I had to ditch Moveable Type explicitly due to comment spam. The real problem with it was that there was no way to delete more than one at a time. The web app only displays the last five comments and then you have to go digging through every article to find the other spams. Real pain in the ass. I switched to Wordpress, which is also beseiged by comment spam from Online Poker outfits. In Wordpress, however, you can mass-edit with all comments listed with checkboxes to delete whichever are spams.
In Moveable Type and Wordpress, you can pretty much eliminate the script-driven spambots by renaming the comment cgi handler and then editing all other files that reference it. I didn't think of this till after I swtiched to Wordpress, though.
EA pulled off an exclusive licensing deal like this with Porsche. That's why you can't drive cars named "Porsche" in Gran Turismo. They have some imaginary model that matches them in specs, but they don't look much like a real 911.
The only video games with Porsches are the EA Need for Speed and Porsche Unleashed series. All of which suck ass compared to the Gran Turismo series. I'm sure the engineers at Porshe must be pretty disappointed that the marketing folks crippled them from playing Porsches in Gran Turismo. Ugh. It's probably been as sore a time to be a Porsche employee as when they cancelled their GT Racing and reassigned that staff to develop their SUV.
I got a Nikon D70 earlier this year. It's proven to be one of the best purchases I've ever made. One of the strongest examples of how it's improved my photography is shooting at night with slow shutter speeds.
With my film cameras, I was never willing to invest the time and wasted film to experiment with tricky lighting and night shots. I always wanted to be sure I got the moment, so I'd always use a flash.
With the D70, I could see immediately how my shots were turning out and adjust settings to dial in exactly what I wanted. It was a real breakthrough moment in photography for me.
I'm a huge advocate for Open Source, etc. as I imagine you are. But you're setting unrealistic expectations here. Every product can't be "open". These guys put up capital to buy a range of the broadcast spectrum. They're going to need to recoup their investment and then some. So, yes. They're going to charge fees.
If you're looking for a 'free' laptop TV solution, here you go. USB TV tuner with linux drivers. It'll pull in whatever normal broadcast tv you can receive.
Bittorrent is fast as hell because it spreads big data like a virus. If one person were to offer a DVD rip of Spiderman2 on Kazaa or Limewire, how many people are going to really be able to download a 1.5 gig file before the original person decides their bandwidth would be better used by gaming or some other activity? Of those people who successfully got the original file, how many are going to also allow uploads of it and so on? Probably not a lot. In the Bittorrent model, the original host for the file only needs to send the 1.5 gigs of data out a single time. If several other people download it at the same time, then they take the place of the original host and provide peices of it for download. And so on. It's a pyramid scheme that actually works.
At least it works when people aren't throttling their upload speeds, which is what you are seeking to do. In fact, if you examine your logic, you'll recognize that you are self-defeating in your quest to suppress your upload transmissions. If everyone does that, then your original complaint of slow download speeds will only be exacerbated.
I recommend they print up millions of copies of their resumes and mail them out to everyone in the United States. If they play their cards right, they should be able to get computer manufacturers to place an icon for their resume on the desktop of every computer sold. They should also cut deals with publishers to include their resumes bundled with mainstream consumer magazines. They should print their resumes on non-biodegradable media so that someone will start a website called "NoMoreAOLResumes".
Methinks ZDnet published this prediction simply to exploit the predictable slashdot-effect response to such a story. I am projecting a 22% increase in ad revenues from their banner ads featured with this story at the tail end of 2004.
You are misinterpreting how the FCC polices indecency. It doesn't watch channels. It responds to complaints that provide transcripts of the alledgedly offensive broadcasts. The PTC and other American Moralists have been streaming complaints against Howard Stern for over a decade. That's why he's been getting fined.
The Oprah Winfrey example clearly illustrates the hypocrisy in how the FCC arbitrarily chooses to levy fines. If you're a friend to the mainstream, you're safe. If you're outside the status quo, watch out.
Here's a link to the transcripts. Judge for yourself if the FCC is being fair.
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Definitely it's not the 'PC people' that oppose demonic violence. In fact, many forms of violence in entertainment are committed against supernatural beings because it's defendable in the face of political correctness to harm demons but not humans.
Instead, the sensitivity of making hell-related films is a reaction to the conservative members of American society who use the bible to criticize anything that's not like them. I tend to agree more with the Christians who thought the Exorcist was a terrific film because it tried to depict true evil. Unfortunately, the current crop of American Christianity shudders at the thought of depicting graphic evil, such as a possessed child violently masturbating with a crucifix. A movie like the Exorcist could NEVER be made in America today. This misconceived DOOM movie is a prime example of how Hollywood's creativity is being suffocated by America's conservatism.
Make the coolest low-budget film in the world, but nobody will see it without distribution channels. Yes, the DV revolution has really empowered low-budget film makers. But what I think will be the second stage thruster is this hookup between TiVO and NetFlix. Once fiber to the home starts to get traction, the planets will have aligned such that beginning film makers can send their movie in to NetFlix and then get it on potentially hundreds of thousands of people's tv screens at no additional cost to the viewers.
..for the foundation of a mission-critical finance system.
In such a scenario, I'd have to say mySQL isn't really there. MySQL is a terrific solution for all kinds of web publishing / application needs. But if finances are at stake, you gotta go with a product where you can sue someone over stuff that goes wrong.
Had to mention this for those who didn't catch it in 2001. Some students in Wisconsin created a Quake II mod that converts the Open GL rendering engine output to non-photorealistic sketches. Looks like the A-ha video in realtime. I'd really like to see someone bring this to more modern 1st-person-shooters like Doom 3 or Quake 3.
IT is what I do for money. The things I am more interested in than IT don't pay enough money to support me at the level to which I'm accustomed. I make short films and advocate for building public skateparks. If I could do those things for the same money, I'd leave IT in a minute.
Man, I just caught that STNG episode "the Dauphin" on Tivo the other day. That girl you kissed at the end was probably the hottest woman they ever had on that whole show. For this, you deserve way more stud points than Picard and Riker combined. Kudos, my friend.
If you could tell us a little more about anything that might have happened behind the scenes, that would be very appreciated.
I don't have kids. I don't know how astute your toddlers are, either. But I suggest that you don't try to 'fast-forward to where the video ended last.' The toddlers shouldn't know the difference and you get a lot more mileage out of your video entertainment products by having them re-watch the beginnings.
Number one killer in the US- Heart Disease.
Second most prolific killer- Cancer.
Number one actual cause of death- Tobacco.
Meanwhile, the US government resists allocating federal research funds for a treatment that might lengthen peoples' lives. It also desires an international treaty against researching this medical technology- Stem Cell Research.
In 2018 benefits owed will be more than taxes collected, and [the current] Social Security will need to begin tapping the trust funds to pay benefits.
Unfortunately even when those people are only damaging their own lungs, eventually, my tax money (and insurance money) is going to pay for their long-term treatment in a hospital while they slowly die. Cancer is the number one killer in American and smokers are exacerbating the problem by inflicting more cancer on themselves. I would rather they go out and get eaten by a shark or kodiak bear. No long-term stay at the hospital, and no one to sue. The lights just go out real quick on them.
I've talked to a lot of people who saw ED II first. Somehow they got the sense it wasn't important to see ED I. I had watched ED I when it came out at the theaters in the early eighties. It was so amazing that when ED II came out, I was very loyal to the original and although I enjoy ED II, it still never impressed me as much as Evil Dead I did.
Don't forget that all those knock-offs are frequently produced using prison / slave labor. It's somewhat surprising that the US has continued to give China favored trading status in the bleak hopes that we'll ever be able to export something to them.
The republican party has been working to make it more difficult to vote for some time. In Texas, the state GOP party platform indicates that they want to get rid of motor voter registration. This would mean that people wouldn't have the choice of being registered to vote when they get their drivers' licenses. They also want people to have to re-register every four years. The document claims this is to combat voter fraud, but I suspect it's also intended to reduce the number of people casting votes and complicate the registration process. Check page six of the above-referenced document.
Google isn't actually parsing the binary files that represent images on the web. They're looking at all the text in the pages that reference those binary files and trying to deduce what topic the picture relates to. Indexing pictures isn't any more processor-intensive than the regular indexing they're doing.
But here's another angle- if you look at how many photo albums exist on the web and consider that they don't all have a lot of text per photo-display page, then you can see how the task is pretty futile. Also, many websites host thousands of image files, but only a few dozen HTML pages. Perhaps google is also checking to see how many image searches are conducted on their site and recognizing that they might as well focus their work on indexing the HTML and flake on the images....
My first mp3 player was the Rio500. This device inspired a lawsuit against the maker, Diamond Multimedia, because the RIAA claimed it would enable piracy. The case was thrown out of court, but just to cover their asses from additional legal challenges, Diamond disabled the capability for files to easily be copied from the player back to a computer.
A few months ago I just upgraded and bought an iPod 40gig. I really appreciate it over my Rio500. I am disappointed that I can't easily transfer music from the player to my computer, but I can understand their rationale.
I agree with your statement that MS is trying to specifically sell X-Boxes. It would compromise their market if all the third-party developed games made for XboX could easily be ported to PS3. But there is an opportunity here....
The console makers (Sony, MS, Nintendo) go to extreme lengths to woo developers to create games on their platforms. And they work even harder to secure exclusive titles for their platforms. These exclusive deals, however, historically only pertain to the console market and usually haven't meant games aren't ported to PCs and Macs.
A publisher can agree to the exclusive xbOx release of a game, use the hype and success of that release to boost sales of the title when it's released on the Mac and PC. The publisher will make more money off the Mac and PC sales because they don't have to pay the kind of licensing fees for those unit sales that they have to pay on the XbOx. So, having an easy port path to Mac (and PC) could help publishers swallow the medicine of exclusive xboX contracts.
seth
FIle Vault is actually an encrypted file system. It mounts your user dir as a volume and accesses the data on that system via the key you create.
Yes, the nature of this architecture means that there can be zero disk corruption or you won't be able to mount it. So in a normal disk corruption setting, you would lose a few files or somthing. Having your user dir as an encrypted volume forces a sort of checksum on all the data and if even a single byte is incorrect, then the whole thing fails to mount.
It's actually a very secure method of storing your user data. Performance-wise, I've noticed that you can't use iMovie to import video files to your home dir if you're using file vault. The overhead on writing to the encrypted file system is too much for my 1.3gz powerbook. The video import is all kinds of choppy. Importing to the regular hard drive is fine, though.
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I had to ditch Moveable Type explicitly due to comment spam. The real problem with it was that there was no way to delete more than one at a time. The web app only displays the last five comments and then you have to go digging through every article to find the other spams. Real pain in the ass. I switched to Wordpress, which is also beseiged by comment spam from Online Poker outfits. In Wordpress, however, you can mass-edit with all comments listed with checkboxes to delete whichever are spams.
In Moveable Type and Wordpress, you can pretty much eliminate the script-driven spambots by renaming the comment cgi handler and then editing all other files that reference it. I didn't think of this till after I swtiched to Wordpress, though.
EA pulled off an exclusive licensing deal like this with Porsche. That's why you can't drive cars named "Porsche" in Gran Turismo. They have some imaginary model that matches them in specs, but they don't look much like a real 911.
The only video games with Porsches are the EA Need for Speed and Porsche Unleashed series. All of which suck ass compared to the Gran Turismo series. I'm sure the engineers at Porshe must be pretty disappointed that the marketing folks crippled them from playing Porsches in Gran Turismo. Ugh. It's probably been as sore a time to be a Porsche employee as when they cancelled their GT Racing and reassigned that staff to develop their SUV.
I got a Nikon D70 earlier this year. It's proven to be one of the best purchases I've ever made. One of the strongest examples of how it's improved my photography is shooting at night with slow shutter speeds.
With my film cameras, I was never willing to invest the time and wasted film to experiment with tricky lighting and night shots. I always wanted to be sure I got the moment, so I'd always use a flash.
With the D70, I could see immediately how my shots were turning out and adjust settings to dial in exactly what I wanted. It was a real breakthrough moment in photography for me.
I'm a huge advocate for Open Source, etc. as I imagine you are. But you're setting unrealistic expectations here. Every product can't be "open". These guys put up capital to buy a range of the broadcast spectrum. They're going to need to recoup their investment and then some. So, yes. They're going to charge fees.
If you're looking for a 'free' laptop TV solution, here you go. USB TV tuner with linux drivers. It'll pull in whatever normal broadcast tv you can receive.
Bittorrent is fast as hell because it spreads big data like a virus. If one person were to offer a DVD rip of Spiderman2 on Kazaa or Limewire, how many people are going to really be able to download a 1.5 gig file before the original person decides their bandwidth would be better used by gaming or some other activity? Of those people who successfully got the original file, how many are going to also allow uploads of it and so on? Probably not a lot. In the Bittorrent model, the original host for the file only needs to send the 1.5 gigs of data out a single time. If several other people download it at the same time, then they take the place of the original host and provide peices of it for download. And so on. It's a pyramid scheme that actually works.
At least it works when people aren't throttling their upload speeds, which is what you are seeking to do. In fact, if you examine your logic, you'll recognize that you are self-defeating in your quest to suppress your upload transmissions. If everyone does that, then your original complaint of slow download speeds will only be exacerbated.
what are their hopes for finding new jobs?
I recommend they print up millions of copies of their resumes and mail them out to everyone in the United States. If they play their cards right, they should be able to get computer manufacturers to place an icon for their resume on the desktop of every computer sold. They should also cut deals with publishers to include their resumes bundled with mainstream consumer magazines. They should print their resumes on non-biodegradable media so that someone will start a website called "NoMoreAOLResumes".
Appropriate plug for above reference.
Methinks ZDnet published this prediction simply to exploit the predictable slashdot-effect response to such a story. I am projecting a 22% increase in ad revenues from their banner ads featured with this story at the tail end of 2004.
You are misinterpreting how the FCC polices indecency. It doesn't watch channels. It responds to complaints that provide transcripts of the alledgedly offensive broadcasts. The PTC and other American Moralists have been streaming complaints against Howard Stern for over a decade. That's why he's been getting fined.
The Oprah Winfrey example clearly illustrates the hypocrisy in how the FCC arbitrarily chooses to levy fines. If you're a friend to the mainstream, you're safe. If you're outside the status quo, watch out.
Here's a link to the transcripts. Judge for yourself if the FCC is being fair.
Definitely it's not the 'PC people' that oppose demonic violence. In fact, many forms of violence in entertainment are committed against supernatural beings because it's defendable in the face of political correctness to harm demons but not humans.
Instead, the sensitivity of making hell-related films is a reaction to the conservative members of American society who use the bible to criticize anything that's not like them. I tend to agree more with the Christians who thought the Exorcist was a terrific film because it tried to depict true evil. Unfortunately, the current crop of American Christianity shudders at the thought of depicting graphic evil, such as a possessed child violently masturbating with a crucifix. A movie like the Exorcist could NEVER be made in America today. This misconceived DOOM movie is a prime example of how Hollywood's creativity is being suffocated by America's conservatism.
Make the coolest low-budget film in the world, but nobody will see it without distribution channels. Yes, the DV revolution has really empowered low-budget film makers. But what I think will be the second stage thruster is this hookup between TiVO and NetFlix. Once fiber to the home starts to get traction, the planets will have aligned such that beginning film makers can send their movie in to NetFlix and then get it on potentially hundreds of thousands of people's tv screens at no additional cost to the viewers.
In such a scenario, I'd have to say mySQL isn't really there. MySQL is a terrific solution for all kinds of web publishing / application needs. But if finances are at stake, you gotta go with a product where you can sue someone over stuff that goes wrong.
Had to mention this for those who didn't catch it in 2001. Some students in Wisconsin created a Quake II mod that converts the Open GL rendering engine output to non-photorealistic sketches. Looks like the A-ha video in realtime. I'd really like to see someone bring this to more modern 1st-person-shooters like Doom 3 or Quake 3.
NPR Quake.
IT is what I do for money. The things I am more interested in than IT don't pay enough money to support me at the level to which I'm accustomed. I make short films and advocate for building public skateparks. If I could do those things for the same money, I'd leave IT in a minute.
Man, I just caught that STNG episode "the Dauphin" on Tivo the other day. That girl you kissed at the end was probably the hottest woman they ever had on that whole show. For this, you deserve way more stud points than Picard and Riker combined. Kudos, my friend.
If you could tell us a little more about anything that might have happened behind the scenes, that would be very appreciated.
I don't have kids. I don't know how astute your toddlers are, either. But I suggest that you don't try to 'fast-forward to where the video ended last.' The toddlers shouldn't know the difference and you get a lot more mileage out of your video entertainment products by having them re-watch the beginnings.
Perhaps it won't work. Just a thought.
Here are some facts to consider.
Number one killer in the US- Heart Disease.
Second most prolific killer- Cancer.
Number one actual cause of death- Tobacco.
Meanwhile, the US government resists allocating federal research funds for a treatment that might lengthen peoples' lives. It also desires an international treaty against researching this medical technology- Stem Cell Research.
In 2018 benefits owed will be more than taxes collected, and [the current] Social Security will need to begin tapping the trust funds to pay benefits.
The US Government continues to subsidies tobacco farmers and resists holding the tobacco companies responsible for the damage incurred by their products.
Good for the economy, good for the future of social security: fewer humans living longer.
Unfortunately even when those people are only damaging their own lungs, eventually, my tax money (and insurance money) is going to pay for their long-term treatment in a hospital while they slowly die. Cancer is the number one killer in American and smokers are exacerbating the problem by inflicting more cancer on themselves. I would rather they go out and get eaten by a shark or kodiak bear. No long-term stay at the hospital, and no one to sue. The lights just go out real quick on them.
I've talked to a lot of people who saw ED II first. Somehow they got the sense it wasn't important to see ED I. I had watched ED I when it came out at the theaters in the early eighties. It was so amazing that when ED II came out, I was very loyal to the original and although I enjoy ED II, it still never impressed me as much as Evil Dead I did.
Don't forget that all those knock-offs are frequently produced using prison / slave labor. It's somewhat surprising that the US has continued to give China favored trading status in the bleak hopes that we'll ever be able to export something to them.
Very surprised to see a link from news.google.com to slashdot covering this.
The republican party has been working to make it more difficult to vote for some time. In Texas, the state GOP party platform indicates that they want to get rid of motor voter registration. This would mean that people wouldn't have the choice of being registered to vote when they get their drivers' licenses. They also want people to have to re-register every four years. The document claims this is to combat voter fraud, but I suspect it's also intended to reduce the number of people casting votes and complicate the registration process. Check page six of the above-referenced document.
Google isn't actually parsing the binary files that represent images on the web. They're looking at all the text in the pages that reference those binary files and trying to deduce what topic the picture relates to. Indexing pictures isn't any more processor-intensive than the regular indexing they're doing.
But here's another angle- if you look at how many photo albums exist on the web and consider that they don't all have a lot of text per photo-display page, then you can see how the task is pretty futile. Also, many websites host thousands of image files, but only a few dozen HTML pages. Perhaps google is also checking to see how many image searches are conducted on their site and recognizing that they might as well focus their work on indexing the HTML and flake on the images....
My first mp3 player was the Rio500. This device inspired a lawsuit against the maker, Diamond Multimedia, because the RIAA claimed it would enable piracy. The case was thrown out of court, but just to cover their asses from additional legal challenges, Diamond disabled the capability for files to easily be copied from the player back to a computer.
A few months ago I just upgraded and bought an iPod 40gig. I really appreciate it over my Rio500. I am disappointed that I can't easily transfer music from the player to my computer, but I can understand their rationale.
I agree with your statement that MS is trying to specifically sell X-Boxes. It would compromise their market if all the third-party developed games made for XboX could easily be ported to PS3. But there is an opportunity here....
The console makers (Sony, MS, Nintendo) go to extreme lengths to woo developers to create games on their platforms. And they work even harder to secure exclusive titles for their platforms. These exclusive deals, however, historically only pertain to the console market and usually haven't meant games aren't ported to PCs and Macs.
A publisher can agree to the exclusive xbOx release of a game, use the hype and success of that release to boost sales of the title when it's released on the Mac and PC. The publisher will make more money off the Mac and PC sales because they don't have to pay the kind of licensing fees for those unit sales that they have to pay on the XbOx. So, having an easy port path to Mac (and PC) could help publishers swallow the medicine of exclusive xboX contracts. seth
FIle Vault is actually an encrypted file system. It mounts your user dir as a volume and accesses the data on that system via the key you create.
Yes, the nature of this architecture means that there can be zero disk corruption or you won't be able to mount it. So in a normal disk corruption setting, you would lose a few files or somthing. Having your user dir as an encrypted volume forces a sort of checksum on all the data and if even a single byte is incorrect, then the whole thing fails to mount.
It's actually a very secure method of storing your user data. Performance-wise, I've noticed that you can't use iMovie to import video files to your home dir if you're using file vault. The overhead on writing to the encrypted file system is too much for my 1.3gz powerbook. The video import is all kinds of choppy. Importing to the regular hard drive is fine, though.