I don't know if the UK is making a good move here or not, but I do think it will help at least a little bit. The reason is that patents are so out of hand these days that they don't protect anything. I opened a bottle of water the other day and glanced at the inside of the lid and it had three patent numbers listed. The LID of a bottle of water has three patents. There needs to be a little bit of thought that goes into the process of giving out patents. If you can simply say that you created a lid that turns a different number of degrees than some one else or that you have more ridges for grip and get a patent there is something wrong. Software patents are even worse. There are patents on nearly everything and it is just stupid. There is probably at least 6 patents that make it so that this message I am posting is illegal.
My point is that patents don't work. Either a company patents something that they don't really own and prevents everyone else from doing something that is so obvious that there isn't another option OR EVERYONE USES IT ANYWAYS.
PATENTS DON'T WORK
Actually it wouldn't make a good mp3 player. It is next to impossible to play mp3's on a 486 and instead of a hard drive they are using flash so you can fit like 10 songs maybe? Sounds like a fairly cool project but not worth doing the way they did. If you put in a bit of NEW hardware it might be cool. Sorry but anyone can put a 486 in a small box.
Well it doesn't have to be a full blown GPS. A regular GPS unit has to be accurate within a couple yards. This only has to be able to tell what country your in. Thats fairly easy.
You know last time I walked through the PDA section at compUSA I didn't see anything from sharp. In fact I can't think of any PDA I've ever seen from sharp so how did they become a "PDA Giant"??? I think a better description would be "Big company that happens to make PDAs but nobody buys them"
Seems like it all needs a bit more work
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So I tried OMS a few months ago and it took me about 6 hours to get everything compiled because there where many wierd little things that just didn't seem to work. For instance one library had a broken Makefile. Anyways once I finally got it working I was very disapointed because I only got about 3 frames a second. Now granted this isn't a very powerful machine but I play DVD's in software in windows all the time and have never had a problem. So when I saw that OMS had been released I was very excited hoping that it would fix my problems. Well I downloaded it and compiled it which only took about 20 minutes this time and started it up but got nothing. Not a single frame. So I read a few of the posts on here and downloaded VideoLAN. I tried it first on my laptop which is running rh7 (with all the updates) and was unable to get it to compile. I just got about 1000 lines saying/tmp/ccADnK2N.s:5517: Error: suffix or operands invalid for 'paddw'
So I tried it on my desktop which is running rh6.2 and it compiled just fine but frame rates where less than one a second. Needless to say I was not happy about this. So next I tried xine. By this point I was sick of compiling so I grabbed a rpm and stuck it on my laptop. Well it got about a frame every 3 seconds. So I'm wondering if anyone has any tricks to getting better performance out of any of these players. Currently I only boot my laptop into windows to paly DVD's and life would be wonderful if I didn't have to do that. Thanks all.
Angel
I am very much considering buying a Helio. The price is wonderful and it is fairly powerful. The thing I am worried about though is that I haven't been able to find very much information about putting linux on it. Pocketlinux says it works and has instructions that get you to a shell prompt, but thats all I could find. If I'm going to buy a handheld I want to know that I can use it. I don't mind helping with the development efforts, but I would very much like to know what the current status is. Does anyone know?
I know most of you aren't going to like this solution because it runs on Netware and not Linux, but I figure its worth suggesting anyways. Go check out http://www.myrealbox.com/. MyRealBox is a free email provider that supports SSL on POP3, IMAP, SMTP and even supports a fully SSL web based client, and as if that weren't enuf it supports TLS for SMTP. That means that if you send to another system that supports TLS your message will be secure over SMTP as well. This is about the most security you can get without going to extremes.
This is stupid. You post a link to some one else's story, and they clearly state that it isn't from intel. It is just what they think. "This information is not from Intel nor is it solid fact."
Is slashdot not capable of finding real news?
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Is slashdot not capable of finding real news? If you are just going to steal headlines would you at least steal the interesting ones? I mean come on. Do we really need to know about every little piece of software that might affect 'bout 2% of users on here. I mean really... who is going to use this? I admit its got a little bit of a "wow" factor to it... but that died before i finished reading the headline.. can we please have some real news???
I can't belive how stupid these greedy people are. The guy in the article was quoted as saying "artists will have no reason to create" or something like that. Bull Smeg!! The entire argument is basicly that people will stop creating if they aren't payed for it. That is such a crock. I am personally in a band and i've seen about 1 buck 25 from it. I still play. I still write music and I still love it. The music industry is only about the money to the people that don't do music. Nearly all musicians would continue to play, and release music even if they never see a cent from it. Those that do it as a carreer will as well. They will simply make money from touring. All this crap about it putting us into a cultural dark ages is such garbage.
X is one of the greatest things about a *nix!
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X is one of the greatest things about a *nix! At work I am required to run windows about half the time. It doesn't bother me much though because I have this wonderful little X server for windows. I can run ANYTHING from my linux box in the next room. Lets see you run a windows program remotely. Oh you can't you say? hmmm... And what are you talking about it being slow? If its slow for you get the right server for your card. I'm running Xfree86 4.1 with the nvidia drivers, and X HAULS BUTT!!! It is much faster than windows at everything that it does, and it looks SOOO much better. I personally run enlightenment. You complain about bloat? Your bloat is your stupid task bar. You will never get windows to look anywere near as beautiful as my desktop looks in linux. You will never get windows to be anywere near as functional. Of course now your argument is that its not setup a standard way. Some newbie can't some sit down at my desk and use it. Of course not!!! It MY way. I spent a lot of time to get it running MY way. If a newbie does a fresh install of redhat though the newbie gets KDE. I got my Mom to use KDE once. She can't get around in windows!!! I've seen a linux system boot off of 3 floppies and run X, and had a lot of little tools on there. Lets see you get windows to do that. It just doesn't compare. X is the best thing there is. YOU KILL X I KILL U!!!
My fav easter egg wasn't in an open source project but it was one that most open source peeps will appreciate. The easter egg is in an IMAP server. Because of the way the IMAP protocol is layed out it is possible to add commands. So this easter egg follows the rfc, and is just a command in IMAP. n e ways... i'm done... ta ta for now
I am very interested in this, and I have followed the link, but there is no other information. My dad has an illness called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It is commonly refered to as Lou Gherig's, or ALS. It is the same thing that plaques Steven Hawkin. He is at the state were he is barely able to move, or talk at all. He has the ability to use a mouse, although he is very slow. With an on screen keyboard he is able to type, but on a good day can only get about three words per minute. He is barely able to do anything because of this. His friends are unable to understand him when he speaks. He is not even able to chat because he types to slowly, and other chatters basicly ignore him. If he were able to use his mind to control the computer, rather than a physical means he would be able to do an incredable amount more than he can now. With a laptop he would be able to control his electric wheel chair without use of the cumbersome joy stick. He would be able to talk in real time through speech synth. Those two things would mean the world to him. Transportation, and being able to speak. If anyone knows were I might be able to find more information on this subject please contact me. I am extremely interested in getting my dad into any test programs that may be going on. You can email me at angel@myrealbox.com Thanks
My father suffers from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It is often refered to as Lou Gerig's diesease. It happens to be the same thing that afflicts Mr. Hawking. My dad has progressed far enough in the illness that he is barely able to speak and when he does only a select few are able to understand him. Because of this I have started a project to mount a laptop on his wheel chair, and using the festival speech synth library give him the ability to speak. The problem that I have is the interface. My father uses a computer and the internet a great deal. He is unable to use a keyboard though. Instead he uses a little program that displays a picture of a keyboard and when clicked on will send that keystroke to the keyboard buffer. For the wheel chair his means of input are even more limited because he uses his right hand to control the wheel chair and will now use his left to control the speech laptop. If anyone has any suggestions for the interface, or would like to help in the project please contact me. My email address is angel@myrealbox.com and I would be very grateful for any help that I might get. This is being done as a present for my father, and I would like to have it working asap. thanks.
I am using M14 right now. Some of the fonts are a little wierd, but for the most part it seems great. I think its save to say that the fonts are better than nutscrape 4.x for linux, but there are still probs. Other than that it looks great. It is very fast. I haven't had it crash yet and I've been trying to get it to. One thing I really like is that it finally remembers settings. On M13 no matter what I did when I closed that bar on the left it came back the next time I opened the browser. That seems to have been fixed. N E ways.. I like..
ok.. so why would you possible make a cat..? I mean... they say in the article that its not meant to be a toy like the aibo.. its ment to be used for pet therapy. hmm... pet therapy? wouldn't a real pet do a bit better job... lots cheaper too... oh... and your real cat won't run out of juice after sleeping for an hour. better stock up on those batteries..
the article really bothered me.. It says that it not simply a bunch of automated responses, but that it actually has emotions. I am terribly sorry but if they have succefully created computer software the feels they had better not be wasting it on a stupid cat...
Oh... and it also says that rather than listening for words it listens for the tone of your voice.. cause thats what cats do right... or maybe cause voice recognition is harder...
so what happens if you are listening to music with it in the room... it'll go crazy...
n e ways... I'll end my ranting 'bout now.. have a nice day all
what about the LUSERS. You know... the peeps that have a hard time understanding why the button labeled power would turn it off... don't they deserve one?
I've used a great deal of cybex KVM switches, and they are great....the little 8 machine switches are really easy to use, and they let you do a lot of management stuff, but there is no client stuff to do. It doesn't care what os the machines run. The bigger ones are really cool...you can hook a bunch of them together with cat 5 cables and have machines and monitors in multiple places, like if you have a lab, and you want to be able to get to the machines from your office. Really nice stuff...you should check it out....
I played with legos when I was a kid, but I hadn't even seen em' for years, until the cafateria at my work started putting them on all the tables. The first day they were there I saw to older and respected programs arguing over pieces. It was the funniest thing ever.
Smegging little robots will ruin everything
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Haven't any of you ever seen Red Dwarf? Star trek isn't the only sci fi show to use nano's The crew of red dwarf looses the ship, and so they chase it for like forever, and finally the find out that it is in the dirty clothes hamper. Kriten (the android) had a bunch of nono's that were meant to repair him and stuff. So they took over the ship, and it was to big for them so they shrunk it...(kinda weird I know...but if you've seen the show you know thats the whole smeggin' point.) so then they capture them and force them to give the ship back....and it just keeeps getting messy..... so my advice (which should be ignored, because as anyone with braincells >= 2 should realize) is to leave them alone. 00101111 00101110 00100000 01010010 01110101 01101100 01100101 01110011 00100001
If you like gnome so much why don't you just use the gnome dock apps? They are better than the window maker ones...you can put them in menus, and you can resize them and stuff....I personally like window maker a lot, and I can't stand gnome,..its to slow....I'll go with E any day........I actually run a couple window maker dock apps...like a I have a network monitor...
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I don't know if the UK is making a good move here or not, but I do think it will help at least a little bit. The reason is that patents are so out of hand these days that they don't protect anything. I opened a bottle of water the other day and glanced at the inside of the lid and it had three patent numbers listed. The LID of a bottle of water has three patents. There needs to be a little bit of thought that goes into the process of giving out patents. If you can simply say that you created a lid that turns a different number of degrees than some one else or that you have more ridges for grip and get a patent there is something wrong. Software patents are even worse. There are patents on nearly everything and it is just stupid. There is probably at least 6 patents that make it so that this message I am posting is illegal.
My point is that patents don't work. Either a company patents something that they don't really own and prevents everyone else from doing something that is so obvious that there isn't another option OR EVERYONE USES IT ANYWAYS.
PATENTS DON'T WORK
Well I've said enuf.
Actually it wouldn't make a good mp3 player. It is next to impossible to play mp3's on a 486 and instead of a hard drive they are using flash so you can fit like 10 songs maybe? Sounds like a fairly cool project but not worth doing the way they did. If you put in a bit of NEW hardware it might be cool. Sorry but anyone can put a 486 in a small box.
Well it doesn't have to be a full blown GPS. A regular GPS unit has to be accurate within a couple yards. This only has to be able to tell what country your in. Thats fairly easy.
You know last time I walked through the PDA section at compUSA I didn't see anything from sharp. In fact I can't think of any PDA I've ever seen from sharp so how did they become a "PDA Giant"??? I think a better description would be "Big company that happens to make PDAs but nobody buys them"
So I tried OMS a few months ago and it took me about 6 hours to get everything compiled because there where many wierd little things that just didn't seem to work. For instance one library had a broken Makefile. Anyways once I finally got it working I was very disapointed because I only got about 3 frames a second. Now granted this isn't a very powerful machine but I play DVD's in software in windows all the time and have never had a problem. So when I saw that OMS had been released I was very excited hoping that it would fix my problems. Well I downloaded it and compiled it which only took about 20 minutes this time and started it up but got nothing. Not a single frame. So I read a few of the posts on here and downloaded VideoLAN. I tried it first on my laptop which is running rh7 (with all the updates) and was unable to get it to compile. I just got about 1000 lines saying /tmp/ccADnK2N.s:5517: Error: suffix or operands invalid for 'paddw'
So I tried it on my desktop which is running rh6.2 and it compiled just fine but frame rates where less than one a second. Needless to say I was not happy about this. So next I tried xine. By this point I was sick of compiling so I grabbed a rpm and stuck it on my laptop. Well it got about a frame every 3 seconds. So I'm wondering if anyone has any tricks to getting better performance out of any of these players. Currently I only boot my laptop into windows to paly DVD's and life would be wonderful if I didn't have to do that. Thanks all.
Angel
I am very much considering buying a Helio. The price is wonderful and it is fairly powerful. The thing I am worried about though is that I haven't been able to find very much information about putting linux on it. Pocketlinux says it works and has instructions that get you to a shell prompt, but thats all I could find. If I'm going to buy a handheld I want to know that I can use it. I don't mind helping with the development efforts, but I would very much like to know what the current status is. Does anyone know?
I know most of you aren't going to like this solution because it runs on Netware and not Linux, but I figure its worth suggesting anyways. Go check out http://www.myrealbox.com/. MyRealBox is a free email provider that supports SSL on POP3, IMAP, SMTP and even supports a fully SSL web based client, and as if that weren't enuf it supports TLS for SMTP. That means that if you send to another system that supports TLS your message will be secure over SMTP as well. This is about the most security you can get without going to extremes.
This is stupid. You post a link to some one else's story, and they clearly state that it isn't from intel. It is just what they think. "This information is not from Intel nor is it solid fact."
Is slashdot not capable of finding real news? If you are just going to steal headlines would you at least steal the interesting ones? I mean come on. Do we really need to know about every little piece of software that might affect 'bout 2% of users on here. I mean really... who is going to use this? I admit its got a little bit of a "wow" factor to it... but that died before i finished reading the headline.. can we please have some real news???
Do you know the url's to gilat and isky? It would help a lot.
I can't belive how stupid these greedy people are. The guy in the article was quoted as saying "artists will have no reason to create" or something like that. Bull Smeg!! The entire argument is basicly that people will stop creating if they aren't payed for it. That is such a crock. I am personally in a band and i've seen about 1 buck 25 from it. I still play. I still write music and I still love it. The music industry is only about the money to the people that don't do music. Nearly all musicians would continue to play, and release music even if they never see a cent from it. Those that do it as a carreer will as well. They will simply make money from touring. All this crap about it putting us into a cultural dark ages is such garbage.
X is one of the greatest things about a *nix! At work I am required to run windows about half the time. It doesn't bother me much though because I have this wonderful little X server for windows. I can run ANYTHING from my linux box in the next room. Lets see you run a windows program remotely. Oh you can't you say? hmmm... And what are you talking about it being slow? If its slow for you get the right server for your card. I'm running Xfree86 4.1 with the nvidia drivers, and X HAULS BUTT!!! It is much faster than windows at everything that it does, and it looks SOOO much better. I personally run enlightenment. You complain about bloat? Your bloat is your stupid task bar. You will never get windows to look anywere near as beautiful as my desktop looks in linux. You will never get windows to be anywere near as functional. Of course now your argument is that its not setup a standard way. Some newbie can't some sit down at my desk and use it. Of course not!!! It MY way. I spent a lot of time to get it running MY way. If a newbie does a fresh install of redhat though the newbie gets KDE. I got my Mom to use KDE once. She can't get around in windows!!! I've seen a linux system boot off of 3 floppies and run X, and had a lot of little tools on there. Lets see you get windows to do that. It just doesn't compare. X is the best thing there is. YOU KILL X I KILL U!!!
My fav easter egg wasn't in an open source project but it was one that most open source peeps will appreciate. The easter egg is in an IMAP server. Because of the way the IMAP protocol is layed out it is possible to add commands. So this easter egg follows the rfc, and is just a command in IMAP. n e ways... i'm done... ta ta for now
I am very interested in this, and I have followed the link, but there is no other information. My dad has an illness called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It is commonly refered to as Lou Gherig's, or ALS. It is the same thing that plaques Steven Hawkin. He is at the state were he is barely able to move, or talk at all. He has the ability to use a mouse, although he is very slow. With an on screen keyboard he is able to type, but on a good day can only get about three words per minute. He is barely able to do anything because of this. His friends are unable to understand him when he speaks. He is not even able to chat because he types to slowly, and other chatters basicly ignore him. If he were able to use his mind to control the computer, rather than a physical means he would be able to do an incredable amount more than he can now. With a laptop he would be able to control his electric wheel chair without use of the cumbersome joy stick. He would be able to talk in real time through speech synth. Those two things would mean the world to him. Transportation, and being able to speak. If anyone knows were I might be able to find more information on this subject please contact me. I am extremely interested in getting my dad into any test programs that may be going on. You can email me at angel@myrealbox.com Thanks
My father suffers from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It is often refered to as Lou Gerig's diesease. It happens to be the same thing that afflicts Mr. Hawking.
My dad has progressed far enough in the illness that he is barely able to speak and when he does only a select few are able to understand him. Because of this I have started a project to mount a laptop on his wheel chair, and using the festival speech synth library give him the ability to speak. The problem that I have is the interface. My father uses a computer and the internet a great deal. He is unable to use a keyboard though. Instead he uses a little program that displays a picture of a keyboard and when clicked on will send that keystroke to the keyboard buffer. For the wheel chair his means of input are even more limited because he uses his right hand to control the wheel chair and will now use his left to control the speech laptop. If anyone has any suggestions for the interface, or would like to help in the project please contact me. My email address is angel@myrealbox.com and I would be very grateful for any help that I might get. This is being done as a present for my father, and I would like to have it working asap. thanks.
I am using M14 right now. Some of the fonts are a little wierd, but for the most part it seems great. I think its save to say that the fonts are better than nutscrape 4.x for linux, but there are still probs. Other than that it looks great. It is very fast. I haven't had it crash yet and I've been trying to get it to. One thing I really like is that it finally remembers settings. On M13 no matter what I did when I closed that bar on the left it came back the next time I opened the browser. That seems to have been fixed. N E ways.. I like..
ok.. so why would you possible make a cat..?
I mean... they say in the article that its not meant to be a toy like the aibo.. its ment to be used for pet therapy. hmm... pet therapy? wouldn't a real pet do a bit better job... lots cheaper too... oh... and your real cat won't run out of juice after sleeping for an hour. better stock up on those batteries..
the article really bothered me.. It says that it not simply a bunch of automated responses, but that it actually has emotions. I am terribly sorry but if they have succefully created computer software the feels they had better not be wasting it on a stupid cat...
Oh... and it also says that rather than listening for words it listens for the tone of your voice.. cause thats what cats do right... or maybe cause voice recognition is harder...
so what happens if you are listening to music with it in the room... it'll go crazy...
n e ways... I'll end my ranting 'bout now..
have a nice day all
what about the LUSERS. You know... the peeps that have a hard time understanding why the button labeled power would turn it off... don't they deserve one?
I've used a great deal of cybex KVM switches, and they are great....the little 8 machine switches are really easy to use, and they let you do a lot of management stuff, but there is no client stuff to do. It doesn't care what os the machines run. The bigger ones are really cool...you can hook a bunch of them together with cat 5 cables and have machines and monitors in multiple places, like if you have a lab, and you want to be able to get to the machines from your office. Really nice stuff...you should check it out....
I played with legos when I was a kid, but I hadn't even seen em' for years, until the cafateria at my work started putting them on all the tables. The first day they were there I saw to older and respected programs arguing over pieces. It was the funniest thing ever.
Haven't any of you ever seen Red Dwarf? Star trek isn't the only sci fi show to use nano's The crew of red dwarf looses the ship, and so they chase it for like forever, and finally the find out that it is in the dirty clothes hamper. Kriten (the android) had a bunch of nono's that were meant to repair him and stuff. So they took over the ship, and it was to big for them so they shrunk it...(kinda weird I know...but if you've seen the show you know thats the whole smeggin' point.) so then they capture them and force them to give the ship back....and it just keeeps getting messy..... so my advice (which should be ignored, because as anyone with braincells >= 2 should realize) is to leave them alone. 00101111 00101110 00100000 01010010 01110101 01101100 01100101 01110011 00100001
If you like gnome so much why don't you just use the gnome dock apps? They are better than the window maker ones...you can put them in menus, and you can resize them and stuff....I personally like window maker a lot, and I can't stand gnome,..its to slow....I'll go with E any day........I actually run a couple window maker dock apps...like a I have a network monitor...