Looks like I'm glad I didn't decide to try Verizon DSL after I gave up on the Mindspring/Covad/Verizon team to get it done. (I did give them two months.) Verizon doesn't seem like they can give me a dialup line that works the majority of the time, so I didn't see them as being able to give me dsl either.
About 24 hours ago I might have agreed with you. But now, I do not.
Last night I was walking through a park in Manhattan at 11 pm. I do this a lot, it clears my head. I saw an NYPD patrol car cruising through the park. Rather than run away or hide from them, I continued on my path as they approached. What did I have to hide?
They asked me to approach the car, I did. They explained to me that the park closed at 10 and that I was not supposed to be there. They asked for id, which I gave them. Then they explained to me that I would need to appear in court in about a month. I have to go to court because I was walking through a park, no reason more.
What will happen in court? I have no idea. The police claimed that I will probably just be told not to walk through the park anymore. If I don't go? A warrant for my arrest...for not appearing in court on charges for "Failure to Comply With Sign."
Yes, some members of the NYPD have done heroic things. However, there are at least two of them that have nothing better to do than to treat a harmless citizen as though a criminal.
This doesn't necessarily apply to my experience but I can understand that we need to tight up security in light of recent events. However, we are running the risk of a new era of McCarthyism, where we create criminals out of those who simply step out of line.
I did not meet two heros in a patrol car last night.
It is uncertain as to whether the world's richest man will propose a retaliation kick. Such a proposal could be viewed as a sign of weakness. It should be noted that while Gates is phyiscally much smaller than Torvalds, microsoft operating systems have a much larger market share than linux.
Re:jobs killed quicktime for linux
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Seems that quicktime is the feature that keeps Macs on the forefront of digital video production. To port it to linux would eat into Apple's niche market position.
Uhhh....does _anyone_ do professional digital video production on a linux box? (Hint: no.) Hell, QuickTime is out for Windows, yet Windows is not a very good platform for doing video. The vast majority of digital video is done on Avid machines or Macs running Final Cut. Doing professoinal digital video requires software and machines that meet very srtict specifications.
True, Apple does keep some of its digital video software for the mac only. Howeer, Macromedia worked on Final Cut Pro for more than a year before selling it to Apple. Macromedia just couldn't get it to work on both platforms, so apple bought it and eliminated the windows side.
Linux is very good at some things. However, it has a loooong way to go before it can chip away at Apple's client base.
Do it only with a very few people you know and do it over an encrypted pipe, storing into an encrypted filesystem.
I think we've all had that talk with our parents, whether they understand computers or not.
This brings a nasty visit from Clarus...
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If I properly recall my Computer Voodoo course, placing an x86 motherboard into an Apple case conjures up Clarus the Dogcow in his most terrible form.
Normally, he lives in the "Page Setup" dialog box in Classic Mac OS. He makes sure you know what you're doing with your printer options. Further, he's kind of cute.
However, placing the untamed power of a x86 board inside the sleek, modern design of a G4 case causes an energy imbalance which disturbs Clarus. Clarus rises from the "Page Setup" and MOOFs until every last screw holding the system together falls out. Rejoing the parts will only result in IRQ conflicts, although each part will work fine in another machine.
For more information on Clarus:
http://developer.apple.com/products/techsupport/ do gcow/
http://www.multimania.com/maddog/MOOF/index.html
And to help Clarus make the transition to Mac OS X, sign the following petition:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/sod/petition.html
Considering that they're projection, and you could put the projector into something that contained the radiation. I don't think it would be much of a problem.. if at all.
I hear that sunglasses do a good job of blocking radiation. For another level of protection, close your eyes.
For everyone who thought that the article might be about AT&T's Plan 9 operating system, here's a link...
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/
At first, I was surprised that three books were being released on this operating system. I was further surprised to read that the operating syetm was being used in a publishing house. Finally, I was surprised to see that none of this was true and that Plan 9 is also the name of a comic book publisher.
Is this off topic? Maybe. But if you go and read the story intro without an understanding of any of the proper names, you'll the mistake makes a bit of sense.
"The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws," said Thomas Nolle, a New Jersey telecommunications consultant. "The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists who didn't have a strong profit motive. But this is a business, not a government-sponsored network."
In similar news, scientists are demanding that quantum physics obey the laws of newtonian physics.
"This new science is too hard," complained one scientist. "How can we use quantum physics to make better guns when we're not even sure if schrodinger's cat is alive until we look?"
"I can't understand this stuff unless I'm as high as a kite," stated another scientist. He continued, "What am I supposed to tell people that I do? I just tell them that I play with marbles all day."
You need to give him a reason to keep in contact with someone. I suggest you ask a female friend to take nude pictures of herself which she will send on a regular basis to this guy. Eventually, she will meet him in a sleezy hotel room and crush him between her thighs.
Why should we be upset? This, my friends, appears to be the perfect copy protection scheme. It is, in fact, so perfect that it cannot be detected.
Prehaps the CDs we're been buying all along have had this protection.
With 100,000 CDs sold and no large scale complaints, it may be the case that this new form of copy protection is exactly the same as having no copy proection at all.
I'll reprogram it, I'm a Techie Prima Donna. Just give me a night and lots of cola and I'll have that thing TWEAKED OUT! (Running in Linux and programmed in Perl and MySQL of course.)
And when I'm finished, I'll frag your brains out from that same machine!
My parents have TDS Metrocom for both their phone and DSL provider. I got them to switch after I showed them that they could go with TDS Metrocom and get DSL for less than what they were paying Ameritech + ISP. After a couple of months they had a problem. The line appeared to be dead. My dad, the handyman he is, spends forever trying to fix it. Finally he calls up tech support, and within five minutes they are explaining to him how to reset his Linksys router. An ADSL line that stays up longer than the router. Awesome.
There was a bit of trouble with the install. Strangely, this disappeared when Ameritech was threatened with a report to the Better Business Beauro.
A standard shouldn't become a standard because a lot of people use it.
For both good and bad reasons, this simply isn't true.
We buy gas by the gallon and drive our cars by the mile. (At least in the US.) How many inches in a mile? How many teaspoons in a gallon? Why aren't we using the metric system?
Windows. Could someone explain to me the technical advantages of windows? I'm not sure there have ever been that many. Yet it is the standard desktop operating system.
Language. English has become the standard language for much of academia and beyond. If logic dictated language usage, we'd probably be speaking Esperanto.
The word "standard" means doing what every one else is.
Tux is cute. Linux nerds love Tux. However, he is a bit pudgy.
Do you see IBM advertising linux with a thinner, perhaps large breasted, penguin? (Hm...needa new name....Tuxi?) It if linux is going to break into the market on a large scale, it will need to market on the same playing field.
Tuxi could team up with Lara Croft in a movie or a video game.
At first, I was going to say, "Well, I guess this is further proof that using computers doesn't count as fine art." (Only joking, I'm a BFA student and use computers plenty.)
Then I looked at the images this program produces. I guess I can't expect anything BETTER than what is stuck into it - Van Gogh would never have painted scenes like those. Hell, any beginning art student could "paint like Van Gogh" - just mix your paints a bit thick! Perhaps the program needs a content selection algorythm. (I'd like to see it do a self portrait.)
At any rate, the "holy grail" of this technology is to emulate air brushed velvet. Not a fan of elvis but love the look of painted velvet? Just use a pic of your favorite celeb! Finally, Natalie Portman recognised as she should be!
I'm always surprised at how subtle humor is treated around here. It actually IS on topic because of Microsoft's recent speeches against GPLed software. Free software and Free ideas, see the connection?
As shown by Microsoft (an honorable and trustworthy corporation) money cannot be made unless a company owns the patent. To let just anyone reap the benefits of this knowledge would simply result in low cost (low cost=low value) products.
Do not allow ideas to die in the public domain. Patent them, defend them with lawyers, and lead consumers to improved lives with such products.
As a consumer, I am lost without such guidance in my life.
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Looks like I'm glad I didn't decide to try Verizon DSL after I gave up on the Mindspring/Covad/Verizon team to get it done. (I did give them two months.) Verizon doesn't seem like they can give me a dialup line that works the majority of the time, so I didn't see them as being able to give me dsl either.
This article has explained that funny smell in the air on the coast of Maine - porn in the air at 2 Mbps.
About 24 hours ago I might have agreed with you. But now, I do not.
Last night I was walking through a park in Manhattan at 11 pm. I do this a lot, it clears my head. I saw an NYPD patrol car cruising through the park. Rather than run away or hide from them, I continued on my path as they approached. What did I have to hide?
They asked me to approach the car, I did. They explained to me that the park closed at 10 and that I was not supposed to be there. They asked for id, which I gave them. Then they explained to me that I would need to appear in court in about a month. I have to go to court because I was walking through a park, no reason more.
What will happen in court? I have no idea. The police claimed that I will probably just be told not to walk through the park anymore. If I don't go? A warrant for my arrest...for not appearing in court on charges for "Failure to Comply With Sign."
Yes, some members of the NYPD have done heroic things. However, there are at least two of them that have nothing better to do than to treat a harmless citizen as though a criminal.
This doesn't necessarily apply to my experience but I can understand that we need to tight up security in light of recent events. However, we are running the risk of a new era of McCarthyism, where we create criminals out of those who simply step out of line.
I did not meet two heros in a patrol car last night.
In similar news...
Linus Torvalds proposes to kick Bill Gates.
It is uncertain as to whether the world's richest man will propose a retaliation kick. Such a proposal could be viewed as a sign of weakness. It should be noted that while Gates is phyiscally much smaller than Torvalds, microsoft operating systems have a much larger market share than linux.
I find this concept very troubling. If we train robots to be killing machines, how can we expect them to become responsible members of society?
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http://www.theonion.com/onion3522/robots_are_th
Seems that quicktime is the feature that keeps Macs on the forefront of digital video production. To port it to linux would eat into Apple's niche market position.
Uhhh....does _anyone_ do professional digital video production on a linux box? (Hint: no.) Hell, QuickTime is out for Windows, yet Windows is not a very good platform for doing video. The vast majority of digital video is done on Avid machines or Macs running Final Cut. Doing professoinal digital video requires software and machines that meet very srtict specifications.
True, Apple does keep some of its digital video software for the mac only. Howeer, Macromedia worked on Final Cut Pro for more than a year before selling it to Apple. Macromedia just couldn't get it to work on both platforms, so apple bought it and eliminated the windows side.
Linux is very good at some things. However, it has a loooong way to go before it can chip away at Apple's client base.
I get dips on spanking the kernel!
Do it only with a very few people you know and do it over an encrypted pipe, storing into an encrypted filesystem.
I think we've all had that talk with our parents, whether they understand computers or not.
If I properly recall my Computer Voodoo course, placing an x86 motherboard into an Apple case conjures up Clarus the Dogcow in his most terrible form.
/ do gcow/
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Normally, he lives in the "Page Setup" dialog box in Classic Mac OS. He makes sure you know what you're doing with your printer options. Further, he's kind of cute.
However, placing the untamed power of a x86 board inside the sleek, modern design of a G4 case causes an energy imbalance which disturbs Clarus. Clarus rises from the "Page Setup" and MOOFs until every last screw holding the system together falls out. Rejoing the parts will only result in IRQ conflicts, although each part will work fine in another machine.
For more information on Clarus:
http://developer.apple.com/products/techsupport
http://www.multimania.com/maddog/MOOF/index.htm
And to help Clarus make the transition to Mac OS X, sign the following petition:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/sod/petition.html
Considering that they're projection, and you could put the projector into something that contained the radiation. I don't think it would be much of a problem.. if at all.
I hear that sunglasses do a good job of blocking radiation. For another level of protection, close your eyes.
For everyone who thought that the article might be about AT&T's Plan 9 operating system, here's a link...
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/
At first, I was surprised that three books were being released on this operating system. I was further surprised to read that the operating syetm was being used in a publishing house. Finally, I was surprised to see that none of this was true and that Plan 9 is also the name of a comic book publisher.
Is this off topic? Maybe. But if you go and read the story intro without an understanding of any of the proper names, you'll the mistake makes a bit of sense.
In similar news, scientists are demanding that quantum physics obey the laws of newtonian physics.
"This new science is too hard," complained one scientist. "How can we use quantum physics to make better guns when we're not even sure if schrodinger's cat is alive until we look?"
"I can't understand this stuff unless I'm as high as a kite," stated another scientist. He continued, "What am I supposed to tell people that I do? I just tell them that I play with marbles all day."
You need to give him a reason to keep in contact with someone. I suggest you ask a female friend to take nude pictures of herself which she will send on a regular basis to this guy. Eventually, she will meet him in a sleezy hotel room and crush him between her thighs.
Why should we be upset? This, my friends, appears to be the perfect copy protection scheme. It is, in fact, so perfect that it cannot be detected.
Prehaps the CDs we're been buying all along have had this protection.
With 100,000 CDs sold and no large scale complaints, it may be the case that this new form of copy protection is exactly the same as having no copy proection at all.
Score one for the RIAA!
I'll reprogram it, I'm a Techie Prima Donna. Just give me a night and lots of cola and I'll have that thing TWEAKED OUT! (Running in Linux and programmed in Perl and MySQL of course.)
And when I'm finished, I'll frag your brains out from that same machine!
I'd pay for slashdot if there was more porn.
My parents have TDS Metrocom for both their phone and DSL provider. I got them to switch after I showed them that they could go with TDS Metrocom and get DSL for less than what they were paying Ameritech + ISP. After a couple of months they had a problem. The line appeared to be dead. My dad, the handyman he is, spends forever trying to fix it. Finally he calls up tech support, and within five minutes they are explaining to him how to reset his Linksys router. An ADSL line that stays up longer than the router. Awesome.
There was a bit of trouble with the install. Strangely, this disappeared when Ameritech was threatened with a report to the Better Business Beauro.
I've set up similar networks. However, I managed without the dish, and instead of coax I used string.
Strangely, it was much easier to use it for VoIP than Email, Web, or Quake.
For both good and bad reasons, this simply isn't true.
We buy gas by the gallon and drive our cars by the mile. (At least in the US.) How many inches in a mile? How many teaspoons in a gallon? Why aren't we using the metric system?
Windows. Could someone explain to me the technical advantages of windows? I'm not sure there have ever been that many. Yet it is the standard desktop operating system.
Language. English has become the standard language for much of academia and beyond. If logic dictated language usage, we'd probably be speaking Esperanto.
The word "standard" means doing what every one else is.
Tux is cute. Linux nerds love Tux. However, he is a bit pudgy.
Do you see IBM advertising linux with a thinner, perhaps large breasted, penguin? (Hm...needa new name....Tuxi?) It if linux is going to break into the market on a large scale, it will need to market on the same playing field.
Tuxi could team up with Lara Croft in a movie or a video game.
At first, I was going to say, "Well, I guess this is further proof that using computers doesn't count as fine art." (Only joking, I'm a BFA student and use computers plenty.)
Then I looked at the images this program produces. I guess I can't expect anything BETTER than what is stuck into it - Van Gogh would never have painted scenes like those. Hell, any beginning art student could "paint like Van Gogh" - just mix your paints a bit thick! Perhaps the program needs a content selection algorythm. (I'd like to see it do a self portrait.)
At any rate, the "holy grail" of this technology is to emulate air brushed velvet. Not a fan of elvis but love the look of painted velvet? Just use a pic of your favorite celeb! Finally, Natalie Portman recognised as she should be!
210 GHz is nice and all, but what does it overclock to? Hell, a bigger fan and a bit of thermal gel and I bet I could get it to 280 GHz!
Linux is what is keeping me from meeting women. : (
...i know this, and still, I find myself compulsively rebuilding my kernel.
I'm always surprised at how subtle humor is treated around here. It actually IS on topic because of Microsoft's recent speeches against GPLed software. Free software and Free ideas, see the connection?
As shown by Microsoft (an honorable and trustworthy corporation) money cannot be made unless a company owns the patent. To let just anyone reap the benefits of this knowledge would simply result in low cost (low cost=low value) products.
Do not allow ideas to die in the public domain. Patent them, defend them with lawyers, and lead consumers to improved lives with such products.
As a consumer, I am lost without such guidance in my life.