Yes. However, it is necessary to install Linux (for PlayStation 2) for the first time using a compatible VESA Monitor that supports "sync on green". Once Linux has been installed, it is possible to configure it to boot using TV display from then on. Some digital TV (DTV) modes are also supported (separate cables may be required for DTV).
Which Display Resolutions are supported ?
NTSC/PAL interlaced and non-interlaced
DTV 480P, 720P and 1080I modes
VESA modes 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 at 60/75 Hz
The PS2 boots off the second layer of dual-layer DVD-ROMs. Such DVD's can't be produced by Apple's or anyone else's drives since producing dual-layered disks requires fusing two single-layer disks together, which can only be done in a factory.
I don't really have any time to help you out. But I do think you have a very good idea.
The one problem I foresee is defining when exactly a feature is deemed "complete" and therefore worthy of compensation. Additionally, with many software projects, the initial development is the easiest part. It's the ongoing maintenance such as updates, integration, and bug fixing that takes up most of the developer's time. Your system would reward developers who complete a given feature in the least amount of time instead of those developers who spend more time to develop a solution that is robust and maintainable. Without rewarding quality of work and without incorporating some sort of contract to maintain one's work after the initial work is complete, I'm fearful you'll end up with a lot of unmaintainable crappy code, and maintenance will be a nightmare.
The benefit of tax deductions is that they reduce the amount of income you pay taxes on. Let's say you make $50,000 this year, and your tax rate is 30%. Without any deductions, you'd pay $15,000 to the government. Now, let's say you've given $5,000 to EFF. In this case, your taxable income would only be $45,000. Therefore, you'd only have to pay $13,500 in taxes, which would be a savings of $1,500
If you're like most people, and get a bi-weekly or weekly paycheck, your taxes are withheld by the company you work for. So, if your making $50,000 a year, you'd get a salary of $2,083 a week. However, since the company withholds taxes, the actual amount you get via your paycheck every two weeks would be $2,083 * 85%, or $1,770. At the end of the year, the company would have paid the government $15,000 on your behalf, while paying you $35,000. Let's say you've made the $5,000 EFF donation like I gave in the example above. This means that instead of paying $15,000 to the government, your company should have only paid $13,500 to government on your behalf. To make up the difference, the government will give you a rebate of $1,500.
I hope this helps explain things to you. An easy way to calculate the amount of money you'll save in taxes when you make donations is to multiple the donation amount by your tax rate. If you make a $5,000 donation and your tax rate is 30%, you'll be saving $1,500 on your taxes. This means that making a $5,000 donation really only costs you $3,500, yet the EFF will still get the benefit of the full amount.
Cable channels such as Comedy Central already subsidize the costs to air their channel by allowing cable and satellite companies to insert their own commercials into some of the commercial breaks. So, in effect, they are paying Cable companies to broadcast their signal.
With half of America already subscribing to Cable or satellite television, Comedy Central doesn't need more potential viewers; they just need those who already have their channel to watch more of it.
Finally, if the analysis you and the poster above has given is correct, don't you think your plan would have already been put into place?
The reason both cable and satellite companies charge about the same price is that they both have to pay ESPN and the other big cable channels for the rights to air their singles. The commercials these channels air only cover part of their cost. So, just like cable companies, satellite operators do pay an incremental cost per viewer.
Only a small part of your $30-$40 a month cable bill goes to maintaining your cable line. In fact, many cable companies offer a very basic plan for under $10 month that only includes the local channels such as ABC, NBC, and CBS. This means the price to maintain your cable line has to be under $10 a month.
I imagine at least half of XMS's fee, goes to the networks on their service, not into their pockets, so if they gave away their service for free, they'd be loosing money on each subscriber.
I disagree with you that gIFT is is a viable alternative to Kazaa because it hasn't implemented the super node aspect of Kazaa. Basically, it's only useful for connecting to existing FastTrack networks, not forcreating entirely new independent networks.
However, I have no doubt that either gIFT or another open source alternative file sharing network will duplicate or surpass the functionality Kazaa currently provides. This will be especially true if FastTrack is shut down. Just look at download.com's Macintosh section. Because Kazaa has not been ported to the Macintosh, two versions of the open source gnutella clone are ranked one and two.
Clearly, there is a huge appetite for file sharing software that will no doubt be met by talented open source programmer perhaps even operating anonymously. While it may seem like this would provide cover from RIAA and other organization lawsuits, I believe it won't. gnutella, gIFT and all other file sharing tools rely on centralized servers for at least the distribution of their software. The RIAA could easily threaten suits against Limeware, sourceforge.net, and any other entity hosting file sharing tools or even linking to them. The latest deCSS court decisions banning linking prove this to be the case.
KaZaa, the application, and FastTrack, the protocol, were created by the same company, so this lawsuit will shut everything down if it succeeds.
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Please mod parent UP, and mod grandparent down. mughi's original comment was unjustly robbed of karma. QT's strange licensing restrictions need to be brought to light.
Yeah, I might have spoken a little soon about the quality. However, the link does work for me, and I don't have QuickTime Pro, but you do need QuickTime.
Quotes get evaluated first and only once, and then variable substitutions happen, so having quotes in your drive name will not cause problems. For example (in csh): % setenv foo \"
% echo $foo
"
% echo "some quoted text:$foo"
some quoted text:"
Everything within quotes is passed as one argument to the echo command, and the fact that $foo contains a quote character doesn't cause any problems. If the quotes were evaluated after variable substitutions, an unmatched quote error would have been reported in the last example.
According to their press release:
If the proposed name change is approved, the company intends to change its Nasdaq trading symbol. Shareholders will vote on the proposal at the company's annual meeting on Dec. 5.
I had this problem to until another poster pointed out that you can just add a "+" to all the common words (except for "the") in your phrase. So to search for the phrase, "Attack on WTC", you'd search for "Attack +on WTC".
Even if you don't post, it's still behooves to register since you can control how the front page look and the default way stories are sorted, so I'd imagine that most lurkers will eventually register.
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Can I use a TV as my display ?
Yes. However, it is necessary to install Linux (for PlayStation 2) for the first time using a compatible VESA Monitor that supports "sync on green". Once Linux has been installed, it is possible to configure it to boot using TV display from then on. Some digital TV (DTV) modes are also supported (separate cables may be required for DTV).
Which Display Resolutions are supported ?
NTSC/PAL interlaced and non-interlaced
DTV 480P, 720P and 1080I modes
VESA modes 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 at 60/75 Hz
More:
Linux (for PlayStation®2) Version 1.0 FAQ
The PS2 boots off the second layer of dual-layer DVD-ROMs. Such DVD's can't be produced by Apple's or anyone else's drives since producing dual-layered disks requires fusing two single-layer disks together, which can only be done in a factory.
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I don't really have any time to help you out. But I do think you have a very good idea.
The one problem I foresee is defining when exactly a feature is deemed "complete" and therefore worthy of compensation. Additionally, with many software projects, the initial development is the easiest part. It's the ongoing maintenance such as updates, integration, and bug fixing that takes up most of the developer's time. Your system would reward developers who complete a given feature in the least amount of time instead of those developers who spend more time to develop a solution that is robust and maintainable. Without rewarding quality of work and without incorporating some sort of contract to maintain one's work after the initial work is complete, I'm fearful you'll end up with a lot of unmaintainable crappy code, and maintenance will be a nightmare.
The benefit of tax deductions is that they reduce the amount of income you pay taxes on. Let's say you make $50,000 this year, and your tax rate is 30%. Without any deductions, you'd pay $15,000 to the government. Now, let's say you've given $5,000 to EFF. In this case, your taxable income would only be $45,000. Therefore, you'd only have to pay $13,500 in taxes, which would be a savings of $1,500
If you're like most people, and get a bi-weekly or weekly paycheck, your taxes are withheld by the company you work for. So, if your making $50,000 a year, you'd get a salary of $2,083 a week. However, since the company withholds taxes, the actual amount you get via your paycheck every two weeks would be $2,083 * 85%, or $1,770. At the end of the year, the company would have paid the government $15,000 on your behalf, while paying you $35,000. Let's say you've made the $5,000 EFF donation like I gave in the example above. This means that instead of paying $15,000 to the government, your company should have only paid $13,500 to government on your behalf. To make up the difference, the government will give you a rebate of $1,500.
I hope this helps explain things to you. An easy way to calculate the amount of money you'll save in taxes when you make donations is to multiple the donation amount by your tax rate. If you make a $5,000 donation and your tax rate is 30%, you'll be saving $1,500 on your taxes. This means that making a $5,000 donation really only costs you $3,500, yet the EFF will still get the benefit of the full amount.
And their policy is based on the guidelines set by the advertisers and cable companies.
Cable channels such as Comedy Central already subsidize the costs to air their channel by allowing cable and satellite companies to insert their own commercials into some of the commercial breaks. So, in effect, they are paying Cable companies to broadcast their signal.
With half of America already subscribing to Cable or satellite television, Comedy Central doesn't need more potential viewers; they just need those who already have their channel to watch more of it.
Finally, if the analysis you and the poster above has given is correct, don't you think your plan would have already been put into place?
You're very wrong.
The reason both cable and satellite companies charge about the same price is that they both have to pay ESPN and the other big cable channels for the rights to air their singles. The commercials these channels air only cover part of their cost. So, just like cable companies, satellite operators do pay an incremental cost per viewer.
Only a small part of your $30-$40 a month cable bill goes to maintaining your cable line. In fact, many cable companies offer a very basic plan for under $10 month that only includes the local channels such as ABC, NBC, and CBS. This means the price to maintain your cable line has to be under $10 a month.
I imagine at least half of XMS's fee, goes to the networks on their service, not into their pockets, so if they gave away their service for free, they'd be loosing money on each subscriber.
I disagree with you that gIFT is is a viable alternative to Kazaa because it hasn't implemented the super node aspect of Kazaa. Basically, it's only useful for connecting to existing FastTrack networks, not forcreating entirely new independent networks.
However, I have no doubt that either gIFT or another open source alternative file sharing network will duplicate or surpass the functionality Kazaa currently provides. This will be especially true if FastTrack is shut down. Just look at download.com's Macintosh section. Because Kazaa has not been ported to the Macintosh, two versions of the open source gnutella clone are ranked one and two.
Clearly, there is a huge appetite for file sharing software that will no doubt be met by talented open source programmer perhaps even operating anonymously. While it may seem like this would provide cover from RIAA and other organization lawsuits, I believe it won't. gnutella, gIFT and all other file sharing tools rely on centralized servers for at least the distribution of their software. The RIAA could easily threaten suits against Limeware, sourceforge.net, and any other entity hosting file sharing tools or even linking to them. The latest deCSS court decisions banning linking prove this to be the case.
KaZaa, the application, and FastTrack, the protocol, were created by the same company, so this lawsuit will shut everything down if it succeeds.
Please mod parent UP, and mod grandparent down. mughi's original comment was unjustly robbed of karma. QT's strange licensing restrictions need to be brought to light.
But tomorrow we just might have a (sigh) Beowulf cluster of machines that could brute force a 256 length key in a matter of hours.
This would argue otherwise.
The artificial inteligence feature sounds a little sketchy to me. I wonder how accurate it will be.
Newton Guest Stars on the Simpson
oops meant "proprietary"; not propriety
What are you talking about? Slashdot did run a story, covering the propriety version of sourceforge.
Yeah, I might have spoken a little soon about the quality. However, the link does work for me, and I don't have QuickTime Pro, but you do need QuickTime.
You need to have QuickTime 5 or massage the headers that your browser sends to the server indicating which plugins you have.
Thanks, that link worked great!
The quality is oustanding. Best video I've ever seen on the Mac; it easily surpasses DVD video. Go Sorenson 3!
Quotes get evaluated first and only once, and then variable substitutions happen, so having quotes in your drive name will not cause problems.
For example (in csh):
% setenv foo \"
% echo $foo
"
% echo "some quoted text:$foo"
some quoted text:"
Everything within quotes is passed as one argument to the echo command, and the fact that $foo contains a quote character doesn't cause any problems. If the quotes were evaluated after variable substitutions, an unmatched quote error would have been reported in the last example.
According to their press release:
If the proposed name change is approved, the company intends to change its Nasdaq trading symbol. Shareholders will vote on the proposal at the company's annual meeting on Dec. 5.
Equally amusing: their "synonymous page".
FTOSX is a MacOSX Linux Based
Um, okay, whatever that means.
With AOL, you can quit after the first month, and you owe nothing. Is it the same way with Transgaming?
Spaces aren't just added links. Slashcode or whatever they call it puts a space in any long word,so that posts can't ruin the discussion's format.
I had this problem to until another poster pointed out that you can just add a "+" to all the common words (except for "the") in your phrase. So to search for the phrase, "Attack on WTC", you'd search for "Attack +on WTC".
Even if you don't post, it's still behooves to register since you can control how the front page look and the default way stories are sorted, so I'd imagine that most lurkers will eventually register.