Tom's h/w says that the model they will be hawking is the LADBSD250, but I can't find it on the Linare website. All I can find is the LADBSD220, which does come with 4 USB ports.
It tells you something about the vendor when their current top product does not find mention on their website.
[Site was already beginning to slow down. Text reproduced in case of full/.ing]
Open Source is Not a Career Path
"If you're getting into open source because you see it as a career path, you're doing something wrong." It's not that Linux creator Linus Torvalds thinks open-source programmers should work for peanuts (he doesn't), but rather that they should be properly motivated. Call it software with a soul, if you like. Only the truly passionate need apply.
That's the message Torvalds and several other open-source luminaries have for the next generation of programmers. "A career path is not a motivation," Torvalds said during Tuesday's Open Source Development Lab's enterprise Linux summit. A reluctant visionary, (he blushed a shade of bright red during an intro that mentioned his inclusion in Time Magazine's list of most influential people) Torvalds is nonetheless passionate about his life's work, an open-source operating system that has blossomed into a major force in the technology world.
The future of open-source software depends upon bright, motivated programmers filled with ideas and initiative rather than programmers promoting their own, or their employer's, self interests. It's a concept that has been embraced by many but is nonetheless counterintuitive to an entire generation of programmers conditioned to view code (rather than the code's problem-solving capabilities) as a competitive advantage.
Times are changing, and the developer community needs to get with the times, said Brian Behlendorf, who shared Tuesday's OSDL keynote with Torvalds, Mitch Kapor, founder and chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation, lead Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton, and OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen. Behlendorf, chief technology officer of CollabNet Inc. and a founder of the Apache open source project, pointed out that the traits that make for a successful open source developer are different from what makes for a successful proprietary developer.
"In open source, you have to be a better communicator and to be able to defend yourself," Behlendorf said. He added that a thick skin also is a requirement when laying bare one's work for all the world to see and criticize. "There's not a lot of room for prima donnas."
I'm not going to claim any knowledge of cryptography, but their website is claiming quite a few modifications to existing stuff. If they get it to mesh together and avoid the few drawbacks that regular crypto algorithms have, this could be considered a new technology.
That wasn't my major point though. I actually meant more along the lines of "Try what they show before claiming it's bad" .
I understand that PGP, RSA et al are sufficient for current encryption, but this might prove to be different and advantageous. Slashdotters in general like diversity, right? IMO it shouldn't be any different for this.
Of course, there may be problems, but many new technologies have those. I see no reason to trash it like most of these posts seem to be doing:(
PS: This may sound like a plug, but i'm not affiliated in any way.
If both channels had worked, we'd have twice as many pictures as we have now. If the same data had been sent on both channels, we'd have precisely the same amount of pictures as we have no.
WTF?!
If the same data was sent on both the channels, we(they) would have had all the data, albeit at a slower rate. Now we have only the data which made it through on one channel. The other bunch was lost.
I thought they had found a method to further compress a JPEG, while still maintaining the original format. i.e. it could still be viewed with a regular JPG viewer. That kind of optimization would've been great, especially if it could be used on webpages, forums etc.
But this is somewhat disappointing. The compression changes the format, and it must be decompressed to view it. Plus they don't intend on releasing the format, and their proposal for a new filetype which can be read by a "plugin" reeks of incompatibility issues.
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Oriental Bod: We violate hundreds of human rights but no-one seems to give a damn about that either! We will be working on our Human Rights record for years to come, your licensing is insignificant to us. Bring on the AMD and OO!
Very funny and hilarious and all, but Oriental and Chinese are clearly different please. Stop generalizing the whole of East Asia into the "Chinese". Not every country in East Asia violates human rights you know. Some of them are, in fact, well run democracies.
Try DamnSmallLinux. It can fit on a business card size 50MB live CD. It's chock full of some brilliant apps, and can easily be configured to fit any system. The CD works on even older CDROM drives. Plus, it's lightning fast:)
Dont want to flame but, since it's the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, if you're good enough for the job, I'm sure they'll take you to wherever it is. I mean, that's the whole point of "international". Isn't it?
This is something so important to the people of the world, and all the politicians can think of is to fight about where it will be placed.
I just wish, for once, these people would get out of their petty mindsets and realize that the more important issue here is NOT where it's going to be, but what it is going to do.
Er, go ahead with the flaming about the evil terrorists who will destroy the reactor or take over the worlds energy sources now.
Actually, I believe the way we percieve frames on TV, and on a PC screen are completely different. On a typical TV frame, the frame records motion. If you extract just one frame and look at it, you can see that the moving objects are blurred. 24-25 frames is actually what most *film* is recorded at. Movie films, I think, are still recorded at 24fps, that number was chosen because of a very old trade-off between running the film at high speed to get more frames, and running it at a low enough speed to stop the film from tearing.
On computers, you can most definitely tell the difference between, say 60fps and 100fps, because a frame does not record motion. One frame is just a statically rendered shot. But above that, you wouldn't notice too much difference.
That said, the actual reasons for upgrading your card wont be the FPS. It will usually be running it at a decent FPS while still keeping the newer features like Antialiasing, Pixelshading, etc turned on. Many newer games (DX 9.0+) rely on stuff like this to get anything done. Notice the detailed dynamic shadows in the D3 screens? Your GF4MX420 can't handle those very well I suppose?
But hey, I own a GF4MX440SE, and between putting up with the high costs of a new card and all the people who say I've actually bought a hidden GF2GTS, I'd choose the cheaper alternative any day.
The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him.
...but the visitor wants to pee. And he does that. It's not the best place, but it's there when you need it, and it's free to use.
My point is that no one really uses wikipedia for any serious research that requires confirmable references. At least, no one should be. But for the average user, who wants a quick glance, say, at what a Class AB Amplifier does, the wikipedia is a great source for some quick and fairly decent info. It might not be the best, it might not even be a 100% accurate, but hey, it's there when you need it. But if you're going to be a fool and actually take what's written there at face value, you deserve what's coming to you. Maybe you'll short the base and the collector and burn something...
The wikipedia can never be a perfect reference, even if it wants to. You can use it to it's fullest potential and your highest benefit if, and only if, you realise this.
I've just started to dabble with music creation on the PC. While I was looking for apps to start with, I found this excellent windows app called FruityloopsM (FLStudio now). IMO, it is very polished and excellent to use. And, like a good game, simple to learn and hard to master. I'm not advertising, I'm just blown away by this things quality.
Now, FL is pay software, and I have the 30 day demo (*hangs head in shame*) and it's one of the things keeping me on Windows (the other things being the games:).
I've been looking for a decent app for linux which resembles fruity loops. Does anyone know of one which can hold a candle to FL? I've been informed by various sources that FL is a point and click tracker, a VST interface (whatever that is) and various other scary sounding terms:/.
Besides, if any of you 1337 developer gods out there are interested in making music software, this is one app worth cloning
I remember that when the HL2 source code was leaked, Gabe Newell (VALVe founder) sent out a request to the HL community. It worked. Pretty soon, they managed to get a few leads and tracked down the guy who initially distributed it. Best part was, all this happened over IRC rooms when some guy started boasting about his exploits.
This is setting a very positive trend, IMO. (Besides showing that IRC is not *just* the home of the pirates and the script kiddies:) It shows that the community will back a game publisher/developer who gives them quality stuff, and is willing to pull down shitty publishers like EA.
Anyway... long story short, this is Very Good(TM). I hope this continues
There is a very large market for these so called "camera print" movies in Eastern countries like China, Korea and Malaysia. India is just beginning to get onto this. This mostly happens because English movies used to release in these countries a couple of months after the "international" release, and also because the average cost of a VCD/DVD is unbelievably high (singe movie = almost 20% of the average monthly income).
Someone takes a video, uploads it, and soon it's being copied all over the world in tiny shops with 2-3 burners. I suppose this is one of the main problems they are trying to solve.
That's what you get when you outsource code-development to 3rd-world countries
Bullshit. Piracy of MS Products has been going on for a long time before Offshoring even reached it's current magnitude.
This is not a problem with offshoring, no matter how much you want to make yourself believe that. This is a problem of getting governments to fight piracy. The Average Russian cannot afford WinXP. So he buys a pirated version. MS Finds out that this is all too common, and asks the Russian Government to step in. They refuse saying that the product is overpriced, and they'll only cooperate if the price is dropped.
In Typical MS style arm-twisting, they unload some junk at a cheaper price. Now, they've met their part of the deal and dropped the price. It's up to the Russian Govt to keep up their end of it, and try to curb piracy.
It's a very simple and obvious move. They don't care if it takes off or not, they'll have official govt backing. It's more important to them to ensure their future business and get a legal toehold. But then again, MS has always been really good at marketing, hasn't it.
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Tom's h/w says that the model they will be hawking is the LADBSD250, but I can't find it on the Linare website. All I can find is the LADBSD220, which does come with 4 USB ports.
It tells you something about the vendor when their current top product does not find mention on their website.
[Site was already beginning to slow down. Text reproduced in case of full /.ing]
Open Source is Not a Career Path
"If you're getting into open source because you see it as a career path, you're doing something wrong." It's not that Linux creator Linus Torvalds thinks open-source programmers should work for peanuts (he doesn't), but rather that they should be properly motivated. Call it software with a soul, if you like. Only the truly passionate need apply.
That's the message Torvalds and several other open-source luminaries have for the next generation of programmers. "A career path is not a motivation," Torvalds said during Tuesday's Open Source Development Lab's enterprise Linux summit. A reluctant visionary, (he blushed a shade of bright red during an intro that mentioned his inclusion in Time Magazine's list of most influential people) Torvalds is nonetheless passionate about his life's work, an open-source operating system that has blossomed into a major force in the technology world.
The future of open-source software depends upon bright, motivated programmers filled with ideas and initiative rather than programmers promoting their own, or their employer's, self interests. It's a concept that has been embraced by many but is nonetheless counterintuitive to an entire generation of programmers conditioned to view code (rather than the code's problem-solving capabilities) as a competitive advantage.
Times are changing, and the developer community needs to get with the times, said Brian Behlendorf, who shared Tuesday's OSDL keynote with Torvalds, Mitch Kapor, founder and chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation, lead Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton, and OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen. Behlendorf, chief technology officer of CollabNet Inc. and a founder of the Apache open source project, pointed out that the traits that make for a successful open source developer are different from what makes for a successful proprietary developer.
"In open source, you have to be a better communicator and to be able to defend yourself," Behlendorf said. He added that a thick skin also is a requirement when laying bare one's work for all the world to see and criticize. "There's not a lot of room for prima donnas."
You've been waiting a looong time to use this one, haven't you :)
I'm not going to claim any knowledge of cryptography, but their website is claiming quite a few modifications to existing stuff. If they get it to mesh together and avoid the few drawbacks that regular crypto algorithms have, this could be considered a new technology.
That wasn't my major point though. I actually meant more along the lines of "Try what they show before claiming it's bad" .
Why is there so much negativity here?
:(
I understand that PGP, RSA et al are sufficient for current encryption, but this might prove to be different and advantageous. Slashdotters in general like diversity, right? IMO it shouldn't be any different for this.
Of course, there may be problems, but many new technologies have those. I see no reason to trash it like most of these posts seem to be doing
PS: This may sound like a plug, but i'm not affiliated in any way.
If the same data was sent on both the channels, we(they) would have had all the data, albeit at a slower rate. Now we have only the data which made it through on one channel. The other bunch was lost.
I thought they had found a method to further compress a JPEG, while still maintaining the original format. i.e. it could still be viewed with a regular JPG viewer. That kind of optimization would've been great, especially if it could be used on webpages, forums etc.
But this is somewhat disappointing. The compression changes the format, and it must be decompressed to view it. Plus they don't intend on releasing the format, and their proposal for a new filetype which can be read by a "plugin" reeks of incompatibility issues.
ConTEXT Superb text editor. Can't recommend it enough.
GAIM
MS VC++ Toolkit 2003 (Don't hate me. It's pretty good)
SpamPal: Nifty little spam filter. Works with almost any client.
Just suggestions. Not affiliated to any of the above in any way except as an end-user.
I didn't know that IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) were a treat. How did they taste?
Try DamnSmallLinux. It can fit on a business card size 50MB live CD. It's chock full of some brilliant apps, and can easily be configured to fit any system. The CD works on even older CDROM drives. Plus, it's lightning fast :)
Dont want to flame but, since it's the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, if you're good enough for the job, I'm sure they'll take you to wherever it is. I mean, that's the whole point of "international". Isn't it?
This is something so important to the people of the world, and all the politicians can think of is to fight about where it will be placed.
I just wish, for once, these people would get out of their petty mindsets and realize that the more important issue here is NOT where it's going to be, but what it is going to do.
Er, go ahead with the flaming about the evil terrorists who will destroy the reactor or take over the worlds energy sources now.
Actually, I believe the way we percieve frames on TV, and on a PC screen are completely different. On a typical TV frame, the frame records motion. If you extract just one frame and look at it, you can see that the moving objects are blurred. 24-25 frames is actually what most *film* is recorded at. Movie films, I think, are still recorded at 24fps, that number was chosen because of a very old trade-off between running the film at high speed to get more frames, and running it at a low enough speed to stop the film from tearing.
On computers, you can most definitely tell the difference between, say 60fps and 100fps, because a frame does not record motion. One frame is just a statically rendered shot. But above that, you wouldn't notice too much difference.
That said, the actual reasons for upgrading your card wont be the FPS. It will usually be running it at a decent FPS while still keeping the newer features like Antialiasing, Pixelshading, etc turned on. Many newer games (DX 9.0+) rely on stuff like this to get anything done. Notice the detailed dynamic shadows in the D3 screens? Your GF4MX420 can't handle those very well I suppose?
But hey, I own a GF4MX440SE, and between putting up with the high costs of a new card and all the people who say I've actually bought a hidden GF2GTS, I'd choose the cheaper alternative any day.
The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him.
My point is that no one really uses wikipedia for any serious research that requires confirmable references. At least, no one should be. But for the average user, who wants a quick glance, say, at what a Class AB Amplifier does, the wikipedia is a great source for some quick and fairly decent info. It might not be the best, it might not even be a 100% accurate, but hey, it's there when you need it. But if you're going to be a fool and actually take what's written there at face value, you deserve what's coming to you. Maybe you'll short the base and the collector and burn something...
The wikipedia can never be a perfect reference, even if it wants to. You can use it to it's fullest potential and your highest benefit if, and only if, you realise this.
I've just started to dabble with music creation on the PC. While I was looking for apps to start with, I found this excellent windows app called FruityloopsM (FLStudio now). IMO, it is very polished and excellent to use. And, like a good game, simple to learn and hard to master. I'm not advertising, I'm just blown away by this things quality.
Now, FL is pay software, and I have the 30 day demo (*hangs head in shame*) and it's one of the things keeping me on Windows (the other things being the games :).
I've been looking for a decent app for linux which resembles fruity loops. Does anyone know of one which can hold a candle to FL? I've been informed by various sources that FL is a point and click tracker, a VST interface (whatever that is) and various other scary sounding terms :/.
Besides, if any of you 1337 developer gods out there are interested in making music software, this is one app worth cloning
I remember that when the HL2 source code was leaked, Gabe Newell (VALVe founder) sent out a request to the HL community. It worked. Pretty soon, they managed to get a few leads and tracked down the guy who initially distributed it. Best part was, all this happened over IRC rooms when some guy started boasting about his exploits.
This is setting a very positive trend, IMO. (Besides showing that IRC is not *just* the home of the pirates and the script kiddies :) It shows that the community will back a game publisher/developer who gives them quality stuff, and is willing to pull down shitty publishers like EA.
Anyway... long story short, this is Very Good(TM). I hope this continues
There is a very large market for these so called "camera print" movies in Eastern countries like China, Korea and Malaysia. India is just beginning to get onto this. This mostly happens because English movies used to release in these countries a couple of months after the "international" release, and also because the average cost of a VCD/DVD is unbelievably high (singe movie = almost 20% of the average monthly income).
Someone takes a video, uploads it, and soon it's being copied all over the world in tiny shops with 2-3 burners. I suppose this is one of the main problems they are trying to solve.
...and this troll gets modded +2 insightful how, exactly?
This is not a problem with offshoring, no matter how much you want to make yourself believe that. This is a problem of getting governments to fight piracy. The Average Russian cannot afford WinXP. So he buys a pirated version. MS Finds out that this is all too common, and asks the Russian Government to step in. They refuse saying that the product is overpriced, and they'll only cooperate if the price is dropped.
In Typical MS style arm-twisting, they unload some junk at a cheaper price. Now, they've met their part of the deal and dropped the price. It's up to the Russian Govt to keep up their end of it, and try to curb piracy.
It's a very simple and obvious move. They don't care if it takes off or not, they'll have official govt backing. It's more important to them to ensure their future business and get a legal toehold. But then again, MS has always been really good at marketing, hasn't it.
Does anyone remember the scaled down version of XP, released specifically because of all the piracy in some Asian countries?
I wonder how this step will affect users of the pirated copies of that version. Will they be penalised, or will MS continue to ignore piracy in Asia?
To be honest, I don't see MS being able to do anything in those countries... Your thoughts?
...is a bounty on dupes too :)
the last thing we need is a bunch of geeks running around with sniffers and spoofers thinking they are cowboys (er, spammerboys).