So we'll only ask "computing celebrities" and "computer experts" what OS they run and... how is any of this relevant again? You run what works for you, so who gives a shit what some stats say the guy next door is probably running?
Thanks. I'll keep that in mind in the future.
You can point the bone at Big Media crushing the 'net zines, or you can point it at disappearing ad dollars and "big media" and other "traditional" news sources finally "getting" the web and putting out products that people want on it, the (inherently?) losing proposition subsidized by their traditional offerings.
Can you really cry for Suck and Feed dying at the same time you pooh-pooh Salon for (gasp!) trying to stay afloat? No, their content ain't what it used to be, but the age of micropayments is still far off, and smarter folks are doing what they can to stay in business.
"Oh my god, dad! That man and that woman... they were... kissing each other! And fucking! And they enjoyed it! That's so horrible!"
God forbid you expose a child to sex instead of rotting their brain with Teletubbies or feeding that ultraviolence the media says is lurking within this generation by letting them watch Die Hard 7.
Granted, if you do opt to let your kid watch an X-rated movie, please, PLEASE don't make it a Max Hardcore flick.
Kids (as all of us) have a natural curiosity. What does a more effective job keeping them away from drugs? An hour of you telling them how bad they are or an hour watching a (heroin/alcohol/etc.) addict going through withdrawls? Give them an hour of the most horrifying porn and other detritus you can find on the internet and you'll never have to worry about censoring your kids.
You'll just have to worry about the alimony and therapy bills.
Case in point: Ninja Tune's Xen Cuts. Yes, it's a compilation CD, but it's all of $19 for 3 CDs packed of goodness. (if you think that's steep, go to The Wall and see what they're charging for new CDs: $19 apiece)
Ani DiFranco's new double CD? $13.
Not to be a music snob, but if spending that much on overinflated CDs bothers you, kick the major label habit and pick up some indie stuff. There's a world of goodness out there waiting to be discovered.
...and you were too lazy to click the post linked up top, it comes down to distributing the bigger tool without the (easily snapped-in) library, then distributing the library for people who can legally use it from a country where it's legal to do so.
The biggest change will affect PTStitcher and the
Panorama Tools. I am planning and suggesting a
procedure similar to the distribution method
of graphics programs like 'The Gimp'. This program
has to cope with GIF images and the corresponding
Unisys patent. The solution is to distribute a
basic no-GIF version of 'The Gimp'. For users in
'no-Unisys' countries ( ie where Unisys has no patent),
there is an optional plug-in to enable GIF. The download
site (which is also the main Gimp download site) is
in Finland, which happens to be such a 'no-Unisys'
country. In some countries (like Germany), the private
royalty-free use of any patent is allowed, so that
even some users in 'unisys-countries' might
be allowed to legally take advantage of this.
So on my website, there will only be a 'No_Fisheye'
version of Panorama Tools and PTStitcher (actually,
this functionality resides in the common library
pano12.dll/lib). The sources and a 'Fisheye' version
of pano12.dll/lib could then be downloaded from and to
'noipix' countries. People who want to use the
correction capabilities of Panorama Tools, or
who are using PTStitcher as a multirow-stitcher
for rectilinear images etc, ie who do not need fisheye
conversions, can then use my software
without constant threat from this fine company.
All others have to decide for themselves.
...but not in the US.
Efficacy and addiction are inevitably debatable topics. At any rate, you name a drug, it was legal in the US at one time or another. Cocaine in Coca-Cola, lithium in 7-Up, marijuana, GHB (it's in all of us), LSD-25 (the CIA/FBI loves the stuff!), you name it.
I'll admit it. I've never even remotely considered the "commercial" water coolers, but why the need for a water pump? Wouldn't it work just fine passively ? (think both hot air and water rise, so long as you've got your CPU/etc. situated towards the bottom of your case...)
...the genius behind taxi1010.com. More insane than you can possibly fathom.
You soapbox trolls are sprouting up all over.
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Essentially the movie industry (those bastions of morality) were doing targeted advertising of trailers for R rated movies durring childrens programing. "Gee Jonny, I don't know why that trailer was on during Power Rangers, but your a bit young to see that movie."
And who exactly is saying that to little Jonny? Mommy and daddy who took little Jonny to the movies; I'll grant that trailers are egregious and offensive (thanks for the 5+ minutes of commercials for movies I could give a flip about when I've paid $8 to see a movie I want to see), but at least grant that the movie people know their demographic, and they know that a subset of them will be interested in an antidote to the feel-good pablum that they'll have to endure for the next two hours. To put it another way, the fact that you're showing a G/PG/whatever movie doesn't mean that the audience is 100% under the age of 7 or so.
If this sort of inanity was legislated or "unoficially" enforced, then it would be illegal to (speaking purely hypothetically) show trailers for the re-release of Eraserhead or Blue Velvet before The Straight Story.
As in really, really old.
Wander around to every box or write an app that will do what I need it to, then find connected machines it has access to, replicate itself to them and then deactivate itself?
So what're the odds that this worm running on one distribution versus another will torch it?
It looks that way, but he's also working on TiVo-like features, which means you're just a small-ish step away from shooting the audio from TV shows down to CD. Or somesuch.
I thought it was going to be opened up after development was stable? Whatever.
...MediaBox. Pretty nifty li'l app the guy's put together, not that I can vouch for it.
At any rate, a Book PC would be the sort of form factor that you're looking for if non-obtrusive is the order of the day.
Geforces are notoriously power-hungry beasts. If you want your maddeningly hard-to-reproduce crashes, hangs, pops and bangs, go with a 250W power supply.
They sell 400 watters these days and it's not a bad idea to snarg one. Just tell yourself you'll be able to carry it over to your next computer like you did with your 300 watter.
Heard the buzwords, tried the systems... at the end of the day, I'm consistently unimpressed. The best that I've seen is All Music which finds stylisticaly similar albums and does a more or less good job.
P.S.: the age of mana from VCs is long since over. Here's where I'd recommend you come up with something smarter than "we're running headlong up against Amazon with a recommendation system that we found somewhere on the internet" for your business plan if you're at all serious about this.
...the money comes from where?
Consoles: loss leaders. It's a computer, and unless it's being sold as a loss leader, why would anyone buy it? It's open, so no devkit/royalties to rely on.
If they feel like bleeding money out of both ends, they could at least give me enough to retire before they do so.
Come out late with a console that does the same thing as all the other consoles already out there, except without any development houses backing it? Wonderful. Who greenlighted that, anyhow?
By the time they get it out the door in 2002, the XBox and Nintendo will long since have been out there; the dust will have settled and the vast majority of gamers will already have made their choice: PS2, XBox or GameCube? Will anyone wait around for a cell phone makers' belated, ill-supported entry into the gaming market just because it's open source?
Granted it's short on details, but no plans for an infrastructure to back their TiVo/Ultimate TV clone other than the ability to do it?
Where's the revenue source, anyhow? Consoles and the like traditionally sell equipment as loss leaders... do they plan to be able to squeeze licensing and development costs out of Joe Programmer?
If I ever decide to go out and buy a Mac, I'll be certain to keep it in mind, seeing as how Mac seems to have problems releasing their own CD burner software.
Also, Microsoft Word for Windows 2000 is really great; does that make Microsoft Word for Mac suck any less?
I'm not going for sympathy, I'm just giving a little warning to the 70(plus)% of the people who come here and use Windows.
Also, as long as we're making cheap digs, the people who use a real OS until they dual-boot to that fake OS because they want to play some real games. Also, my sincerest sympathies go out to anyone who's in *nix 24/7 and using the web.
Quality control? What's that? Only thing of theirs that I installed on W2K Pro was the Windows Media Player CD burner add-on; what a nightmare that was. Didn't lose my system like some people did (nice to know they'll refund you the cost of the faulty software, right?), but it sure as shit made it unstable.
Can't speak to how (well) their half-assed software works (corrupts?) *nix installations, but let's just say that they and leprosy are, for all intents and purposes, adjacent in my prayers.
As a hardware manufacturer, of course this makes sense: they can get the support of the, uh, vast hordes of Linux users who want to use their printers? Best of all, it's next to free: shove bare-bones drivers out the door, proclaim it Linux-friendly, watch a few programmers fill in the blanks for them, suck that back in and redistribute the drivers they barely wrote. Worst-case scenario, they just got their name plastered across a website with a lot of eyeballs and won themselves some goodwill. Win-win situation for them.
So not to interrupt the public autofellatio session, but shouldn't you wait until a relevant (read: not sinking ship) software house moves over to open-source their products?
Why are you wasting your time crying over spilled milk? This isn't a playground dick-measuring contest: telling everyone just how bad the other guy is won't win you any friends or business. Showing everyone just how good you are will at least win you the latter.
Furthermore, mind your own goddamned business. Show a little class. There's only so much money you can make from behind bars. If you pull an end-route on a competitor and hack their system "just to show their clients how much danger they're in" and the guy whose system you just busted into gets wind of it, you'd better hope he doesn't have a good lawyer, because it sounds like a pretty open-and-shut case of corporate espionage.
Concentrate on locking down your own systems and building good faith and solid products with your own clients and don't do anything but have yourself a chuckle when they show up on attrition.org.
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...Georgi broke anything but Microsoft systems?
Poor guy. He's just got no luck with computers.
So we'll only ask "computing celebrities" and "computer experts" what OS they run and... how is any of this relevant again? You run what works for you, so who gives a shit what some stats say the guy next door is probably running?
Thanks. I'll keep that in mind in the future.
You can point the bone at Big Media crushing the 'net zines, or you can point it at disappearing ad dollars and "big media" and other "traditional" news sources finally "getting" the web and putting out products that people want on it, the (inherently?) losing proposition subsidized by their traditional offerings.
Can you really cry for Suck and Feed dying at the same time you pooh-pooh Salon for (gasp!) trying to stay afloat? No, their content ain't what it used to be, but the age of micropayments is still far off, and smarter folks are doing what they can to stay in business.
"Oh my god, dad! That man and that woman... they were... kissing each other! And fucking! And they enjoyed it! That's so horrible!"
God forbid you expose a child to sex instead of rotting their brain with Teletubbies or feeding that ultraviolence the media says is lurking within this generation by letting them watch Die Hard 7.
Granted, if you do opt to let your kid watch an X-rated movie, please, PLEASE don't make it a Max Hardcore flick.
Kids (as all of us) have a natural curiosity. What does a more effective job keeping them away from drugs? An hour of you telling them how bad they are or an hour watching a (heroin/alcohol/etc.) addict going through withdrawls? Give them an hour of the most horrifying porn and other detritus you can find on the internet and you'll never have to worry about censoring your kids.
You'll just have to worry about the alimony and therapy bills.
You mean people have a natural propensity to do what their told, even flying in the face of reason?
Even seemingly flying in the face of "humanity"?
Looks like Milgran and the Stanford Prison Experiment were on the money...
Case in point: Ninja Tune's Xen Cuts. Yes, it's a compilation CD, but it's all of $19 for 3 CDs packed of goodness. (if you think that's steep, go to The Wall and see what they're charging for new CDs: $19 apiece)
Ani DiFranco's new double CD? $13.
Not to be a music snob, but if spending that much on overinflated CDs bothers you, kick the major label habit and pick up some indie stuff. There's a world of goodness out there waiting to be discovered.
...and you were too lazy to click the post linked up top, it comes down to distributing the bigger tool without the (easily snapped-in) library, then distributing the library for people who can legally use it from a country where it's legal to do so.
The biggest change will affect PTStitcher and the
Panorama Tools. I am planning and suggesting a
procedure similar to the distribution method
of graphics programs like 'The Gimp'. This program
has to cope with GIF images and the corresponding
Unisys patent. The solution is to distribute a
basic no-GIF version of 'The Gimp'. For users in
'no-Unisys' countries ( ie where Unisys has no patent),
there is an optional plug-in to enable GIF. The download
site (which is also the main Gimp download site) is
in Finland, which happens to be such a 'no-Unisys'
country. In some countries (like Germany), the private
royalty-free use of any patent is allowed, so that
even some users in 'unisys-countries' might
be allowed to legally take advantage of this.
So on my website, there will only be a 'No_Fisheye'
version of Panorama Tools and PTStitcher (actually,
this functionality resides in the common library
pano12.dll/lib). The sources and a 'Fisheye' version
of pano12.dll/lib could then be downloaded from and to
'noipix' countries. People who want to use the
correction capabilities of Panorama Tools, or
who are using PTStitcher as a multirow-stitcher
for rectilinear images etc, ie who do not need fisheye
conversions, can then use my software
without constant threat from this fine company.
All others have to decide for themselves.
...but not in the US.
Efficacy and addiction are inevitably debatable topics. At any rate, you name a drug, it was legal in the US at one time or another. Cocaine in Coca-Cola, lithium in 7-Up, marijuana, GHB (it's in all of us), LSD-25 (the CIA/FBI loves the stuff!), you name it.
I'll admit it. I've never even remotely considered the "commercial" water coolers, but why the need for a water pump? Wouldn't it work just fine passively ? (think both hot air and water rise, so long as you've got your CPU/etc. situated towards the bottom of your case...)
You chaps even ran an article on it none too long ago. As in two or three weeks ago. Bra-vo.
...the genius behind taxi1010.com. More insane than you can possibly fathom.
Essentially the movie industry (those bastions of morality) were doing targeted advertising of trailers for R rated movies durring childrens programing. "Gee Jonny, I don't know why that trailer was on during Power Rangers, but your a bit young to see that movie."
And who exactly is saying that to little Jonny? Mommy and daddy who took little Jonny to the movies; I'll grant that trailers are egregious and offensive (thanks for the 5+ minutes of commercials for movies I could give a flip about when I've paid $8 to see a movie I want to see), but at least grant that the movie people know their demographic, and they know that a subset of them will be interested in an antidote to the feel-good pablum that they'll have to endure for the next two hours. To put it another way, the fact that you're showing a G/PG/whatever movie doesn't mean that the audience is 100% under the age of 7 or so.
If this sort of inanity was legislated or "unoficially" enforced, then it would be illegal to (speaking purely hypothetically) show trailers for the re-release of Eraserhead or Blue Velvet before The Straight Story.
As in really, really old.
Wander around to every box or write an app that will do what I need it to, then find connected machines it has access to, replicate itself to them and then deactivate itself?
So what're the odds that this worm running on one distribution versus another will torch it?
It looks that way, but he's also working on TiVo-like features, which means you're just a small-ish step away from shooting the audio from TV shows down to CD. Or somesuch.
I thought it was going to be opened up after development was stable? Whatever.
Not the grandest of ideas; it was what brought PitBull's "great hack attack" (yeah, one of those).
...MediaBox. Pretty nifty li'l app the guy's put together, not that I can vouch for it.
At any rate, a Book PC would be the sort of form factor that you're looking for if non-obtrusive is the order of the day.
Geforces are notoriously power-hungry beasts. If you want your maddeningly hard-to-reproduce crashes, hangs, pops and bangs, go with a 250W power supply.
They sell 400 watters these days and it's not a bad idea to snarg one. Just tell yourself you'll be able to carry it over to your next computer like you did with your 300 watter.
Heard the buzwords, tried the systems... at the end of the day, I'm consistently unimpressed. The best that I've seen is All Music which finds stylisticaly similar albums and does a more or less good job.
P.S.: the age of mana from VCs is long since over. Here's where I'd recommend you come up with something smarter than "we're running headlong up against Amazon with a recommendation system that we found somewhere on the internet" for your business plan if you're at all serious about this.
...the money comes from where?
Consoles: loss leaders. It's a computer, and unless it's being sold as a loss leader, why would anyone buy it? It's open, so no devkit/royalties to rely on.
If they feel like bleeding money out of both ends, they could at least give me enough to retire before they do so.
Come out late with a console that does the same thing as all the other consoles already out there, except without any development houses backing it? Wonderful. Who greenlighted that, anyhow?
By the time they get it out the door in 2002, the XBox and Nintendo will long since have been out there; the dust will have settled and the vast majority of gamers will already have made their choice: PS2, XBox or GameCube? Will anyone wait around for a cell phone makers' belated, ill-supported entry into the gaming market just because it's open source?
Granted it's short on details, but no plans for an infrastructure to back their TiVo/Ultimate TV clone other than the ability to do it?
Where's the revenue source, anyhow? Consoles and the like traditionally sell equipment as loss leaders... do they plan to be able to squeeze licensing and development costs out of Joe Programmer?
If I ever decide to go out and buy a Mac, I'll be certain to keep it in mind, seeing as how Mac seems to have problems releasing their own CD burner software.
Also, Microsoft Word for Windows 2000 is really great; does that make Microsoft Word for Mac suck any less?
>something like 70% of Slashdot visitors use MSIE
I'm not going for sympathy, I'm just giving a little warning to the 70(plus)% of the people who come here and use Windows.
Also, as long as we're making cheap digs, the people who use a real OS until they dual-boot to that fake OS because they want to play some real games. Also, my sincerest sympathies go out to anyone who's in *nix 24/7 and using the web.
Quality control? What's that?
Only thing of theirs that I installed on W2K Pro was the Windows Media Player CD burner add-on; what a nightmare that was. Didn't lose my system like some people did (nice to know they'll refund you the cost of the faulty software, right?), but it sure as shit made it unstable.
Can't speak to how (well) their half-assed software works (corrupts?) *nix installations, but let's just say that they and leprosy are, for all intents and purposes, adjacent in my prayers.
As a hardware manufacturer, of course this makes sense: they can get the support of the, uh, vast hordes of Linux users who want to use their printers? Best of all, it's next to free: shove bare-bones drivers out the door, proclaim it Linux-friendly, watch a few programmers fill in the blanks for them, suck that back in and redistribute the drivers they barely wrote. Worst-case scenario, they just got their name plastered across a website with a lot of eyeballs and won themselves some goodwill. Win-win situation for them.
So not to interrupt the public autofellatio session, but shouldn't you wait until a relevant (read: not sinking ship) software house moves over to open-source their products?
Why are you wasting your time crying over spilled milk? This isn't a playground dick-measuring contest: telling everyone just how bad the other guy is won't win you any friends or business. Showing everyone just how good you are will at least win you the latter.
Furthermore, mind your own goddamned business. Show a little class. There's only so much money you can make from behind bars. If you pull an end-route on a competitor and hack their system "just to show their clients how much danger they're in" and the guy whose system you just busted into gets wind of it, you'd better hope he doesn't have a good lawyer, because it sounds like a pretty open-and-shut case of corporate espionage.
Concentrate on locking down your own systems and building good faith and solid products with your own clients and don't do anything but have yourself a chuckle when they show up on attrition.org.