Co-founder Jimmy Wales stresses that encyclopedias of any type are not usually appropriate as primary sources, and should not be relied upon as authoritative.[55]
But speaking seriously, securing your privacy is something you should ALWAYS do if you have a family - especially if you watch porn. Moral issues aside, depending on where you live, if your little brother (and/or his friends) finds your collection, you could get in serious trouble.
It happened in the city where I live. A teacher was fired because his son (who attends the same school) invited some of his friends to play on the computer. Unfortunately, the browser history wasn't cleared and guess what page appeared when they opened up Internet Explorer... obviously, the kids didn't keep their mouths shut.
What is Codeplex really about? It's a cheap form of recruiting developers to keep supporting the Windows platform by building better programs... as long as Microsoft gets a profit from it.
I know this is News For Nerds and all that, but isn't this a tad specific?
That's what sections are for. See the little Tux Icon over there? We all care about Linux. Besides, it's a VERY IMPORTANT BUG. A showstopper, so to speak. And keep in mind that a lot of people in here are kernel freaks. They want to test-drive the latest versions of the kernel. And one of the reasons why people keep coming here (and not to digg) is precisely for this kind of news.
There's your player. Where's the code? All I see is a Windows installer, an EXE. Open Source proponents (especially linux users) completely abhor executables. We want the source code. Why aren't there any links to the cineplay source code? Ah, there it is, in the little tiny link below the page.
OK, let's say I begin to trust you...
Your page looks professional. But TOO professional. It lacks the community feel. If I had built your cineplay page, I would add a link to the forums, some screenshots, perhaps links to youtube video demos of cineplay in action, direct links (with big shiny buttons) to the source code project page so people can submit bug reports or request features (hmmm.... http://trac.cinefx.org/report/2 has no tickets.
See what I'm talking about? The whole Jahshaka project is tainted. It reeks of hype and venture capital. What's more, it looks like EVERYTHING THERE was made by yourself, and ONLY yourself. Where's the community? It still looks like it's a one-man project - and that's a hair apart from being a closed source project or an abandoned project.
You need to start from scratch. Not the code, but EVERYTHING ELSE. The webpages, the forums, the tracker, EVERYTHING. Wipe out those commercial pages and delete ALL the hype. Become more humble. Get a sourceforge page, and that's not optional. Sourceforge is mostly where the open source community resides. If you don't like sourceforge, try to submit it to Google Code. Or at least submit your project to freshmeat. In short, tell the community you're not a ghost.
Delete the old forum or post an announcement saying it's deprecated. Start a new forum, a clean one. Add subforums for each of the projects (cineplay, openlibraries, etc). Make it clear and uncluttered (and please don't use those ultra-commercial-hype near black tones, they disturb reading).
Start inviting other programmers to join the community (or actually the opposite), start researching around in mailing lists, other forums, to see what other video editing projects are there (maybe you've already been contacted by someone from those projects and you haven't even noticed, who knows), try to help them out...
Say "I'm sorry, it was my fault. Will you accept me again?". And say it with deeds, not words.
I'm sorry, mods, I'm sorry, Jah... but please hear me out. I had been waiting for that project for all those 3 or 4 years. I'm a strong open source and Linux supporter, and, if you read my journal, you'll see that I'm all for having drop-in replacements for GNU/Linux. So, here comes Jahshaka, promising us the all-wanted multimedia Linux revolution that hopefully will bring down to earth the "year of desktop Linux" (because without drop-in replacements, it ain't gonna come).
So, we wait, I actually try out the software (under Windows unfortunately because at that time Linux distros weren't what they are today, and Virtualbox wasn't there), it crashes, it keeps crashing, hanging... absolutely a hideous UI, it looked NOTHING like Adobe Premiere, which I have used to an extent.
All I wanted to do is to play around with a couple of Divx's in a timeline. Meanwhile the devs were focusing on 3D effects and whatnot, while the basic functionality was still missing.
And how the f*** do I make this thing work? It's not stable. Not yet. So I wait, and I wait.... and I keep waiting... and waiting... and waiting... and nothing happens.
How am I supposed to feel? Yes, I've read the news, "we're back!" and everything. But what if it's simply not true? What if it's still a red herring to prevent other Linux devs from making a successful Open Source video editor? Because that's what happened during those years. People didn't start a new editor because they were waiting for Jahshaka.
I felt like a little puppy coming to a human who's offering it food, and then beats the crap out of it. So what happens then, when the VERY SAME PERSON offers the same little puppy (who's grown up now) some food? Yes. Snarl. Growl.
Like the AC above me, I still don't trust you. I've seen those openlibraries lying around... but I don't see any apps built with them - and I don't have the time or money to start fooling around with them.
Show us that they work. Make demos. Make tutorials. Release them. With source code.
At least I'll concede you one thing: Open source is about the community.
So, please, in all honesty, in the name of that betrayed community, give us a sign of good will. A sign that you're for real this time. Because you have a lot of bad karma (community karma, not/. karma) around you, and you really REALLY need to clean it up before we can trust in you again. Oh - and that link to videocore dot com ("The best video content management system on the planet, for only $99") in your website... it ain't helping.
I'll believe you when I see your slashdot account published on the website. And even then, I really don't know if you just squatted the domain and kept the site for yourself. Heck, how do I know you weren't a shill from the beginning?
"He says his work has implications for the way drugs are marketed. People often think generic medicine is inferior. But gussy it up a bit, change the name, make it appear more expensive, and maybe it will work better, he said."
So that means that us knowledgeable people will achieve better results with the standard medicine, or worse results with the more expensive one?
It's likely clear that not only a fault was identified, but a relatively easy to exploit one, and in the light of the short time between now and the election, he's basically got to place a gag order to avoid any potential for abuse of the voting systems 4 weeks from now.
Weird Al's speciality has been rewriting pop songs with completely unrelated topics (parody). Among his works are "eat it" ("Beat it" by Michael Jackson), "I think I'm a clone now" (I think we're alone now - sang by Tiffany), "Like a Surgeon" ("Like a Virgin" by Madonna), "Fat" ("Bad" by Michael Jackson), and most recently "White and Nerdy" (parody of "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire), and others.
White and Nerdy was one of Weird Al's most popular songs - it was rated platinum by the RIAA (yes, they also rate songs besides suing customers:P ) and as of 10 September 2007, it reached the 4th position on the Viral Video Chart.
Weird Al's songs have always been popular among anime fans, as they present pretty good opportunities for making parody AMVs, such as the ones in AMV Hell 4 (Golden boy - White and Nerdy). Another example is this snip from AMV Hell 4 (fast-forward to 3:30) using Weird Al's "A complicated song" (parody of Avril Lavigne's "Complicated").
Those are all well worn and quite tiresome authoritarian talking points, and are a violation of individual rights.
No! A violation of individual rights is if the government sponsors a candidate INSIDE the no-campaign zone, and prevents you from doing the same.
Let's put it this way: The candidates are immortals fighting to chop each other's head off (there can be only one!), and the no-campaign zone is Holy Ground. Fighting there is forbidden.
The no-campaigning zone is also a mandatory rule in Mexico. This is an achievement to prevent the government from pushing the voters to vote in favor of the official candidate (we have a history of the same party cheating and winning for 70 straight years).
Here in Mexico we have a quite different electoral system:
To vote, voters are given IDs with photograph to make sure they don't cheat and vote twice.
The ones counting the votes are citizens (chosen randomly, just like members of a jury), supervised by a representative of each one of the political parties, who can complain later about any bad behavior they saw.
Later, the urns with all the ballots are sent to the main office of the electoral institute, also independent from the government (but funded by it), who then take the count results - if there is a complaint, the complaint is followed and the ballots are recounted. If they can't for some reason (such as the evidence of ballots being stolen - they're numbered), the urn is declared null and its votes are not counted for the final result.
After all the complaints are addressed, the partial count results are summed by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), and the winner is declared.
This procedure is expensive, slow and exhausting, but at least it's guaranteed to give honest results.
Let's use the excess heat in some parts of the chip and use that as a secondary power source.
It would seem to me that any sort of heat engine driven by heat from the cpu is going to impede the cooling of said CPU.
Maybe not by dissipation, but turning the heat into kinetic energy, effectively cools the CPU. Otherwise we would be breaking the 2nd law by producing energy out of nothing.
Perhaps what you're trying to say is that if the efficiency of the device is pretty low, the heat won't be converted to electrical energy as fast as it accumulates. But think about this: What if the device used to collect the heat goes BETWEEN the CPU and the heat sink? By definition, the sink is ALWAYS cooler than the CPU, therefore making heat transfer possible. Actually that's the opposite of what peltiers do: They use electricity to accelerate the heat transfer from the CPU to the heat sink.
Here's an article about devices using excess heat. Perhaps it's the same device discussed in this article since it's 3 months old, but I'd need to double-check.
Hmmm nope. Here's the original research page about THIS article. What's interesting is that the link doesn't mention anything about brownian rachets. In fact, there are NO articles there!
You're right, but when a part of the chip is at a scorching 70C or more, I wouldn't really say that's really equilibrium.
The article (which *IS* a summary, btw) as I understand it, says: Let's use the excess heat in some parts of the chip and use that as a secondary power source.
In other words, it's not about breaking the 2nd law, but identifying the points of excess heat dissipation (read-as: Low efficiency) to minimize energy waste. I find that feasible, I read an article in physorg about using the excess heat in car exhausts to power up the electronics, for example.
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Open Source is full of guys with huge egos, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I don't see any difference between Linus and say, RMS.
For starters, RMS has a Halo.
Why did I suddenly imagine a fake ID with a penguin in the photo and the name "McLovin"?
I for one use it as a starting point if I really need to research something, but never as a source itself.
And this is precisely why Wikipedia forbids to accept original research and unverified claims. Those are marked with [citation needed] tags.
From Wikipedia's article on Wikipedia:
Co-founder Jimmy Wales stresses that encyclopedias of any type are not usually appropriate as primary sources, and should not be relied upon as authoritative.[55]
[55] # ^ Helm, Burt (2005-12-14). "Wikipedia: "A Work in Progress"", BusinessWeek. Retrieved on 2007-01-29.
And this is why I don't take the "Professor Wikipedia" video as an insult to wikipedia, but as educational humour.
Why would you need to encrypt your porn... unless....
Dude! Won't anybody stop you thinking about the children?
Privacy mode FTW!
But speaking seriously, securing your privacy is something you should ALWAYS do if you have a family - especially if you watch porn. Moral issues aside, depending on where you live, if your little brother (and/or his friends) finds your collection, you could get in serious trouble.
It happened in the city where I live. A teacher was fired because his son (who attends the same school) invited some of his friends to play on the computer. Unfortunately, the browser history wasn't cleared and guess what page appeared when they opened up Internet Explorer... obviously, the kids didn't keep their mouths shut.
Think of WINE! Remember what happened when the Cedega guys "improved" the WINE codebase? The project's DirectX implementation stalled for years!!
And who says they won't use dirty tricks to keep you from working on Open Source FOREVER?
JUST SAY NO.
What is Codeplex really about? It's a cheap form of recruiting developers to keep supporting the Windows platform by building better programs... as long as Microsoft gets a profit from it.
This is why using the GPLv3 is forbidden in Codeplex.
I know this is News For Nerds and all that, but isn't this a tad specific?
That's what sections are for. See the little Tux Icon over there? We all care about Linux. Besides, it's a VERY IMPORTANT BUG. A showstopper, so to speak. And keep in mind that a lot of people in here are kernel freaks. They want to test-drive the latest versions of the kernel. And one of the reasons why people keep coming here (and not to digg) is precisely for this kind of news.
Thanks, ruphus13.
The problem is that I can't even hover my mouse over the "!"'s. As soon as I leave the tag, the "!" disappears. Somebody fix that please.
http://silversoft.com/cineplay
There's your player. Where's the code? All I see is a Windows installer, an EXE. Open Source proponents (especially linux users) completely abhor executables. We want the source code. Why aren't there any links to the cineplay source code? Ah, there it is, in the little tiny link below the page.
OK, let's say I begin to trust you...
Your page looks professional. But TOO professional. It lacks the community feel.
If I had built your cineplay page, I would add a link to the forums, some screenshots, perhaps links to youtube video demos of cineplay in action, direct links (with big shiny buttons) to the source code project page so people can submit bug reports or request features (hmmm.... http://trac.cinefx.org/report/2 has no tickets.
See what I'm talking about? The whole Jahshaka project is tainted. It reeks of hype and venture capital. What's more, it looks like EVERYTHING THERE was made by yourself, and ONLY yourself. Where's the community? It still looks like it's a one-man project - and that's a hair apart from being a closed source project or an abandoned project.
You need to start from scratch. Not the code, but EVERYTHING ELSE. The webpages, the forums, the tracker, EVERYTHING. Wipe out those commercial pages and delete ALL the hype. Become more humble. Get a sourceforge page, and that's not optional. Sourceforge is mostly where the open source community resides. If you don't like sourceforge, try to submit it to Google Code. Or at least submit your project to freshmeat. In short, tell the community you're not a ghost.
Delete the old forum or post an announcement saying it's deprecated. Start a new forum, a clean one. Add subforums for each of the projects (cineplay, openlibraries, etc). Make it clear and uncluttered (and please don't use those ultra-commercial-hype near black tones, they disturb reading).
Start inviting other programmers to join the community (or actually the opposite), start researching around in mailing lists, other forums, to see what other video editing projects are there (maybe you've already been contacted by someone from those projects and you haven't even noticed, who knows), try to help them out...
Say "I'm sorry, it was my fault. Will you accept me again?". And say it with deeds, not words.
I'm sorry, mods, I'm sorry, Jah... but please hear me out. I had been waiting for that project for all those 3 or 4 years. I'm a strong open source and Linux supporter, and, if you read my journal, you'll see that I'm all for having drop-in replacements for GNU/Linux. So, here comes Jahshaka, promising us the all-wanted multimedia Linux revolution that hopefully will bring down to earth the "year of desktop Linux" (because without drop-in replacements, it ain't gonna come).
So, we wait, I actually try out the software (under Windows unfortunately because at that time Linux distros weren't what they are today, and Virtualbox wasn't there), it crashes, it keeps crashing, hanging... absolutely a hideous UI, it looked NOTHING like Adobe Premiere, which I have used to an extent.
All I wanted to do is to play around with a couple of Divx's in a timeline. Meanwhile the devs were focusing on 3D effects and whatnot, while the basic functionality was still missing.
And how the f*** do I make this thing work? It's not stable. Not yet.
So I wait, and I wait.... and I keep waiting... and waiting... and waiting... and nothing happens.
How am I supposed to feel? Yes, I've read the news, "we're back!" and everything. But what if it's simply not true? What if it's still a red herring to prevent other Linux devs from making a successful Open Source video editor? Because that's what happened during those years. People didn't start a new editor because they were waiting for Jahshaka.
I felt like a little puppy coming to a human who's offering it food, and then beats the crap out of it. So what happens then, when the VERY SAME PERSON offers the same little puppy (who's grown up now) some food? Yes. Snarl. Growl.
Like the AC above me, I still don't trust you. I've seen those openlibraries lying around... but I don't see any apps built with them - and I don't have the time or money to start fooling around with them.
Show us that they work. Make demos. Make tutorials. Release them. With source code.
At least I'll concede you one thing: Open source is about the community.
So, please, in all honesty, in the name of that betrayed community, give us a sign of good will. A sign that you're for real this time. Because you have a lot of bad karma (community karma, not /. karma) around you, and you really REALLY need to clean it up before we can trust in you again. Oh - and that link to videocore dot com ("The best video content management system on the planet, for only $99") in your website... it ain't helping.
I'll believe you when I see your slashdot account published on the website. And even then, I really don't know if you just squatted the domain and kept the site for yourself. Heck, how do I know you weren't a shill from the beginning?
"He says his work has implications for the way drugs are marketed. People often think generic medicine is inferior. But gussy it up a bit, change the name, make it appear more expensive, and maybe it will work better, he said."
So that means that us knowledgeable people will achieve better results with the standard medicine, or worse results with the more expensive one?
Thanks for clarifying.
Yes I am glad that this guy got busted but lets put this into perspective. This was a little guy fighting a little guy.
And the victory sets a precedent against the big guys.
It's likely clear that not only a fault was identified, but a relatively easy to exploit one, and in the light of the short time between now and the election, he's basically got to place a gag order to avoid any potential for abuse of the voting systems 4 weeks from now.
Oh noes! The emperor has no clothes! :-/
The song was the same, the title was what I got wrong. "Constipated" is the actual title.
Ugh. *buries head in the sand*
Oops, the "complicated song" was ANOTHER parody by Weird Al. The one featured in the Naruto AMV was "constipated".
Here's Weird Al's official youtube channel.
Weird Al's speciality has been rewriting pop songs with completely unrelated topics (parody). Among his works are "eat it" ("Beat it" by Michael Jackson), "I think I'm a clone now" (I think we're alone now - sang by Tiffany), "Like a Surgeon" ("Like a Virgin" by Madonna), "Fat" ("Bad" by Michael Jackson), and most recently "White and Nerdy" (parody of "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire), and others.
White and Nerdy was one of Weird Al's most popular songs - it was rated platinum by the RIAA (yes, they also rate songs besides suing customers :P ) and as of 10 September 2007, it reached the 4th position on the Viral Video Chart.
Weird Al's songs have always been popular among anime fans, as they present pretty good opportunities for making parody AMVs, such as the ones in AMV Hell 4 (Golden boy - White and Nerdy). Another example is this snip from AMV Hell 4 (fast-forward to 3:30) using Weird Al's "A complicated song" (parody of Avril Lavigne's "Complicated").
Those are all well worn and quite tiresome authoritarian talking points, and are a violation of individual rights.
No! A violation of individual rights is if the government sponsors a candidate INSIDE the no-campaign zone, and prevents you from doing the same.
Let's put it this way: The candidates are immortals fighting to chop each other's head off (there can be only one!), and the no-campaign zone is Holy Ground. Fighting there is forbidden.
The no-campaigning zone is also a mandatory rule in Mexico. This is an achievement to prevent the government from pushing the voters to vote in favor of the official candidate (we have a history of the same party cheating and winning for 70 straight years).
Here in Mexico we have a quite different electoral system:
To vote, voters are given IDs with photograph to make sure they don't cheat and vote twice.
The ones counting the votes are citizens (chosen randomly, just like members of a jury), supervised by a representative of each one of the political parties, who can complain later about any bad behavior they saw.
Later, the urns with all the ballots are sent to the main office of the electoral institute, also independent from the government (but funded by it), who then take the count results - if there is a complaint, the complaint is followed and the ballots are recounted. If they can't for some reason (such as the evidence of ballots being stolen - they're numbered), the urn is declared null and its votes are not counted for the final result.
After all the complaints are addressed, the partial count results are summed by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), and the winner is declared.
This procedure is expensive, slow and exhausting, but at least it's guaranteed to give honest results.
by Ungrounded Lightning (62228)
Power to the people!
AH HAH! Now we know WHO was responsible for the static!
Let's use the excess heat in some parts of the chip and use that as a secondary power source.
It would seem to me that any sort of heat engine driven by heat from the cpu is going to impede the cooling of said CPU.
Maybe not by dissipation, but turning the heat into kinetic energy, effectively cools the CPU. Otherwise we would be breaking the 2nd law by producing energy out of nothing.
Perhaps what you're trying to say is that if the efficiency of the device is pretty low, the heat won't be converted to electrical energy as fast as it accumulates. But think about this: What if the device used to collect the heat goes BETWEEN the CPU and the heat sink? By definition, the sink is ALWAYS cooler than the CPU, therefore making heat transfer possible. Actually that's the opposite of what peltiers do: They use electricity to accelerate the heat transfer from the CPU to the heat sink.
Here's an article about devices using excess heat. Perhaps it's the same device discussed in this article since it's 3 months old, but I'd need to double-check.
Hmmm nope. Here's the original research page about THIS article. What's interesting is that the link doesn't mention anything about brownian rachets. In fact, there are NO articles there!
You're right, but when a part of the chip is at a scorching 70C or more, I wouldn't really say that's really equilibrium.
The article (which *IS* a summary, btw) as I understand it, says: Let's use the excess heat in some parts of the chip and use that as a secondary power source.
In other words, it's not about breaking the 2nd law, but identifying the points of excess heat dissipation (read-as: Low efficiency) to minimize energy waste. I find that feasible, I read an article in physorg about using the excess heat in car exhausts to power up the electronics, for example.
Mod my original post down. Thanks for fixing my mistake.