Yeah, the directions seem increadibly bad right now. Even if you don't know Toronto, you'll recognize that the following directions are a very bad way to get from point A to point B:
http://warpzero.info/images/GoogleDirections.png
This is definitely a beta, and it looks like their primary focus was on the interface, not the functionality.
Much of what you're saying is true about reprogrammable (Xilinx, Altera) FPGAs, but this "open source video card" would be an excellent application for one-time-programmable (antifuse) FPGAs, like the chips made by Actel or QuickLogic. Once the FPGA code has been written, there shouldn't be any need for reprogrammability, and antifuse FPGAs are cheaper, faster, and have much better routing potential than reprogrammable FPGAs. In fact antifuse FPGAs can come very close to the speed of an ASIC.
I'm actually quite surprised that they're opting for a Xilinx FPGA here; I must be missing something. Is there any particular reason that reprogrammability is more important than cost and speed for this?
All the nifty tools and new communications paradigms are not going to change a goddamned thing until we get back to recognizing that the opposing force are Americans, same as us.
So if I'm reading you correctly you're saying.. you're all the same, so all Americans are idiots? That sounds about right.
I guess all that "bottom up" information still wasn't enough to overcome the "Fox News" effect? With any luck, as the Internet comes to more households, 2008 won't be so bad.:)
In Toronto we have Dexit tags (like an Esso Speedpass) that can be used for small purchase. It's not often seen outside of the downtown core, but hopefully they will be adopted in more places soon.
Telus Mobility also has a Dexit tag that attaches to your cellphone so it acts something like the one described in the article. It's not built into the phone, but rather just a different style Dexit tag that attaches to the phone.
Anyhow, they're quite useful for small ($50) day-to-day purchases.
I picked up a Silverstone SST-LC03 (black) to use as my HTPC enclosure. It's a beautiful looking case, and while expensive, it's not nearly as bad as the one in this article. They also have the SST-LC03V which has the LCD display on the front, if that's your thing.
I'm very happy with the SST-LC03. It takes a full-sized ATX motherboard and power supply. I picked up a quiet power supply and a Zalman AlCu heatsink and the unit is nearly silent.
Silverstone also sells the SST-LC02 which is similar to the LC03 but a lot thinner. It too takes a full-sized ATX motherboard, but unfortunately the small size didn't go over very well with my Athlon XP 2000+. It's a fantastic case as far as looks go, but it's just too small for a modern hot chip. I still have the LC03 by the way, so if anybody's interested in buying it off me, let me know.
Anyhow, I strongly suggest the SST-LC02. Great case.
I've heard this before, and chuckled. But after hearing co-workers say things like "nah, I can't go out for drinks: I need to go home and let the dog out," and watching people walk behind a dog and pick up its shit off the ground, I wonder sometimes, which animal really has the staff?
For instance, I was intrigued to find out how the tags (which are generally battery-free) can absorb enough energy from RFID readers to then power up and transmit their own signal back to the reader."
I don't mean to be argumentative, but are you serious? This was the first time you had heard about this? I thought this was the fundamental feature for RFID--the idea that the tag doesn't require any kind of battery or other external power supply.
It scares me that on a technical site like slashdot the submitter is much more likely to know every privacy concern about RFID, yet know very little about the underlying technology. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? When did "Your rights online" trump technical information on slashdot?
I think you're thinking too much: it's only an analogy. There doesn't need to be a second force that makes the "indents" in the stretched sheet example. It's only stated that way to help people understand how gravity works on an example that's more easily visualized than warps in 3-dimentional space-time.
I have been told since I was a kid that this is the three second rule! I can't believe for all these years I've been throwing out two seconds worth of perfectly good food!
If you can still make a joke about it, you're sick.
Personally I would rather have someone make an innocent joke at a time like this than ask me to "pray." Different things offend different people. I personally find public displays of religion offensive (seriously), especially if it's stated that others should join in, as you did.
What I would really like to see is a music store that caters to DJs. Something with DJ-friendly categories (not just mishmash of tunes thrown into "Electronica"), and with MP3, AAC, and WAV/FLAC downloads.
I still buy most of my stuff on vinyl, but it's becomming more and more common that there are CD decks or Final Scratch available when I play. It would be fantastic if I could get some great music for a buck or two instead of spending $10-$15 for a track on vinyl, especially when most of that price goes to shipping and pressing costs anyhow!
I'm surprised this hasn't happened more often! The only online DJ music store I've been able to find is BeatPort, which is a great start, but I need more selection!
I got MythTV installed OK, but it was after the install that it felt clunky. The interface was laggy, and it didn't seem to have nearly as many features as Freevo + some choice plugins.
When you say "Freevo doenst have nearly the options or hardware support of Myth," what do you mean? I found exactly the opposite, so I may have missed a lot of stuff. If so, I'd like to know what.
I'm curious to know where Freevo stands in all of this. I installed MythTV and found it to be very clunky. I recently installed Freevo from the debian packages and had it up and running in literally 30 minutes! It seems a lot smoother than MythTV when using it, and it seems to be more extensible. On the downside all of the Freevo setup is done by editing a text file, but I've found it to be more solid than MythTV so far.
Admittedly I only looked at MythTV for about a day on and off. Does anybody here with more experience with MythTV have an opinion of how MythTV and Freevo compare?
The good news is that if you have an updated version [...] you won't be affected.
Excuse me, but you used "affected" correctly! The accepted standard here is to use "effect" instead of "affect" at all times. Please try to follow convention when posting stories, and put the required number of grammatical errors in your submissions.
Well effect can also be a transitive verb (1 : to cause to come into being, 2 a : to bring about often by surmounting obstacles), but the rule to remember is if you're using "effect" as a verb, you're probably wrong.
This is what I did to install Java actually. Oh well, I installed the 1.5 (rc) as suggested by another poster, and it's working now. Thanks for the help!
It seems to crash Firefox every time I try to play this. Firefox 0.9.3, Debian Sarge (testing). about:plugins shows Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_04-b05 (from Sun).
It's really frustrating that Java is so touchy on Linux, and so poorly supported on Debian. I would like to see this demo! I know this is OT, but does anybody have any hints on how I might make Firefox play this without crashing?
I'm not sure why you need to do this manually anymore. Most torrent sites already publish RSS information and good BitTorrent clients have RSS reading either built into them, or can do it through a plugin.
I personally use the client Azureus (which works on Linux as well as others), with the RSSFeed plugin. It works very well.
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Yeah, the directions seem increadibly bad right now. Even if you don't know Toronto, you'll recognize that the following directions are a very bad way to get from point A to point B:
g
http://warpzero.info/images/GoogleDirections.pn
This is definitely a beta, and it looks like their primary focus was on the interface, not the functionality.
Much of what you're saying is true about reprogrammable (Xilinx, Altera) FPGAs, but this "open source video card" would be an excellent application for one-time-programmable (antifuse) FPGAs, like the chips made by Actel or QuickLogic. Once the FPGA code has been written, there shouldn't be any need for reprogrammability, and antifuse FPGAs are cheaper, faster, and have much better routing potential than reprogrammable FPGAs. In fact antifuse FPGAs can come very close to the speed of an ASIC.
I'm actually quite surprised that they're opting for a Xilinx FPGA here; I must be missing something. Is there any particular reason that reprogrammability is more important than cost and speed for this?
All the nifty tools and new communications paradigms are not going to change a goddamned thing until we get back to recognizing that the opposing force are Americans, same as us.
.. you're all the same, so all Americans are idiots? That sounds about right.
So if I'm reading you correctly you're saying
I guess all that "bottom up" information still wasn't enough to overcome the "Fox News" effect? With any luck, as the Internet comes to more households, 2008 won't be so bad. :)
In Toronto we have Dexit tags (like an Esso Speedpass) that can be used for small purchase. It's not often seen outside of the downtown core, but hopefully they will be adopted in more places soon.
Telus Mobility also has a Dexit tag that attaches to your cellphone so it acts something like the one described in the article. It's not built into the phone, but rather just a different style Dexit tag that attaches to the phone.
Anyhow, they're quite useful for small ($50) day-to-day purchases.
I picked up a Silverstone SST-LC03 (black) to use as my HTPC enclosure. It's a beautiful looking case, and while expensive, it's not nearly as bad as the one in this article. They also have the SST-LC03V which has the LCD display on the front, if that's your thing.
I'm very happy with the SST-LC03. It takes a full-sized ATX motherboard and power supply. I picked up a quiet power supply and a Zalman AlCu heatsink and the unit is nearly silent.
Silverstone also sells the SST-LC02 which is similar to the LC03 but a lot thinner. It too takes a full-sized ATX motherboard, but unfortunately the small size didn't go over very well with my Athlon XP 2000+. It's a fantastic case as far as looks go, but it's just too small for a modern hot chip. I still have the LC03 by the way, so if anybody's interested in buying it off me, let me know.
Anyhow, I strongly suggest the SST-LC02. Great case.
I have mod points but you're already at a "5" so I'll give you a applause instead. That was "A" material.
Your "man's pet" is a poodle? Seriously?
I've heard this before, and chuckled. But after hearing co-workers say things like "nah, I can't go out for drinks: I need to go home and let the dog out," and watching people walk behind a dog and pick up its shit off the ground, I wonder sometimes, which animal really has the staff?
For instance, I was intrigued to find out how the tags (which are generally battery-free) can absorb enough energy from RFID readers to then power up and transmit their own signal back to the reader."
I don't mean to be argumentative, but are you serious? This was the first time you had heard about this? I thought this was the fundamental feature for RFID--the idea that the tag doesn't require any kind of battery or other external power supply.
It scares me that on a technical site like slashdot the submitter is much more likely to know every privacy concern about RFID, yet know very little about the underlying technology. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? When did "Your rights online" trump technical information on slashdot?
But only the American Godzilla will become godless.
Personally I'd be a lot happier if America would become God-less. It would solve a whole lot of problems.
I think you're thinking too much: it's only an analogy. There doesn't need to be a second force that makes the "indents" in the stretched sheet example. It's only stated that way to help people understand how gravity works on an example that's more easily visualized than warps in 3-dimentional space-time.
It seems a better strategy for everyone to share a skeleton that gets populated with codec core "plugins".
That's a great idea, and that's why it's been done. It's called QuickTime, and was even the container used in the MP4 standard.
I have been told since I was a kid that this is the three second rule! I can't believe for all these years I've been throwing out two seconds worth of perfectly good food!
I need to know: what kind of litter box sand do you use?
Personally I would rather have someone make an innocent joke at a time like this than ask me to "pray." Different things offend different people. I personally find public displays of religion offensive (seriously), especially if it's stated that others should join in, as you did.
Why don't you try this?
1) go to java.com
2) click the big "get it now" button
3) download the EXE
Now quit trolling.
What I would really like to see is a music store that caters to DJs. Something with DJ-friendly categories (not just mishmash of tunes thrown into "Electronica"), and with MP3, AAC, and WAV/FLAC downloads.
I still buy most of my stuff on vinyl, but it's becomming more and more common that there are CD decks or Final Scratch available when I play. It would be fantastic if I could get some great music for a buck or two instead of spending $10-$15 for a track on vinyl, especially when most of that price goes to shipping and pressing costs anyhow!
I'm surprised this hasn't happened more often! The only online DJ music store I've been able to find is BeatPort, which is a great start, but I need more selection!
I got MythTV installed OK, but it was after the install that it felt clunky. The interface was laggy, and it didn't seem to have nearly as many features as Freevo + some choice plugins.
When you say "Freevo doenst have nearly the options or hardware support of Myth," what do you mean? I found exactly the opposite, so I may have missed a lot of stuff. If so, I'd like to know what.
I'm curious to know where Freevo stands in all of this. I installed MythTV and found it to be very clunky. I recently installed Freevo from the debian packages and had it up and running in literally 30 minutes! It seems a lot smoother than MythTV when using it, and it seems to be more extensible. On the downside all of the Freevo setup is done by editing a text file, but I've found it to be more solid than MythTV so far.
Admittedly I only looked at MythTV for about a day on and off. Does anybody here with more experience with MythTV have an opinion of how MythTV and Freevo compare?
The good news is that if you have an updated version [...] you won't be affected.
Excuse me, but you used "affected" correctly! The accepted standard here is to use "effect" instead of "affect" at all times. Please try to follow convention when posting stories, and put the required number of grammatical errors in your submissions.
Well effect can also be a transitive verb (1 : to cause to come into being, 2 a : to bring about often by surmounting obstacles), but the rule to remember is if you're using "effect" as a verb, you're probably wrong.
This is what I did to install Java actually. Oh well, I installed the 1.5 (rc) as suggested by another poster, and it's working now. Thanks for the help!
It seems to crash Firefox every time I try to play this. Firefox 0.9.3, Debian Sarge (testing). about:plugins shows Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_04-b05 (from Sun).
It's really frustrating that Java is so touchy on Linux, and so poorly supported on Debian. I would like to see this demo! I know this is OT, but does anybody have any hints on how I might make Firefox play this without crashing?
I'm not sure why you need to do this manually anymore. Most torrent sites already publish RSS information and good BitTorrent clients have RSS reading either built into them, or can do it through a plugin.
I personally use the client Azureus (which works on Linux as well as others), with the RSSFeed plugin. It works very well.