The specification for AGP costs $2500 also - now it is the defacto standard for video cards. So there are other factors that can come into play for any given technology to achieve widespread acceptance. With AGP, I believe it to be critical mass usage and performance that drives its popularity, not the fact that is closed or open source.
Am I the only hardware nerd on slashdot?? once these puppies are soldered on to the PCB they are one tough deal to remove. So has anyone developed an inexpensive technique (i.g. metcal) for removing them (even if there are solder bridges underneath) without damaging the board or chip? Without putting them through an SMT oven again and removing there?
I thought the Disney Channel was making new shows?
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I thought I saw a new show on the Disney channel - it had Amy Grant - I could be wrong?
Donald knuth was the creator of "literate programming", it's purpose being specifically to explain code in a concise easily understood manner. For example, use output from TEX then to go to noweb converter - usable C code. May I suggest the book "A Retargatble C Compiler: design and implementation" by Christopher Fraser for a good example. As the author says "This book not only describes the implementation of [the compiler], it _is_ the implementation." So once DECSS is a book, What is the Judge going to do?????
you know I used to not give a rat's ass about dvd on linux. I am soldering iron nerd. I have not been able to find a copy of the source code in text for download on W95. I see an executable and a couple of dll's, but nothing i can view with netscape. Will somebody clue the clueless and post the text of the source as html somewhere. I would think that if you would want to have the biggest audience possible and get the source to everybody this would be done.
it is quite arrogant of the MPAA to think they are stopping piracy. It would be very straight forward to do a hardware hack to read a dvd bit for bit. What's to stop me from publishing such a hardware hack and technical info on the web?? (FYI I work with circuits)
The impressions of whether cat named Belfry is in a box in state of half-deadness or dead because of it's bones being forcefully crushed by a metal divider are irrelevant. For the same reason you can not trisect an angle, or know the momentum and position of an electron simultaneously are you able to determine the significance of open source video soultion. While Plato indeed wondered about video editing, he could not have foreseen the vast amount of research that would go into making a implantable video viewer because of the huge quantities of video being produced on open source computers. Also, for this very same reason, you will open the box to see what really happened to the cat named Belfry. You will have forgotten that while the state of the cat named Belfry may have changed, the potency of the poison has not. Seeing the now dead cat Belfry you will smell the scent of something like sweet almonds. Once again you will say "Doh!!" You will feel your diaphragm get heavy. Then you will hear a garbage truck in the distance get nearer and nearer. The dumpster is not abandoned.
The impressions of whether cat named Belfry is in a box in state of half-deadness or dead because of being cut in half by a metal divider are irrelevant. For the same reason you can not trisect an angle, or know the momentum and position of an electron simultaneously are you able to determine the significance of open source video soultion. While Plato indeed wondered about video editing, he could not have foreseen the vast amount of research that would go into making a implantable video viewer because of the huge quantities of video being produced on open source computers. Also, for this very same reason, you will open the box to see what really happened to the cat named Belfry. You will have forgotten that while the state of the cat named Belfry may have changed, the potency of the poison has not. Seeing the now dead cat Belfry you will smell the scent of something like sweet almonds. Once again you will say "Doh!!" You will feel your diaphragm get heavy. Then you will hear a garbage truck in the distance get nearer and nearer. The dumpster is not abandoned.
He doesn't release the source because that would be enabling competing websites and his userbase would lose cohesion (i.e. hits).
Forget the complaint generator. I'm way tired of see Star Wars this and Star Wars that. It's no longer News for Nerds and it's Stuff that doesn't Matter. It's not like there is'nt any other sci-fi out there.
Also, If you're trying to get three digit negative Karma, what good is that accomplisment? Is that like Everest in reverse?
That would seem to make this software bogus. Something like this would push a lot a people onto Linux. If it is for real, the important question is whether it is broadcast quality or not. Also, is anyone working on an open source driver for the Fast video machine??
"the FCC doesn't want to dictate industry standards"
Can't they learn from their own poor decisions??
I remember them saying the exact same thing with AM Stereo, with the result being five different standards and fragmented technology. No single standard was ever adopted, receivers were expensive if you could find them, and nobody gave a care. In the end their still is no AM Stereo worth mentioning.
So maybe that's why I am so pissed at hearing this statement from the FCC??
I've noticed that a couple of the unattributed quotes might have come from movies. This quote about the Korean war sounds like it could have come from MASH - but that's just a stab.
Deeply stupid is an understatement for some of the quotes that appear. Only in the context of the original conversation could they possibly make sense (either fictitious or real). Some do not seem like quotes at all, but rather mindless rambling statements. Some (like this one) seem offensive. I would like to be able cut/. some slack on them by saying it was the result of some script program, but because the bad quotes appear regularly demonstrates that some editorial control needs to be exercised over them.
Slashdot should let us post comments about quotes like they do the poll. That way maybe half a thought would be given to them before they appeared on a page. Also, because there would be fewer quotes, maybe they would be of a higher quality.
Yes, this is completely offtopic, but it needs to be addressed nonetheless
many light dimmers will hash out your am radio when you turn them on, plus they can go all the way up to 3 MHz. This really should not be a suprise, as telephone wires are essentially longwire antennas.
When you go to picket, make sure your face is covered. They'll be taking pictures of you. Use mass transit, and watch your back. Otherwise they will try to follow your cars, and try to find out where you live. I'm not joking. Scary. This is *STANDARD* Scientology.
Interestingly enough breaking up Microsoft into different companies may not be punishment on the long term. Historically, large companies that have been found guilty of anti-trust violations and have been have been "punished" have manged to crawl out of the grave and return in a bigger form. Look at Standard Oil, IBM, AT&T, all of which were found guilty of anti-trust violations. They all fought it tooth and nail in court, and lost, and became mega-powerhouse companies. Standard Oil became the giants Exxon, Mobil and Chevron. AT&T was broken up only to spawn regional mega bells. AT&T itself is re-invading the home via cable. IBM was pursued by DOJ for monopolizing the mainframe market only to return and invent the PC market and give un-holy birth to Microsoft in the first place. Scary, huh?
just as long as the aliens don't have more than two tits and on two separate symmetrical breasts. I'm am really glad that the producers have upheld this high standard of physical beauty. I have always enjoyed how there always is a sexy female alien. I mean, you would think that most of the aliens would be multi appendaged squid monsters or something like that rock eating blob that the original series had in one episode.
But the producers have consistently rolled out good looking creatures from other worlds. That's they way it was with the original series too. We all knew what Captain Kirk was doing to-err-with the cute female aliens when they faded to black. It's a ST tradition - wham bam thank you martian mam. I just wish that Star Trek would show us the Venus butterfly.
anything about Star Trek to post a story. Before I go any further, I would like to say that I was a Star Trek loyalist/fan before it ever became fashionable, back when people would make their own ST props instead of buying them in the blister pack. Me, I had a NC1701 (not NC1701D) squirt gun.
It seems that the only sci-fi that exists on this electronic rag is Star Wars. Stars this and Jedi that, Jar Jar must die etc etc yada yada yada. I wish that in the preferences section I wish I could check a box so I would not see any more Star Wars stories. I am tired of only one diet of Star Wars sci fi here on Slashdot.
That's just it. Us Trekkies live in a time of bounty of Star Trek stories. It is very easy to forget the lean days of the mid/late seventies when the only new stories were ones that you made up with friends, a ASCII simulation on CPM, a stupid Saturday morning cartoon, or a few newsprint novels.
With such large amount of story resource now, it's not hard to see how people (especially non sci-fi fans) see it as tedium. Just like I see Star Wars on Slashdot as such. Personally, I would like to see quality of story (perhaps a series of movies) rather than quantity (a lot of TV shows).
All that is irrelevant. The very thing that brought Star Trek back (us fans buying it) is the same thing that will keep it around. As long as there is a buck to be made off from it, it'll be around.
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The specification for AGP costs $2500 also - now it is the defacto standard for video cards. So there are other factors that can come into play for any given technology to achieve widespread acceptance. With AGP, I believe it to be critical mass usage and performance that drives its popularity, not the fact that is closed or open source.
they are???? I learned to program FORTRAN on a sperry univac that had a DRUM as a harddrive....
Am I the only hardware nerd on slashdot?? once these puppies are soldered on to the PCB they are one tough deal to remove. So has anyone developed an inexpensive technique (i.g. metcal) for removing them (even if there are solder bridges underneath) without damaging the board or chip? Without putting them through an SMT oven again and removing there?
I thought I saw a new show on the Disney channel - it had Amy Grant - I could be wrong?
programming for the fun of it is "Groking" the code. Programming for money is called "earning a living".
Donald knuth was the creator of "literate programming", it's purpose being specifically to explain code in a concise easily understood manner. For example, use output from TEX then to go to noweb converter - usable C code. May I suggest the book "A Retargatble C Compiler: design and implementation" by Christopher Fraser for a good example. As the author says "This book not only describes the implementation of [the compiler], it _is_ the implementation." So once DECSS is a book, What is the Judge going to do?????
I have yet to see a decent lowcost LCD display. I'm waiting for the day when laptops are blisterpacked and cost less than $150.
Sorry, I couldn't resist :-))
you know I used to not give a rat's ass about dvd on linux. I am soldering iron nerd. I have not been able to find a copy of the source code in text for download on W95. I see an executable and a couple of dll's, but nothing i can view with netscape. Will somebody clue the clueless and post the text of the source as html somewhere. I would think that if you would want to have the biggest audience possible and get the source to everybody this would be done.
it is quite arrogant of the MPAA to think they are stopping piracy. It would be very straight forward to do a hardware hack to read a dvd bit for bit. What's to stop me from publishing such a hardware hack and technical info on the web?? (FYI I work with circuits)
cuz they were the first ones who did it. Who cares that Apple lost there lawsuit.
The impressions of whether cat named Belfry is in a box in state of half-deadness or dead because of it's bones being forcefully crushed by a metal divider are irrelevant. For the same reason you can not trisect an angle, or know the momentum and position of an electron simultaneously are you able to determine the significance of open source video soultion. While Plato indeed wondered about video editing, he could not have foreseen the vast amount of research that would go into making a implantable video viewer because of the huge quantities of video being produced on open source computers.
Also, for this very same reason, you will open the box to see what really happened to the cat named Belfry. You will have forgotten that while the state of the cat named Belfry may have changed, the potency of the poison has not. Seeing the now dead cat Belfry you will smell the scent of something like sweet almonds. Once again you will say "Doh!!"
You will feel your diaphragm get heavy. Then you will hear a garbage truck in the distance get nearer and nearer. The dumpster is not abandoned.
"DOH!!!"
The impressions of whether cat named Belfry is in a box in state of half-deadness or dead because of being cut in half by a metal divider are irrelevant. For the same reason you can not trisect an angle, or know the momentum and position of an electron simultaneously are you able to determine the significance of open source video soultion. While Plato indeed wondered about video editing, he could not have foreseen the vast amount of research that would go into making a implantable video viewer because of the huge quantities of video being produced on open source computers.
Also, for this very same reason, you will open the box to see what really happened to the cat named Belfry. You will have forgotten that while the state of the cat named Belfry may have changed, the potency of the poison has not. Seeing the now dead cat Belfry you will smell the scent of something like sweet almonds. Once again you will say "Doh!!"
You will feel your diaphragm get heavy. Then you will hear a garbage truck in the distance get nearer and nearer. The dumpster is not abandoned.
"DOH!!!"
He doesn't release the source because that would be enabling competing websites and his userbase would lose cohesion (i.e. hits).
Forget the complaint generator. I'm way tired of see Star Wars this and Star Wars that. It's no longer News for Nerds and it's Stuff that doesn't Matter. It's not like there is'nt any other sci-fi out there.
Also, If you're trying to get three digit negative Karma, what good is that accomplisment? Is that like Everest in reverse?
That would seem to make this software bogus. Something like this would push a lot a people onto Linux. If it is for real, the important question is whether it is broadcast quality or not. Also, is anyone working on an open source driver for the Fast video machine??
"the FCC doesn't want to dictate industry standards"
Can't they learn from their own poor decisions??
I remember them saying the exact same thing with AM Stereo, with the result being five different standards and fragmented technology. No single standard was ever adopted, receivers were expensive if you could find them, and nobody gave a care. In the end their still is no AM Stereo worth mentioning.
So maybe that's why I am so pissed at hearing this statement from the FCC??
I've noticed that a couple of the unattributed quotes might have come from movies. This quote about the Korean war sounds like it could have come from MASH - but that's just a stab.
/. some slack on them by saying it was the result of some script program, but because the bad quotes appear regularly demonstrates that some editorial control needs to be exercised over them.
Deeply stupid is an understatement for some of the quotes that appear. Only in the context of the original conversation could they possibly make sense (either fictitious or real). Some do not seem like quotes at all, but rather mindless rambling statements. Some (like this one) seem offensive. I would like to be able cut
Slashdot should let us post comments about quotes like they do the poll. That way maybe half a thought would be given to them before they appeared on a page. Also, because there would be fewer quotes, maybe they would be of a higher quality.
Yes, this is completely offtopic, but it needs to be addressed nonetheless
nations as they can't afford expensive klunky M$ products.
many light dimmers will hash out your am radio when you turn them on, plus they can go all the way up to 3 MHz. This really should not be a suprise, as telephone wires are essentially longwire antennas.
When you go to picket, make sure your face is covered. They'll be taking pictures of you. Use mass transit, and watch your back. Otherwise they will try to follow your cars, and try to find out where you live. I'm not joking. Scary. This is *STANDARD* Scientology.
Interestingly enough breaking up Microsoft into different companies may not be punishment on the long term. Historically, large companies that have been found guilty of anti-trust violations and have been have been "punished" have manged to crawl out of the grave and return in a bigger form. Look at Standard Oil, IBM, AT&T, all of which were found guilty of anti-trust violations. They all fought it tooth and nail in court, and lost, and became mega-powerhouse companies. Standard Oil became the giants Exxon, Mobil and Chevron. AT&T was broken up only to spawn regional mega bells. AT&T itself is re-invading the home via cable. IBM was pursued by DOJ for monopolizing the mainframe market only to return and invent the PC market and give un-holy birth to Microsoft in the first place. Scary, huh?
just as long as the aliens don't have more than two tits and on two separate symmetrical breasts. I'm am really glad that the producers have upheld this high standard of physical beauty. I have always enjoyed how there always is a sexy female alien. I mean, you would think that most of the aliens would be multi appendaged squid monsters or something like that rock eating blob that the original series had in one episode.
But the producers have consistently rolled out good looking creatures from other worlds. That's they way it was with the original series too. We all knew what Captain Kirk was doing to-err-with the cute female aliens when they faded to black. It's a ST tradition - wham bam thank you martian mam. I just wish that Star Trek would show us the Venus butterfly.
anything about Star Trek to post a story. Before I go any further, I would like to say that I was a Star Trek loyalist/fan before it ever became fashionable, back when people would make their own ST props instead of buying them in the blister pack. Me, I had a NC1701 (not NC1701D) squirt gun.
It seems that the only sci-fi that exists on this electronic rag is Star Wars. Stars this and Jedi that, Jar Jar must die etc etc yada yada yada. I wish that in the preferences section I wish I could check a box so I would not see any more Star Wars stories. I am tired of only one diet of Star Wars sci fi here on Slashdot.
That's just it. Us Trekkies live in a time of bounty of Star Trek stories. It is very easy to forget the lean days of the mid/late seventies when the only new stories were ones that you made up with friends, a ASCII simulation on CPM, a stupid Saturday morning cartoon, or a few newsprint novels.
With such large amount of story resource now, it's not hard to see how people (especially non sci-fi fans) see it as tedium. Just like I see Star Wars on Slashdot as such. Personally, I would like to see quality of story (perhaps a series of movies) rather than quantity (a lot of TV shows).
All that is irrelevant. The very thing that brought Star Trek back (us fans buying it) is the same thing that will keep it around. As long as there is a buck to be made off from it, it'll be around.
When is there going to be some *real* push to get the Linux Standard Base done before Linux goes the way of CPM??
Rolls of the tongue nicer. Only stupid for those who don't know what a Karnaugh map is.