When I donate it's to charities I think I may benefit from myself, so being a UK kitesurfer and mountaineer that's the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and my local mountain rescue teams. If I'm doing it as a gift I go for something the recipient has a similar vested interest in.
Check out Stephen Baxter's Titan. Almost exactly that scenario, and brilliantly done. If you can come close to that then I look forward to reading your work:)
"Are you actually dedicating space in your head to 80s TV sitcom themes? Why would you do that?"
I clearly am, because I spotted it too. I also have the opening dialogue from Superted in there. Weird, I've no idea why. Yup, offtopic, but you bring up the interesting idea of trying to defrag the human brain.
My bank stores my password in plain text. It's clearly not even hashed as they only need (eg) the third and fifth characters to give me access. I queried this with them and the person couldn't understand what I meant, and I wasn't allowed to talk to anyone who might understand for "security reasons". Interesting policy.
Or a laser beacon. More commonly used as safety kit on the sea, it continuously beams a near IR laser 360 degrees around the vertical, and about 30 degrees above and below the horizontal. Stick one on a hat and you should be fairly invisible.
And how are you going to sell a large quantity of diamonds with no legal background? I wouldn't want to be involved with the kind of people who fence that kind of thing....picky, I know, I just prefer the lottery idea.
It seems to be part of a trend towards relatively obvious and open DRM. Lock out your everyday users, but set the DRM at a level where you tend to get good amateur developers crawling all over it and doing some free R&D for you. Hell, even Microsoft are up to it with the Kinect.
It's anathema to justice by a rigid written framework. It's entire purpose is to allow natural justice, a get-out clause that allows a jury to say "yes, we understand that as the law stands you're guilty, but the exceptional circumstances or our belief that the law is not just in this case allows us to find you not guilty."
It utterly relies on jurors taking their role seriously. The alternative is a very hardline system with no give in it, and we regularly see where that takes us. (Hint, Godwin et al)
It's much the same in the UK - a croaky "smoked 40 Marlboro Lights in the VIP area of my local club" voice is trendy at the moment for whatever reason. Seems to go hand in hand with fake tan, too much make-up and an obsession with reality TV and "celebrity".
Easy - you fire Titan into it. A few small nudges at the right time in its orbit (think large nukes just outside the atmosphere) and you can get Saturn to slingshot it, pick up an assist from Jupiter, and fall all the way in. Easy, provides the nitrogen needed, and should only take a few thousands or tens of thousands of years. Get back to me when we're ready to build nuclear bomb factories on Titan and I'll talk you through the rest;)
And/or you can insist on derivative works keeping to the original licence, so for example Download.com would be obliged to make the source code of whatever changes they made available. Doesn't stop them obfuscating it, but it does at least mean people can (with work, in theory) find out what the program does before they actually run it.
The Ubuntu model is a good compromise - a variation on a walled garden is available if you want to do that kind of thing, but you're free to install/write anything you want on top of it. It would require some locking down if it was to be truly foolproof, but it's a good start. Enforced walled gardens on devices that try to be computers , such as the iPad, are one of the things stopping me from thinking about buying one. If there was a simple "send us an email clearly stating that you want to take the risks on your own head, we'll send you a password" then I'd find that an acceptable compromise and the device would suddenly become a lot more attractive to me.
The one place a solid, enforced walled garden makes sense to me is game consoles, where cheating can be a problem. Sony so nearly had it right with OtherOS - insist on a walled garden if you want to play the games, allow another OS but disable the gaming aspect for those who want to use it for development/hacking. Sooooo close, pity they royally screwed it up.
Each of the GTX cards needs a motheboard, power supply etc, you get those thrown in with the consoles. Yup, there may be significant OS issues, and I've not done the sums on flops per dollar, so it may be a dumb idea...just throwing it into the mix.
PlayStation 3s have proved a cost efficient way of setting up large scale parallel processing systems. Of course you'll have to find your way around Sony's blocks on the OtherOS system, and you'll need to keep it off the internet or firewalled in some way, but you essentially get cheap processing subsidised by the games that you don't need to buy.
You might be kidding but I keep a 6-month-earnings stash in banknotes nearby for exactly that reason. The banks seem to be all too good at just giving/gambling customer's money away these days.
That's been around for ages - there's a Linux package called perceptualdiff that does exactly that. I've used it to measure the differences between CG images while I was "evolving" a picture. Works very well.
Look at the jets - flaps down, they're running close to stall speed just so he can keep up. Doesn't mean it's not cool and all, but he's not going at "fighter jet speed!", he's going at "fighter jet trying to fly really slow" speed.
Cool, but more of a publicity stunt than anything else. Go Rolex!
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Yup, good ideas all.
When I donate it's to charities I think I may benefit from myself, so being a UK kitesurfer and mountaineer that's the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and my local mountain rescue teams. If I'm doing it as a gift I go for something the recipient has a similar vested interest in.
Check out Stephen Baxter's Titan. Almost exactly that scenario, and brilliantly done. If you can come close to that then I look forward to reading your work :)
"Are you actually dedicating space in your head to 80s TV sitcom themes? Why would you do that?"
I clearly am, because I spotted it too. I also have the opening dialogue from Superted in there. Weird, I've no idea why. Yup, offtopic, but you bring up the interesting idea of trying to defrag the human brain.
Yes, they can. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1liqk9UQNAQ
Whether it can be tapped on an industrial scale is another matter altogether.
My bank stores my password in plain text. It's clearly not even hashed as they only need (eg) the third and fifth characters to give me access. I queried this with them and the person couldn't understand what I meant, and I wasn't allowed to talk to anyone who might understand for "security reasons". Interesting policy.
Or a laser beacon. More commonly used as safety kit on the sea, it continuously beams a near IR laser 360 degrees around the vertical, and about 30 degrees above and below the horizontal. Stick one on a hat and you should be fairly invisible.
The ladies love it. Sorry about that, maybe next time, eh? ;)
Hi. I use Linux on a desktop. And a netbook. And servers. How is it? Very nice actually.
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There you go, now you can say you know somebody
You don't prevent 9/11, you ensure that it's far worse. Well....it's as good a bet as preventing it, what with chaos and all.
And how are you going to sell a large quantity of diamonds with no legal background? I wouldn't want to be involved with the kind of people who fence that kind of thing....picky, I know, I just prefer the lottery idea.
It seems to be part of a trend towards relatively obvious and open DRM. Lock out your everyday users, but set the DRM at a level where you tend to get good amateur developers crawling all over it and doing some free R&D for you. Hell, even Microsoft are up to it with the Kinect.
It's anathema to justice by a rigid written framework. It's entire purpose is to allow natural justice, a get-out clause that allows a jury to say "yes, we understand that as the law stands you're guilty, but the exceptional circumstances or our belief that the law is not just in this case allows us to find you not guilty."
It utterly relies on jurors taking their role seriously. The alternative is a very hardline system with no give in it, and we regularly see where that takes us. (Hint, Godwin et al)
It's much the same in the UK - a croaky "smoked 40 Marlboro Lights in the VIP area of my local club" voice is trendy at the moment for whatever reason. Seems to go hand in hand with fake tan, too much make-up and an obsession with reality TV and "celebrity".
Add Titan's mass, however....
Easy - you fire Titan into it. A few small nudges at the right time in its orbit (think large nukes just outside the atmosphere) and you can get Saturn to slingshot it, pick up an assist from Jupiter, and fall all the way in. Easy, provides the nitrogen needed, and should only take a few thousands or tens of thousands of years. Get back to me when we're ready to build nuclear bomb factories on Titan and I'll talk you through the rest ;)
The Governments have haxxed the Twitter with a program called API, they use it to make databases for each user! / sarcasm
And/or you can insist on derivative works keeping to the original licence, so for example Download.com would be obliged to make the source code of whatever changes they made available. Doesn't stop them obfuscating it, but it does at least mean people can (with work, in theory) find out what the program does before they actually run it.
The Ubuntu model is a good compromise - a variation on a walled garden is available if you want to do that kind of thing, but you're free to install/write anything you want on top of it. It would require some locking down if it was to be truly foolproof, but it's a good start. Enforced walled gardens on devices that try to be computers , such as the iPad, are one of the things stopping me from thinking about buying one. If there was a simple "send us an email clearly stating that you want to take the risks on your own head, we'll send you a password" then I'd find that an acceptable compromise and the device would suddenly become a lot more attractive to me.
The one place a solid, enforced walled garden makes sense to me is game consoles, where cheating can be a problem. Sony so nearly had it right with OtherOS - insist on a walled garden if you want to play the games, allow another OS but disable the gaming aspect for those who want to use it for development/hacking. Sooooo close, pity they royally screwed it up.
Each of the GTX cards needs a motheboard, power supply etc, you get those thrown in with the consoles. Yup, there may be significant OS issues, and I've not done the sums on flops per dollar, so it may be a dumb idea...just throwing it into the mix.
PlayStation 3s have proved a cost efficient way of setting up large scale parallel processing systems. Of course you'll have to find your way around Sony's blocks on the OtherOS system, and you'll need to keep it off the internet or firewalled in some way, but you essentially get cheap processing subsidised by the games that you don't need to buy.
You might be kidding but I keep a 6-month-earnings stash in banknotes nearby for exactly that reason. The banks seem to be all too good at just giving/gambling customer's money away these days.
That's been around for ages - there's a Linux package called perceptualdiff that does exactly that. I've used it to measure the differences between CG images while I was "evolving" a picture. Works very well.
Look at the jets - flaps down, they're running close to stall speed just so he can keep up. Doesn't mean it's not cool and all, but he's not going at "fighter jet speed!", he's going at "fighter jet trying to fly really slow" speed.
Cool, but more of a publicity stunt than anything else. Go Rolex!
That would be bad, right? You're suggesting we shouldn't loop the discounts?
Come on mods, that's funny! I wonder what would happen if you tried to sell Groupon stock via Groupon....