Maybe the poster of this article should look for reviews of Apple's G4 desktop macine, it's been shipping with a Panasonic DVR-103 DVD-RW drive as standard for quite a while now.
Sign me up for the pay-per view when you do! Will you be jumping outside the chimney and smashing the world's largest glass dome, or down the chimney into the whirling blades of the turbines?
It's very important that the poorly written code is documented, since that's the code that will need to be re-written!
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"Someone told a professor that what he was doing might not be legal. Nothing more."
It's closer to... 'Someone wrongly threatened a professor who was going about his legitimate academic work with a court case that would waste years of his life and quite possibly leave him penniless and jobless even if he won it'
I wonder how much (if any) overlap there would be between the 'chick-flick wartime romance' and 'action-movie stuff gets blown up' edits of Pearl Harbour?
"From an attackers point of view you want back roads because there is less road traffic," said Codex, "and you might be able to park when you find a network."
Are they seriously suggesting that you can find a parking space in central London during office hours?
Searching for a method that is not susceptible to computerised scanning such as the research mentioned in the article, I have decided the best way is to always send my secret messages on the insides of drinks cartons, in December. I have had gret success in passing on information with out detection this way, so I heartily recommend you all adopt eggnoggraphy as your chosen espionage technique from now on.
E17 was a successful boy-band a few years ago over here, so the story casued me a bit of a double take! According to mtv, their lead singer is going to be working with Eminem
(http://www.mtvasia.com/News/International/Items /0 007/0007078.html if you feel like decending into pop culture).
Americans wishing to comprehend how odd this story looks to us should imagine a Slashdot headline of "NKOTB to be the next Big Thing" for roughly the same level of 'huh?!?!"
You can get a good idea of NTL's competence by looking at that second site (which incidentally is being heavily advertised in newspapers and on tv).
It includes a broken picture link on the front page, back text on a black background (in netscape 4.7 on mac, ymmv) and when I enter my postcode (the whole point of the site is to see if you are in an area that has broadband cable available by doing a postcode look-up) I get a 400 error.
If that's not enough to convince you that you shouldn't touch NTL with a bargepole, let me tell you about the cable TV I get from them - they have been deliberately adding noise to the picture on their analogue service to make their 'more-money-for-worse-channel-selection' digital service look better by comparison! I can now get better reception on some terrestrial channels with an old coathanger suffed in the arial socket of my tv than through NTL's cable feed!
Imho the only thing in NTL's favour is that it isn't BT - who are (if such a thing is possible) even less competent. My office adsl connection (through BT's monopoly) has a mtbf of less than a week over the 3 months I've had it. Well, at least I can add the compensation claims to the £3,000 I've already recieved this year from BT's customer service guarantee scheme:-/
My Nokia 9110i (wap + world's shoddiest net browser) is already capable of 'freezing up' with pulling the battery out and putting it back in being the only way of reviving it.
"You attribute to malice what is obviously explainable through incompetence."
M$ would prefer you to attribute to lack of malice what is obviously explainable through incompetence.
There are no more backdoors, but only because M$'s backdoor routines are buggy.
From the BBC radio interview...
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...which went into more depth than the article:
The real benefit of this is that these silicon light emitters can fairly easily be fabbed in existing chip plants wthout requiring the 'start from scratch' of other optical computing tecnologies.
This technique should (according to the invetor) provide a way of building hybrid practical electronic/optical chips very soon. He particularly mentioned the clock distribution problem that/. had a big discussion on few days back as being one of the first applications he expects to see for this technology.
I already do make use of it. I have Pixar's (see comments on their patent elsewhere in this article) abandonware program for the Mac, "Typestry", which does this in software, at the cost of hideous render times.
The reason no-one has done this in cheap realtime PC hardware before is simply that it takes a @£$%ing lot of flops to do.
"A Guinness buyer is usually an impluse buyer, who buys this overpriced luxury beer to be perceived as a snob, an Irish fanatic or to piss off his friends. "
Hang on a mo, this might be true in America, but Guinness isn't aimed at America. It's neither overpriced or a luxury in Britain/Ireland where most of the sales are, it's just an everyday pub drink.
Over here, Mexican Sol and American Budweiser (not the proper Czech stuff) fall into the category of "overpriced luxury beer", but I'm not xenophobic enough to believe that applies eveywhere.
Mr Sony-manager-san: Aieee! Yields are down again! Mr Sony-engineer-san: We'll miss our Christmas pre order deadlines! It's Hari-kiri time! Mr Sony-marketing-san: What we need is someone to blame, someone who won't sue us...
Wouldn't the world be a better place if (as is increasingly happening) everything we ever did was logged and stored? Maybe we'd all stop pretending we never go faster than 54, officer, never looked at dirty pictures, never downloaded from Napster. We will have to come to terms that no-one is a model citizen, and become a lot more realistic in how we deal with people.
Close, but actually the real market for 750Ghz in the home is Quake players who think polygons are 'not sufficient' and want real-time ray tracing at 60fps. I'm one of them. Is 750Ghz going to be sufficent for 'toy story' level rendering in real time?
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That would be because the 3 laws of robotics don't actually contain any new words, just a bunch of ones the OED already has.
They do however include a word from Asimov, 'positronic' (his robots have 'positronic' brains), cited in 1941
"fina" "Unconveinent" and "referance"!
Maybe the poster of this article should look for reviews of Apple's G4 desktop macine, it's been shipping with a Panasonic DVR-103 DVD-RW drive as standard for quite a while now.
Sign me up for the pay-per view when you do! Will you be jumping outside the chimney and smashing the world's largest glass dome, or down the chimney into the whirling blades of the turbines?
It's very important that the poorly written code is documented, since that's the code that will need to be re-written!
It's closer to... 'Someone wrongly threatened a professor who was going about his legitimate academic work with a court case that would waste years of his life and quite possibly leave him penniless and jobless even if he won it'
I wonder how much (if any) overlap there would be between the 'chick-flick wartime romance' and 'action-movie stuff gets blown up' edits of Pearl Harbour?
Quote from CNN: "The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the plane was carrying 246 passengers and nine crew members. "
from the article:
"From an attackers point of view you want back roads because there is less road traffic," said Codex, "and you might be able to park when you find a network."
Are they seriously suggesting that you can find a parking space in central London during office hours?
Searching for a method that is not susceptible to computerised scanning such as the research mentioned in the article, I have decided the best way is to always send my secret messages on the insides of drinks cartons, in December. I have had gret success in passing on information with out detection this way, so I heartily recommend you all adopt eggnoggraphy as your chosen espionage technique from now on.
Google's cached copy of Google is prefaced by: "Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content."
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of lame old-timer jokes?
Drifting back to the topic...
My favourite short-lived lego-competitor was called Capsella - anyone else remember that one?
E17 was a successful boy-band a few years ago over here, so the story casued me a bit of a double take! According to mtv, their lead singer is going to be working with Eminems /0 007/0007078.html if you feel like decending into pop culture).
(http://www.mtvasia.com/News/International/Item
Americans wishing to comprehend how odd this story looks to us should imagine a Slashdot headline of "NKOTB to be the next Big Thing" for roughly the same level of 'huh?!?!"
You can get a good idea of NTL's competence by looking at that second site (which incidentally is being heavily advertised in newspapers and on tv).
:-/
It includes a broken picture link on the front page, back text on a black background (in netscape 4.7 on mac, ymmv) and when I enter my postcode (the whole point of the site is to see if you are in an area that has broadband cable available by doing a postcode look-up) I get a 400 error.
If that's not enough to convince you that you shouldn't touch NTL with a bargepole, let me tell you about the cable TV I get from them - they have been deliberately adding noise to the picture on their analogue service to make their 'more-money-for-worse-channel-selection' digital service look better by comparison! I can now get better reception on some terrestrial channels with an old coathanger suffed in the arial socket of my tv than through NTL's cable feed!
Imho the only thing in NTL's favour is that it isn't BT - who are (if such a thing is possible) even less competent. My office adsl connection (through BT's monopoly) has a mtbf of less than a week over the 3 months I've had it. Well, at least I can add the compensation claims to the £3,000 I've already recieved this year from BT's customer service guarantee scheme
Well, it's going to make getting a urine sample easy :-)
This isn't just vapourware!
My Nokia 9110i (wap + world's shoddiest net browser) is already capable of 'freezing up' with pulling the battery out and putting it back in being the only way of reviving it.
I'm sure there is some good reason buried in the article, but why exaclty didn't they just move one of the things they are connecting 30m closer?
"You attribute to malice what is obviously explainable through incompetence."
M$ would prefer you to attribute to lack of malice what is obviously explainable through incompetence.
There are no more backdoors, but only because M$'s backdoor routines are buggy.
The real benefit of this is that these silicon light emitters can fairly easily be fabbed in existing chip plants wthout requiring the 'start from scratch' of other optical computing tecnologies.
This technique should (according to the invetor) provide a way of building hybrid practical electronic/optical chips very soon. He particularly mentioned the clock distribution problem that /. had a big discussion on few days back as being one of the first applications he expects to see for this technology.
The reason no-one has done this in cheap realtime PC hardware before is simply that it takes a @£$%ing lot of flops to do.
"A Guinness buyer is usually an impluse buyer, who buys this overpriced luxury beer to be perceived as a snob, an Irish fanatic or to piss off his friends. "
Hang on a mo, this might be true in America, but Guinness isn't aimed at America. It's neither overpriced or a luxury in Britain/Ireland where most of the sales are, it's just an everyday pub drink.
Over here, Mexican Sol and American Budweiser (not the proper Czech stuff) fall into the category of "overpriced luxury beer", but I'm not xenophobic enough to believe that applies eveywhere.
I think of non software patents as things built out of atoms. We all have the same blocks, and the same potentially infinite...
Mr Sony-manager-san: Aieee! Yields are down again!
Mr Sony-engineer-san: We'll miss our Christmas pre order deadlines! It's Hari-kiri time!
Mr Sony-marketing-san: What we need is someone to blame, someone who won't sue us...
Wouldn't the world be a better place if (as is increasingly happening) everything we ever did was logged and stored? Maybe we'd all stop pretending we never go faster than 54, officer, never looked at dirty pictures, never downloaded from Napster. We will have to come to terms that no-one is a model citizen, and become a lot more realistic in how we deal with people.
Close, but actually the real market for 750Ghz in the home is Quake players who think polygons are 'not sufficient' and want real-time ray tracing at 60fps. I'm one of them. Is 750Ghz going to be sufficent for 'toy story' level rendering in real time?