Did anyone else get the distinct feeling that the "i"s in the video desparately want to be Luxo Jr (http://www.pixar.com/shorts/ljr/theater/short_320 .html) but couldn't quite pull it off? Also, what's up with the hollow/empty sound effects track? And the "logo" is nothing more than "Wii" in the most boring san serif font imaginable? This is just a pathetic showing from Nintendo.
Color me confused: according to IMDB, King Kong had an estimated budget of $207 million, but had already brought in $520 million worldwide by the 26th of January. How is that a failure?
Is my point of confusion that the amount brought in was the Gross profit figure, and the taxes and other overhead eat up more than $300 million of that?
The client isn't the problem -- if everyone was using their own public/private keypair with AIM, then it would probably be ok (I say "probably", because apparently AOL's been mum on the exact protocol used, so we don't know if there are holes in their security).
The problem is that www.aimencrypt.com is telling people that they can use the security features in AIM just by installing the certificate aimencrypt is providing. Unfortunately, that means that everyone is using the same public/private keypair, which completely undermines the security (the private key is no longer private).
So I thought to myself, how do I encrypt my AIM conversations? I was horrified that the first google hit on 'aim encrypt' is this site: http://www.aimencrypt.com/, which goes around giving everybody in the world the same public/private keypair! Apparently, the site's been getting lots of press, including from TechTV.
The dangers of this site have been well explained here, but how many people are going to find it and read enough to understand it? It's just sad that the general population is so completely clueless about the basics of cryptography.
Early in the article: However, Theimer said the cluster version will include some restrictions on how the version can be used to prevent companies from performing standard Web hosting or other functions.
Later: Although such code runs more slowly than C programs running directly on Windows, writing programs in C# that run atop.Net is easier and more secure.
My question:
If this OS is going to be so hobbled that it can't even play well on the internet, is it really going to be deployed in a way that makes buffer overrun exploits and the like a big concern? If it can only be a cluster, then it's going to be locked away somewhere well away from the pokes and prods of your neighborhood script kiddies.
You make a good point, but don't forget that Google has Orkut, too. If there was a way to leverage your social network to determine which calendars are actually relevant to you -- well, that could be pretty sweet!
I particularly love the arbitrary list of years that have "newton weeks" in them. Yep, that huge list is definitely going to make coding a lot easier (certainly easier than the length 12 list of days per month). And inserting a "special week" in the middle of a year is going to be easier than inserting a day in february. Let's hear it for this inspired new calendar!
The LA Times announced that it is folding its national edition on 12/31/04.
Big freaking deal. I folded a newspaper this morning. There's a good chance I'll fold another one tomorrow! Kudos to them for attacking this very tough project on New Year's Eve, but seriously, the LA Times can crease, bend, and crush newsprint to their heart's content and I still won't care. Unless it's really cool origami;-)
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Good lord. People have to search for some of these things? I mean seriously, what do they *think* is going to be the top result for amazon, ebay, hotmail, or yahoo?
These folks must also have the listing 911 bookmarked in their phonebook -- you know, for emergencies.
According to the FAQ, you can request that Google Desktop support new file formats.
Of course, what would be really nice is if new formats were supported via plugins, and if google would distribute a simple API so the open source community could contribute new plugins rather than waiting for google to implement them.
No problem. Just filter out everything that goes straight to foo@gmail.com or to any subaddress you've never used. Of course, you'd never give anyone a non-subaddressed email. A spammer would have to guess a valid subaddress in order for your mail you.
Actually, they use a stock version of the game. All the "camera work" and "acting" are just players running around in the multiplayer mode of the game, doing what they're normally allowed to do. Their DVD details some of the crazy stunts they had to pull to get some of their shots, which really is quite fascinating.
Too bad you can't search for anything on freenet -- you have to know exactly what arbitrary key the content you want was inserted under. I suspect that posting a set of song names and freenet keys on the web isn't going to win you any brownie points with the RIAA's lawyers.
Fill the whole bottom area with a sea of flaming hamsters. Make sure they cover the peak of the "mountain" in the middle.
Next, you job is to shoot some hamsters up towards the movable rock, so that 2-3 hamsters get clumped together and fall down to the flaming sea together.
The last part is to aim a hamster shot so that it is shooting as high on the rock as you can without hitting the ledge over the cannon. You need to time it so that this shot is directly above the mountain peak when the hampster clump is ignited. If all goes well, he "gas expansion" from the hampster-clump-explosion will give your just-shot hampster just that extra bit of lift he needs to make it over the rock and into the vortex.
You have to do this 10 times to win, and it takes a while because it's quite tricky to get the clumping and timing just right. The timing the shot is possible if you put 97 hamster in the flaming sea, use 3 to build the clump, and then suck one of the flaming-sea-hamster up with the mouse just when you need to shoot.
Maybe there's an easier way, but I just couldn't get that big rock to move far enough.
I'm confused -- why do all the watchmakers in the article keep saying "if it's even possible" to make a 24h39m watch? Is there something instrinsically special about a 24hr period that makes it a lot easier to construct a timepiece? Otherwise, the "if it's even possible" seems to translate to "if we haven't all forgotten why watches work in the first place," which would make me very dubious about these master watchmakers.
Be sure to check out Maya's Fake or Foto challenge Can you tell the difference between real photos and CG? It took a bit of scrutinization, but I was still able to answer all of them correctly on the first pass.
There seem to be an enormous number of people saying that this XForms is a waste of effort and complexity; that it won't be used. I find it hard to believe that any of you have written a web application with non-trivial form-database interaction.
Forms for tasks such as editing data that contains one-to-many relations involving several tables while supporting data validation before commiting is absolutely disgusting with html's current incantation of forms. I cannot wait to have live xml objects backing forms with features like group-repeats and integrated data validation. Bring on the XForms, even if the XML is a bit complicated, at least it looks well designed and it's going to be a whole lot better thought out and implemented by than whatever most of us would cobble together.
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Did anyone else get the distinct feeling that the "i"s in the video desparately want to be Luxo Jr (http://www.pixar.com/shorts/ljr/theater/short_320 .html) but couldn't quite pull it off? Also, what's up with the hollow/empty sound effects track? And the "logo" is nothing more than "Wii" in the most boring san serif font imaginable? This is just a pathetic showing from Nintendo.
I was really hoping for cute little bows on the corners of everything...
Color me confused: according to IMDB, King Kong had an estimated budget of $207 million, but had already brought in $520 million worldwide by the 26th of January. How is that a failure?
Is my point of confusion that the amount brought in was the Gross profit figure, and the taxes and other overhead eat up more than $300 million of that?
I think I hear a new line of T-Shirts on the way ;-)
The client isn't the problem -- if everyone was using their own public/private keypair with AIM, then it would probably be ok (I say "probably", because apparently AOL's been mum on the exact protocol used, so we don't know if there are holes in their security).
The problem is that www.aimencrypt.com is telling people that they can use the security features in AIM just by installing the certificate aimencrypt is providing. Unfortunately, that means that everyone is using the same public/private keypair, which completely undermines the security (the private key is no longer private).
I was all excited until I watched the edited video and discovered that it's got MPAA attribution at the end. Guess we're all pirates now.
The dangers of this site have been well explained here, but how many people are going to find it and read enough to understand it? It's just sad that the general population is so completely clueless about the basics of cryptography.
Oh, yes, theta is nice, but it's the r portion that's makes this far out!
However, Theimer said the cluster version will include some restrictions on how the version can be used to prevent companies from performing standard Web hosting or other functions.
Later: .Net is easier and more secure.
Although such code runs more slowly than C programs running directly on Windows, writing programs in C# that run atop
My question:
If this OS is going to be so hobbled that it can't even play well on the internet, is it really going to be deployed in a way that makes buffer overrun exploits and the like a big concern? If it can only be a cluster, then it's going to be locked away somewhere well away from the pokes and prods of your neighborhood script kiddies.
You make a good point, but don't forget that Google has Orkut, too. If there was a way to leverage your social network to determine which calendars are actually relevant to you -- well, that could be pretty sweet!
I particularly love the arbitrary list of years that have "newton weeks" in them. Yep, that huge list is definitely going to make coding a lot easier (certainly easier than the length 12 list of days per month). And inserting a "special week" in the middle of a year is going to be easier than inserting a day in february. Let's hear it for this inspired new calendar!
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The LA Times announced that it is folding its national edition on 12/31/04.
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Big freaking deal. I folded a newspaper this morning. There's a good chance I'll fold another one tomorrow! Kudos to them for attacking this very tough project on New Year's Eve, but seriously, the LA Times can crease, bend, and crush newsprint to their heart's content and I still won't care. Unless it's really cool origami
Good lord. People have to search for some of these things? I mean seriously, what do they *think* is going to be the top result for amazon, ebay, hotmail, or yahoo?
These folks must also have the listing 911 bookmarked in their phonebook -- you know, for emergencies.
Only one possible conclusion to be drawn: Google Desktop must contain a trojan distributed file system which provides the storage space for GMail ;-)
It's just a little game of give and take (a gig)
Of course, what would be really nice is if new formats were supported via plugins, and if google would distribute a simple API so the open source community could contribute new plugins rather than waiting for google to implement them.
No problem. Just filter out everything that goes straight to foo@gmail.com or to any subaddress you've never used. Of course, you'd never give anyone a non-subaddressed email. A spammer would have to guess a valid subaddress in order for your mail you.
Actually, they use a stock version of the game. All the "camera work" and "acting" are just players running around in the multiplayer mode of the game, doing what they're normally allowed to do. Their DVD details some of the crazy stunts they had to pull to get some of their shots, which really is quite fascinating.
Post the google cache link, obviously ;-)
Too bad you can't search for anything on freenet -- you have to know exactly what arbitrary key the content you want was inserted under. I suspect that posting a set of song names and freenet keys on the web isn't going to win you any brownie points with the RIAA's lawyers.
Here's how I did it:
Fill the whole bottom area with a sea of flaming hamsters. Make sure they cover the peak of the "mountain" in the middle.
Next, you job is to shoot some hamsters up towards the movable rock, so that 2-3 hamsters get clumped together and fall down to the flaming sea together.
The last part is to aim a hamster shot so that it is shooting as high on the rock as you can without hitting the ledge over the cannon. You need to time it so that this shot is directly above the mountain peak when the hampster clump is ignited. If all goes well, he "gas expansion" from the hampster-clump-explosion will give your just-shot hampster just that extra bit of lift he needs to make it over the rock and into the vortex.
You have to do this 10 times to win, and it takes a while because it's quite tricky to get the clumping and timing just right. The timing the shot is possible if you put 97 hamster in the flaming sea, use 3 to build the clump, and then suck one of the flaming-sea-hamster up with the mouse just when you need to shoot.
Maybe there's an easier way, but I just couldn't get that big rock to move far enough.
Personally, I'm going for the theme Willy Wonka plays to summon the Oompa Loompas!
> somewhat hopeful research* suggesting that the average home contains 250 devices (toasters, electric toothbrushes, vibrators?)
err... ummm... vibrators? I guess that's just further proof that porn really does run the internet!
I'm confused -- why do all the watchmakers in the article keep saying "if it's even possible" to make a 24h39m watch? Is there something instrinsically special about a 24hr period that makes it a lot easier to construct a timepiece? Otherwise, the "if it's even possible" seems to translate to "if we haven't all forgotten why watches work in the first place," which would make me very dubious about these master watchmakers.
Be sure to check out Maya's Fake or Foto challenge Can you tell the difference between real photos and CG? It took a bit of scrutinization, but I was still able to answer all of them correctly on the first pass.
There seem to be an enormous number of people saying that this XForms is a waste of effort and complexity; that it won't be used. I find it hard to believe that any of you have written a web application with non-trivial form-database interaction.
Forms for tasks such as editing data that contains one-to-many relations involving several tables while supporting data validation before commiting is absolutely disgusting with html's current incantation of forms. I cannot wait to have live xml objects backing forms with features like group-repeats and integrated data validation. Bring on the XForms, even if the XML is a bit complicated, at least it looks well designed and it's going to be a whole lot better thought out and implemented by than whatever most of us would cobble together.