Look out good freedom-loving citizens of Amerika, the black helicopters are coming. Not for your guns, or your money, they want *your domain names* ! Oh, its enough to make any patriot quake in his knee-high steel-toed combat boots. All the red-blooded free men of America better move to a country where the UN cannot take our freedoms! I suggest Yugoslavia, or else Sudan, or maybe Sri Lanka. All those countries are not UN members, and they have fine traditions of respecting free speech and personal freedoms.
*disclaimer! this is parody. If you don't like it, bite me (or moderate me)
I thought MP3 compression worked by disgarding high frequencies. Granted, the only explanation I ever read of MP3 compression was written for complete bubbleheads, but I read "doesn't encode parts of the music we can't hear" as "throws away any frequncies above 24KHz"(or whatever the upper bound of what humans can hear is).
uncertainty surrounding Microsoft's development roadmap
But, according to M$, Linux doesn't have a "roadmap" either... We better all go back to DOS^H^H^H Windows 98
Linux, in Unixish tradition, won't have a Y2K problem for 3 decades, at which time we should all be on 64 bit systems anyway
That's the sort of thinking that got us into this year-2000 mess in the first place. Someone, somewhere will still be using 32-bit systems for something critical in 2038.
Flame me if i'm wrong, but KryoTech's assertion that CMOS chips naturally run faster when they are cooled sounds a little fishy. The clock oscillator that provides timing to the chip is on the motherboard, not in the CPU core, where it would be cooled. The clock chip runs at room temperature, and runs at its normal speed, therefore the clock pulses go to the CPU at the same rate. Unless the K7 adjust its multiplier depending on temperature, all cooling the chip does is *allow* it to run at high speeds (on a fast MoBo, with all the clock jumpers maxed out). This is a little different from my definition of "natually faster" I may be splitting hairs here, but they ought to let people know you can't just slap an active cooler on a pentium in a tx motherboard and expect it to run at 1.0 GHz...
XFree 4.0 is going to be a quantum leap. Modular design, plug-in drivers for different video cards, native TrueType font rendering, accelerated 3D in a window, etc. check www.Xfree86.org/releaseplans.html for the whole list.
This thread has been up for 20 minutes, without a single reply. Three or four months ago,/. would be in overload mode already because of this article. *sigh* looks like I won't need this today... (setting down the fire extinguisher)
Why do double quotation marks in any of JonKatz's articles turn into question marks on my screen? I use netscape 4.0 for Linux, what does Katz write with?
Right! specifically, we need to make it illegal for: -minors to buy guns -minors to buy ammunition -anyone (except cops) to bring guns into a school -anyone to convert a shotgun to a sawed-off -anyone to construct pipe bombs -anyone to commit murder
Oh, wait... all those things are already illegal. The answer is not more laws, it's more enforcment of the laws we already have.
Yes, but it's the equal protection clause of the 14th that applies the second amendment to state laws. "No state shall make or enforce any law abriding the privileges or immunities of citizens of the united states". Prior to the 14th amendment, the US constitution applied only to federal laws. (hence "Congress shall make no law...") but *not* to state laws. The 14th amendment allows the second amendment to protect a citizen's right to keep and bear arms from state and local law.
what does it matter? when a company sucks up a.com domain, they almost always grab the corresponding.org, and.net (and now.biz,.art,.porn,.scriptkiddie,.wombat,.foo,.txt, and.tar.gz too) New TLDs will do very little if there isn't some prohibition on companies owning multiple domain names. (check out mac OS rumors' list of domains that apple grabbed up recently to see what I mean.)
But it isn't! Corel's linux distro will be heavily based on the Qt libraries which are not GPL. The qt liscense in non-GPL compatible! Debian is entirely free, without any commercial components at all. One could argue that Debian is really GNU/linux. (and they call themselves that) Corel is not Debian, they are making a new distro, with Debian's base.
As for GNU, reasoning that the operating system is seperate from the kernel is like reasoning that the processor is seperate from the computer. It's a part. just like your computer isnt a computer if it doesn't have a CPU, an OS is not an OS without a kernel. The free software federation is so busy fighting internally that it's a wonder they ever get around to releasing software. The way ESR and RMS are throwing invective around, now is not the time to point the spotlight at the FSF. Now is the time for the FSF to count ten, sit in the corner for the rest of class, and hopefully grow up a little. (and stop demanding that everything be called GNU/something.)
They have the only power they need... *yoink* That was the sound of your cable being disconnected. Don't you wish that this so-called deregulation actually meant there was another cable company in town, insted of just making you pay higher rates to the only game in town....
Everyone has the right to speak, but nobody has the "right" to make us listen. There is nothing wrong with content filters (like the/. scoring system). The subject hiding feature *is* useful (I could care less about the latest invectives that RMS is throwing around) You have a valid point about people hiding from opinions they don't like, but right now this all sounds like sour grapes because you're the most frequently blocked writer on slashdot. Cheer up, you'll get fewer flames this way
Introducing the iRio, first MP3 player to ship with USB headphones, and it looks uber-cool... But if you wait a few months you can get an even better looking Rio-G3 with more memory, better sound output and a faster processor. Diamond promises that the next version, the Rio-G4, will run circles around the best machines creative can put out. The G4 is expected to have the first firewire(r) headphones, and be made of carbon, inside a yellow box, inside a blue box. The G4 is also expected to ship with Rio's new MP-X format, built from the Mock microkernel, which promises to play MP3s as well as most standard UNIX audio files, offer superior multi-listening, and RioNetworking (previously known as TangledHeadphones 2.0).
If you don't find this funny, you're probably using an apple...
How will this kill MP3? I think we had this discussion before, about the "secure" digital music format. Anything that produces and analog output (or a digital sound output, if you have nice hardware) can be fed into a soundcard and encoded. Granted, the difference between MP3 and DVD is wider than the difference with a plain CD, but people will still use their MP3 players, just for the sake of laziness.
"first the ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". - Ghandi It looks like Linux vs Micros~1 has reached the third step.
I still do play D&D. And Quake, and Quake2, and all the MechWarrior games, and too many others to list here. I gave up on magic a few years back (nobody plays anymore) I can attest to the fact that these games have *not* made me violent, or evil, or a monsterous homicidal satanist or anything else like that. *AND I'll RAILGUN ANYONE WHO DISAGREES!*:) I just hope that when this ridiculous case gets to court the judge can contian his (or her) laughter long enough to say "case dismissed".
Copyrights are IMHO a good thing. They give the developer of a peice of software the freedom to choose how it will be distributed. Without copyrights, the GPL isn't worth the electons that light up the letters on your screen, anyone can take your code and turn it into something else, without giving you credit. Also, if companies can't copyright their code, they will patent their algorithms instead. One step forward, ten steps back. Nobody would have an incentive to invest, because there would be no money to be made in arts literature, film,software, or anything else like that. Who wants to see Star Wars 2 & 3? Do you think George Lucas is going to make those movies (to the tune of $150 million each) out of the goodness of his heart, not expecting a penny in return? I doubt it too...
I'm starting to sound like a M$ spinmeister, I better stop here.
Marconi's first transmitters made a pulse of RF energy by firing a spark across an air gap. The radio waves were not tuned to any one frequency, and they made short pulses of energy, hence they were broadband pulse devices. Welcome to the future..it looks a lot like the past.
Draft dodger? Let's see which stone-throwers went to Vietnam... Reagan? no.. Dan Quayle? nope... George Will? not even close... Rush Limbaugh? no...
Drugs are bad? Thats a wide generalization. Most all drugs have some ill effect on the user, yes. Republicans, it seems, have a fascination with supply-side economics. They try to apply it to out drug "problem", resulting in an artificial shortage of drugs on the street, meaning extremely high prices, meaning addicts turn to crime to pay for their habit, leading to more violent crime, leading to more police action, leading to higher drug prices, and so on. Int this way, the "war on drugs" is *increasing* our crime rate! The solution is *education*: squash the demand for drugs, and the suppliers will go out of business on their own. Of course, that assumes that the truth about drugs is bad enough to scare potential users away, which in some cases (like cannibis which has been scientifically studied for over 200 years) it isn't, but legalization is a subject for another thread...
Do you ewant to hear about "big brother"? Let's talk about the current property-forfeiture laws involving drug cases. Let's talk about the GOP's constant will to "get tough on crime" at the expense of American's civil liberties
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Look out good freedom-loving citizens of Amerika, the black helicopters are coming. Not for your guns, or your money, they want *your domain names* ! Oh, its enough to make any patriot quake in his knee-high steel-toed combat boots. All the red-blooded free men of America better move to a country where the UN cannot take our freedoms! I suggest Yugoslavia, or else Sudan, or maybe Sri Lanka. All those countries are not UN members, and they have fine traditions of respecting free speech and personal freedoms.
*disclaimer! this is parody. If you don't like it, bite me (or moderate me)
noooo!
here goes the old Linux vs GNU/Linux flamewar again...
I thought MP3 compression worked by disgarding high frequencies. Granted, the only explanation I ever read of MP3 compression was written for complete bubbleheads, but I read "doesn't encode parts of the music we can't hear" as "throws away any frequncies above 24KHz"(or whatever the upper bound of what humans can hear is).
But, according to M$, Linux doesn't have a "roadmap" either... We better all go back to DOS^H^H^H Windows 98
Linux, in Unixish tradition, won't have a Y2K problem for 3 decades, at which time we should all be on 64 bit systems anyway
That's the sort of thinking that got us into this year-2000 mess in the first place. Someone, somewhere will still be using 32-bit systems for something critical in 2038.
> is that good enough to runn it fairly well in software?
accelerate or play not, young jedi. there is no software.
Flame me if i'm wrong, but KryoTech's assertion that CMOS chips naturally run faster when they are cooled sounds a little fishy. The clock oscillator that provides timing to the chip is on the motherboard, not in the CPU core, where it would be cooled. The clock chip runs at room temperature, and runs at its normal speed, therefore the clock pulses go to the CPU at the same rate. Unless the K7 adjust its multiplier depending on temperature, all cooling the chip does is *allow* it to run at high speeds (on a fast MoBo, with all the clock jumpers maxed out). This is a little different from my definition of "natually faster" I may be splitting hairs here, but they ought to let people know you can't just slap an active cooler on a pentium in a tx motherboard and expect it to run at 1.0 GHz...
XFree 4.0 is going to be a quantum leap. Modular design, plug-in drivers for different video cards, native TrueType font rendering, accelerated 3D in a window, etc. check www.Xfree86.org/releaseplans.html for the whole list.
This thread has been up for 20 minutes, without a single reply. Three or four months ago, /. would be in overload mode already because of this article.
*sigh* looks like I won't need this today...
(setting down the fire extinguisher)
Then why isn't it George Lucas and/or John Williams demanding that it be taken down?
Why do double quotation marks in any of JonKatz's articles turn into question marks on my screen? I use netscape 4.0 for Linux, what does Katz write with?
Right! specifically, we need to make it illegal for:
-minors to buy guns
-minors to buy ammunition
-anyone (except cops) to bring guns into a school
-anyone to convert a shotgun to a sawed-off
-anyone to construct pipe bombs
-anyone to commit murder
Oh, wait... all those things are already illegal. The answer is not more laws, it's more enforcment of the laws we already have.
Yes, but it's the equal protection clause of the 14th that applies the second amendment to state laws. "No state shall make or enforce any law abriding the privileges or immunities of citizens of the united states". Prior to the 14th amendment, the US constitution applied only to federal laws. (hence "Congress shall make no law...") but *not* to state laws. The 14th amendment allows the second amendment to protect a citizen's right to keep and bear arms from state and local law.
what does it matter? when a company sucks up a .com domain, they almost always grab the corresponding .org, and .net (and now .biz, .art, .porn, .scriptkiddie, .wombat, .foo, .txt, and .tar.gz too) New TLDs will do very little if there isn't some prohibition on companies owning multiple domain names. (check out mac OS rumors' list of domains that apple grabbed up recently to see what I mean.)
But it isn't! Corel's linux distro will be heavily based on the Qt libraries which are not GPL. The qt liscense in non-GPL compatible!
Debian is entirely free, without any commercial components at all. One could argue that Debian is really GNU/linux. (and they call themselves that) Corel is not Debian, they are making a new distro, with Debian's base.
As for GNU, reasoning that the operating system is seperate from the kernel is like reasoning that the processor is seperate from the computer. It's a part. just like your computer isnt a computer if it doesn't have a CPU, an OS is not an OS without a kernel. The free software federation is so busy fighting internally that it's a wonder they ever get around to releasing software. The way ESR and RMS are throwing invective around, now is not the time to point the spotlight at the FSF. Now is the time for the FSF to count ten, sit in the corner for the rest of class, and hopefully grow up a little. (and stop demanding that everything be called GNU/something.)
grouptheory@ihatestarwars.com
let the flamage begin...
They have the only power they need...
*yoink*
That was the sound of your cable being disconnected. Don't you wish that this so-called deregulation actually meant there was another cable company in town, insted of just making you pay higher rates to the only game in town....
Everyone has the right to speak, but nobody has the "right" to make us listen. There is nothing wrong with content filters (like the /. scoring system). The subject hiding feature *is* useful (I could care less about the latest invectives that RMS is throwing around) You have a valid point about people hiding from opinions they don't like, but right now this all sounds like sour grapes because you're the most frequently blocked writer on slashdot. Cheer up, you'll get fewer flames this way
Introducing the iRio, first MP3 player to ship with USB headphones, and it looks uber-cool...
But if you wait a few months you can get an even better looking Rio-G3 with more memory, better sound output and a faster processor. Diamond promises that the next version, the Rio-G4, will run circles around the best machines creative can put out. The G4 is expected to have the first firewire(r) headphones, and be made of carbon, inside a yellow box, inside a blue box. The G4 is also expected to ship with Rio's new MP-X format, built from the Mock microkernel, which promises to play MP3s as well as most standard UNIX audio files, offer superior multi-listening, and RioNetworking (previously known as TangledHeadphones 2.0).
If you don't find this funny, you're probably using an apple...
How will this kill MP3? I think we had this discussion before, about the "secure" digital music format. Anything that produces and analog output (or a digital sound output, if you have nice hardware) can be fed into a soundcard and encoded. Granted, the difference between MP3 and DVD is wider than the difference with a plain CD, but people will still use their MP3 players, just for the sake of laziness.
This was quoted on slashdot a few months back
"first the ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". - Ghandi
It looks like Linux vs Micros~1 has reached the third step.
Microsoft: where do we want you to go today?
I always liked "Where does Microsoft want you to go today?" better...
I still do play D&D. And Quake, and Quake2, and all the MechWarrior games, and too many others to list here. I gave up on magic a few years back (nobody plays anymore) I can attest to the fact that these games have *not* made me violent, or evil, or a monsterous homicidal satanist or anything else like that. *AND I'll RAILGUN ANYONE WHO DISAGREES!* :)
I just hope that when this ridiculous case gets to court the judge can contian his (or her) laughter long enough to say "case dismissed".
Copyrights are IMHO a good thing. They give the developer of a peice of software the freedom to choose how it will be distributed. Without copyrights, the GPL isn't worth the electons that light up the letters on your screen, anyone can take your code and turn it into something else, without giving you credit. Also, if companies can't copyright their code, they will patent their algorithms instead. One step forward, ten steps back. Nobody would have an incentive to invest, because there would be no money to be made in arts literature, film,software, or anything else like that. Who wants to see Star Wars 2 & 3? Do you think George Lucas is going to make those movies (to the tune of $150 million each) out of the goodness of his heart, not expecting a penny in return? I doubt it too...
I'm starting to sound like a M$ spinmeister, I better stop here.
Marconi's first transmitters made a pulse of RF energy by firing a spark across an air gap. The radio waves were not tuned to any one frequency, and they made short pulses of energy, hence they were broadband pulse devices. Welcome to the future..it looks a lot like the past.
Draft dodger? Let's see which stone-throwers went to Vietnam... Reagan? no.. Dan Quayle? nope... George Will? not even close... Rush Limbaugh? no...
Drugs are bad? Thats a wide generalization. Most all drugs have some ill effect on the user, yes. Republicans, it seems, have a fascination with supply-side economics. They try to apply it to out drug "problem", resulting in an artificial shortage of drugs on the street, meaning extremely high prices, meaning addicts turn to crime to pay for their habit, leading to more violent crime, leading to more police action, leading to higher drug prices, and so on. Int this way, the "war on drugs" is *increasing* our crime rate! The solution is *education*: squash the demand for drugs, and the suppliers will go out of business on their own. Of course, that assumes that the truth about drugs is bad enough to scare potential users away, which in some cases (like cannibis which has been scientifically studied for over 200 years) it isn't, but legalization is a subject for another thread...
Do you ewant to hear about "big brother"? Let's talk about the current property-forfeiture laws involving drug cases. Let's talk about the GOP's constant will to "get tough on crime" at the expense of American's civil liberties