Well, except it's hard to dupe a electrical random noise generator, harder than duping a CD at any rate.
Most electrical noise generators rely on chaotic physical events, like the noise in a Zenner diode. Even if you build two completely identical nois generator circuits, their outputs will never be the same.
"Finally, I would also like to say thanks to my roommates Mark and Ben, because with them they made this mod a whole lot easier. Originally this was Mark's idea, and he got some ideas from someplace online that isn't there anymore [NOTE: BP6.com did this awhile ago], so I would like to give credit to my roommate and whoever has done this before. If you have any other questions, feel free to Email me."
News? C'mon guys... i even recall seeing a story about a HD window right here on Slashdot not that long ago!
And even then, both xine and mplayer fail to play some newer formats, like the latest version of WMV. Which is a shitty format to begin with, but it's all arround the internet it seems...
I just wanted to point out that the lawsuit madness seems to be a US thing alone... from my own experience, and what i read, the rest of the world doesn't seem to resort to lawsuits that much, at least for "frivolous" issues such as this.
Being a lawyer up there must be very profitable these days:(
In my opinion instead of pushing the.xxx domain, we should be generating a database of "acceptable and non-questionable" stable websites that would be acceptable for general viewing. Then educate parents on how too set up firewalls to keep their minor children away from the stuff. Next we can encourage parents to spend enough time with their children they will feel confident in their childs choice in the matter.
There's a lot of commercial products (here's one, for example) that do just that. Unfortunately, opinions on what's "acceptable and non-questionable" can vary wildly.
That is, if we can actually define porn. Beach pics? Lingerie ads? A hand, 6" one way or the other, is the line between porn, and sales.
Reminds me of the great late Bill Hicks... "The US Supreme Court defines 'pornography' as 'any act without artistic merit that causes sexual thougths'. Mmmm... sounds like every God damned commercial on TV these days to me!"
So what you're saying is... you'd have no problem eating dog shit as long as you didn't have to pay the chef.
So, what you're saying is that you have no problem eating dog shit either. After all, millons of satisfied flies can't be wrong.
If you don't care about much more than using your computer (as you're well entitled to), that's fine. There's much more to the argument besides convenience, as i see it. Most OSS advocates are rather... mmm... fanatical:) in their beleiefs, but they're on the right track IMHO. OSS is more about using your PC in the way you see fit, and that includes being able to modify the software you're using or being able to choose among different software for the same task (open standards et. all). That you may choose not to is of little consequence, as someone might very well do it for you. And this not only applies to Linux as an OS, there's a shitload of perfectly good OSS software for Windows/OSX as well that works and works just fine.
Now, you want your computer to "just work". In that sense, the Linux desktop has still a lot (a lot!) of work ahead in order to be as dumbproof as, say, Windows or OSX., but i keep finding that when it works, it works just peachy, and even better than their counterparts. I'm constantly reminded of this when i switch to Windows, f.ex.: for every thing that it makes much simpler, there's another that becomes impossible.
And even considering that, nowadays Linux is damn useable as a "Joe-sixpack" desktop, specially if you choose any of the modern commercial distros available. They take a lot of care in rounding the rough edges, and trust me, you won't even have to bother about fixing/configing/updating it, or more than you would have to with Win/OSX atleast. You should try one - a LiveCDs, for example, lets you boot a complete Linux distro from a CD and take a look at how they work. They might not be for you yet, but i think you'll find them much more usable than you think. We're not all typing obscure commands in consoles all day, you know:)
Don't fall for it. Is an urban legend planted by some very, very evil and disturbed people. They did the same with the so-called "Highlander II" (yeah right!) for example!
Come on man, you're willing to miss a great piece of software just because it's not OSS? The Opera developers are now focusing on mobile devices, and they're (effectively) giving it away for free for desktop users. No ads, no strings attached.
I really like Firefox, but i find Opera to be a much more polished browser (like i said earlier, specially in the UI department). Their Linux support is excellent aswell. It's cool, and it's free. No OSS, but *free*. What's to hate here? And this is from an OSS advocate...
Because it's a heck of a browser. The fact that it identifies itself as Explorer (to avoid issues with pages that deliver broken HTML) doesn't allow to have accurate usage statistics, but i know quite a lot of people that use and love Opera, me included. Hands down, the best UI in any software i've used as of lately, never mind in browsers, and a sleek, lightweight, fast piece of software.
Opera gets a lot of (undeserved) flak arround here because it's not open source. They gave away a free, ad supported, 100% functional version and it wasn't enough. Now they gave away registration keys, and i guess that's isn't enough either.
Basically, the fact is if you assume interstellar space travel with any vehicle larger than a telephone booth, then you have to assume military superiority as well.
Are you saying that Bill & Ted could be Earths' saviors?!
The most grateful aspect of gcc to the world is that Linux would be impossible without it. And that in itself is enough.
Linux, *BSD, and every other single open source OS, as far as i know. Like you said, GCC paved the way for them to exist.
As for the compiler itself, yes, it's not the best of the bunch, but that doesn't mean it's any bad either (quite the opposite!). Intels' compiler, for example, still beats it for performance (at least the last few times i tried it), but i could live happily with GCC alone.
GCC is an impressive piece of software - either considered asopen source or in general. A lot of people preffer more "serious" C/C++ compilers, like Intels', but it's a remarkably good compiler by itself, very fast, produces stable and well optimized code AND it is available for every platform you could dream of developing on. Ah, and constantly improving support for other languages (specially Java) is a nice perk aswell:)
It's safe to say that if we have a healthy OSS community, is because of the great developing tools available on OSS platforms. GCC is a strong contender for that crown, IMHO.
I'm no physicist, by a long shot:) but the idea of dark matter comes from the fact that some phenomenons on the the visible universe (rotation of galaxies, particularly, IIRC) can't be explained with our current knowledge of physics - there's simply not enough matter for them to behave like they do. Hence, we now have this notion of dark matter; mass that affects other mass (gravity and such)... but can't be detected by conventional means. It's a stopgap to make measurements fit our current theories, as i see it.
Dark energy is more of the same, and tries to account for the visible expansion of the universe.
It sounds to me like you're sitting in your gloaty chair because you were unable to find one yourself without hitting up ebay.
No, i rarely play consoles. They're nice, but i preffer PC gaming - i don't even own any and only get to play them when i visit friends.
Yet i've been hitting the games section on/. regularly, only to witness the reaction to every new 360 story. I mean, the hype arround this system was beyond belief. People deciding and arguing over which system they were going to loyally buy, before they were even launched!. I mean, how can you justify preordering or standing hours in line to spend over $400 on something you know only what the MS marketing team told you about? Don't get me wrong, maybe the 360 is a very nice system (it sure looks like one), but if you're buying, blindfold, a product that has all the marks of being rushed to meet a deadline and get burned, well... bummer. Use your head.
And it's not a Microsoft thing, either. It will be the same with the PS3 and the Revo, i'm positive.
It does seem to be a hardware problem - they crash screen look glitchy instead of the "clean" screen you get when the crash is OS related. Reminds me of and overheated GPU.
Now, i don't know if the headline is correct (the console is very unstable... but only for a bunch of people), but if true, it has the smell of a rushed product all over it. And i won't make any friends over this, but serves these people right. Yeah, you, the ones that couldn't wait a couple of months and pay 3x the price in order to buy a product before it has been properly reviewed. And i don't mean like Gamespot's "Oooh! It's the second coming of Christ"-kind of reviews.
Paying upfront for promises is bad buisness. Don't buy into the hype. It's only a console.
I had to create some diagrams for a uni proyect i'm working on these days, and resorted to Microsoft Visio (part of the Office suite, which is used to create diagrams, flowcharts, etc). The program was ok, but what floored me was to see, among the exporting options, SVG files.
Not only it worked wonderfully; they actually rendered much better than WMF files created with the same software (looking exactly the same as they did on the software, which is of course what i needed). The.VSD format (Visio) is, of course, undisclosed, but i can't recall the last time i used a MS product that worked well with third party file formats. Kudos to them.
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Well, except it's hard to dupe a electrical random noise generator, harder than duping a CD at any rate.
Most electrical noise generators rely on chaotic physical events, like the noise in a Zenner diode. Even if you build two completely identical nois generator circuits, their outputs will never be the same.
Never mind; Mel Brooks directed "Young frankenstein". He excused for all of his bad movies (and sins) as far as i'm concerned!
"Finally, I would also like to say thanks to my roommates Mark and Ben, because with them they made this mod a whole lot easier. Originally this was Mark's idea, and he got some ideas from someplace online that isn't there anymore [NOTE: BP6.com did this awhile ago], so I would like to give credit to my roommate and whoever has done this before. If you have any other questions, feel free to Email me."
News? C'mon guys... i even recall seeing a story about a HD window right here on Slashdot not that long ago!
A laser would do it nicely, if you take care in not burning it...
I can do that without this device just fine, thank you very much.
So, Google uses a Slash like moderation system?
Wow, the ammount of dupe suggestions must be staggering there. But then again, the management doesn't give a damn!
And even then, both xine and mplayer fail to play some newer formats, like the latest version of WMV. Which is a shitty format to begin with, but it's all arround the internet it seems...
I just wanted to point out that the lawsuit madness seems to be a US thing alone... from my own experience, and what i read, the rest of the world doesn't seem to resort to lawsuits that much, at least for "frivolous" issues such as this.
:(
Being a lawyer up there must be very profitable these days
In my opinion instead of pushing the .xxx domain, we should be generating a database of "acceptable and non-questionable" stable websites that would be acceptable for general viewing. Then educate parents on how too set up firewalls to keep their minor children away from the stuff. Next we can encourage parents to spend enough time with their children they will feel confident in their childs choice in the matter.
There's a lot of commercial products (here's one, for example) that do just that. Unfortunately, opinions on what's "acceptable and non-questionable" can vary wildly.
That is, if we can actually define porn. Beach pics? Lingerie ads? A hand, 6" one way or the other, is the line between porn, and sales.
Reminds me of the great late Bill Hicks... "The US Supreme Court defines 'pornography' as 'any act without artistic merit that causes sexual thougths'. Mmmm... sounds like every God damned commercial on TV these days to me!"
Give it to the people or we'll riot to get it!
So what you're saying is... you'd have no problem eating dog shit as long as you didn't have to pay the chef.
:) in their beleiefs, but they're on the right track IMHO. OSS is more about using your PC in the way you see fit, and that includes being able to modify the software you're using or being able to choose among different software for the same task (open standards et. all). That you may choose not to is of little consequence, as someone might very well do it for you. And this not only applies to Linux as an OS, there's a shitload of perfectly good OSS software for Windows/OSX as well that works and works just fine.
:)
So, what you're saying is that you have no problem eating dog shit either. After all, millons of satisfied flies can't be wrong.
If you don't care about much more than using your computer (as you're well entitled to), that's fine. There's much more to the argument besides convenience, as i see it. Most OSS advocates are rather... mmm... fanatical
Now, you want your computer to "just work". In that sense, the Linux desktop has still a lot (a lot!) of work ahead in order to be as dumbproof as, say, Windows or OSX., but i keep finding that when it works, it works just peachy, and even better than their counterparts. I'm constantly reminded of this when i switch to Windows, f.ex.: for every thing that it makes much simpler, there's another that becomes impossible.
And even considering that, nowadays Linux is damn useable as a "Joe-sixpack" desktop, specially if you choose any of the modern commercial distros available. They take a lot of care in rounding the rough edges, and trust me, you won't even have to bother about fixing/configing/updating it, or more than you would have to with Win/OSX atleast. You should try one - a LiveCDs, for example, lets you boot a complete Linux distro from a CD and take a look at how they work. They might not be for you yet, but i think you'll find them much more usable than you think. We're not all typing obscure commands in consoles all day, you know
Don't fall for it. Is an urban legend planted by some very, very evil and disturbed people. They did the same with the so-called "Highlander II" (yeah right!) for example!
Come on man, you're willing to miss a great piece of software just because it's not OSS? The Opera developers are now focusing on mobile devices, and they're (effectively) giving it away for free for desktop users. No ads, no strings attached.
I really like Firefox, but i find Opera to be a much more polished browser (like i said earlier, specially in the UI department). Their Linux support is excellent aswell. It's cool, and it's free. No OSS, but *free*. What's to hate here? And this is from an OSS advocate...
Have you tried Opera lately? On my system (Gentoo Linux 2.6, Athlon XP1800+, 512mb) it runs noticeably smoother than Firefox, never mind Mozilla.
It's a "wrapper" for IE; it gives you a better interface, but it's IE under the hood alright.
Because it's a heck of a browser. The fact that it identifies itself as Explorer (to avoid issues with pages that deliver broken HTML) doesn't allow to have accurate usage statistics, but i know quite a lot of people that use and love Opera, me included. Hands down, the best UI in any software i've used as of lately, never mind in browsers, and a sleek, lightweight, fast piece of software.
Opera gets a lot of (undeserved) flak arround here because it's not open source. They gave away a free, ad supported, 100% functional version and it wasn't enough. Now they gave away registration keys, and i guess that's isn't enough either.
By having a news story on /. about some guy stating his opinions on his blog? C'mon...
Basically, the fact is if you assume interstellar space travel with any vehicle larger than a telephone booth, then you have to assume military superiority as well.
Are you saying that Bill & Ted could be Earths' saviors?!
The most grateful aspect of gcc to the world is that Linux would be impossible without it. And that in itself is enough.
Linux, *BSD, and every other single open source OS, as far as i know. Like you said, GCC paved the way for them to exist.
As for the compiler itself, yes, it's not the best of the bunch, but that doesn't mean it's any bad either (quite the opposite!). Intels' compiler, for example, still beats it for performance (at least the last few times i tried it), but i could live happily with GCC alone.
GCC is an impressive piece of software - either considered asopen source or in general. A lot of people preffer more "serious" C/C++ compilers, like Intels', but it's a remarkably good compiler by itself, very fast, produces stable and well optimized code AND it is available for every platform you could dream of developing on. Ah, and constantly improving support for other languages (specially Java) is a nice perk aswell :)
It's safe to say that if we have a healthy OSS community, is because of the great developing tools available on OSS platforms. GCC is a strong contender for that crown, IMHO.
I'm no physicist, by a long shot :) but the idea of dark matter comes from the fact that some phenomenons on the the visible universe (rotation of galaxies, particularly, IIRC) can't be explained with our current knowledge of physics - there's simply not enough matter for them to behave like they do. Hence, we now have this notion of dark matter; mass that affects other mass (gravity and such)... but can't be detected by conventional means. It's a stopgap to make measurements fit our current theories, as i see it.
Dark energy is more of the same, and tries to account for the visible expansion of the universe.
It sounds to me like you're sitting in your gloaty chair because you were unable to find one yourself without hitting up ebay.
/. regularly, only to witness the reaction to every new 360 story. I mean, the hype arround this system was beyond belief. People deciding and arguing over which system they were going to loyally buy, before they were even launched!. I mean, how can you justify preordering or standing hours in line to spend over $400 on something you know only what the MS marketing team told you about? Don't get me wrong, maybe the 360 is a very nice system (it sure looks like one), but if you're buying, blindfold, a product that has all the marks of being rushed to meet a deadline and get burned, well... bummer. Use your head.
No, i rarely play consoles. They're nice, but i preffer PC gaming - i don't even own any and only get to play them when i visit friends.
Yet i've been hitting the games section on
And it's not a Microsoft thing, either. It will be the same with the PS3 and the Revo, i'm positive.
It does seem to be a hardware problem - they crash screen look glitchy instead of the "clean" screen you get when the crash is OS related. Reminds me of and overheated GPU.
Now, i don't know if the headline is correct (the console is very unstable... but only for a bunch of people), but if true, it has the smell of a rushed product all over it. And i won't make any friends over this, but serves these people right. Yeah, you, the ones that couldn't wait a couple of months and pay 3x the price in order to buy a product before it has been properly reviewed. And i don't mean like Gamespot's "Oooh! It's the second coming of Christ"-kind of reviews.
Paying upfront for promises is bad buisness. Don't buy into the hype. It's only a console.
I had to create some diagrams for a uni proyect i'm working on these days, and resorted to Microsoft Visio (part of the Office suite, which is used to create diagrams, flowcharts, etc). The program was ok, but what floored me was to see, among the exporting options, SVG files.
.VSD format (Visio) is, of course, undisclosed, but i can't recall the last time i used a MS product that worked well with third party file formats. Kudos to them.
Not only it worked wonderfully; they actually rendered much better than WMF files created with the same software (looking exactly the same as they did on the software, which is of course what i needed). The