Transparency wasn't the issue. The plant manager said that a sheet of plexiglass suffucient to contain the water would have to be 6 inches thick. Scotty asked what it would be worth if he could show them how to do the same job with something only one inch thick. The manager's response was, "You're joking."
So there are two factors here:
1) Transparent aluminum is, apparently, stronger than any previously-available material, transparent or otherwise.
2) The materials for whale transport had to be paid for in some way. Scotty paid with information.
What bugs me is that the software was able to immediately identify this previously-unknown compound as "transparent aluminum"...
(Why yes, I did just grab my tape of ST4 to verify my memory of the scene. What makes you think I have anything better to do?)
A lot of time and money? Give me a break! If I had access to their databases, it wouldn't take long to come up with that information. It's exactly the sort of thing that database query engines are designed to calculate.
A machine with no display doesn't need a x server as there is no display to serve to programs. Most people get confused about this terminologiy at first (it does seem backwords) but after you look at it closely it make sense, and you soon realise the other way while more obvious is wrong.
Actually, I've spent a fair amount of time wondering why X uses the terms 'client' and 'server' to mean the opposite of the normal usage in any other context. Would you mind explaining how it makes sense?
Yep. That's always been my standard illustration of why voice interfaces in the workplace aren't going to happen.
But there's another observation, made by a cow-orker, which I rather like:
A lot of people think voice recognition is cool because then life will be more like Star Trek. You know - whenever someone has a question, they say, "Computer, what's the last digit of pi?" and the computer speaks the answer.
But what happens when someone has actual work to do? They use a console.
I do not support the taxing of email . . . just wanted to get that out of the way.
Onto my real point. How would they do that? Would ISPs be required to log all of the email messages that people send? This alone would be a huge task to put to ISPs that would cost them money. Second would be the issue of logging such emails from the standpoint of privacy.
I do not support the taxing of personal income . . . just wanted to get that out of the way.
Onto my real point. How would they do that? Would employers be required to log all of the personal income that employees receive? This alone would be a huge task to put to employers that would cost them money. Second would be the issue of logging such personal income from the standpoint of privacy.
Once legislators get involved, the logistics are not so infeasible as you may think... (Or, rather, their feasibility is no longer relevant.)
The explanation I heard of this (from my boss after going out to Redmond for a Win2K dog-and-pony show) sounded like the new Windows versions will a) keep a backup copy of all the system DLLs and b) watch those system files and replace them from the backup copies if they are changed. Yes, as I heard it, that includes if the new version works perfectly.
But that's OK, because Windows will now also refuse to let anyone else install software. All installations will have to go through the MS Install Wizard, which will presumably know enough to update the backup system files when installing a new version. (One more obstacle to just copying software onto a machine instead of using a bloated install program...)
But, hey, I could be wrong. This is just what I thought I heard my boss say he was told by marketing drones a couple months back. Even if it's all correct, the drones could've been speaking inaccurately or MS could've reworked these "features" since then. I haven't used Win2K or NT5 and, if there is anything I can do about it, I never will.
At the bottom of most (all?) of the pages, there's a "Security Notice" link which gets you to the following statement:
--- Security Notice
PayPal(TM) financial transactions are encrypted using public-key cryptography to ensure maximum security for all beamed transactions between users and for all subsequent interactions with our secure server, which occur during synchronization of each handheld device.
When you conduct a transaction on the PayPal(TM) web site, we encrypt all of your private information. That information is stored on a secure server housed in a secure data center. All transactions are conducted through our secure servers, which are protected behind state-of-the-art firewalls. ---
No indication of what flavor or key strength their crypto is, though.
I wonder if they get in trouble for cussing at home. Probably not.
Why should they get in trouble for it? While I don't think people should be cursing in the true sense ("May you be afflicted with buggy software all the days of your life"), and I suppose a case could be made against blasphemy, I see no problem with simple cussing.
We're talking about a movie here. If people would just follow the damn rules we wouldnt be playing the blame game with the media and the internet and tv and movies. We'd all know who's fault it was. The adult who should have seen the movie with the kid.
but it would have been taking some responsibility for what kind of people these kids could become.
So which is it? If the kids turn into monsters, is it the fault of their parents (according to the first quote) or is it because they saw a 'bad' movie (according to the second quote)?
that usually includes a belief that such a religion is the *truth*, and there is a duty to live by it and spread it.
Not terribly relevant to the debate at hand, but, for the record, there are several non-evangelical (no belief that they should be spread) religions out there. Most of them are polytheistic. Evangelism seems to be a primarily monotheistic pursuit.
(Which I suppose makes sense. If we've already got a dozen gods, who's to say there aren't more of them out there?)
A. AirPort offers password access control and encryption to deliver security equivalent to that of a physical network cable. Users are required to enter a password to log on to the AirPort network--and, optionally, an additional password for access to any other computer on the network. When transmitting information, AirPort uses 40-bit encryption to scramble data, rendering it useless to eavesdroppers.
The basic concept is to turn the entire hard drive into a searchable database of files instead of a hierarchy of directories. (Oops! I mean "folders".)
The former being computer generated imagery or special effects
I think you answered your own question. (IIRC, the other CGI is Common Gateway Interface.)
You think that's bad, what does ATM mean? (I can give you three options off the top of my head: a networking technology, a cash machine, and a MUD/IRC shorthand.) Isn't acronym overloading great?
How much must it cost to render one of those videos?
Today, I suspect it costs a good deal.
In five years (if not sooner), the average Slashdotter's home system will be able to to it, probably in real-time, at a cost comparable to, say, compiling a new kernel.
The dancing paperclip is just a bitmap. It's there to provide a link to online help. That's what it provides me, anyway. In Office 2000 it can be changed to a number of different 'themes' if you (like me) find the paperclip an annoyance.
Hotdog users are always going to resent online help. It threatens their guru status when people stop begging them for assistance, and start doing it themselves.
For all the people I've talked to about it, the paper clip itself isn't an annoyance. We don't care for the notion that the help system is somehow made more useful by appointing an animated character as its gatekeeper.
To put it another way:
I don't want to show off how studly I am by memorizing every feature of an application.
I don't want people "begging [me] for assistance". (I prefer that they have a good, complete, accurate help system so they don't bother me with their questions.)
I don't want 'themes' for the Office Assistant.
I don't want to be bothered by someone's idea of a 'friendly face' popping up to offer me advice on a program I'm already familiar with.
I want to press F1 and get the help index.
I want help to show up when I ask for it and at no other time.
I don't hate "the paper clip" because I want a bad help system. I hate it because (for me, at least) it's a very poor interface to the help system.
I didn't have to much trouble finding out how to get rid of that thing IIRC, I just asked it 'how do I kill the paperclip?' It seemed to work pretty well
I first saw the paper clip when a (then) cow-orker was taking a look at Office 95. We both loathed it at first sight. He told it to "F*ck off and die." It did its search for things we might want help with, and getting rid of the "Office Assistant" was right at the top of the list.
It would only be transmitting data to your home if it's within 30 feet of your home.
Uh... No. According to the Factoid page, it sends data to your "home base" whenever it finds "an Internet connected Factoid server" within range. If this catches on, the servers could become as ubiquitous as phone cells and data would be sent on almost immediately.
I challenge you to go into any Circuit City or Computer City, or 99.99 percent of all computer stores and find something OTHER than M$ Windows available.
I've seen Red Hat 5.2 and 6.0 at both the local CompUSA and the local Best Buy. CompUSA even keeps a rack of 6.0 right in front of the registers and has a few commercial Linux apps (CodeWarrior is the only one that comes to mind) on the shelf as well.
Granted, there's still a lot more M$ software there, but we've made more progress than you seem to think.
IIRC, there is one state that bans jammers but allows detectors (MN, where I live), one state that bans both (somewhere in the northeast?), and one that bans detectors but allows jammers (OK).
Don't ask why they would allow jammers but not detectors. It makes no sense to me at all.
(This is based on mail order catalogs' statements of where these devices will not be shipped. I suppose other states may have bans on use, but still allow sale, but I haven't seen any information on that.)
Except for one little detail: The article appears to state that the "phase two" technology will also allow you to transfer the ripped songs to a Rio-type device and play it there. Only network distribution is prevented.
I can't think of any way to do this without requiring that you register every MP3/SDMI playback device you own with the encoder. Before you rip. If your Rio falls down a well and you buy a new one, you'd have to re-rip everything.
Anyone got any other thoughts on how this could be done?
Next time you're moderating, take a look at the slashbox that tells you how many moderator points you have left. IIRC, there's a bullet list of things to keep in mind and the 'moderate XOR post' rule is mentioned there.
I am just going to say that Shmi meant she wasn't going to talk about the father. He wasn't ever there for them so she doesn't consider that he exists.
I don't know what Shmi said that gave you that idea. And don't forget that Qui-Gonn specifically mentioned to the Jedi Council (or was it Obi-Wan?) that Anakin may have been fathered by metachlorians.
Maybe I'm blind to the hype, but I have yet to see Lucas hype the movie. Everything I see is Pepsi Co trying to profit off the movies popularity.
No, Lucas isn't publicizing the movie much - directly. But who's authorizing Pepsi Co to hold Phantom Menace-based contests and make commercials with Col. Sanders waving a light sabre around? Who's telling the toy companies what characters look like and allowing the production of action figures? Who's giving screenplays to book publishers along with pictures for 4 different covers on (what I assume to be) the same book?
Lucas made the film with his own money. (I even saw a blurb in the local paper today about him claiming to be an independent film maker.) Lucas dictated the conditions on which theatres would be allowed to show the film. Yes, the toy companies and publishers and all the rest are out to make as many quick bucks as they can. But, except for (perhaps) the magazines, they all need one man's permission to use the Star Wars universe to do so. They're in bed with Lucas.
I wish I could get people to pay me that kind of money to advertise my product...
they must have brainwashed themselves, because there hasn't exactly been a glut of pre-release hype for this film.
You obviously haven't been through a bookstore or a toy section lately.
For the last week or two, every major bookstore I've seen has had racks of character diaries and the screenplay (with 4 different covers featuring a different character on each, I might add) sitting in the entrance. Anywhere there are toys to be bought, you can't walk past without seeing Darth Maul's face on every one of the dozens of packages bearing Star Wars merchandise - and that's just facing the areas where passers-by might see them; if you go into the actual aisle where the Star Wars toys are sold, it's solid red and black as hundreds of Darth Mauls hang there, waiting to be bought.
Then there are the commercials, the Pepsi marketing deals, the video games based on the movie, the clothes, the candy, etc. There are very few things (if any) that could conceivably be used for promotional purposes which aren't already out there. And the movie hasn't even been released yet.
I'm not saying that we should attack those who are getting into the hype. I'm just pointing out that anyone who thinks Phantom Menace is only receiving the normal amount of pre-release publicity needs to open their eyes. The hype is out there.
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So there are two factors here:
1) Transparent aluminum is, apparently, stronger than any previously-available material, transparent or otherwise.
2) The materials for whale transport had to be paid for in some way. Scotty paid with information.
What bugs me is that the software was able to immediately identify this previously-unknown compound as "transparent aluminum"...
(Why yes, I did just grab my tape of ST4 to verify my memory of the scene. What makes you think I have anything better to do?)
A lot of time and money? Give me a break! If I had access to their databases, it wouldn't take long to come up with that information. It's exactly the sort of thing that database query engines are designed to calculate.
Actually, I've spent a fair amount of time wondering why X uses the terms 'client' and 'server' to mean the opposite of the normal usage in any other context. Would you mind explaining how it makes sense?
But there's another observation, made by a cow-orker, which I rather like:
A lot of people think voice recognition is cool because then life will be more like Star Trek. You know - whenever someone has a question, they say, "Computer, what's the last digit of pi?" and the computer speaks the answer.
But what happens when someone has actual work to do? They use a console.
I do not support the taxing of email . . . just wanted to get that out of the way.
Onto my real point. How would they do that? Would ISPs be required to log all of the email messages that people send? This alone would be a huge task to put to ISPs that would cost them money. Second would be the issue of logging such emails from the standpoint of privacy.
I do not support the taxing of personal income . . . just wanted to get that out of the way.
Onto my real point. How would they do that? Would employers be required to log all of the personal income that employees receive? This alone would be a huge task to put to employers that would cost them money. Second would be the issue of logging such personal income from the standpoint of privacy.
Once legislators get involved, the logistics are not so infeasible as you may think... (Or, rather, their feasibility is no longer relevant.)
But that's OK, because Windows will now also refuse to let anyone else install software. All installations will have to go through the MS Install Wizard, which will presumably know enough to update the backup system files when installing a new version. (One more obstacle to just copying software onto a machine instead of using a bloated install program...)
But, hey, I could be wrong. This is just what I thought I heard my boss say he was told by marketing drones a couple months back. Even if it's all correct, the drones could've been speaking inaccurately or MS could've reworked these "features" since then. I haven't used Win2K or NT5 and, if there is anything I can do about it, I never will.
---
Security Notice
PayPal(TM) financial transactions are encrypted using public-key cryptography to ensure maximum security for all beamed transactions between users and for all subsequent interactions with our secure server, which occur during synchronization of each handheld device.
When you conduct a transaction on the PayPal(TM) web site, we encrypt all of your private information. That information is stored on a secure server housed in a secure data center. All transactions are conducted through our secure servers, which are protected behind state-of-the-art firewalls.
---
No indication of what flavor or key strength their crypto is, though.
Why should they get in trouble for it? While I don't think people should be cursing in the true sense ("May you be afflicted with buggy software all the days of your life"), and I suppose a case could be made against blasphemy, I see no problem with simple cussing.
but it would have been taking some responsibility for what kind of people these kids could become.
So which is it? If the kids turn into monsters, is it the fault of their parents (according to the first quote) or is it because they saw a 'bad' movie (according to the second quote)?
Not terribly relevant to the debate at hand, but, for the record, there are several non-evangelical (no belief that they should be spread) religions out there. Most of them are polytheistic. Evangelism seems to be a primarily monotheistic pursuit.
(Which I suppose makes sense. If we've already got a dozen gods, who's to say there aren't more of them out there?)
Q. What kind of security does AirPort provide?
A. AirPort offers password access control and encryption to deliver security equivalent to that of a physical network cable. Users are required to enter a password to log on to the AirPort network--and, optionally, an additional password for access to any other computer on the network. When transmitting information, AirPort uses 40-bit encryption to scramble data, rendering it useless to eavesdroppers.
The basic concept is to turn the entire hard drive into a searchable database of files instead of a hierarchy of directories. (Oops! I mean "folders".)
I think you answered your own question. (IIRC, the other CGI is Common Gateway Interface.)
You think that's bad, what does ATM mean? (I can give you three options off the top of my head: a networking technology, a cash machine, and a MUD/IRC shorthand.) Isn't acronym overloading great?
Today, I suspect it costs a good deal.
In five years (if not sooner), the average Slashdotter's home system will be able to to it, probably in real-time, at a cost comparable to, say, compiling a new kernel.
Hotdog users are always going to resent online help. It threatens their guru status when people stop begging them for assistance, and start doing it themselves.
For all the people I've talked to about it, the paper clip itself isn't an annoyance. We don't care for the notion that the help system is somehow made more useful by appointing an animated character as its gatekeeper.
To put it another way:
- I don't want to show off how studly I am by memorizing every feature of an application.
- I don't want people "begging [me] for assistance". (I prefer that they have a good, complete, accurate help system so they don't bother me with their questions.)
- I don't want 'themes' for the Office Assistant.
- I don't want to be bothered by someone's idea of a 'friendly face' popping up to offer me advice on a program I'm already familiar with.
- I want to press F1 and get the help index.
- I want help to show up when I ask for it and at no other time.
I don't hate "the paper clip" because I want a bad help system. I hate it because (for me, at least) it's a very poor interface to the help system.I first saw the paper clip when a (then) cow-orker was taking a look at Office 95. We both loathed it at first sight. He told it to "F*ck off and die." It did its search for things we might want help with, and getting rid of the "Office Assistant" was right at the top of the list.
I guess you don't even have to be polite...
Uh... No. According to the Factoid page, it sends data to your "home base" whenever it finds "an Internet connected Factoid server" within range. If this catches on, the servers could become as ubiquitous as phone cells and data would be sent on almost immediately.
I've seen Red Hat 5.2 and 6.0 at both the local CompUSA and the local Best Buy. CompUSA even keeps a rack of 6.0 right in front of the registers and has a few commercial Linux apps (CodeWarrior is the only one that comes to mind) on the shelf as well.
Granted, there's still a lot more M$ software there, but we've made more progress than you seem to think.
Don't ask why they would allow jammers but not detectors. It makes no sense to me at all.
(This is based on mail order catalogs' statements of where these devices will not be shipped. I suppose other states may have bans on use, but still allow sale, but I haven't seen any information on that.)
If you're a geek too, call me a "geek". If you're not, call me a "techno-weenie".
I can't think of any way to do this without requiring that you register every MP3/SDMI playback device you own with the encoder. Before you rip. If your Rio falls down a well and you buy a new one, you'd have to re-rip everything.
Anyone got any other thoughts on how this could be done?
Next time you're moderating, take a look at the slashbox that tells you how many moderator points you have left. IIRC, there's a bullet list of things to keep in mind and the 'moderate XOR post' rule is mentioned there.
I don't know what Shmi said that gave you that idea. And don't forget that Qui-Gonn specifically mentioned to the Jedi Council (or was it Obi-Wan?) that Anakin may have been fathered by metachlorians.
No, Lucas isn't publicizing the movie much - directly. But who's authorizing Pepsi Co to hold Phantom Menace-based contests and make commercials with Col. Sanders waving a light sabre around? Who's telling the toy companies what characters look like and allowing the production of action figures? Who's giving screenplays to book publishers along with pictures for 4 different covers on (what I assume to be) the same book?
Lucas made the film with his own money. (I even saw a blurb in the local paper today about him claiming to be an independent film maker.) Lucas dictated the conditions on which theatres would be allowed to show the film. Yes, the toy companies and publishers and all the rest are out to make as many quick bucks as they can. But, except for (perhaps) the magazines, they all need one man's permission to use the Star Wars universe to do so. They're in bed with Lucas.
I wish I could get people to pay me that kind of money to advertise my product...
You obviously haven't been through a bookstore or a toy section lately.
For the last week or two, every major bookstore I've seen has had racks of character diaries and the screenplay (with 4 different covers featuring a different character on each, I might add) sitting in the entrance. Anywhere there are toys to be bought, you can't walk past without seeing Darth Maul's face on every one of the dozens of packages bearing Star Wars merchandise - and that's just facing the areas where passers-by might see them; if you go into the actual aisle where the Star Wars toys are sold, it's solid red and black as hundreds of Darth Mauls hang there, waiting to be bought.
Then there are the commercials, the Pepsi marketing deals, the video games based on the movie, the clothes, the candy, etc. There are very few things (if any) that could conceivably be used for promotional purposes which aren't already out there. And the movie hasn't even been released yet.
I'm not saying that we should attack those who are getting into the hype. I'm just pointing out that anyone who thinks Phantom Menace is only receiving the normal amount of pre-release publicity needs to open their eyes. The hype is out there.