I had a tenant once, who stated that the first use of any new multimedia technology was always for, shall we say, *adult* services. In the sense they drove DVD sales (multi viewpoint, stop rewind), CGI, and so on.
gah. the mind boggles what the animation crowd could do with this.
On a similar note, when I did my BA years ago my dissertation was on the veracity of digital images, when there is no real referent to accompany the photograph, and the loss of credibility of images in the onslaught of photo realistic fakes.
Well, it was inevitable that technology would catch up and we will no doubt need to add "video realistic" to our dictionary as well.
No offense, but the ridiculous visa situation, warrant less searches and other issues certainly will secure the US borders.
After all, any country is safer if nobody wants to go and visit it anymore.
"I want everyone to remember why they need us" - liberties and freedoms that are eroded in the name of security and protection never seem to return once the threat is lifted again, and each one is another step on the path to Totalitarianism.
and, no it has no real innovation I can see. Abstraction layers, distributed systems, "cloud" systems are nothing new - this seems to be a stitch together of lots of buzz words and an attempt to steal thunder and market share from Google.
but there are greater risks to this style of system that I am *utterly* philosophically opposed to.
it paves the way for SW as a service to rent by the usage or monthly/weekly charge. I really *hate* that idea - if I buy a computer and SW I want to own it and never have to pay again. I want to be able to run it off the net totally free from virus and hacking and I want to have complete control over what I do on it.
from my point of view MS can take Midori and shove it up their ass, I suspect that I am not alone in these sentiments.
I have no problem with MS trying to make money of Silverlight, OOXML or any of their proprietary standards, I simply want the option to choose not to use them. I also would like to see better informed decisions by major players on which standards to use.
My belief is that eventually people will choose truly open standards because, fundamentally, they are better (this is my personal viewpoint, feel free to differ and debate).
I would even support MS standards if they did not have a proven history of subverting standards ("embrace" and "extend").
Fortunately I think the days when they can replace any existing standard with their own by simply making it default on their own platform and using monopolistic pressure for force adoption are drawing to an end. The OOXML story has proven that one, it can only get harder for them and even MS looks to be using ODF.
Any standard that is well designed, well documented and no one entity has control over subsequent revisions get my vote.
Oh dear, that ending a bit more of a rambling rant then I intended. Sorry!
For a start the game dates back to 1938! The guy who designed it died in 1993, he actually sold it in the 1940s and it was trademarked then. And they still try and extort money from it? For fucks sake.
This can only backlash against HASBRO - they will make not a penny from the new Facebook version in any case and scrabulous was advertising the board game splendidly.
Seems like a really, really dumb move guaranteed to annoy the end users.
What do HASBRO think they will get from this? They will only get advertising revenue if they can persuade people to visit their new version, and annoying the customers is not a good method to do so.
On the other hand Scrabulous was shut down by the developers themselves in response to the lawsuit, so either they are covering their asses or this is some attempt to make HASBRO reconsider in the face of user outrage.
Typical. For me Scrabulous was one of the only reasons I used FB - I wonder if this will show up in the FB user numbers as a dip?
The difference is in motivation - they simply are not interested.
After all, I am sure that all of us could spend hours doing many of the things and jobs that women find so fascinating (fashion, cooking, PA, advertising, sales etc) perfectly competantly - but its true that we simply do not want to.
RIP.
A widely regarded and inspiring lesson in accepting your cards as they are dealt, concentrating on the important stuff and making the most of your time.
If you have not yet watched the lecture then make time to do so.
What ho! a marvelous cure for global warming so we can go on selling oil at a profit whilst giving ourselves a self congratulatory green pat on the back? Oh how wonderful!
I would imagine it is much, much harder to bring a case in Russia - look at the AllOfMP3 debacle. So they hit the soft targets in a country with more copyright friendly laws first.
Of course, being sued by Facebook on stealing code and ideas, is much like being told to sit up straight by the hunchback of Notre Dame.
So Novell get $2.5m instead of $20m, does this mean SCO may survive this?
"Importantly, the court ruled that Novell has no right to any royalties from UnixWare or OpenServer sales by SCO, which is where the bulk of SCO's revenue is earned," SCO said in the statement. "This is also an important step forward in the capitalization and reorganization plan for SCO that will allow us to emerge from Chapter 11. We continue to disagree with the premise of this trial and believe that Novell is not owed anything, but that they have interfered with SCO's UNIX rights."
From their statement they seem relatively upbeat on what must of been a bad day for them.
It hints that Novell owns the SVRX code that SCO sold to MS - does this mean that MS will now sue?
I think the press have too much power, they do no report the news exactly - they report only news that might increase exposure or sales in such an exaggerated fashion as to further their aims.
And in the meantime bad things happen because of this.
In the UK they have:-
- talked up a mass stampede to a major lender and caused it to be nationalized after most of the customers withdrew their funds.
- numerous instances of trial by media when only a distorted representation of one side has been displayed
- built up fuel shortages by excessively warning about lack of fuel so everybody panic buys
- increased the repercussions of a already weakened house market by sensationalist reporting
- probably caused to suicide of a scientist by releasing his name in response to a whistle blower report ...to name a few of the more serious ones.
They seem not to care who they trample on, simply unleashing a legal army or buying off anybody who complains. In many cases simply changing the way the news is reported to a more balanced and sensible method would suffice.
This is simply not acceptable, and people have to be held to account. Only one time can I think of a press editor, CEO or anybody being held to account and that was Piers Morgan over the faked army abuse photographs in Iraq.
Something should be done, but I cannot think of a suitable answer. Suggestions anybody?
So, an irrelevant and self serving international body decides to ignore the general feeling and collective wisdom/insight of the community and ratify an standard used by nobody (including its creator).
really, who cares?
Who are the losers here?
MS - because this has all come out in the wash, they are going ODF anyhow and its made them look daft for not even using their own standard. I mean, how could they now?
ISO - because this has generated enough mud to stick and tarnished their reputation maybe beyond compare.
I have always decided to stay out of the arms race attended by PC HW and SW firms.
Most of my HW is quite old, 7+ years apart from my early adoption of an Asus EEE. was I stiffed on the price? hell no - had it over half a year and makes a good wifi web station.
I understand the commercial reasons behind the rapid depreciation in HW and SW - but as far as I'm concerned my PC hardware is a tool, like my car. I'm upgrade only when there is a compelling reason or something breaks. Is the arms race a good or bad thing? well it promotes innovation and new technologies so I cannot really argue against it.
As long as I can still run an up to date distro on my hardware I'm a happy camper. An old PC will let me write SW, surf and do office tasks as well as a new one, and be just as net safe if I keep to a regular upgrade cycle.
Slashdot Mirror
the question is in twenty years time will you trust the news you see on TV?
when cheap, easy, video editing allows this then supposedly real footage: news, family videos, wedding snaps will lose all veracity.
after every girl wants to look good for her wedding...
and before somebody says "it will never happen" this is only a logical extension of red-eye removal.
well.. I am not American and hence I cannot vote, but if I could my vote would be to go tell him to shove it up his ass.
and this is on the basis of only one point of his platform - helping the MPAA and RIAA.
Fortunately the legal system is increasingly thinking otherwise.
I had a tenant once, who stated that the first use of any new multimedia technology was always for, shall we say, *adult* services. In the sense they drove DVD sales (multi viewpoint, stop rewind), CGI, and so on.
gah. the mind boggles what the animation crowd could do with this.
On a similar note, when I did my BA years ago my dissertation was on the veracity of digital images, when there is no real referent to accompany the photograph, and the loss of credibility of images in the onslaught of photo realistic fakes.
Well, it was inevitable that technology would catch up and we will no doubt need to add "video realistic" to our dictionary as well.
Just give me silver halide and call me a Luddite.
beware the comical video quality. as pointed out in the comments it sounds like Darth Vader was testing it.
"*whooosh* *huff* *whooosh* *huff* *whooosh* *huff* the force is strong with this phone."
cure toy, but I'll reserve judgment until I see a more professional video of it - even for youtube that's bad.
This is an ongoing problem...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3940669.stm
And its much, much worse for CDRs.
I rip all my CDs and have several digital copies, no I do not P2P or share I simply try to appreciate my music for longer.
Therefore, the Criminal-to-Tourist ratio will simply go up.
until they treat everybody as a criminal or terrorist?
from the sounds of things they are getting their practice in early.
next up "warboating" the permanent search for a river, canal, lock or fjord. Or even pond.
pffft. an exercise in pointlessness - but strangely appealing to my inner geek.
No offense, but the ridiculous visa situation, warrant less searches and other issues certainly will secure the US borders.
After all, any country is safer if nobody wants to go and visit it anymore.
"I want everyone to remember why they need us" - liberties and freedoms that are eroded in the name of security and protection never seem to return once the threat is lifted again, and each one is another step on the path to Totalitarianism.
yes it is a dupe.
and, no it has no real innovation I can see. Abstraction layers, distributed systems, "cloud" systems are nothing new - this seems to be a stitch together of lots of buzz words and an attempt to steal thunder and market share from Google.
but there are greater risks to this style of system that I am *utterly* philosophically opposed to.
it paves the way for SW as a service to rent by the usage or monthly/weekly charge. I really *hate* that idea - if I buy a computer and SW I want to own it and never have to pay again. I want to be able to run it off the net totally free from virus and hacking and I want to have complete control over what I do on it.
from my point of view MS can take Midori and shove it up their ass, I suspect that I am not alone in these sentiments.
Oh dear, I predict much MS bashing here.
I have no problem with MS trying to make money of Silverlight, OOXML or any of their proprietary standards, I simply want the option to choose not to use them. I also would like to see better informed decisions by major players on which standards to use.
My belief is that eventually people will choose truly open standards because, fundamentally, they are better (this is my personal viewpoint, feel free to differ and debate).
I would even support MS standards if they did not have a proven history of subverting standards ("embrace" and "extend").
Fortunately I think the days when they can replace any existing standard with their own by simply making it default on their own platform and using monopolistic pressure for force adoption are drawing to an end. The OOXML story has proven that one, it can only get harder for them and even MS looks to be using ODF.
Any standard that is well designed, well documented and no one entity has control over subsequent revisions get my vote.
Oh dear, that ending a bit more of a rambling rant then I intended. Sorry!
I cannot help thinking that controlling governments and lawyers would love us all to have something like this.
"according to you pensieve black box you were at the location of the crime at the time of the crime!"
"oh futz!"
For a start the game dates back to 1938! The guy who designed it died in 1993, he actually sold it in the 1940s and it was trademarked then. And they still try and extort money from it? For fucks sake.
This can only backlash against HASBRO - they will make not a penny from the new Facebook version in any case and scrabulous was advertising the board game splendidly.
Seems like a really, really dumb move guaranteed to annoy the end users.
What do HASBRO think they will get from this? They will only get advertising revenue if they can persuade people to visit their new version, and annoying the customers is not a good method to do so.
On the other hand Scrabulous was shut down by the developers themselves in response to the lawsuit, so either they are covering their asses or this is some attempt to make HASBRO reconsider in the face of user outrage.
Typical. For me Scrabulous was one of the only reasons I used FB - I wonder if this will show up in the FB user numbers as a dip?
The plane may be state of the art, but I do not think their server is. Oh dear.
Agreed. No difference at all.
The difference is in motivation - they simply are not interested.
After all, I am sure that all of us could spend hours doing many of the things and jobs that women find so fascinating (fashion, cooking, PA, advertising, sales etc) perfectly competantly - but its true that we simply do not want to.
RIP. A widely regarded and inspiring lesson in accepting your cards as they are dealt, concentrating on the important stuff and making the most of your time. If you have not yet watched the lecture then make time to do so.
"no, I am a genuine 5$ bill!"
"I will not display the next page of the book until you watch this advert in full"
paper airplane, and UAV in one
smart toilet paper (ugh!)
Q's wet dream
interactive wall paper
disposable smart ID badges
party hats with a difference..
"I am your tenth cigarette this hour!"
any more? can anybody think of sinister possible uses?
Hmm.
..and this charming research is funded by Shell?
What ho! a marvelous cure for global warming so we can go on selling oil at a profit whilst giving ourselves a self congratulatory green pat on the back? Oh how wonderful!
Well, no surprise there then.
hello, King Canute, is that you? (maybe one subtlety too far there. hmmm)
I would imagine it is much, much harder to bring a case in Russia - look at the AllOfMP3 debacle. So they hit the soft targets in a country with more copyright friendly laws first.
Of course, being sued by Facebook on stealing code and ideas, is much like being told to sit up straight by the hunchback of Notre Dame.
So Novell get $2.5m instead of $20m, does this mean SCO may survive this?
"Importantly, the court ruled that Novell has no right to any royalties from UnixWare or OpenServer sales by SCO, which is where the bulk of SCO's revenue is earned," SCO said in the statement. "This is also an important step forward in the capitalization and reorganization plan for SCO that will allow us to emerge from Chapter 11. We continue to disagree with the premise of this trial and believe that Novell is not owed anything, but that they have interfered with SCO's UNIX rights."
From their statement they seem relatively upbeat on what must of been a bad day for them.
It hints that Novell owns the SVRX code that SCO sold to MS - does this mean that MS will now sue?
Interesting times...
100 ft wave?!
Parp!
I think the press have too much power, they do no report the news exactly - they report only news that might increase exposure or sales in such an exaggerated fashion as to further their aims.
...to name a few of the more serious ones.
And in the meantime bad things happen because of this.
In the UK they have:-
- talked up a mass stampede to a major lender and caused it to be nationalized after most of the customers withdrew their funds.
- numerous instances of trial by media when only a distorted representation of one side has been displayed
- built up fuel shortages by excessively warning about lack of fuel so everybody panic buys
- increased the repercussions of a already weakened house market by sensationalist reporting
- probably caused to suicide of a scientist by releasing his name in response to a whistle blower report
They seem not to care who they trample on, simply unleashing a legal army or buying off anybody who complains. In many cases simply changing the way the news is reported to a more balanced and sensible method would suffice.
This is simply not acceptable, and people have to be held to account. Only one time can I think of a press editor, CEO or anybody being held to account and that was Piers Morgan over the faked army abuse photographs in Iraq.
Something should be done, but I cannot think of a suitable answer. Suggestions anybody?
So, an irrelevant and self serving international body decides to ignore the general feeling and collective wisdom/insight of the community and ratify an standard used by nobody (including its creator).
really, who cares?
Who are the losers here?
MS - because this has all come out in the wash, they are going ODF anyhow and its made them look daft for not even using their own standard. I mean, how could they now?
ISO - because this has generated enough mud to stick and tarnished their reputation maybe beyond compare.
I can picture it now. A nice full Earth, a glorious tranquil sea.... oh wait.
I have always decided to stay out of the arms race attended by PC HW and SW firms.
Most of my HW is quite old, 7+ years apart from my early adoption of an Asus EEE. was I stiffed on the price? hell no - had it over half a year and makes a good wifi web station.
I understand the commercial reasons behind the rapid depreciation in HW and SW - but as far as I'm concerned my PC hardware is a tool, like my car. I'm upgrade only when there is a compelling reason or something breaks. Is the arms race a good or bad thing? well it promotes innovation and new technologies so I cannot really argue against it.
As long as I can still run an up to date distro on my hardware I'm a happy camper. An old PC will let me write SW, surf and do office tasks as well as a new one, and be just as net safe if I keep to a regular upgrade cycle.