I've always said Windows and Linux "need each other". I don't see what he's saying as happening though. His claim that MS makes a "lopped-off head" version of Linux would kill the development cycle is bogus. Think of the hardcore, community-based, non-commercial purists... the Debian, Slackware, Kernel people. Probably 90% of the Linux-people. They would never just "give up".
He claims developers would stop developing because MS would benefit from open source projects. Umm, if I developed a killer app, and I didn't want it to run on MS-Linux, I'd stick a compile-time flag in there. Set the flag for "MS-Linux" support. How many MS-Linux users (people who want many things to work out of the box and probably want to separate themselves from the running parts) would take the time to set the flag? Bingo. Linux-Killer Killer.
Let me just start out by saying, this is one of those posts that makes you step back and realize there's a niche that needs to be filled, that falls outside of one's own personal paradigm. I felt so dumb, not even knowing what a headmouse was.
With much thanks to the person who posted an example of a headmouse, from a tech perspective, I can think of it sort of like a touchpad or normal mouse (aka, movement of a cursor and possible right/left click). The website said it had a common USB interface... the machine must see it as a normal mouse.
Which brings me to my suggestion. One of my favorite games on the Amiga was some "walker" something or other... you actually had to control it with two controllers. One joystick controlled the walking machine, the other the cursor on the screen, a shooting type of targeter. What made this game so fun to play wasn't the fact that you needed two joysticks (and literally two hands) to play, but the fact that you could play it with someone else, simultaneously!
In other words, you controlled this StarWars 2 legged at-at thing, and one guy got to let it move and the other controlled it's gun/targeter/whatever.
Is the option to play with someone else available? It could be interesting! Play a FPS where you control the mouse and someone else controls the keyboard... a new level of gameplay, and the best part... you don't have to even modify exsisting games.
I'm not trying to be cruel or anything but I remember having a great time with that old Amiga "walker" game (if someone can remember the real name, I'd appreciate it). I actually remember having to use a D-pad style joystick in my left hand then a "stick" style joystick under my right leg, to control the game. It was actually easier (and more fun) to play with two people!
To sum up a long and boring post: just because most modern games are designed with one person, or two people "competing" doesn't mean you can't have a good time using the game in a non-traditional cooperative mode. I've always personally enjoyed cooperative games more than competitive. (But that's just me.)
That the same guy in PC magazine? I used to read that eons ago... I found myself in the grocery store and read his latest column (in PC Mag). It was kinda interesting, he was mentioning the Cell processor.
But he incorrectly stated, not once -- but three times, that the Cell was going to be a 250 "Teraflop" processor.
Dunno about him, but everywhere I've seen info on this chip, it was a gigaflop processor, not teraflop. Don't believe me? Go pick up the most recent PC Magazine, see for yourself.
Ok, I came up with this really dumb (good?) idea. See, I'm just about broke. I'd love to support Slackware as it's my favorite distribution I've been using since about 1997.
I kinda grumbled that the only way to get them was through bittorrent, and we all know how dumb lopsided home-internet connections are. My upload is 1/16th of my download bandwidth, so downloading the isos here at home might choke my uplink for my voip service (even with QoS).
So then I got thinking... there's 3 major ISPs in the area... I work at one, have another at home and have friends at the third, where I have a colo'd slack 9.1 (with updates) box. They don't peg me for bandwidth either... the machine will melt before I get a bandwidth bill (or so we'll find out, hope they don't read this!).
So I've decided to have my first Slackware Seedifesto (hey my dumb idea, I can make up dumb words)... where it took less than an hour to grab all 4 isos. I'll leave it running all night. My uploads are fluctuating anywhere from 100-400KB/sec (bytes), and disc 4 has already thrown out 1.2 gigs!
It's the only slightly-unlimited resource I have... I'd encourage anyone else with nice connections to do the same... I'm going to let mine go until about 8am EST tomarrow morning so that poor guy in CA who downloads Slack tonight at 2am doesn't only receive 1.2KB/sec.
The protocol is out there. Slashdot Effect + Bittorrent = A whole heck of allotta slack.
I think the max I have is about 1.5Mbytes/sec (that was incoming)... not bad for a little mini itx machine!
Closed source investigation proves more secure! The less eyes looking at these modified pictures the better! A small group of policemen and investigators working on a secret case would prove more efficient and better results than to open it to the public!
...or they could make a new section "companies who have sued us". That would be neat. Full disclosure! I bet many people would want to search through those listings.
Due to the simplicity of the circuit design, the prototype unit does not discriminate between other sources of 2.4GHz RF, eg. "leaky" microwave ovens, cordless phones, etc.
See, I've read some of the comments here... people going after P2P software, and Internet protocols. What you don't realize, is there are crimes committed out there by people *without* those "tools of evil".
Which is why I propose a law against something that *every* criminal does while committing a crime: breathe. Yes, if we make breathing illegal, no more crimes! And this covers a broad scope of crimes, not just digital copyright. If we outlaw breathing, the rest of us can live (or not) safely.
...when I was setting up SPF for my mail server. I wanted to investigate all possible options. So I looked into spf, and found some tech docs and info on that. Did the same thing for domainkeys. Then it came to Microsoft's SenderID or whatever they're calling it. I get the distinct feeling it's now fused with SPF, or works much like SPF. But you couldn't glean that from their docs on it. To sum it up, paraphrase and change some words, it went something like this:
"This product is so cool. And I mean not just cool, but amazingly cool. The coolness of this product will impress your friends. When you ask yourself, how cool can I possibly be, we have the coolness answer. Don't let your coolness slip away. Our cool is here now and you can be cool too, and feel cool for year to come with the coolness that lasts."
...I thought the ISP I worked for was *one* of the oldest (not the oldest but one of them.) Then I remembered, our place was started in 1991. They had us beat by two years! Ours was only a BBS then...
On the topic, seeing as I live in NY... do the domain hijackers as well? Anyone wanna go on a butt-kicking expedition? Actually looks like the hijackers live in Las Vegas, if they didn't fake the whois info.
Has anyone ever thought of posting a spam index? In other words, recently I've forwarded all my "old" accounts to my gmail account (including one I've had for over 7 years which collects a ton of spam) and am running "new" accounts on my own mailserver with my domain.
The spam index would be the number of spam emails/number of legit emails for the last month for one email account. This is pretty easy to do as gmail saves the last 30 days' worth of spam. Mine right now (for that account only) is about 431/57... not counting the legit mails over 30 days of course.
That's not bad, but what are some other people's "spam indexes"? My work account would be *much* worse...
I'm from the SPCAF, the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Apples and Flies, are you *sure* the flies are dead first? Are you obsolutely positive that they died of *natural causes*?
Now off to talk to that Jobs guy. I've heard he's been abusing Apples.
the Indian government is planning a law based on the DMCA that would establish the responsibility of the corporation when dealing with copyrighted materials.
Since when is a home video of students doing that stuff "copyright material"?
Slashdot Mirror
I've always said Windows and Linux "need each other". I don't see what he's saying as happening though. His claim that MS makes a "lopped-off head" version of Linux would kill the development cycle is bogus. Think of the hardcore, community-based, non-commercial purists... the Debian, Slackware, Kernel people. Probably 90% of the Linux-people. They would never just "give up".
He claims developers would stop developing because MS would benefit from open source projects. Umm, if I developed a killer app, and I didn't want it to run on MS-Linux, I'd stick a compile-time flag in there. Set the flag for "MS-Linux" support. How many MS-Linux users (people who want many things to work out of the box and probably want to separate themselves from the running parts) would take the time to set the flag? Bingo. Linux-Killer Killer.
This reminds me of the time in middle school, the girl's gym teacher was named "Mr Raper".
Nope, it was definitely "Walker", as in this link.
From DMA Design.
Let me just start out by saying, this is one of those posts that makes you step back and realize there's a niche that needs to be filled, that falls outside of one's own personal paradigm. I felt so dumb, not even knowing what a headmouse was.
With much thanks to the person who posted an example of a headmouse, from a tech perspective, I can think of it sort of like a touchpad or normal mouse (aka, movement of a cursor and possible right/left click). The website said it had a common USB interface... the machine must see it as a normal mouse.
Which brings me to my suggestion. One of my favorite games on the Amiga was some "walker" something or other... you actually had to control it with two controllers. One joystick controlled the walking machine, the other the cursor on the screen, a shooting type of targeter. What made this game so fun to play wasn't the fact that you needed two joysticks (and literally two hands) to play, but the fact that you could play it with someone else, simultaneously!
In other words, you controlled this StarWars 2 legged at-at thing, and one guy got to let it move and the other controlled it's gun/targeter/whatever.
Is the option to play with someone else available? It could be interesting! Play a FPS where you control the mouse and someone else controls the keyboard... a new level of gameplay, and the best part... you don't have to even modify exsisting games.
I'm not trying to be cruel or anything but I remember having a great time with that old Amiga "walker" game (if someone can remember the real name, I'd appreciate it). I actually remember having to use a D-pad style joystick in my left hand then a "stick" style joystick under my right leg, to control the game. It was actually easier (and more fun) to play with two people!
To sum up a long and boring post: just because most modern games are designed with one person, or two people "competing" doesn't mean you can't have a good time using the game in a non-traditional cooperative mode. I've always personally enjoyed cooperative games more than competitive. (But that's just me.)
...across our galaxy, aliens are sitting there laughing, saying "Stupid humans. They just don't get our april fools jokes."
such as maps for addresses, isdn numbers for books, etc.
Wow, books have ISDN numbers now? What ever happened to ISBN numbers?
That the same guy in PC magazine? I used to read that eons ago... I found myself in the grocery store and read his latest column (in PC Mag). It was kinda interesting, he was mentioning the Cell processor.
But he incorrectly stated, not once -- but three times, that the Cell was going to be a 250 "Teraflop" processor.
Dunno about him, but everywhere I've seen info on this chip, it was a gigaflop processor, not teraflop. Don't believe me? Go pick up the most recent PC Magazine, see for yourself.
The "Slashdot Effect" is now known as repeating yourself over and over again until your webserver crashes.
Ok, I came up with this really dumb (good?) idea. See, I'm just about broke. I'd love to support Slackware as it's my favorite distribution I've been using since about 1997.
... where it took less than an hour to grab all 4 isos. I'll leave it running all night. My uploads are fluctuating anywhere from 100-400KB/sec (bytes), and disc 4 has already thrown out 1.2 gigs!
... I'm going to let mine go until about 8am EST tomarrow morning so that poor guy in CA who downloads Slack tonight at 2am doesn't only receive 1.2KB/sec.
... not bad for a little mini itx machine!
I kinda grumbled that the only way to get them was through bittorrent, and we all know how dumb lopsided home-internet connections are. My upload is 1/16th of my download bandwidth, so downloading the isos here at home might choke my uplink for my voip service (even with QoS).
So then I got thinking... there's 3 major ISPs in the area... I work at one, have another at home and have friends at the third, where I have a colo'd slack 9.1 (with updates) box. They don't peg me for bandwidth either... the machine will melt before I get a bandwidth bill (or so we'll find out, hope they don't read this!).
So I've decided to have my first Slackware Seedifesto (hey my dumb idea, I can make up dumb words)
It's the only slightly-unlimited resource I have... I'd encourage anyone else with nice connections to do the same
The protocol is out there. Slashdot Effect + Bittorrent = A whole heck of allotta slack.
I think the max I have is about 1.5Mbytes/sec (that was incoming)
Closed source investigation proves more secure! The less eyes looking at these modified pictures the better! A small group of policemen and investigators working on a secret case would prove more efficient and better results than to open it to the public!
Am I correct, Mr. Anti-Open-Source Person?
...or they could make a new section "companies who have sued us". That would be neat. Full disclosure! I bet many people would want to search through those listings.
Due to the simplicity of the circuit design, the prototype unit does not discriminate between other sources of 2.4GHz RF, eg. "leaky" microwave ovens, cordless phones, etc.
It's the one ring to detect them all?
Windows or SCO. Take your pick.
(they're all coming to kill me now)
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See, I've read some of the comments here... people going after P2P software, and Internet protocols. What you don't realize, is there are crimes committed out there by people *without* those "tools of evil".
Which is why I propose a law against something that *every* criminal does while committing a crime: breathe. Yes, if we make breathing illegal, no more crimes! And this covers a broad scope of crimes, not just digital copyright. If we outlaw breathing, the rest of us can live (or not) safely.
...when I was setting up SPF for my mail server. I wanted to investigate all possible options. So I looked into spf, and found some tech docs and info on that. Did the same thing for domainkeys. Then it came to Microsoft's SenderID or whatever they're calling it. I get the distinct feeling it's now fused with SPF, or works much like SPF. But you couldn't glean that from their docs on it. To sum it up, paraphrase and change some words, it went something like this:
"This product is so cool. And I mean not just cool, but amazingly cool. The coolness of this product will impress your friends. When you ask yourself, how cool can I possibly be, we have the coolness answer. Don't let your coolness slip away. Our cool is here now and you can be cool too, and feel cool for year to come with the coolness that lasts."
...I thought the ISP I worked for was *one* of the oldest (not the oldest but one of them.) Then I remembered, our place was started in 1991. They had us beat by two years! Ours was only a BBS then...
... do the domain hijackers as well? Anyone wanna go on a butt-kicking expedition? Actually looks like the hijackers live in Las Vegas, if they didn't fake the whois info.
On the topic, seeing as I live in NY
Yea they are. I have a usb pendrive, usb 802.11b adapter and a usb infrared (for older cell phone) in one of mine. Call it x-ray protection.
Does this mean every couple of hundreds of thousands of years we get to have a leap-hour?
...$20 on the glacier. I think it can take that little guy.
Has anyone ever thought of posting a spam index? In other words, recently I've forwarded all my "old" accounts to my gmail account (including one I've had for over 7 years which collects a ton of spam) and am running "new" accounts on my own mailserver with my domain.
... not counting the legit mails over 30 days of course.
The spam index would be the number of spam emails/number of legit emails for the last month for one email account. This is pretty easy to do as gmail saves the last 30 days' worth of spam. Mine right now (for that account only) is about 431/57
That's not bad, but what are some other people's "spam indexes"? My work account would be *much* worse...
This was Y32k!
I'm from the SPCAF, the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Apples and Flies, are you *sure* the flies are dead first? Are you obsolutely positive that they died of *natural causes*?
Now off to talk to that Jobs guy. I've heard he's been abusing Apples.
...maybe if we all lean to the left...
the Indian government is planning a law based on the DMCA that would establish the responsibility of the corporation when dealing with copyrighted materials.
Since when is a home video of students doing that stuff "copyright material"?