I read through the posts that showed up here quickly and the posts over at voodooextreme and I think people are a bit confused.
The fact that IBM and sony announced their partnership here doesnt mean that they're switching gears already for the ps3. All it means is that they are announcing the beginning of development for the platform. How long did the ps2 take to develop? the x-box? a few years. This is nothing new in the way of business relations.
What I am excited to hear about though is the kinds of technologies that IBM is planning on using or hoping to use in their new chips... They have a few years to develop it so I assume they have some high goals!
I also wonder what platform squaresoft is going to contract to next. will they stick with sony? renew their relationship with nintendo? join the evil empire (scary thought)?
I think this is something that has been lacking for quite some time. I have experience in the GIS packages from ESRI (ArcInfo, ArcView, etc), which are decidedly NOT free, and I've always wondered if there was a decent free alternative to it.
This looks to be a step in the right direction, and it looks, from the homepage, that there is still much development being done.
What I wonder is if the data is easy to get to. I cant remember if we had to pay for the USGS data or not...
Lots of smaller cities are starting to use heavy duty GIS to help manage their public services. For example there is a city in colorado (Ft. Morgan) who are using ArcInfo and a load of other addons to provide field workers with data about specific power line segments, and they even have WAP functionality so they can enter data from their palmpilots!
I think there is yet to be a real big interest in this type of databasing/mapping, which is too bad. there is so much cool stuff you can accomplish with these types of tools, and it looks like FreeGIS is helping make it widely available.
Nonetheless you are passing up the sociological point of the article as well. No matter what way you "choose" what you think is cool, some form of society has directed you there. Wether it be that you heard that cool song on that commercial during Friends, or you want to support the local DJs or you hate all American Pop and go for something from India - it is the social factors that are driving that one way or another.
"Choosing" is the worst word. In one way or another you were being told by society what you like. Like it or not, this is how it works.
The bigger the force by corporations to push Gap commercial style or Boy Bands down your throat, the more influence it will have. If you didnt' already hate that sort of style, you will probably like it more - if you didnt, you will dislike it more.
what is being talked about here is creating some sort of force that is Dynamic, and controled by PEOPLE not Corporations.
aah, the wonders of free press. I do think the internet should be treated as a free-press entity of sorts. This being in which supreme court rulings say there may be prior-review - but no prior-restraint. (not sure on the specifics of utah law - that might be a thing to look up).
I nearly took this issue up with my highschool newspaper advisor, who was doing more editing of the paper than the editors. Because of the school we were in (a famous one. i'll give you that) we had to severely tone down any sort of criticisms we had in our editorial sections. Gone was the open-forum of our editorial section, because contrivertial issues were literally thrown out by our advisor. I am not sure in which way he thought he had the power to do this, seeing as colorado (oops) has legal right to prior-review, but not to prior-restraint (as per the supreme court rulings). What he did was illegal but I did not have enough support of the rest of the staff to go ahead with a complaint. I doubt administration would have heard it anyway. (this being the administration that was 'asking people to leave' because of how they dressed (even when it was within dress code guidelines), anything they drew, wrote, or said (this being the 'new tolerant [school]')
Bah. like i posted on this same article - not sure what sort of policies where instated by the school about hosted sites, but from the sound of it he still owns his site. if he doesnt, I believe the university should do some reviewing of THEIR CONTENT.
I can understand if the server was unauthorized (server computer on residence net) or even if they were providing authorized hosting, I dont think they should be able to claim legal IP rights to the content. (for one thing, if he was running slashcode I believe all the content on the site there should be protected under the GPL?)
I can understand if they dont want association with the site - and therefore revoke hosting. I certainly do not think any record (ALL backups??!!? I would think I would have a personal backup of all of the data) should be eliminated, nor can they really prohibit the site as long as there is no logos or specifically university property used in the site.
Though i think the prescedent(sp) may speak for this one already. if there is already a policy of 'what ever was created by the student while being educated at this university is hence property of the university', which I dont think should be allowed, it may be difficult.
I know a guy who was going to RIT creating an RPG engine for profit, he already had a few customers. He was notified by university officials that the engine was entirely their property because he was developing it during his education there, and with knowledge learned there. He did not use any university resources at all to produce the game. web hosting was off site, he used his own personal computer to develop it, and still they claimed ownership.
I think this ownership issue has been discussed before in an ask slashdot article... might want to dig that up.
Ah, but there were music boxes with interchangable drums that were reasonably popular. Friend of mine's parents collect antique mechanical gizmos and have quite a collection of old Edison wax drums, interchangable drum music boxes, and other really neat stuff.
The wax drums used by the first Edison music boxes are sure neat. Still usable today (though obviously the quality leaves much to be desired.)
Here's some of the Real Problems as I see them related to this partnership to create some sort of compensation system.
Problem 1: There is the possibility one music coroporation will force the other corporation out of partnership with the system through contracts or other 'legal' means. This is TERRIBLE and the first thing I thought of when I saw the EMI name. Judging from the behavior of the record industry to date, I believe this is a very real problem. Because of the way the competition works, there may never be a real standard in the way of copyright protection. If EMI signs a contract keeping RCA out of their deal - any RCA music will NOT be able to be played on that system.
Solution: An open-license system or protocol that any recording company can get for a nominal fee (if at all, a fee to cover development costs to the developing parties) that enables them to create products and or music that adheres to the license. All of the above relates to devices to play these works as well.
Problem 2: Artists not willing/wanting to join a 'major' recording company or recieve compensation will not be able to produce music compatible.
Solution: again, the open-licensed solution from above. The protocol should have some sort of price-per-use type of field, where 0 is a vaild number, and high prices simply will not be purchased.
The movie could have been done in both languages at the same time. Actors for both language parts could have done their voices long ago - and the animation to match their voices could have been done twofold. I assume this was not done because reall this is making nearly a movie and a half at once. I dont know if I would put it past square to go to those lengths to make it successful however. I assume they have developed decent technologies to make mouth animations easier (maya has so many cool controls that could make it simple) that maybe it was done at the same time - and when they are rendered - differing frames are simply rendered twice. So synched voices in both languages are a definate possibility.
BTW I prefer subtitles, as do, I'm guessing, most of the rest of the population. Theres so much missing many times when it is dubbed.
1: The more informative text was in german (which I cant read...) yet the illustrations were in english?
2: I dont know about the rest of you - but any mpeg encoding I've done that has taken chopping, decreased size, added logos and taken any stills takes quite a while on one machine - this cluster did A LOT in a short amount of time! Nonetheless they added the runner name and time on the pictures (and in the movie?) using, i assume, the transponders they equip at races now.
This is neat. Good usage of technologies to automatically do some stuff that would take humans forever to do by hand!
Agreed. If you were there notice the number of _turnovers_ the tecmo or wolfenstein booth had. Both had prominantly displayed babes, the tecmo booth had nothing real new to show off, the wolfenstein booth was too small to accomidate the number of people who could have been there (very cool looking game though).
I find another point about E3 disgusting though. The attention payed to the out-of-country developers and the smaller game houses was PATHETIC. if you read the reviews I see not one hand up to AquaNox (generalized as a GeForce3 Test), Balistics, or Duel Field, all out of Europe, or any of the Korean games such as TetraMorph, Dragon Raja, or the many other amazing, new-idea games. Even games for the Xbox like NHL Hitz or FuzionFrenzy got no 'real coverage' (ie they were mentioned in the Xbox Mag handed out at the show but nowhere else)
And suprising enough, the posters that were around on all the doors, Morrowind - Elder Scrolls III, wasn't being shown in public by Bethesda... but I got to sit in on their demonstration - All I can say is this is a game that people have been waiting for since Daggerfall (also an award winner)... But wait - soon there will be a site that will cover the 'outside' games that are worth the mention and coverage. you just wait.
I know Microsoft has a small variety of licensing programs - Select, Open... and obviously Retail. I wonder if there is any resource somewhere that tells the allowances that each licensing program makes.
I believe Open Licensing allows for license numbers to be duplicate, just so that there are sufficent licenses in the pool for the installed base. That's what we use here and we use Ghost to quickly set up machines (30 minutes vs. 2 or more hours for a new machine is huge).
We have been installing Windows NT4 workstation on all the machines and will continue to until either windows 2000 gets fully compatible with NT4/9x software (notably PageMaker 6.5, AutoCAD 2000), or the software gets compatible with 2000. Annoying as hell, when we've been buying licenses of Windows 2000 with each new machine.
You might be able to find a volunteer to help you learn the basics of the system. This could very easily get the ball rolling and you will soon be able to teach yourself.
I recieved a little SGI Indy from a friend of mine (he got two indys and an indigo that his office wasn't going to use anymore!) and i actually learned the bulk of my unix-like knowledge from that. command lines, where to find configurations for certain things... etc.
Irix is a pretty neat OS really - I've been impressed with the interface it uses. There are all kinds of neat audio and video and 3d tools for irix, many of them you might be able to find for free-ish.
I'd think you would be able to teach some good unix skills, in addition to maybe some interesting application skills. All in all, if it works and stays working (i haven't had a problem with my indy except when i filled up the drive, oops) you could get some great experience for you and your students.
The print version of Wired had a great article on LPFM and its issues. Eitherway as I understand it, non-commerical LPFM is perfectly legal. But therein lies the biggest problem - even LPFM costs a bit of cash to run, and simply putting any advertisement on that frequency cancles that protected non-commercial LPFM status. The radio media industry is getting more and more closed to anything new. Big media companies are buying radio stations left and right, and it only contributes to the motonony that is FM radio today. I guess here in denver we have it pretty good - there is quite a variety of stations. But it's interesting. All of the city-of-denver based stations are owned by big companies and have lame content. The stations that are a ways away but have decent transmitters (KTCL, KILO are the main examples, one in ft. collins, one in pueblo) have some of the most interesting, origional and sometimes contrivercial content. I love it. Where i live in denver I get KTCL clearly (except in this one valley just south of me) and KILO clearly until i get a few miles north.
right - the meaning must be the same. ethically I think you are entitled to use [sic] or get specific consent from the author to edit their work. This is to ensure there is not an abuse of this editorial power.
... This is why automated forums such as slashdot are great. There is no way for others to edit your work without consent, so your original meaning, spelling errors, punctuation errors and whatever else are still there.
Anyway - the problem with the way Deja is doing this is that it can be percieved that the author is promoting the sales of a product, when they are not. So if I was to talk about how apache under Linux is much more secure than Microsoft IIS under Windows 2000, and there is a link for the purchase of Windows 2000 Advanced Server with IIS 5 through Deja's service, I'd be a little annoyed because i do NOT want to promote the purchase of that product.
I would think that the solution would be like slash does with links in stories - in a side box. It keeps the content as-is but still provides links to whateverthehell is in the post over on the right - and it can be a feature that can be turned off and on like a slashbox.
opt-in's for these things are the best, but opt-outs are better than nothing. the x-noadvertisements or whatever header thing annoys me though. Since when does deja get the athority to change the structure of a message to fit their own problems?
... If i'm going to post product reviews or comparisions from now on I'm going to use x-noarchive.
someone didn't read the whole thing. The major vulnerability is malformed date tags that outlook reads BEFORE the user can even get to them. insanely large numbers in that date field cause a buffer overflow. This is only a userland problem in the way that they are using outlook.
I'm suprised things like this haven't been implemented more recently. it seems trivial to have multiple detectors on arbitrary geosync satelites and earth based installations. I'd think that you get three or so opposite geosync satelites and a few earth installations all actively looking for anomalies such as these (I'm thinking other bursts too that might be quick) and triangulation would be trivial - and even a relatively laggy connection such as simple email could be quick enough to alert the correct people.
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now the question is, is this really big news? I'm not so sure anymore.
Even though these portal link-fest sites are great for a central point of news, they do not generate nearly enough CONTENT to keep themselves alive, they depend on these socalled closed sites for their content. I don't see how these sites can be critisized so, seeing as they are really the mothers of all of these 'news' sites.
There is a symbiance there. 'open' sites need the 'closed' sites to write and research the stories the 'open' sites just do not have nearly the resources to do themselves. consumers need the 'open' sites for a singular place to get the news they want, for example, if I want geeky news I come to slashdot, if i want gaming news i go to shugashack, hardware i go to hardocp.
Nonetheless this article shamlessly plugs that chickclickers site again, and nonetheless it rambles on about things that could have been condenced much more, saving on the world bandwidth.
Normally even I've been nice to katz, I've let him off the hook long enough. the substance to this story is nearly nil. This has become a series of articles by katz that show little research in general. Before and around the hellmouth series I was impressed with the number of people he sited in his articles but this is getting sad.
Dell has been doing this since their first implementation of Windows 2000 on at least all their business systems. Heck, even before that they were affixing the OEM code to the outside of their boxes even if we ordered NT4 workstation on them (Yep... all windows NT shop - I'm attempting to get more linux/bsd servers in for web and database serving - MS-SQL on NT is just not a good thing, and IIS has been nothing but trouble. The NT boxes without either of them on them have had uptimes of over 200 days, the IIS/SQL boxes never over 20). ... I don't see what the huge deal is over this - the Disc that comes with it with win2k should only need to be installed on Dell systems anyway. We have retail or quick license copies for the rest of them. We've been getting licenses for win2k way before they released it so that when we switch (sometime later this year) we wouldn't have to go buy upgrade licenses.
I think there are plenty of comments here that adress this whole issue pretty well in all.
Copyrights are not always a bad thing. It enables authors to make a living on what they do. That's good for everyone economically wise. The problem becomes some of the stupid things that come of this. The incompatibilities and security issues that have been created by the old vision of closed-copyrights have caused havoc. GPL and some of the other licenses fix this nicely by keeping credit to the author alive, yet allowing others to learn and get more information for competeing or partner software.
This is yet another economic Good Thing. Competition drives quality up, prices generaly down. Partner or complimentary products drive demand for BOTH products up.
Now Napster itself is a GREAT idea, just limited in control by the mp3 format itself. There is no way to know if a piece has been specifically copyrighted or not.
Napster should do the following, if the SDMI shit gets correct for once (none of this one-song for one-device shit - allow each person an ID and have all the devices he uses to read this ID and link it to the copyright of that song.):
1: If there's a copyright on the file, and the owner has the correct CID (copyright ID) allow it to be shared at a low bitrate or allow the user to not share at all. This prevents direct copying of the songs to try to bypass the copyright, but allows others to preview these works (no longer do you have to worry about the artist or record company providing previews, if someone has the real thing, they can preview it on the Napster).
2: If the user downloads a preview, have ready links for the person to download or otherwise acquire the song through the correct channels, and get the real copyright version to work with his CID.
3: Works that are not copyrighted, ie. Live performances, remixes, unsigned artists that want to get out there fast, generous artists that offer to give away a few songs, can be shared at no bitrate penalty or price penalty. Neither can these works ever be copyrighted by anyone - once it's tagged and out there, it's done.
So one can acquire one of these CopyRight ID's (smartcard I'm thinking) for a fee (nominal type - cover the cost of the card and maybe some make-the-RIAA-happy money, US$15 or so) and the card works for any work in any system that can play the work from any medium, CD, DVD-A, Internet, etc.
Now I think this can make some people happy - I think the RIAA can be happy that advertising doesn't have to be quite as big of a deal for specific albums or songs, just artists. The artists also get to control their precious copyright and get a little money for the ones who appreciate their music. Users can get remixes and demos from unsigned artists for free plus preview whole songs or whole albums for the small quailty penalty.
Frankly this is how I justify using napster - if I like a song I hear somewhere - i go and find other songs from that album, if I like em I go and buy the album if it's available, if not, I am perfectly happy with keeping those not-so-legal mp3's, since I had no chance to get them more-legally.
Very nice - the faster seek times and latency will help for big tables in databases and such. I wonder how big these drives will get however - I'd like to see some 32gb 15k RPM SCSI-3 UW drives in a big RAID 5 array. mmmmm...
The big question is how loud is this thing? I mean, the 10k drives i've experienced are pretty loud - loud when spinning and it sounds like someone knocking on the door when it's seeking... I can't imagine something even faster being any quieter.
Good letter. I have not even seen much coverage on the DVD issues (though i could be a bit off since I don't read/watch much mass news).
Like I said earlier, Conference Room has a NickServ and ChanServ to prevent someone from changeing the nick. Hell, Conference Room has those lines in the.conf files that will prevent anyone but a certain address from using nicks. I forget the line label though:-).
Heh, I also like your last line, using their own words against them hehe.
I don't think this was an attempt to be 31337, I believe it was an example of how important security is, and how unstable closed-source IRC servers are:-).
I just wonder where roblimo got the link to this guy's page on this. This is the part that worries me, because no nick is given for the source, as usual. Maybe it did become a 'lookie what I did'.
... but then Fox news lumps this in with the widespread DoS attacks. This comes from a lack of research and/or understanding of what REALLY goes on. blah.
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I read through the posts that showed up here quickly and the posts over at voodooextreme and I think people are a bit confused.
The fact that IBM and sony announced their partnership here doesnt mean that they're switching gears already for the ps3. All it means is that they are announcing the beginning of development for the platform. How long did the ps2 take to develop? the x-box? a few years. This is nothing new in the way of business relations.
What I am excited to hear about though is the kinds of technologies that IBM is planning on using or hoping to use in their new chips... They have a few years to develop it so I assume they have some high goals!
I also wonder what platform squaresoft is going to contract to next. will they stick with sony? renew their relationship with nintendo? join the evil empire (scary thought)?
I think this is something that has been lacking for quite some time. I have experience in the GIS packages from ESRI (ArcInfo, ArcView, etc), which are decidedly NOT free, and I've always wondered if there was a decent free alternative to it.
This looks to be a step in the right direction, and it looks, from the homepage, that there is still much development being done.
What I wonder is if the data is easy to get to. I cant remember if we had to pay for the USGS data or not...
Lots of smaller cities are starting to use heavy duty GIS to help manage their public services. For example there is a city in colorado (Ft. Morgan) who are using ArcInfo and a load of other addons to provide field workers with data about specific power line segments, and they even have WAP functionality so they can enter data from their palmpilots!
I think there is yet to be a real big interest in this type of databasing/mapping, which is too bad. there is so much cool stuff you can accomplish with these types of tools, and it looks like FreeGIS is helping make it widely available.
Nonetheless you are passing up the sociological point of the article as well. No matter what way you "choose" what you think is cool, some form of society has directed you there. Wether it be that you heard that cool song on that commercial during Friends, or you want to support the local DJs or you hate all American Pop and go for something from India - it is the social factors that are driving that one way or another.
"Choosing" is the worst word. In one way or another you were being told by society what you like. Like it or not, this is how it works.
The bigger the force by corporations to push Gap commercial style or Boy Bands down your throat, the more influence it will have. If you didnt' already hate that sort of style, you will probably like it more - if you didnt, you will dislike it more.
what is being talked about here is creating some sort of force that is Dynamic, and controled by PEOPLE not Corporations.
aah, the wonders of free press. I do think the internet should be treated as a free-press entity of sorts. This being in which supreme court rulings say there may be prior-review - but no prior-restraint. (not sure on the specifics of utah law - that might be a thing to look up).
I nearly took this issue up with my highschool newspaper advisor, who was doing more editing of the paper than the editors. Because of the school we were in (a famous one. i'll give you that) we had to severely tone down any sort of criticisms we had in our editorial sections. Gone was the open-forum of our editorial section, because contrivertial issues were literally thrown out by our advisor. I am not sure in which way he thought he had the power to do this, seeing as colorado (oops) has legal right to prior-review, but not to prior-restraint (as per the supreme court rulings). What he did was illegal but I did not have enough support of the rest of the staff to go ahead with a complaint. I doubt administration would have heard it anyway. (this being the administration that was 'asking people to leave' because of how they dressed (even when it was within dress code guidelines), anything they drew, wrote, or said (this being the 'new tolerant [school]')
Bah. like i posted on this same article - not sure what sort of policies where instated by the school about hosted sites, but from the sound of it he still owns his site. if he doesnt, I believe the university should do some reviewing of THEIR CONTENT.
I can understand if the server was unauthorized (server computer on residence net) or even if they were providing authorized hosting, I dont think they should be able to claim legal IP rights to the content. (for one thing, if he was running slashcode I believe all the content on the site there should be protected under the GPL?)
I can understand if they dont want association with the site - and therefore revoke hosting. I certainly do not think any record (ALL backups??!!? I would think I would have a personal backup of all of the data) should be eliminated, nor can they really prohibit the site as long as there is no logos or specifically university property used in the site.
Though i think the prescedent(sp) may speak for this one already. if there is already a policy of 'what ever was created by the student while being educated at this university is hence property of the university', which I dont think should be allowed, it may be difficult.
I know a guy who was going to RIT creating an RPG engine for profit, he already had a few customers. He was notified by university officials that the engine was entirely their property because he was developing it during his education there, and with knowledge learned there. He did not use any university resources at all to produce the game. web hosting was off site, he used his own personal computer to develop it, and still they claimed ownership.
I think this ownership issue has been discussed before in an ask slashdot article... might want to dig that up.
Ah, but there were music boxes with interchangable drums that were reasonably popular. Friend of mine's parents collect antique mechanical gizmos and have quite a collection of old Edison wax drums, interchangable drum music boxes, and other really neat stuff.
The wax drums used by the first Edison music boxes are sure neat. Still usable today (though obviously the quality leaves much to be desired.)
Here's some of the Real Problems as I see them related to this partnership to create some sort of compensation system.
Problem 1: There is the possibility one music coroporation will force the other corporation out of partnership with the system through contracts or other 'legal' means. This is TERRIBLE and the first thing I thought of when I saw the EMI name. Judging from the behavior of the record industry to date, I believe this is a very real problem. Because of the way the competition works, there may never be a real standard in the way of copyright protection. If EMI signs a contract keeping RCA out of their deal - any RCA music will NOT be able to be played on that system.
Solution: An open-license system or protocol that any recording company can get for a nominal fee (if at all, a fee to cover development costs to the developing parties) that enables them to create products and or music that adheres to the license. All of the above relates to devices to play these works as well.
Problem 2: Artists not willing/wanting to join a 'major' recording company or recieve compensation will not be able to produce music compatible.
Solution: again, the open-licensed solution from above. The protocol should have some sort of price-per-use type of field, where 0 is a vaild number, and high prices simply will not be purchased.
The movie could have been done in both languages at the same time. Actors for both language parts could have done their voices long ago - and the animation to match their voices could have been done twofold. I assume this was not done because reall this is making nearly a movie and a half at once. I dont know if I would put it past square to go to those lengths to make it successful however. I assume they have developed decent technologies to make mouth animations easier (maya has so many cool controls that could make it simple) that maybe it was done at the same time - and when they are rendered - differing frames are simply rendered twice. So synched voices in both languages are a definate possibility.
BTW I prefer subtitles, as do, I'm guessing, most of the rest of the population. Theres so much missing many times when it is dubbed.
1: The more informative text was in german (which I cant read...) yet the illustrations were in english?
2: I dont know about the rest of you - but any mpeg encoding I've done that has taken chopping, decreased size, added logos and taken any stills takes quite a while on one machine - this cluster did A LOT in a short amount of time! Nonetheless they added the runner name and time on the pictures (and in the movie?) using, i assume, the transponders they equip at races now.
This is neat. Good usage of technologies to automatically do some stuff that would take humans forever to do by hand!
Agreed. If you were there notice the number of _turnovers_ the tecmo or wolfenstein booth had. Both had prominantly displayed babes, the tecmo booth had nothing real new to show off, the wolfenstein booth was too small to accomidate the number of people who could have been there (very cool looking game though). I find another point about E3 disgusting though. The attention payed to the out-of-country developers and the smaller game houses was PATHETIC. if you read the reviews I see not one hand up to AquaNox (generalized as a GeForce3 Test), Balistics, or Duel Field, all out of Europe, or any of the Korean games such as TetraMorph, Dragon Raja, or the many other amazing, new-idea games. Even games for the Xbox like NHL Hitz or FuzionFrenzy got no 'real coverage' (ie they were mentioned in the Xbox Mag handed out at the show but nowhere else) And suprising enough, the posters that were around on all the doors, Morrowind - Elder Scrolls III, wasn't being shown in public by Bethesda... but I got to sit in on their demonstration - All I can say is this is a game that people have been waiting for since Daggerfall (also an award winner) ... But wait - soon there will be a site that will cover the 'outside' games that are worth the mention and coverage. you just wait.
erm... just to check myself I checked gamers.com and it still looks active. I know that firingsquad.com is still going strong.
UGO network is also still around but I believe their future is questionable. I do know they have a booth at E3 though.
Let me clarify though, Gamespy is going to close down at some point - and that does include all of the planet sites. That really sucks. A lot.
DailyRadar was a standby, but there are still a few left.
Namely IGN - which shows no slow down in its Vault sections. Gamers.com is still around as is VoodooExtreme.
I wont count Gamespy as they are ready to close down shop as well. Lots of sites are losing hosting in that deal.
And so the internet hosting/banner/funding debacle claims another.
ah but you forget - SCSI 4 and 5 are on the way - up to something like 480mb/s.
I know Microsoft has a small variety of licensing programs - Select, Open... and obviously Retail. I wonder if there is any resource somewhere that tells the allowances that each licensing program makes.
I believe Open Licensing allows for license numbers to be duplicate, just so that there are sufficent licenses in the pool for the installed base. That's what we use here and we use Ghost to quickly set up machines (30 minutes vs. 2 or more hours for a new machine is huge).
We have been installing Windows NT4 workstation on all the machines and will continue to until either windows 2000 gets fully compatible with NT4/9x software (notably PageMaker 6.5, AutoCAD 2000), or the software gets compatible with 2000. Annoying as hell, when we've been buying licenses of Windows 2000 with each new machine.
You might be able to find a volunteer to help you learn the basics of the system. This could very easily get the ball rolling and you will soon be able to teach yourself.
I recieved a little SGI Indy from a friend of mine (he got two indys and an indigo that his office wasn't going to use anymore!) and i actually learned the bulk of my unix-like knowledge from that. command lines, where to find configurations for certain things... etc.
Irix is a pretty neat OS really - I've been impressed with the interface it uses. There are all kinds of neat audio and video and 3d tools for irix, many of them you might be able to find for free-ish.
I'd think you would be able to teach some good unix skills, in addition to maybe some interesting application skills. All in all, if it works and stays working (i haven't had a problem with my indy except when i filled up the drive, oops) you could get some great experience for you and your students.
The print version of Wired had a great article on LPFM and its issues. Eitherway as I understand it, non-commerical LPFM is perfectly legal. But therein lies the biggest problem - even LPFM costs a bit of cash to run, and simply putting any advertisement on that frequency cancles that protected non-commercial LPFM status. The radio media industry is getting more and more closed to anything new. Big media companies are buying radio stations left and right, and it only contributes to the motonony that is FM radio today. I guess here in denver we have it pretty good - there is quite a variety of stations. But it's interesting. All of the city-of-denver based stations are owned by big companies and have lame content. The stations that are a ways away but have decent transmitters (KTCL, KILO are the main examples, one in ft. collins, one in pueblo) have some of the most interesting, origional and sometimes contrivercial content. I love it. Where i live in denver I get KTCL clearly (except in this one valley just south of me) and KILO clearly until i get a few miles north.
right - the meaning must be the same. ethically I think you are entitled to use [sic] or get specific consent from the author to edit their work. This is to ensure there is not an abuse of this editorial power.
... This is why automated forums such as slashdot are great. There is no way for others to edit your work without consent, so your original meaning, spelling errors, punctuation errors and whatever else are still there.
Anyway - the problem with the way Deja is doing this is that it can be percieved that the author is promoting the sales of a product, when they are not. So if I was to talk about how apache under Linux is much more secure than Microsoft IIS under Windows 2000, and there is a link for the purchase of Windows 2000 Advanced Server with IIS 5 through Deja's service, I'd be a little annoyed because i do NOT want to promote the purchase of that product.
I would think that the solution would be like slash does with links in stories - in a side box. It keeps the content as-is but still provides links to whateverthehell is in the post over on the right - and it can be a feature that can be turned off and on like a slashbox.
opt-in's for these things are the best, but opt-outs are better than nothing. the x-noadvertisements or whatever header thing annoys me though. Since when does deja get the athority to change the structure of a message to fit their own problems?
... If i'm going to post product reviews or comparisions from now on I'm going to use x-noarchive.
someone didn't read the whole thing. The major vulnerability is malformed date tags that outlook reads BEFORE the user can even get to them. insanely large numbers in that date field cause a buffer overflow. This is only a userland problem in the way that they are using outlook.
I'm suprised things like this haven't been implemented more recently. it seems trivial to have multiple detectors on arbitrary geosync satelites and earth based installations. I'd think that you get three or so opposite geosync satelites and a few earth installations all actively looking for anomalies such as these (I'm thinking other bursts too that might be quick) and triangulation would be trivial - and even a relatively laggy connection such as simple email could be quick enough to alert the correct people.
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now the question is, is this really big news? I'm not so sure anymore.
Even though these portal link-fest sites are great for a central point of news, they do not generate nearly enough CONTENT to keep themselves alive, they depend on these socalled closed sites for their content. I don't see how these sites can be critisized so, seeing as they are really the mothers of all of these 'news' sites.
There is a symbiance there. 'open' sites need the 'closed' sites to write and research the stories the 'open' sites just do not have nearly the resources to do themselves. consumers need the 'open' sites for a singular place to get the news they want, for example, if I want geeky news I come to slashdot, if i want gaming news i go to shugashack, hardware i go to hardocp.
Nonetheless this article shamlessly plugs that chickclickers site again, and nonetheless it rambles on about things that could have been condenced much more, saving on the world bandwidth.
Normally even I've been nice to katz, I've let him off the hook long enough. the substance to this story is nearly nil. This has become a series of articles by katz that show little research in general. Before and around the hellmouth series I was impressed with the number of people he sited in his articles but this is getting sad.
Dell has been doing this since their first implementation of Windows 2000 on at least all their business systems. Heck, even before that they were affixing the OEM code to the outside of their boxes even if we ordered NT4 workstation on them (Yep... all windows NT shop - I'm attempting to get more linux/bsd servers in for web and database serving - MS-SQL on NT is just not a good thing, and IIS has been nothing but trouble. The NT boxes without either of them on them have had uptimes of over 200 days, the IIS/SQL boxes never over 20).
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I don't see what the huge deal is over this - the Disc that comes with it with win2k should only need to be installed on Dell systems anyway. We have retail or quick license copies for the rest of them. We've been getting licenses for win2k way before they released it so that when we switch (sometime later this year) we wouldn't have to go buy upgrade licenses.
I think there are plenty of comments here that adress this whole issue pretty well in all.
Copyrights are not always a bad thing. It enables authors to make a living on what they do. That's good for everyone economically wise. The problem becomes some of the stupid things that come of this. The incompatibilities and security issues that have been created by the old vision of closed-copyrights have caused havoc. GPL and some of the other licenses fix this nicely by keeping credit to the author alive, yet allowing others to learn and get more information for competeing or partner software.
This is yet another economic Good Thing. Competition drives quality up, prices generaly down. Partner or complimentary products drive demand for BOTH products up.
Now Napster itself is a GREAT idea, just limited in control by the mp3 format itself. There is no way to know if a piece has been specifically copyrighted or not.
Napster should do the following, if the SDMI shit gets correct for once (none of this one-song for one-device shit - allow each person an ID and have all the devices he uses to read this ID and link it to the copyright of that song.):
1: If there's a copyright on the file, and the owner has the correct CID (copyright ID) allow it to be shared at a low bitrate or allow the user to not share at all. This prevents direct copying of the songs to try to bypass the copyright, but allows others to preview these works (no longer do you have to worry about the artist or record company providing previews, if someone has the real thing, they can preview it on the Napster).
2: If the user downloads a preview, have ready links for the person to download or otherwise acquire the song through the correct channels, and get the real copyright version to work with his CID.
3: Works that are not copyrighted, ie. Live performances, remixes, unsigned artists that want to get out there fast, generous artists that offer to give away a few songs, can be shared at no bitrate penalty or price penalty. Neither can these works ever be copyrighted by anyone - once it's tagged and out there, it's done.
So one can acquire one of these CopyRight ID's (smartcard I'm thinking) for a fee (nominal type - cover the cost of the card and maybe some make-the-RIAA-happy money, US$15 or so) and the card works for any work in any system that can play the work from any medium, CD, DVD-A, Internet, etc.
Now I think this can make some people happy - I think the RIAA can be happy that advertising doesn't have to be quite as big of a deal for specific albums or songs, just artists. The artists also get to control their precious copyright and get a little money for the ones who appreciate their music. Users can get remixes and demos from unsigned artists for free plus preview whole songs or whole albums for the small quailty penalty.
Frankly this is how I justify using napster - if I like a song I hear somewhere - i go and find other songs from that album, if I like em I go and buy the album if it's available, if not, I am perfectly happy with keeping those not-so-legal mp3's, since I had no chance to get them more-legally.
The big question is how loud is this thing? I mean, the 10k drives i've experienced are pretty loud - loud when spinning and it sounds like someone knocking on the door when it's seeking... I can't imagine something even faster being any quieter.
--onyx
Good letter. I have not even seen much coverage on the DVD issues (though i could be a bit off since I don't read/watch much mass news).
.conf files that will prevent anyone but a certain address from using nicks. I forget the line label though :-).
Like I said earlier, Conference Room has a NickServ and ChanServ to prevent someone from changeing the nick. Hell, Conference Room has those lines in the
Heh, I also like your last line, using their own words against them hehe.
--onyx
I don't think this was an attempt to be 31337, I believe it was an example of how important security is, and how unstable closed-source IRC servers are :-).
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I just wonder where roblimo got the link to this guy's page on this. This is the part that worries me, because no nick is given for the source, as usual. Maybe it did become a 'lookie what I did'.
... but then Fox news lumps this in with the widespread DoS attacks. This comes from a lack of research and/or understanding of what REALLY goes on. blah.
then again, i contradict myself.
--onyx