Putting claims like "MUCH BETTER"! in all caps in an article, or this case, front page, immediately turns on my 'beware - zealots' device.
If you want to be taken seriously by nerds, you'd better try to keep it professional instead of throwing things like "but, Qwerty is like 150 years old, how good can it be!" around.
Endless discussions about what's better, QWERTY or DVORAK, have never turned up anything significant. It's as pointless as ranting about VI vs EMACS.
I agree. My first C program was 'connect-4', done using ncurses. All it took was 'man ncurses' and its related manpages.
I wrote a text-based mp3player using ncurses, called mp3blaster. It is equally interactive as fancy mp3players with GUI's.
(N)curses also has window-like structures, with borders, colours, and everything else. It understands most terminals, although you might find the number of keys that you can use on each keyboard is restricted (e.g. a single 'alt' cannot easily be read by a curses program).
My guess is that the tuner of the cheaper cards
have inferior shielding. This is not true for all cheap cards, the WinTV GO! has good quality as well, but limited features.
I recently bought a WinTV Theater tv card. The
tuner on this card is very good, certainly comparable with TV quality reception. If you have a tv-out you probably wouldn't notice the difference with a 'real' tv picture.
You can capture full-screen NTSC (640x480) or
full-screen PAL (756x384) depending on your tuner. This particular card has stereo audio support, which it can transform into 5.1 surround sound audio.
I used to have a FlyVideo2 Bt848 tv card, but its
tuner quality was not good. Hard drives spinning would interfere with the signal, for example. I've seen a few other cards with this problem as well, all being low-budget ones. You should probably avoid those.
Software support for this (and any other bt878/bt848 based) card is excellent. I prefer it over the (rather bad) windows software shipped with it. Stuff like auto-tuning, s-band, color/
contrast/brightness control is well supported.
Xawtv is a very good program to use as a tv
viewer. qtvidcap (video grabber for X), which comes with avifile is nice as well. VCR is a text-console capture program similar to qtvidcap (I wrote it using qtvidcap's capture code). You can find all these programs on freshmeat.
The key issue here is that these magnetic chips don't *need* electricity to run. So if one could construct a wearable computer using this technology, you'd probably only need power for the screen and mechanical devices like CD-ROM. If they can get this technology to read *and* write, then harddisks (which would be a bad name for them;-) wouldn't need power as well. I didn't find any information regarding this issue though.
There is not a single complete algorithm in linux that guarantees (or comes even close to) a minimum bandwidth for a class. There's a script that's called 'cbq.init' found on freshmeat that can do traffic shaping w/CBQ, but it's about the only resource for it if you want to experiment with it. You might wanna try this link that shows some graphics on how FreeBSD does the job.
Traffic shaping might be a good reason. Even though linux has traffic shaping support (that's bandwidth limiting etc), it's hardly documented and not well maintained. FreeBSD has at least more documentation on it, and a package to set it up. Traffic shaping can be useful if you're behind,say, a cable modem, and you want your ssh/telnet connections to remote boxes to be lag-free while a roommate is using the full upload bandwidth.
I'm not surprised. Since most of these people are probably in their 50's or above, they're not eager to adapt new things. Perhaps mail with a user interface that everyone and his dog can understand would do, though I don't think it's a really good idea to teach these people to use hotmail for their work e-mail;=-)
So perhaps someone should write a safe corporate email system for these guys that won't require any computer knowledge at all.
Personally I think judge Elving's arguments are very right. First of all, this was not an appropriate case to fight the choice of freedom. Running an OS that is totally free doesn't imply that every software/hardware manufacturer must succumb to making *their* software, their source of income, freely available. Yes, major companies make big bucks, but they have *the right* to do so. correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a major part of the 'American Dream' ? The only reason why a big company would make their products freely available, is because they feel they would gain by it, not just because it would make some people feel happier without getting any revenue from it. So if we want dvd decryption in Linux, we will have to either find a company that will produce such software (free to use but binary-only), *and* the company should gain by it in some way. Doing it this way still allows us to have the freedom of OS-choice, even if we have to pay for the DVD software. Secondly, the attitude of many of the defendants (15yr old kids?) clearly showed a disrespect for the law, which had nothing to do with the right of freedom, but all about an egoboost for themselves. That was an important factor in judge Elving's decision, and personally I am really angry with these kinds of attitudes that lowered the chance for a win in this case. Also, it should be regretted that the argument that the 'click license agreement' is not valid in Norway was not supported by facts. I don't know if Norway honours these license agreements, but if it did, we missed a big chance here. In Holland (Europe, not Michigan;) these license agreements are most likely not honoured.
Concluding: Don't get me wrong here. I *do* fancy a free OS with 100% free software (which I currently enjoy at home), but it doesn't mean that everything *MUST* be free just because I want it to be. It's important to convince software/hardware manufacturers they gain by making the use of products free in a nice, adult matter, not by stating 'F*** the law!'.
Here in Holland there's one university that has 10Mbit in each dorm as well as first uni. Obviously, such hi bandwith nests are a huge source of wares, mp3's, etc, especially since most uni's (here) don't pay per kbit/s.
About 12 years ago I bought a Casio Data Bank watch. This is rather similar to this PIM watch: You can store 50 items, each being either a phonenumber+name (12 characters), or a schedule (10 characters, date+time). It has a small membrane keyboard that is surprisingly easy to use with your fingernails. And also a countdown timer, stopwatch, 24 timezones, alarm, time, dayofweek, year etc. etc. Very easy in everyday use and small. Having such a PDA in your watch is so much better than having a 'portable' PDA like a PalmPilot is that you never can forget them (because you always wear them). In this respect PIM is nothing but a new term for the same thing, only without the little keyboard (which sucks), but with more capacity. If you keep on forgetting dragging your PDA with you, go for one of these.
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Remember, its game play has been patented too by the author, as he mentions @2:25 in the interview.
So much for innovation. Let's show the prior art (tilt sensor games, anyone?)
*snigger* That's sad, really.. who cares? If only it will attract more viewers.
Google groups link: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.movies/bro wse_frm/thread/47bf560d092d9314/2c3c98e25987bf44?l nk=st&q=group:rec.arts.movies+author:needham&rnum= 2&hl=en#2c3c98e25987bf44
Putting claims like "MUCH BETTER"! in all caps in an article, or this case, front page, immediately turns on my 'beware - zealots' device.
If you want to be taken seriously by nerds, you'd better try to keep it professional instead of throwing things like "but, Qwerty is like 150 years old, how good can it be!" around.
Endless discussions about what's better, QWERTY or DVORAK, have never turned up anything significant. It's as pointless as ranting about VI vs EMACS.
If he didn't have a wife and kids, it would be okay though?
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process ?Product_Id=157024
Seems the technocrat site is already slashdotted.
Wouldn't that be true for 'feet' as well? Or are you saying they *don't* actually walk all the way up there to make the measurement? :)
I agree. My first C program was 'connect-4', done using ncurses. All it took was 'man ncurses' and its related manpages.
I wrote a text-based mp3player using ncurses, called mp3blaster. It is equally interactive as fancy mp3players with GUI's.
(N)curses also has window-like structures, with borders, colours, and everything else. It understands most terminals, although you might find the number of keys that you can use on each keyboard is restricted (e.g. a single 'alt' cannot easily be read by a curses program).
Bram
My guess is that the tuner of the cheaper cards
have inferior shielding. This is not true for all cheap cards, the WinTV GO! has good quality as well, but limited features.
2001-03-21 06:06:06
(All numbers dividable by 3, time resembles 666).
The link to vcr: http://www.stack.nl/~brama/vcr/
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I used to have a FlyVideo2 Bt848 tv card, but its tuner quality was not good. Hard drives spinning would interfere with the signal, for example. I've seen a few other cards with this problem as well, all being low-budget ones. You should probably avoid those.
Software support for this (and any other bt878/bt848 based) card is excellent. I prefer it over the (rather bad) windows software shipped with it. Stuff like auto-tuning, s-band, color/ contrast/brightness control is well supported. Xawtv is a very good program to use as a tv viewer. qtvidcap (video grabber for X), which comes with avifile is nice as well. VCR is a text-console capture program similar to qtvidcap (I wrote it using qtvidcap's capture code). You can find all these programs on freshmeat.
The key issue here is that these magnetic chips don't *need* electricity to run. ;-) wouldn't need power as well. I didn't find any information regarding this issue though.
So if one could construct a wearable computer using this technology, you'd probably only need power for the screen and mechanical devices like CD-ROM.
If they can get this technology to read *and* write, then harddisks (which would be a bad name for them
There is not a single complete algorithm in linux that guarantees (or comes even close to) a minimum bandwidth for a class. There's a script that's called 'cbq.init' found on freshmeat that can do traffic shaping w/CBQ, but it's about the only resource for it if you want to experiment with it. You might wanna try this link that shows some graphics on how FreeBSD does the job.
Traffic shaping might be a good reason.
Even though linux has traffic shaping support (that's bandwidth limiting etc), it's hardly documented and not well maintained. FreeBSD has at least more documentation on it, and a package to set it up.
Traffic shaping can be useful if you're behind,say, a cable modem, and you want your ssh/telnet connections to remote boxes to be lag-free while a roommate is using the full upload bandwidth.
I totally agree with you. It's mostly a very humorous book, which just happens to have a scifi setting.
If you want to know everything about life, the universe and everything, this is a must read.
Bram (heading off for one of those pan-galactic gargle blasters)
I'm not surprised. Since most of these people are probably in their 50's or above, they're not eager to adapt new things. Perhaps mail with a user interface that everyone and his dog can understand would do, though I don't think it's a really good idea to teach these people to use hotmail for their work e-mail ;=-)
So perhaps someone should write a safe
corporate email system for these guys that won't require any computer knowledge at all.
opposite-sex dormroom visitation is on the block, too Sure, as if that's a problem for the nerds who only want the net access ;-)
Personally I think judge Elving's arguments are ;) these license agreements are most likely not honoured.
very right. First of all, this was not an appropriate case to fight the choice of freedom. Running an OS that is totally free doesn't imply that every software/hardware manufacturer must succumb to making *their* software, their source of income, freely available. Yes, major companies make big bucks, but they have *the right* to do so. correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a major part of the 'American Dream' ?
The only reason why a big company would make their products freely available, is because they feel they would gain by it, not just because it would make some people feel happier without getting any revenue from it. So if we want dvd decryption in Linux, we will have to either find a company that will produce such software (free to use but binary-only), *and* the company should gain by it in some way. Doing it this way still
allows us to have the freedom of OS-choice, even if we have to pay for the DVD software.
Secondly, the attitude of many of the defendants (15yr old kids?) clearly showed a disrespect for the law, which had nothing to do with the right of freedom, but all about an egoboost for themselves. That was an important factor in judge Elving's decision, and personally I am really angry with these kinds of attitudes that lowered the chance for a win in this case.
Also, it should be regretted that the argument that the 'click license agreement' is not valid in Norway was not supported by facts. I don't know if Norway honours these license agreements, but if it did, we missed a big chance here. In Holland (Europe, not Michigan
Concluding: Don't get me wrong here. I *do* fancy a free OS with 100% free software (which I currently enjoy at home), but it doesn't mean that everything *MUST* be free just because I want it to be. It's important to convince software/hardware manufacturers they gain by making the use of products free in a nice, adult matter, not by stating 'F*** the law!'.
Perhaps the Kerberos incorporation in win2000 is
only downloadable as a software update from within the US. I believe the same goes for FreeBSD.
Yup that's the one.
100Mbit? Argh. Just when you thought 1.5Mbit at home was nice.
Here in Holland there's one university that has 10Mbit in each dorm as well as first uni. Obviously, such hi bandwith nests are a huge source of wares, mp3's, etc, especially since most uni's (here) don't pay per kbit/s.
Oh yes and another extra: The PC interface.
I wouldn't bother about it, because I usually
don't have my PC near me when making appointments.
About 12 years ago I bought a Casio Data Bank watch. This is rather similar to this PIM watch: You can store 50 items, each being either a phonenumber+name (12 characters), or a schedule (10 characters, date+time). It has a small membrane keyboard that is surprisingly easy to use with your fingernails. And also a countdown timer, stopwatch, 24 timezones, alarm, time, dayofweek, year etc. etc. Very easy in everyday use and small. Having such a PDA in your watch is so much better than having a 'portable' PDA like a PalmPilot is that you never can forget them (because you always wear them).
In this respect PIM is nothing but a new term for the same thing, only without the little keyboard (which sucks), but with more capacity. If you keep on forgetting dragging your PDA with you, go for one of these.
Imagine this GPS device is implantated in all humans. And your partner would get ahold of the
:)
tracking device.
No more "Sorry honey, I was working late at the office" excuses!
If this implant has any effect, it's the major increase in divorces