the submitted the option to cache the pages, and it would still provide an uncached link.
Microsoft Research Asia hopes Google-surpassing technology comes from a group of '10 researchers ... working on new ways to drill deep into the Internet and select and organize the information found there.
Microsoft Research Asia hopes Google-surpassing technology comes from a group of '10 researchers locked in a small windowless room getting paid $0.10 an hour and all the rice they can eat working on new ways to drill deep into the Internet and select and organize the information found there.'
Actually I'd say that those type of mp3 players are in the minority. The only ones I can think of offhand that convert to their own formats are the RCA Lyra and pretty much any 'mp3' player Sony makes (they all convert music to ATRAC3 format).
I don't think anyone is really saying that North Korea isn't allowed to have nuclear weapons. But the fact that they do have them now is a bit scary, considering the current leadership seems a bit crazy.
I don't know of any mp3 players that won't play a non-drm file. Almost any mp3 player will play DRM-WMA files, but they still play plain old mp3 as well. There are a few that only allow one way transfers (to the player only, not back to your pc), but most allow two-way transfers (including Rio).
As far as I know, the only mp3 player to natively support Ogg Vorbis at the moment is the Rio Karma. Some iRiver players have the ability to play Vorbis as well, but afaik the firmware that allows this is still beta.
If you're looking for a decent CD based mp3 player, I'd highly recommend looking into the Rio SP250. Before I bought my Rio Karma, I had one of these for a few years and absolutely loved it. I don't think you can find 'em new anymore, but you should be able to find it on eBay. It'll play mp3's or wma files off a CD, as well as normal audio cds. Great battery life too.
Do you have the source to your software available for all to use, free of charge? No? Didn't think so.
These guys aren't claiming to have invented a java media player, they simply ported an open source codec to a different platform. And they're doing it for free, for anyone to benefit.
Have you never seen Office Space?
I thought we were calling them the gummint now?
I thought I'd be funny and post the article exactly word for word, guess I should've realised that Slashdot editors don't actually rtfa.
As far as I know, it's only preloading stuff that won't change between now and the time the game ships. Graphics, sounds, levels, anything that's done. The actual game engine itself probably won't load until you pay for the game. I'm sure someone will eventually figure out how to decrypt the cache file, but it won't do much good without the game engine itself.
Article text:
July 13, 2004 - 20:06
It's 2014, and life is the same. Only better
By Robert J. Sawyer
As a science-fiction writer, my job is predicting the future. And that's gotten harder with each passing year. Moore's law tells us that computing power doubles every 18 months. If that holds up -- and i believe it will, with breakthroughs in nanotechnology, new techniques of producing three-dimensional circuits, and new substrates for microprocessors -- then in 10 short years, we will have computers 128 times more powerful than those that exist today. Can anyone guess how that much computing muscle, widely available and inexpensively priced, will affect our day-to-day lives? Well, let's find out.
Here are some of my predictions for a typical day in late 2014; feel free to track me down in 10 years' time and tell me i'm wrong!
Our mornings will still begin with waking up. But forget the old-fashioned alarm-clock buzzer. Tomorrow's bedside clock will be a sophisticated brainwave monitor. It'll keep track of your sleep cycle, gently bringing up the room lights at precisely the right time so that you'll feel rested, not cardiac arrested, as you awake.
Today, your coffee can be brewed while you sleep; tomorrow's robokitchen will have an entire hot (but low carb!) breakfast waiting for you. Also waiting will be an electronic-ink newspaper, with stories geared to your particular interests culled from sources worldwide (with foreign-language news automatically translated into English).
Of course, you aren't the only one who has to get going in the morning. Your spouse and kids will be taken care of, too -- with smart toilets analyzing their urine and sensor-rich toothbrushes checking their saliva to make sure everything is ticketyboo; most health problems will be caught early and be trivial to correct.
Your spouse might telecommute -- perhaps half of all white-collar workers will do so in 2014 -- but you might still have to physically go to your office. Along the way you'll take your kids to school.
No point quizzing them on facts as you travel along, though. In a world in which any information can be easily accessed anywhere, mere memorization is no longer part of the curriculum. But analysis of information -- knowing how to think -- ah, that's the ticket!Naturally, your electric car will drive itself, communicating with millions of chips that have been steamrollered into the asphalt covering our roadways. No more traffic accidents; no more gridlock.
Once you've dropped the kids off -- yes, learning can be done online at home, but socialization still happens best in a real school and at a real playground -- you will use the rest of your commute time productively, catching up on full-motion-video e-mail and reading reports (or having them read to you by totally realistic voice synthesizers). You'll arrive at your office relaxed.
Throughout the day, your wristband -- a combination cellphone, PDA, camera, and e-book display, all controlled by spoken commands -- will be your lifeline.
You'll have just one phone number, good worldwide with no long-distance or roaming charges, and the wristband will screen calls for you, with a computer-generated avatar kicking in to deal with most routine matters.
Still, even 10 years from now, much business will require face-time. No problem. One major wall of your office in, say, Toronto, will be a vast flatscreen, showing you your company's Vancouver office. You'll be able to walk up to the wall and chat with whomever is depicted as casually as if you were both sharing the same water cooler.
Your cubicle will have a smart wall of its own, giving every worker the appearance of having a window; yours might show real-time footage of Lake Louise, assuming that global warming hasn't melted the adjacent glaciers and flooded everything. And no matter which office chair you sit on, it will adjust automatically to your body's proportions.
Of course, we'll all live in an enhanced reality. T
In which case Linux will suddenly have a 25% increase in market share.
"Yes sir Mr. DOJ, we no longer have a monopoly!"
What ever happened to 64bit colour displays and videocards? I remember there being a bit of a buzz about it a few years ago, haven't heard anything since.
.NET seems to be a nice development platform and all, but the one thing I've never seen the point of is Microsoft developing Windows Longhorn using .NET. The whole point of .NET was cross-platform compatability right? Last time I checked, Windows only ran on x86. Am I missing something?