for those who play, i would say Counter-Strike UNCLASSIFIED is a must read. the weapons stuff, starting on page 3, is especially interesting.
there are some good photos at yahoo new's most emailed content.
bye bye standard model?
surprise, surprise, despite what the latimes said about the surgeon general's report on violence and video games, turns out that was total bunk. the surgeon general's report actually says the exact opposite: violence in computer games and other media has little do with making america's youth more violent themselves.
philippe kahn is working w/ motorola on wireless image transmission, and embedding a sugar cube-sized camera called Digital Eye into cell phones - could be very useful... hopefully it'll have a good inteface. you have to wonder, how useful is the traditional cell form factor w/ a camera in it though?
jason lanier talks about napster and the law of the excluded digital middle: Digital tools can be either open or closed but resist being anything in between.
whoa, htf does this happen? 7,000ton la class sub uss greenville sinks a japanese fishing boat near hawaii while surfacing. that's horrible. not to mention that students and teachers were on that boat...
btw, looks like some guys are on a k10k kick at cnn ;)
here's a discussion on how to detect and eliminate xing encoded mp3s. the title is great: Program to delete Xing encoded mp3s?
also here's a thread on testing your hearing frequency (with audio files and methodology.
points to pcabx, a free program written by arny krueger, of pcavtech fame. pretty neat. there's an listening training section for audio-technical training. also, and this is interesting, there's also a page on musical-artistic listening. it's amazing to be actively surfing the net for over five years, and still finding incredible useful stuff.
ms product activation because of .net? the register seems to think so... makes sense.
Well Minister, if you asked me for a straight answer then I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one time with another, in terms of the average of departments, then in the final analysis it is probably true to say that, at the end of the day, in general terms, you would find, that, not to put too fine a point on it, there probably wasn't very much in it one way or the other, as far as one can see, at this stage.
ha, ximian (gnome guys, formerly helix code) advertises on google for kde searches. hmm, here's the google self-service advertising system. looks pretty cool. when's redhat, sun or ibm going to start advertising on "windows" (or "help fixing windows" or similar stuff for that matter) keyword?
ars technica has a discussion on the new cnet ads.
the qikdrive uses 8 standard pc100 ecc sdram to provide up to 8gb of solid state storage space. it uses an external power supply to help keep state. $5,000 is a lot to pay for it, but the super performance probably makes it worth it for any memory intensive usage (web/db, media editing, etc). has drivers for linux and free bsd too.
wow, amazing. these genetically modified goats produce spider's silk (via milk). they're guarded in a us airforce concrete bunker. this quote is particularly funny:
Nexia is tackling a materials-science conundrum that has stumped even DuPont for 20 years: how to synthesize spider silk. Milking the spiders themselves is out of the question—they're cannibals. "Put a bunch of them together and soon you end up with one big, fat, happy spider. It's like trying to farm tigers," says Turner.
ok, who wants to milk the spiders this morning?
mozilla usenet post on how a patch to nsXULElement.cpp speeds up mozilla seamonkey page load time by 21% (wow).
sun bitchslaps .net in style.
super fun /. David Korn q&a - interesting microsoft anecdote c&p'd for your pleasure
Was the story about you embarrassing a Microsoftie at a conference true? Specifically, that he was insisting that their implementation of ksh in their unix compatibility kit was true to the "real" thing and trying to argue the point with you. The argument ended when someone else finally stood up and informed the speaker who he was arguing with.
Just curious ...
Korn: This story is true. It was at a USENIX Windows NT conference and Microsoft was presenting their future directions for NT. One of their speakers said that they would release a UNIX integration package for NT that would contain the Korn Shell.
I knew that Microsoft had licensed a number of tools from MKS so I came to the microphone to tell the speaker that this was not the "real" Korn Shell and that MKS was not even compatible with ksh88. I had no intention of embarrassing him and thought that he would explain the compromises that Microsoft had to make in choosing MKS Korn Shell. Instead, he insisted that I was wrong and that Microsoft had indeed chosen a "real" Korn Shell. After a couple of exchanges, I shut up and let him dig himself in deeper. Finally someone in the audience stood up and told him what almost everyone in the audience knew, that I had written the 'real' Korn Shell. I think that this is symbolic about the way the company works.
whoa, speaking of cool open source posters, check out the Linux Kernel Graphing Project: 2.4.0
you know, i really can't fathom why it took me about 15 minutes to write a (imo) great one page paragraph (which i could easily expand upon) on a weekly reading prompt for my east asian religions class, yet it took me well over 8hours to pound out a measly 6-8 page paper on much of the same subject matter. perhaps this points to a hang-up not necessarily with any substance but of form: ie, some deep seated aversion or psychological block towards paper writing?
or perhaps it is simple too late at night and i should simply retire now?
insert poll here.
recent favorite: B15 Project - Girls Like Us, old favorite: Artful Dodger feat. Craig David - Rewind
so, i decided to take advantage of active desktop finally. the blog this popup now sits comfortably on my second monitor.
with all these links being thrown around, i think that it's definitely possible that some great gems just get lost in the rush. so, i thought i'd just take the time to say again, that All Your Are Base Belong To Us.
oh no, terrorists are using encryption, and web sites! quick, ban the internet. it also turns childrens hearts to darkness! break out carnivore!
of course i assumed it, but now i know. there's a discussion on /. about it too.
more on the silent pc...
the web is alight w/ articles on those new jumbo ads.
windows xp. bwahahahahaha. excuse me while i wipe a tear from my eye.
i had no idea that there was a usc course guide. apparently there is one, published by the usc student senate, which has the results of the student evaluations for almost every class.
looks like some schools chose not to participate. heheh...
ooh, /me wants. anatomy of linux poster. since it's gonna be such a limited run, it's too bad they didn't make the pdf higher res (or vectorize the diagram).
from shey.net's Department of Personal Freedom:
Below is an email correspondence with customer service representatives at Nike iD, an on-line service that lets people buy personalized Nike shoes. The dialog began when Nike cancelled an order for a pair of shoes customized with the word "sweatshop".
hmm, while this guy's assessment of "the media business" on the net is accurate (duh), i think that his statements that "The Internet as media has failed," and "There is no future" are some of the stupidest things i've heard recently. for the most part, imo, the internet as media hasn't even been discovered by most people yet (business people and users)... suffice to say, that the net is not a broadcast medium, and defined on those terms, of course it's a failure - that's no the nature of the medium. it's painfully obvious to see who's doing it right. the net as media isn't going away anytime soon. it's barely even started.
there's some good stuff on mefi addressing the issue.
directron has a guide on How to Build a Quiet PC. they of course, sell the parts, including silent fans and power supplies, extra large heat sinks, and an aluminum case. of course, if you're going for an aluminum case, why not go all the way?
wow, looks like this super cool dance site called learn to break just went up a coupla weeks ago. the moves pages are nice. descriptions and video clips, awesome. now if only my quicktime would get back working...
