If you open source the seti@home client you're going to have people hacking the code to boost their numbers, induce fake "sightings" and generally muck up the data.
In a scientific experiment like this you need more control -- open source is great, but it's not right for all projects.
These people have enough work to do with little resources, they don't need to have to try to kep out all the little hax0rs who want to hack with the code and look cool.
In (I believe, I may be off by a year or two) 1833, Abraham Licoln was awakened during the wee hours to be told that the final judgement had arrived. Apparently, God was pretty pissed. The Leonids were putting on one of the best shows in (Western) recorded history, and they had no idea how to deal with it.
MD is far from dead. The media's getting cheaper and more people are using it every day. Check out minidisc.org for info.
I can't begin to tell you how convenient it is to have a portable digital recording device. Yes, that's right RECORDING device. It amazes me that noone ever mentions this in their comparisons to the MP3 players. Show me an MP3 player that you can take to a concert, or into the studio, or out into the world to record with. Uh, they don't exist? Right.
And FYI, MD data discs have existed for a very long time. We use them in our 4-track Tascam minidisc recording deck. They're available in any decent music store.
I mean sure, you'd lose some compatibility, but just like Alternic, it personal/private protocols could definitely have their places and uses. Build an encrypted protocol, or a protocol which could be encrypted/signed with a pgp key and the world will love you. Keep your communications private and your own. Nobody owns you, nobody owns your communcations, nobody owns your thoughts, and nobody should own your entire means of communications.
Playstation 2 will be backwards-compatible with both software and hardware.
Nintendo wasn't even counted in the original post, which seems a bit odd. I can see possibly leaving Sega out, but certainly not Nintendo.
Besides, Sega is using the new PowerVR chipset in the Dreamcast, and a modified WinCE for an OS, so they're basically running a test-market for MS's "Not quite a PC" solution.
I just want a console that networks. I want to be able to play multiplayer games in the living room without having a tiny splitscreen. Yeah, the PSX has the link cable, but that's only 2 players and it isn't supported 90% of the time.
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Whatta load of horseshit. I mean, someone may leak out that MS (think of them as a big, hungry plant. Don't worry, I'll explain later) is thinking of developing a... let's see... Toaster. Yeah, it's a toaster that... well, they haven't decided yet. And it's capable of... well, since it doesn't exist, the possibilities are endless.
So, the press immediately labels it "X-Toaster," giving it identity. Then MSNBC, Wired and/. post stories on it, thereby qualfying it as "news."
Then speculation happens. It'll run with a new Motorola chip that actually turns out toast the color you set it for. It may come in blue, it may come in green, it may come is orange, but be called "Tangerine." (every tirade should have a pleasant rhyme scheme in at least one sentence.)
Now, every news site has to have at least one story on it per week. Yup. Someone posts a story (Sharky? Tom's Hardware Guide?) speculating on it with info from "Sources That We've Trusted Before."
Now MS has got press on all of the major news sites, constantly, and before the freaking thing is even a viable idea in the parent company, it's got identity, mindshare and loads of free press.
I mean really, as a web developer dealing with InterDev and Personalization and Membership, plus this new ADSI/CDO crap, what exactly defines "authentication?"
We've got a couple of thousand users using MS's P&M authentication for custoization and session objects, much like this here system on/. that I'm using to post this message. Would/. actually have to (I'm sorry for birtying/. like this, but it's necessary for the analogy) have licenses for every registered user?
Let's see, mySQL, php and apache would cost me....
They state that the smeG server and the Zippy metaHTML servers are gone, but the Zippy server can be found here.
If you're working for a corporation building a marketing website, it's extremely funny stuff. Microsoft has blocked it somehow. Check out some/. goodness:
Book Reviews: The New, New, Thing Posted by JonKatz on Friday October 29, @09:34AM EDT from the Seeing-Over-Horizons-in-Silicon-Valley dept. Michael Lewis' "The New, New Thing" focuses on mythic Silicon Valley entrepeneur (and Netscape founder) Jim Clark to explain how Silicon Valley really works. He is the MELBA-BEING... the ANGEL CAKE... XEROX him... XEROX him -- It's a great read, but the author perhaps admires his ego-maniacal subject a bit too much. ( Read More... | 8741 bytes in body )
Linus Torvalds Turns 30 and the Kudos Roll In Posted by Roblimo on Friday October 29, @09:12AM EDT from the never-trust-anyone-over-30 dept. Roberth Edberg writes "The Swedish birthday congratulationlist for Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) is increasing every minute. Look! A ladder! Maybe it leads to heaven, or a sandwich! Will he have an world record in individual birthday congratulations? Even the Swedish Linux World site, made news about it. It was a JOKE!! Get it?? I was receiving messages from DAVID LETTERMAN!! YOW!! Why not follow the example and make lists for your own country?" Linus Torvalds turned 30 yesterday, October 28, 1999. Happy (belated) birthday, Linus!
Our exchange server has taken well over an hour to shut down before. And, of course, since it's an NT box with a lot of traffic hitting it, it's gotta be rebooted every couple of months.
Now that they're moving everything to Active Directory services, just imagine, you can have your website's registered users, your email users AND your in-house people all mucking up the same "technology" at the same time. And the API is almost useable! Lucky us, I tell ya.
It sounds like this could be a bit too expensive, and a bit too complex when compared to something like the light-emitting plastic (LEP) that Philips is working with. I mean, full-color screens on t-shirts, floors, etc.
Everyone seems to see this as a Good Thing(TM), and I can't wait to have my screen be an entire wall of my office, but just imagine the marketing blitzkrieg that will eventually ensue... The floors in supermarkets, the billboards...
exactly. female friend, girl friend, notice the space between words, the obvious attempt at humor, then take a Prozac and maybe it'll make the critic in you relax for a little while.
although I have to admit, Novia would be a great name for a piece of hardware...:]
The irony of the name has never escaped me. I have friends who break their Amiga boxes out of the closet every couple of years, network them, upgrade them, drop them into Bodega Bay boxes ("Oh, look, now it looks like an XT, not just a c-128...), and do everything in their power to make the box viable. Which, I realize, it is in many situations.
But really, it translates loosely as "girl friend," and it just seems that noone is willing to let go....:]
I see the reason for suing, when it came down to the wire Gateway showed absolutely no spine whatsoever and a number of other companies were hung out to dry.
While I was completely amazed by the announcements that they were dropping the hardware, it was amazement at Gateway for being so spineless, it wasn't amazement at Amigas not coming to market.
I know that there are some hardcore Amiga fans out there that are going to be pissed about this, but really, if you ever needed a sign that it's time to move on, this would be it.
Uh, isn't that a bit stupid after pointing out the fact that they're a commonwealth, not a state? I mean, "Hey, look, we're not a state, we're a commonwealth.... ummm... unless 'state' fits into a catchy slogan, in which case we're not a state or a commonwealth, we're just whores."
Heh... consider yourself baited.:] Odd, how noone cares about the TV producer bullshit which I was actually responding to.
I have some respect for Vai, but since Zappa he's surrounded himself with generic studio musicians playing standard parts. Yngwie, well, I understand that some people like him, I'm just not one of them. Music is an objective thing, so I'm not saying that he sucks, just that I don't like him. A lot of people do. I've even met a couple.
Forget about my opinions on musicians, they're not what the post was about. The post was about music, and I myself strayed from the point.
The point being that because musical simulation technology is "good enough for tv producers," it's somehow viable. That's a load of crap. The vast majority of made-for-tv music is crap as well. I think we can all agree on that.
"...sounds so much like human performers that some TV producers are using it instead of hiring musicians"
Hey, it convinces cheesebags who would do anything to save a buck to, well, save a buck. Congratulations. As if made-for-tv music is the benchmark against which everything is judged.
See, if you're a musician, you can go to a school like Berklee in Boston, where you'll have your ego smashed until you finally, 6 or 8 years later, graduate with a degree in music and a knack for writing 8-second snippets of music which evoke the desired emotion in the average television viewer.
So, those schmoes will be out of a job. And, well, down the hatch. They won't replace msuicians, ever. Okay, maybe some musicians... but I'll bet you anything that it'll be the scale-driven, speed-driven, book-learned notefreaks like Yngwie or Vai... They'll never catch Itzahk Perlman.
I've been running the 1.2 JRE on Linux for a couple of months now. Must be some effort in there somewhere, eh?
Microsoft's "Java 2" VM is only 1.1.4 compliant. Apple's best release so far I believe is 1.1.6 -- so while I 'm glad Sun is making announcements, I'm even more thankful that there are people like those at Blackdown who are working to make Linux a more viable platform. Java 2 servlet support has been a big boost to the Apache team as well.
I've seen some work in this area done by jon, one of the guys at working-dogs - he'd posted a link to it in the JServ mailing list, but I've since lost it. If anyone has it, please post it... JServ should definitely be a gateway for this project, and I believe that work may already be underway...
As someone who spent almost a year battling with MS SiteServer Commerce (not my decision), I can definitely tell you that there is a market and a need for it.
After 2 or 3 years of dealing with Linux systems in whatever spare time I can muster, I still consider myself a newbie. A lot of X is still a mystery to me, as is much of the system itself.
Still, I have never had a problem with X, and never had a problem with it crashing. From the first time I installed RedHat 4.2, X has *always* stood up and saluted....
I'd like to see something along the same lines, although instead of a ratings system, or meta "description", I'd like to see categories from either the Dewey Decimal system or the Library of Congress categorization system. It'd make indexing a hell of a lot easier.
Seriously. Listing removable media as a disadvantage is moronic. Even if you loaded any of the RAM devices with their max ram, you still couldn't carry more than 2 albums on it with good quality audio... You'd need your notebook along to refill it anyway.
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uh, you can't buy the linux version. that's the point. you can only buy a windows version, and then download the linux executables.
it's also not a matter of waiting for a port, the port is done, complete and ready to go, but it won't be on the CD.
2 points for this?
It's really the ISP that's cowering here. Anyone out there with the gonads (or ovum) to host this site?
If you open source the seti@home client you're going to have people hacking the code to boost their numbers, induce fake "sightings" and generally muck up the data.
In a scientific experiment like this you need more control -- open source is great, but it's not right for all projects.
These people have enough work to do with little resources, they don't need to have to try to kep out all the little hax0rs who want to hack with the code and look cool.
In (I believe, I may be off by a year or two) 1833, Abraham Licoln was awakened during the wee hours to be told that the final judgement had arrived. Apparently, God was pretty pissed. The Leonids were putting on one of the best shows in (Western) recorded history, and they had no idea how to deal with it.
MD is far from dead. The media's getting cheaper and more people are using it every day. Check out minidisc.org for info.
I can't begin to tell you how convenient it is to have a portable digital recording device. Yes, that's right RECORDING device. It amazes me that noone ever mentions this in their comparisons to the MP3 players. Show me an MP3 player that you can take to a concert, or into the studio, or out into the world to record with. Uh, they don't exist? Right.
And FYI, MD data discs have existed for a very long time. We use them in our 4-track Tascam minidisc recording deck. They're available in any decent music store.
I mean sure, you'd lose some compatibility, but just like Alternic, it personal/private protocols could definitely have their places and uses. Build an encrypted protocol, or a protocol which could be encrypted/signed with a pgp key and the world will love you. Keep your communications private and your own. Nobody owns you, nobody owns your communcations, nobody owns your thoughts, and nobody should own your entire means of communications.
Playstation 2 will be backwards-compatible with both software and hardware.
Nintendo wasn't even counted in the original post, which seems a bit odd. I can see possibly leaving Sega out, but certainly not Nintendo.
Besides, Sega is using the new PowerVR chipset in the Dreamcast, and a modified WinCE for an OS, so they're basically running a test-market for MS's "Not quite a PC" solution.
I just want a console that networks. I want to be able to play multiplayer games in the living room without having a tiny splitscreen. Yeah, the PSX has the link cable, but that's only 2 players and it isn't supported 90% of the time.
Whatta load of horseshit. I mean, someone may leak out that MS (think of them as a big, hungry plant. Don't worry, I'll explain later) is thinking of developing a... let's see... Toaster. Yeah, it's a toaster that... well, they haven't decided yet. And it's capable of... well, since it doesn't exist, the possibilities are endless.
/. post stories on it, thereby qualfying it as "news."
So, the press immediately labels it "X-Toaster," giving it identity. Then MSNBC, Wired and
Then speculation happens. It'll run with a new Motorola chip that actually turns out toast the color you set it for. It may come in blue, it may come in green, it may come is orange, but be called "Tangerine." (every tirade should have a pleasant rhyme scheme in at least one sentence.)
Now, every news site has to have at least one story on it per week. Yup. Someone posts a story (Sharky? Tom's Hardware Guide?) speculating on it with info from "Sources That We've Trusted Before."
Now MS has got press on all of the major news sites, constantly, and before the freaking thing is even a viable idea in the parent company, it's got identity, mindshare and loads of free press.
Feed me, Seymour, feed me.
nope.
I mean really, as a web developer dealing with InterDev and Personalization and Membership, plus this new ADSI/CDO crap, what exactly defines "authentication?"
/. that I'm using to post this message. Would /. actually have to (I'm sorry for birtying /. like this, but it's necessary for the analogy) have licenses for every registered user?
We've got a couple of thousand users using MS's P&M authentication for custoization and session objects, much like this here system on
Let's see, mySQL, php and apache would cost me....
They state that the smeG server and the Zippy metaHTML servers are gone, but the Zippy server can be found here.
/. goodness:
If you're working for a corporation building a marketing website, it's extremely funny stuff. Microsoft has blocked it somehow. Check out some
Book Reviews: The New, New, Thing
Posted by JonKatz on Friday October 29, @09:34AM EDT
from the Seeing-Over-Horizons-in-Silicon-Valley dept.
Michael Lewis' "The New, New Thing" focuses on mythic Silicon Valley entrepeneur (and Netscape founder) Jim Clark to explain how Silicon Valley really works. He is the MELBA-BEING... the ANGEL CAKE... XEROX him... XEROX him -- It's a great read, but the author perhaps admires his ego-maniacal subject a bit too much.
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Linus Torvalds Turns 30 and the Kudos Roll In
Posted by Roblimo on Friday October 29, @09:12AM EDT
from the never-trust-anyone-over-30 dept.
Roberth Edberg writes "The Swedish birthday congratulationlist for Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) is increasing every minute. Look! A ladder! Maybe it leads to heaven, or a sandwich! Will he have an world record in individual birthday congratulations? Even the Swedish Linux World site, made news about it. It was a JOKE!! Get it?? I was receiving messages from DAVID LETTERMAN!! YOW!! Why not follow the example and make lists for your own country?" Linus Torvalds turned 30 yesterday, October 28, 1999. Happy (belated) birthday, Linus!
Our exchange server has taken well over an hour to shut down before. And, of course, since it's an NT box with a lot of traffic hitting it, it's gotta be rebooted every couple of months.
Now that they're moving everything to Active Directory services, just imagine, you can have your website's registered users, your email users AND your in-house people all mucking up the same "technology" at the same time. And the API is almost useable! Lucky us, I tell ya.
It sounds like this could be a bit too expensive, and a bit too complex when compared to something like the light-emitting plastic (LEP) that Philips is working with. I mean, full-color screens on t-shirts, floors, etc.
Everyone seems to see this as a Good Thing(TM), and I can't wait to have my screen be an entire wall of my office, but just imagine the marketing blitzkrieg that will eventually ensue... The floors in supermarkets, the billboards...
exactly. female friend, girl friend, notice the space between words, the obvious attempt at humor, then take a Prozac and maybe it'll make the critic in you relax for a little while.
:]
although I have to admit, Novia would be a great name for a piece of hardware...
The irony of the name has never escaped me. I have friends who break their Amiga boxes out of the closet every couple of years, network them, upgrade them, drop them into Bodega Bay boxes ("Oh, look, now it looks like an XT, not just a c-128...), and do everything in their power to make the box viable. Which, I realize, it is in many situations.
:]
But really, it translates loosely as "girl friend," and it just seems that noone is willing to let go....
I see the reason for suing, when it came down to the wire Gateway showed absolutely no spine whatsoever and a number of other companies were hung out to dry.
While I was completely amazed by the announcements that they were dropping the hardware, it was amazement at Gateway for being so spineless, it wasn't amazement at Amigas not coming to market.
I know that there are some hardcore Amiga fans out there that are going to be pissed about this, but really, if you ever needed a sign that it's time to move on, this would be it.
Uh, isn't that a bit stupid after pointing out the fact that they're a commonwealth, not a state? I mean, "Hey, look, we're not a state, we're a commonwealth.... ummm... unless 'state' fits into a catchy slogan, in which case we're not a state or a commonwealth, we're just whores."
Heh... consider yourself baited. :] Odd, how noone cares about the TV producer bullshit which I was actually responding to.
I have some respect for Vai, but since Zappa he's surrounded himself with generic studio musicians playing standard parts. Yngwie, well, I understand that some people like him, I'm just not one of them. Music is an objective thing, so I'm not saying that he sucks, just that I don't like him. A lot of people do. I've even met a couple.
Forget about my opinions on musicians, they're not what the post was about. The post was about music, and I myself strayed from the point.
The point being that because musical simulation technology is "good enough for tv producers," it's somehow viable. That's a load of crap. The vast majority of made-for-tv music is crap as well. I think we can all agree on that.
Is this statement supposed to mean anything?
"...sounds so much like human performers that some TV producers are using it instead of hiring musicians"
Hey, it convinces cheesebags who would do anything to save a buck to, well, save a buck. Congratulations. As if made-for-tv music is the benchmark against which everything is judged.
See, if you're a musician, you can go to a school like Berklee in Boston, where you'll have your ego smashed until you finally, 6 or 8 years later, graduate with a degree in music and a knack for writing 8-second snippets of music which evoke the desired emotion in the average television viewer.
So, those schmoes will be out of a job. And, well, down the hatch. They won't replace msuicians, ever. Okay, maybe some musicians... but I'll bet you anything that it'll be the scale-driven, speed-driven, book-learned notefreaks like Yngwie or Vai... They'll never catch Itzahk Perlman.
I've been running the 1.2 JRE on Linux for a couple of months now. Must be some effort in there somewhere, eh?
Microsoft's "Java 2" VM is only 1.1.4 compliant. Apple's best release so far I believe is 1.1.6 -- so while I 'm glad Sun is making announcements, I'm even more thankful that there are people like those at Blackdown who are working to make Linux a more viable platform. Java 2 servlet support has been a big boost to the Apache team as well.
I've seen some work in this area done by jon, one of the guys at working-dogs - he'd posted a link to it in the JServ mailing list, but I've since lost it. If anyone has it, please post it... JServ should definitely be a gateway for this project, and I believe that work may already be underway...
As someone who spent almost a year battling with MS SiteServer Commerce (not my decision), I can definitely tell you that there is a market and a need for it.
After 2 or 3 years of dealing with Linux systems in whatever spare time I can muster, I still consider myself a newbie. A lot of X is still a mystery to me, as is much of the system itself.
Still, I have never had a problem with X, and never had a problem with it crashing. From the first time I installed RedHat 4.2, X has *always* stood up and saluted....
I think the real question here is, "Does a cow have Buddha Nature?"
The answer, of course, is mu.
and the lizards they had died, and the lizards they had died...
I'd like to see something along the same lines, although instead of a ratings system, or meta "description", I'd like to see categories from either the Dewey Decimal system or the Library of Congress categorization system. It'd make indexing a hell of a lot easier.
Seriously. Listing removable media as a disadvantage is moronic. Even if you loaded any of the RAM devices with their max ram, you still couldn't carry more than 2 albums on it with good quality audio... You'd need your notebook along to refill it anyway.
Just wish it wasn't $300....