The only claim to this patent *application* that appears to me to have
any merit at all is the one for the full screen display of the pager.
I don't recall ever having seen one of those (but that doesn't mean
they didn't exist).
And even that claim is questionable. It appears to me that the FvwmPager
might have been able to do that in 1997 with the proper configuration.
Some people believe that fvwm2 config files are turing-complete:-)
Question:
Hi. I would like to set up a Pager the size of a full screen that
would only display on that screen and have a sticky button bar with
one of the buttons being a transfer to the screen with the Pager.
A while back, Google had a severe problem with links to Debian release notices and changelogs, etc. swamping the legitimate links to project home pages and really relevant sites. It was pretty awful, and I complained. Today, Google is much better in this regard, but still far from perfect.
Yahoo, as it is currently, is worse than Google w.r.t. the Debian spam links. I'm going to email Yahoo about this and see if they do anything about it.
Google seemed to care about this link spam, now lets see if Yahoo does as well.
I should state up front that I'm not interested and have never been interested in any of the sports or first person shooter games. So right off the bat I'm in the minority, and my opinion is suspect.
My two big beefs with console video games are:
1) Not milking the platform for all its worth. I loved all the Mario and Zelda games. But I will never understand why Nintendo doesn't create new variations of those games, with new puzzles, but using the same world.
2) Console wars. These game manufacturers are in a race to create the next console. But why? I don't want to buy a new console. I want to buy more *GOOD* games for the consoles I already have. Games are not starved for technology. They are starved for creativity.
I would put all their names in the comments. Or maybe put in all of the ID numbers that the government had tattoed on the soles of their feet at birth. Better yet, I'd put their Windoze activation code into the comments.
There are lots of ways to associate images with other images. Here's one way that creates an HTML album of all of the photos I have of dylan...
Obviously, I could also use other existing tools to dynamically index these pictures without me having to explicitly name the search terms I want to use. This is just an example.
I once made the mistake of working with these files under Windoze. After I was done, all the EXIF information had been removed. You can imagine how mad I was.
So what is Microsoft going to do? Fix this bug and call it a feature?
So I say, go for a higher-end model from a name brand manufacturer like Sony, Philips, etc. and have something that you can enjoy for years
Interesting that you picked those two manufacturers, as I have bought DVD players from both. First I bought a Sony DVP-S3000 in November of 1987. Cost me about $500. That player died in 2001, and Sony wanted $175 to repair it, which is no bargain at all. Then I bought a Philips DVD 711 player for about $225 to replace it. That player died a month ago.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
So I bought one of the $30 players this XMAS and when it dies I am not going to feel ripped off. Nor will I feel guilty when watching it. I already paid my dues and am going to enjoy eating my Soylent Green.
I really don't understand why so many individuals think this is a bad law.
I've looked the law over, and there are multiple requirements on each spam email message that will make it much easier and more reliable to filter it out as it arrives on your computer. Such as the requirement for a legitimate reply address in all spam and a physical address in a commercial spam.
If anybody should have a beef with this law, its the ISPs. They still have to carry the spam.
For $70 you can get a Linksys WRT54G and modify the open source firmware for it to add whatever feature set you would like, as many people are already doing. It runs Linux, has two ethernet ports (one with a 4 port switch), and 802.11g.
When I checked around a couple of years ago, Paypal had the lowest transaction fee of any of the places that mere mortals can use for processing credit cards.
I've accepted a hundred or so payments thru PayPal; not one person I've dealt with had a bad experience and told me about it. A couple of people emailed me and said they did not have PayPal accounts and weren't going to get them because they "heard that PayPal is evil incarnate...". So they mailed me a check.
If you ask me, these people are being silly. They just sent a person they do not know (me), who is in another state or country, their checking account number. Thats like having unprotected sex. Oops I forgot this is slashdot and some of you may be unfamiliar with what that is - think of it as taking on a battle cruiser with your shields down.
There is nothing wrong with being a little careful with online payment systems. For example, I've tied my PayPal account to a throwaway checking account and credit card, not my main account and card. So if something does go wrong I can still make the mortgage payment at the end of the month while I get the snafu cleared up (no snafus yet). And when I get deposits into my PayPal account I immediately withdraw them into the checking account. It costs nothing to request withdrawal of funds.
I guess I don't get it. There has to be some value to the metadata in these files over and above what you can get from freedb (currently about 250MB compressed with about 1.1M CDs cataloged).
Otherwise, why would people want to host and share this information? Maybe they are going to give away the lyrics for free? Song snippets? Music video snippets? Somebody who has bothered to RTFA, please give us a clue!
If you have any intent on building up a legal and huge collection of movies by capturing them off of cable TV, and you want to be able to play those movies on a standard consumer DVD player, then you must get a hardware MPEG-2 encoder.
The general rule about software MPEG-2 encoders is this: quality, low-CPU, realtime; pick any two.
If you don't care about being able record to DVD, and/or you want to record to DiVX and envision a house where all of your DVD players are DiVX-capable, then a $30 stereo tuner card will suffice for now.
I have two AverTV Stereo cards that are going up on eBay, because I decided that I really do want to record good quality MPEG-2 to DVD. I need to be able to hand my wife/kids a DVD of the favorite shows that she missed because I made them leave the house. I will be getting a PVR-250 like everybody else.
Note also that this advice applies to Windows people just as much as it does for Linux people. There are no software, high-quality, realtime MPEG-2 coders that don't require an overclocked cryogenically cooled CPU, regardless of what OS you run.
When the 8X recorders hit $100, people will want one of those instead of the old, slow 4X. Any drive bought today is likely doomed for the trashcan in 1 year regardless of how well its built.
Livewarehouse has the NEC-1300A 4X/-R/-RW/+R/+RW for $103 shipped, if you are a bit nervous about buying these off brand drives.
Note that the reviewed drive came with software (the NEC-1300A doesn't), but the reviewer didn't use it.
Why is that, you might ask? Well, because most of the video to DVD software is a complete crapshoot, depending on your particular machine and capture card, etc. Blasting the DVD is the easy part.
I spent a good number of hours *just last night* (yawn) running down just exactly what software would work with my setup (Intel D845PEBT2 mobo, AverTV stereo). Nero 6 Ultra? Nope. Roxio VideoWave 5? Nope. MainActor? Nope. Power VCR II? Yep, we have a winner.
After my experience, no way would I pay extra to get a recorder plus software unless I knew for a fact that software would work on my computer. If not, better to buy a bare drive and try the test drive download versions of various retail software until you find one that works for you.
Since the postal mail address of the spammer must appear in the body of the email, we will be able to make a list of those addresses and filter based on that.
This is actually better than filtering based on a single tag like [ADV], as you will be able to whitelist and blacklist based on the postal address.
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The only claim to this patent *application* that appears to me to have any merit at all is the one for the full screen display of the pager. I don't recall ever having seen one of those (but that doesn't mean they didn't exist).
And even that claim is questionable. It appears to me that the FvwmPager might have been able to do that in 1997 with the proper configuration. Some people believe that fvwm2 config files are turing-complete :-)
Question:
Response:
A while back, Google had a severe problem with links to Debian release notices and changelogs, etc. swamping the legitimate links to project home pages and really relevant sites. It was pretty awful, and I complained. Today, Google is much better in this regard, but still far from perfect.
Yahoo, as it is currently, is worse than Google w.r.t. the Debian spam links. I'm going to email Yahoo about this and see if they do anything about it.
Google seemed to care about this link spam, now lets see if Yahoo does as well.
-Rick
I should state up front that I'm not interested and have never been interested in any of the sports or first person shooter games. So right off the bat I'm in the minority, and my opinion is suspect.
My two big beefs with console video games are:
1) Not milking the platform for all its worth. I loved all the Mario and Zelda games. But I will never understand why Nintendo doesn't create new variations of those games, with new puzzles, but using the same world.
2) Console wars. These game manufacturers are in a race to create the next console. But why? I don't want to buy a new console. I want to buy more *GOOD* games for the consoles I already have. Games are not starved for technology. They are starved for creativity.
-Rick
They seem to key off of the "86" on the end of "Xfree". Other numbers don't get you the X-rated warning.
:-). But what is an "86"????
OK, I know what "69" is. I know what "68" is (my favorite
-Rick
There are lots of ways to associate images with other images. Here's one way that creates an HTML album of all of the photos I have of dylan...
Obviously, I could also use other existing tools to dynamically index these pictures without me having to explicitly name the search terms I want to use. This is just an example.
No, it was Windoze, not a 3rd party application. All I did was use Windoze itself to rotate the image, and poof the EXIF info was gone.
I once made the mistake of working with these files under Windoze. After I was done, all the EXIF information had been removed. You can imagine how mad I was.
So what is Microsoft going to do? Fix this bug and call it a feature?
-Rick
The metric system is going to seem pretty silly when evolution does away with the pinky and pinky toe.
-Rick
Beat the rush, switch to base 8 now!
Interesting that you picked those two manufacturers, as I have bought DVD players from both. First I bought a Sony DVP-S3000 in November of 1987. Cost me about $500. That player died in 2001, and Sony wanted $175 to repair it, which is no bargain at all. Then I bought a Philips DVD 711 player for about $225 to replace it. That player died a month ago.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
So I bought one of the $30 players this XMAS and when it dies I am not going to feel ripped off. Nor will I feel guilty when watching it. I already paid my dues and am going to enjoy eating my Soylent Green.
-Rick
The article states that 75% of users use non-browser applications to access the internet.
It DOES NOT say that 75% of the connections are made by non-browser applications.
There is a difference, and I blame the lack of any sober editors at Slashdot today for this getting through.
I'd like to see an uncompressed Live-DVD with twice as much stuff on it as on a Live-CD. Anbody working on one of those yet?
But in the meantime, anybody got a bit torrent for PCLinuxOS up?
-Rick
$ date -d "1/1/70 `dc -e '2 30 ^p'` secs"
Sat Jan 10 13:37:04 CST 2004
I really don't understand why so many individuals think this is a bad law.
I've looked the law over, and there are multiple requirements on each spam email message that will make it much easier and more reliable to filter it out as it arrives on your computer. Such as the requirement for a legitimate reply address in all spam and a physical address in a commercial spam.
If anybody should have a beef with this law, its the ISPs. They still have to carry the spam.
-Rick
For $70 you can get a Linksys WRT54G and modify the open source firmware for it to add whatever feature set you would like, as many people are already doing. It runs Linux, has two ethernet ports (one with a 4 port switch), and 802.11g.
When I checked around a couple of years ago, Paypal had the lowest transaction fee of any of the places that mere mortals can use for processing credit cards.
I've accepted a hundred or so payments thru PayPal; not one person I've dealt with had a bad experience and told me about it. A couple of people emailed me and said they did not have PayPal accounts and weren't going to get them because they "heard that PayPal is evil incarnate...". So they mailed me a check.
If you ask me, these people are being silly. They just sent a person they do not know (me), who is in another state or country, their checking account number. Thats like having unprotected sex. Oops I forgot this is slashdot and some of you may be unfamiliar with what that is - think of it as taking on a battle cruiser with your shields down.
There is nothing wrong with being a little careful with online payment systems. For example, I've tied my PayPal account to a throwaway checking account and credit card, not my main account and card. So if something does go wrong I can still make the mortgage payment at the end of the month while I get the snafu cleared up (no snafus yet). And when I get deposits into my PayPal account I immediately withdraw them into the checking account. It costs nothing to request withdrawal of funds.
I guess I don't get it. There has to be some value to the metadata in these files over and above what you can get from freedb (currently about 250MB compressed with about 1.1M CDs cataloged).
Otherwise, why would people want to host and share this information? Maybe they are going to give away the lyrics for free? Song snippets? Music video snippets? Somebody who has bothered to RTFA, please give us a clue!
-Rick
If you have any intent on building up a legal and huge collection of movies by capturing them off of cable TV, and you want to be able to play those movies on a standard consumer DVD player, then you must get a hardware MPEG-2 encoder.
The general rule about software MPEG-2 encoders is this: quality, low-CPU, realtime; pick any two.
If you don't care about being able record to DVD, and/or you want to record to DiVX and envision a house where all of your DVD players are DiVX-capable, then a $30 stereo tuner card will suffice for now.
I have two AverTV Stereo cards that are going up on eBay, because I decided that I really do want to record good quality MPEG-2 to DVD. I need to be able to hand my wife/kids a DVD of the favorite shows that she missed because I made them leave the house. I will be getting a PVR-250 like everybody else.
Note also that this advice applies to Windows people just as much as it does for Linux people. There are no software, high-quality, realtime MPEG-2 coders that don't require an overclocked cryogenically cooled CPU, regardless of what OS you run.
-Rick
When the 8X recorders hit $100, people will want one of those instead of the old, slow 4X. Any drive bought today is likely doomed for the trashcan in 1 year regardless of how well its built.
Livewarehouse has the NEC-1300A 4X/-R/-RW/+R/+RW for $103 shipped, if you are a bit nervous about buying these off brand drives.
Note that the reviewed drive came with software (the NEC-1300A doesn't), but the reviewer didn't use it.
Why is that, you might ask? Well, because most of the video to DVD software is a complete crapshoot, depending on your particular machine and capture card, etc. Blasting the DVD is the easy part.
I spent a good number of hours *just last night* (yawn) running down just exactly what software would work with my setup (Intel D845PEBT2 mobo, AverTV stereo). Nero 6 Ultra? Nope. Roxio VideoWave 5? Nope. MainActor? Nope. Power VCR II? Yep, we have a winner.
After my experience, no way would I pay extra to get a recorder plus software unless I knew for a fact that software would work on my computer. If not, better to buy a bare drive and try the test drive download versions of various retail software until you find one that works for you.
MOD the reply UP, please.
I predict HD-DVD will be a consumer flop for many years. However, mini and micro HD-DVD-R will be a huge success in camcorders.
A friend and I wrote a 1st person perspective view Pacman-like game back in 1982-1983.
While the Human PacMan site is slashdotted, you can sate your appetite for dots by playing 3-Demon. -Rick
Since the postal mail address of the spammer must appear in the body of the email, we will be able to make a list of those addresses and filter based on that.
This is actually better than filtering based on a single tag like [ADV], as you will be able to whitelist and blacklist based on the postal address.
My first reaction to Darl's quote was no way would I ever touch that yarn knowing where its been.
But now, I'm not so sure. Read this little piece and then tell me you wouldn't want to see the expression on Darl's face:
http://torrez.org/archives/000556.php
RH just charged me $60 for another full year of RHN. Anybody know if they will be rebating part of that?