but the fact is that it is inherently biased towards people in the US. Personally, unless I have reason to think otherwise (e.g. oxford.edu, moscowballet.org, airfrance.com, etc) I (incorrectly) tend to assume that a domain is on my side of the pond
Or maybe this is just another example of how americans think they're the centre of the internet. Do you know the rest of the world loves getting the.coms as well? For example, almost all hong kong's (where my parents live) sites are.com except for governments and universities. This is an indication how hkers aren't really that patriotic. Can you tell me that these are american sites
I fail to see why the poster claim that the net is US centric. Half the city of the top hub lists are not in the US. Also, in the executive summary on the site, it claims the key backbone truck are London->New York (77.7 Gbps), SF->Tokyo (7.9) an Sao Paulo to Miami (3.4). This just shows that traffic/capacity to the US from Asia and South America is pretty non-significant compare to traffic from Europe. It also says that within Europe, half of the traffic is within Europe itself, while to the remaining half goes to the rest of the world. So, at least for Europe, US is certainly not the centre of their internet.
It may be "the world's first attempt to sell a humanoid robot that users can program freely", but it surely is not the first robot that users can program freely. Researchers at universities want robots that have all/most of the hardware or software specs open. Like data sheets of electronic parts and source code of control software. And this has been the case for a long time. For example, these research robots have always been freely programmable.
My old man cracked his thinkpad's LCD and I rememebered IBM quoted a price just as ridiculous as yours. He ended up buying a new thinkpad. Guess that's what IBM wanted all along.
The link is slashdotted so I couldn't read the story. But here's so 2c I want to give for anyone interested in changing the harddrive for the thinkpads. (I have a i series).
To open the laptop, do not unscrew the screws from the bottom. Instead you have to lift the keyboard (and mouse buttons) out. All the goodies, including your harddrive, are hidden underneath your keyboard. Try poking around to see where the keyboard is screwed down. For me, it's underneath the "i series" panel below the keyboard. You'll need a flat head screw driver or any flat headed object to help lift the panel and the keyboard out since they are clicked into the laptop.
Lots of academics have notebooks as well. It makes it possible to give powerpoint presentations in conferences. You can also show your peers when you've been working on while visiting their universities.
I use Debian KDE (potato+woody). Supposedly KDE and QT is compiled with antialiased fonts. And X has AA as well. But whenever I run a KDE app, I get
Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0"
And supposedly I only need to add the environment variable QT_XFT to 1 or TURE. Never works. Maybe you guys have better luck with the deb and gnome combination.
IMAX is the best example for showing that 3D is not what consumers really want. IMAX in both Australia and New Zealand is in big financial problem. Even if we have the technology, it means nothing unless there's an application for it. Entertainment has to be entertaining. And spinning lots of 3D objects around is not. Unless they have contents for such, virtual reality DVD and TV are just going to go the way of IMAX.
I've actually filed a so called "bug report" on bugzilla two days ago for a enchancement suggestion. It's related to the mail program and you get to select 5 levels of importance, one of them being "enhancement".
Some of the bugs present on bugzilla are actually enchancement suggestions. So don't be fooled by the raw number on the list. How many of them are critical bugs? How many are just "this feature should be included" or "the menu item should belong to another place"?
The university's robotics group that's affliated to this venture/spam went to the robocup 2000. Their team is called All Boltz. I can't remember their exact place (and the robocup site is down) but I 100% sure that they're one of the teams who score the least.
Save around $30 by hooking up some matched IR LED/Transistor pairs instead of the sensors
As the point of building the Palm Robot is to find a frivilous project to do with the palm (not to build a cheap robot), you wouldn't want to drop the sensors. An IR LED/Transistor pairs will tell you if there's an obstacle. But the sensor (using triangulation) will actually tell you the distance to the obstacle, which is way cooler.
Most consider the web as it is now are free but in fact lots of niche professional services are not. They require logins and for gain access you're to pay multimillions US$ per year. The university I am at subscribes to a lot of academic database search services. Basically you can search on conferences and journals online and you can download most of the articles as well. I once talked to a librarian and she told me they paid a few millions per year to IEEE for the IEEE publications database.
The guy is still cybersquatting as UNIX is trademarked already when he bought the domain in 93. This means he bought the domain knowing that the name "belongs" to AT&T or the Open Group (not sure when the changeover happened).
In fact, you should checkout freshmeat today. MP3-howto is updated and is featured on freshmeat's front page. URL is http://www.freshmeat.ne t/appindex/2000/03/26/954079198.html. Here's what's straight from the appindex and I think is really relevant to want you're doing. The Linux MP3-HOWTO describes the hardware, software, and procedures needed to encode, play, and stream MP3 sound files under Linux. It covers encoding MP3s from a live or external source, encoding MP3s from audio CDs, streaming MP3s over a network, and mixing and listening to MP3s.
I would like to know if human rights have in any way improved recently and has the addition of Honk Kong done anything toward making China a more "open" country?
I'd like to tell you what happened is that Hong Kong has become less and less open each day due to the influence of china. They've already passed law that took away the freedom to speech and protest from us.
I've just had a look at the first half of the forum (too long, got to do some work). All of them are about installation problems and packages available in the distribution. I found 2 comments about source code availablilty. The first one is in English "Isn't it Linux? Please Open Source!" and was regarded as a flame in the one reply (also in English). The second one is in Chinese, posted by a RealLinux (0 byte(s) ReaLinux 10/8/99 2:04 pm). The title of the post says "No source code, I don't need BluePoint". There's one reply by a Simon (23 byte(s) simon 10/8/99 11:19 pm) saying "Good! Then go ahead..." (original reply in English).
It seems like it's not seen as an issue at all on the forum.
It's pretty amazing the way things are working out. Years ago, hardware manufacturers gave away the OS, usually with source, because they really didn't care about it, the OS was only there to make the box run. Then Microsoft came along and showed how they (as a relatively small [!] software company) could make mega-bucks from the OS. So everybody closed up the OS, without realising they weren't making any more money that way, and customers got an inferior product.
Then, companies realised they could make more money by using a quality, free OS like Linux, and could even give away free copies of their own product (like Sun and Solaris 7). Closed companies like Wintel start to get worried... Consumers (especially the clever ones) start to get excited...
Then, and this is the important bit, the same hardware manufacturers realised they weren't getting enough revenue from selling the boxes that had done them fine for decades. Too much competition, E-business is everything, open protocols give you no competitive advantage, etc...
Enter: The 'Services' company. You don't need capital, even an office, all you need is an idea! Witness 'Amazon' and the like, great (on the whole), modern companies that are providing things the consumers really want! Only problem is, they're making all the money and the hardware/software vendors are losing badly.
HP are onto a great thing here, I hope it works for them and they don't abandon it when the first few startups take advantage of the offer and then disappear...
Now, I need to think of a way to get one of those shiny boxes on my desk... (Under my desk? Beside my desk? In a massive room all to itself?:)
I'm not sure about that, because (obviously) I haven't used Redhat 6.0 yet...
What I do know is that Redhat have been guilty of this kind of thing in the past. Ever tried doing a minimal as possible install? With 5.2, it insisted that the 16 colour X server was installed, which meant most of the X libs as well. For a low-end web server that was never even going to see a monitor, that strikes me as silly.
Of course, I probably shouldn't have been using Redhat for that sort of thing, but hey, everyone's lazy...:)
Probably the most important news, KDE winning the award for best software! Deserved more than a quicky post, considering that it beat every commercial vendor...
They've included QT 1.44. AFAIK, this is not under the new QPL, but the same license as before. Only QT2.0+ will be under the new license. A lot of people want KDE on the distro, and now that it's finally got the good press that it deserves, redhat couldn't not put KDE into the distro. The politics at redhat make me sick sometimes. OK, so they want to push the GNOME, but it shouldn't be at the expense of another - currently better - system. (No flames please, I'm not that serious) If redhat had excluded KDE, I wouldn't have bought it.
Slashdot Mirror
We'll have dream about a 512kbit down link. Here most have 128kbit. And telecom call *that* broadband.
but the fact is that it is inherently biased towards people in the US. Personally, unless I have reason to think otherwise (e.g. oxford.edu, moscowballet.org, airfrance.com, etc) I (incorrectly) tend to assume that a domain is on my side of the pond
.coms as well? For example, almost all hong kong's (where my parents live) sites are .com except for governments and universities. This is an indication how hkers aren't really that patriotic. Can you tell me that these are american sites
.com sites now, eg www.nzoom.com
Or maybe this is just another example of how americans think they're the centre of the internet. Do you know the rest of the world loves getting the
www.she.com
www.tom.com
www.singtao.com
www.mingpao.com
Even new zealand is getting its dose of local
I fail to see why the poster claim that the net is US centric. Half the city of the top hub lists are not in the US. Also, in the executive summary on the site, it claims the key backbone truck are London->New York (77.7 Gbps), SF->Tokyo (7.9) an Sao Paulo to Miami (3.4). This just shows that traffic/capacity to the US from Asia and South America is pretty non-significant compare to traffic from Europe. It also says that within Europe, half of the traffic is within Europe itself, while to the remaining half goes to the rest of the world. So, at least for Europe, US is certainly not the centre of their internet.
It may be "the world's first attempt to sell a humanoid robot that users can program freely", but it surely is not the first robot that users can program freely. Researchers at universities want robots that have all/most of the hardware or software specs open. Like data sheets of electronic parts and source code of control software. And this has been the case for a long time. For example, these research robots have always been freely programmable.
My old man cracked his thinkpad's LCD and I rememebered IBM quoted a price just as ridiculous as yours. He ended up buying a new thinkpad. Guess that's what IBM wanted all along.
The link is slashdotted so I couldn't read the story. But here's so 2c I want to give for anyone interested in changing the harddrive for the thinkpads. (I have a i series).
To open the laptop, do not unscrew the screws from the bottom. Instead you have to lift the keyboard (and mouse buttons) out. All the goodies, including your harddrive, are hidden underneath your keyboard. Try poking around to see where the keyboard is screwed down. For me, it's underneath the "i series" panel below the keyboard. You'll need a flat head screw driver or any flat headed object to help lift the panel and the keyboard out since they are clicked into the laptop.
Good luck upgrading.
Lots of academics have notebooks as well. It makes it possible to give powerpoint presentations in conferences. You can also show your peers when you've been working on while visiting their universities.
I use Debian KDE (potato+woody). Supposedly KDE and QT is compiled with antialiased fonts. And X has AA as well. But whenever I run a KDE app, I get
Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0"
And supposedly I only need to add the environment variable QT_XFT to 1 or TURE. Never works. Maybe you guys have better luck with the deb and gnome combination.
IMAX is the best example for showing that 3D is not what consumers really want. IMAX in both Australia and New Zealand is in big financial problem. Even if we have the technology, it means nothing unless there's an application for it. Entertainment has to be entertaining. And spinning lots of 3D objects around is not. Unless they have contents for such, virtual reality DVD and TV are just going to go the way of IMAX.
get any recent Linux distribution (except Debian until Woody is released)
Woody still has M18. Guess debian users will have to wait till sid is released.
I've actually filed a so called "bug report" on bugzilla two days ago for a enchancement suggestion. It's related to the mail program and you get to select 5 levels of importance, one of them being "enhancement".
Some of the bugs present on bugzilla are actually enchancement suggestions. So don't be fooled by the raw number on the list. How many of them are critical bugs? How many are just "this feature should be included" or "the menu item should belong to another place"?
The university's robotics group that's affliated to this venture/spam went to the robocup 2000. Their team is called All Boltz. I can't remember their exact place (and the robocup site is down) but I 100% sure that they're one of the teams who score the least.
Save around $30 by hooking up some matched IR LED/Transistor pairs instead of the sensors
As the point of building the Palm Robot is to find a frivilous project to do with the palm (not to build a cheap robot), you wouldn't want to drop the sensors. An IR LED/Transistor pairs will tell you if there's an obstacle. But the sensor (using triangulation) will actually tell you the distance to the obstacle, which is way cooler.
Most consider the web as it is now are free but in fact lots of niche professional services are not. They require logins and for gain access you're to pay multimillions US$ per year. The university I am at subscribes to a lot of academic database search services. Basically you can search on conferences and journals online and you can download most of the articles as well. I once talked to a librarian and she told me they paid a few millions per year to IEEE for the IEEE publications database.
The guy is still cybersquatting as UNIX is trademarked already when he bought the domain in 93. This means he bought the domain knowing that the name "belongs" to AT&T or the Open Group (not sure when the changeover happened).
In fact, you should checkout freshmeat today. MP3-howto is updated and is featured on freshmeat's front page. URL is http://www.freshmeat.ne t/appindex/2000/03/26/954079198.html. Here's what's straight from the appindex and I think is really relevant to want you're doing. The Linux MP3-HOWTO describes the hardware, software, and procedures needed to encode, play, and stream MP3 sound files under Linux. It covers encoding MP3s from a live or external source, encoding MP3s from audio CDs, streaming MP3s over a network, and mixing and listening to MP3s.
That's pretty true. I haven't got a DVD player or a single DVD movie but I still downloaded the app. Just as a kind of protest I think.
I would like to know if human rights have in any way improved recently and has the addition of Honk Kong done anything toward making China a more "open" country?
I'd like to tell you what happened is that Hong Kong has become less and less open each day due to the influence of china. They've already passed law that took away the freedom to speech and protest from us.
I believe people contribute to the open source movement for 2 major reasons:
1. for the good of society
2. recognition among other geeks.
It's always cool to tell your mates that you win some contest and I don't there's anything wrong with that.
I've just had a look at the first half of the forum (too long, got to do some work). All of them are about installation problems and packages available in the distribution. I found 2 comments about source code availablilty. The first one is in English "Isn't it Linux? Please Open Source!" and was regarded as a flame in the one reply (also in English). The second one is in Chinese, posted by a RealLinux (0 byte(s) ReaLinux 10/8/99 2:04 pm). The title of the post says "No source code, I don't need BluePoint". There's one reply by a Simon (23 byte(s) simon 10/8/99 11:19 pm) saying "Good! Then go ahead..." (original reply in English).
It seems like it's not seen as an issue at all on the forum.
Then, companies realised they could make more money by using a quality, free OS like Linux, and could even give away free copies of their own product (like Sun and Solaris 7). Closed companies like Wintel start to get worried... Consumers (especially the clever ones) start to get excited...
Then, and this is the important bit, the same hardware manufacturers realised they weren't getting enough revenue from selling the boxes that had done them fine for decades. Too much competition, E-business is everything, open protocols give you no competitive advantage, etc...
Enter: The 'Services' company. You don't need capital, even an office, all you need is an idea! Witness 'Amazon' and the like, great (on the whole), modern companies that are providing things the consumers really want! Only problem is, they're making all the money and the hardware/software vendors are losing badly.
HP are onto a great thing here, I hope it works for them and they don't abandon it when the first few startups take advantage of the offer and then disappear...
Now, I need to think of a way to get one of those shiny boxes on my desk... (Under my desk? Beside my desk? In a massive room all to itself? :)
What I do know is that Redhat have been guilty of this kind of thing in the past. Ever tried doing a minimal as possible install? With 5.2, it insisted that the 16 colour X server was installed, which meant most of the X libs as well. For a low-end web server that was never even going to see a monitor, that strikes me as silly.
Of course, I probably shouldn't have been using Redhat for that sort of thing, but hey, everyone's lazy... :)
Probably the most important news, KDE winning the award for best software! Deserved more than a quicky post, considering that it beat every commercial vendor...
They've included QT 1.44. AFAIK, this is not under the new QPL, but the same license as before. Only QT2.0+ will be under the new license. A lot of people want KDE on the distro, and now that it's finally got the good press that it deserves, redhat couldn't not put KDE into the distro. The politics at redhat make me sick sometimes. OK, so they want to push the GNOME, but it shouldn't be at the expense of another - currently better - system. (No flames please, I'm not that serious) If redhat had excluded KDE, I wouldn't have bought it.