The point is that McKinnon hasn't been sentenced yet and the others have -- the term they're mentioning is the maximum he's eligible for. We still have to see which side of the fence that will fall on.
"Dit is waarschijnlijk een van de laatste opvallende subatomische ontdekkingen die ergens anders gemaakt worden dan CERN, aangezien de LHC op het punt staat de jacht op het Higgs-deeltje te beginnen, dat ongrijpbaar blijft zelfs voor het experiment dat zojuist het Omega-sub-b deeltje heeft ontdekt..."
There's the Optimus Tactus concept, which is exactly that: a programmable surface that can be any keyboard (or even input device) you want.
In my opinion the real breakthrough for that class of device is going to come when they get haptic feedback to work with multitouch screens. Haptic feedback is when you literally "feel" the virtual buttons. There are some promising advances there.
Sorry, but the victims are innocent until proven guilty. They haven't _yet_ undertaken anything criminal, just arguably shown intent. I don't want to be a stickler, but that means they get the benefit of the doubt.
From what I took away from the original demo, they were doing everything algorithmically. The original demo showed a wireframe of the Notre Dame generated completely from amateur pictures, then overlaid with those same pictures to give it texture. So yes, it is quite impressive. I'd be surprised if Google wasn't doing anything similar for Google Maps though.
I'd agree with this, if it wasn't so contrary to sportsmanship and the art of being a good loser. You make olympic sports sound like a kind of calculated business game, which, though probably true in the imperfect world we live in, is a damn shame.
A link to an alpha project on Sourceforge that was created three days ago and doesn't even have its own website? That apparently outputs LaTeX tables instead of something readable without having to compile it first, like HTML, SVG, or even indented text? I know it's silly to expect every story to be about a cure for cancer, but come on...
I believe this would be the same university that previously forbade the researchers from talking to the press.
Anhyow, the lifting of this publication ban is an excellent thing. The Dutch government has spent a lot of money in this foolhardy public transport chip card system, and is not willing to admit that it's an expensive, deeply flawed trainwreck.
After the Nijmegen investigators came out with their findings, a contra-expertise report commissioned by the government and performed by Royal Holloway University in London, was selectively edited to remove its harsh conclusions before being sent to parliament. Then, the university cracked down on the freedom of the researchers to speak to the press.
I, as a Dutch citizen, am happy that this issue is getting some serious sunshine.
I'm Dutch, and the proper translation of voorwerp is actually 'object', though 'thing' comes close enough.
We have a funny language sometimes. I like words like 'zodra' and 'zoiets', and saying 'goeiemorgen' has the benefit of being offensive to Russians the way we pronounce it, which since yesterday is a good thing:-)
Well yeah, but what would you do if all your valuable files were suddenly unbreakably encrypted? Decide it's not worth it because you can't trust the guy on the other side, or clamp to the only straw you have? I wouldn't say I'd do it, but I understand the folks who'd take the odds.
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The point is that McKinnon hasn't been sentenced yet and the others have -- the term they're mentioning is the maximum he's eligible for. We still have to see which side of the fence that will fall on.
Actually yes, you're right. I spend too much of my time reading English technical literature ;-)
Oh man, you get my Dutch Grammar Nazi going on ;-)
I assume you meant something like:
"Dit is waarschijnlijk een van de laatste opvallende subatomische ontdekkingen die ergens anders gemaakt worden dan CERN, aangezien de LHC op het punt staat de jacht op het Higgs-deeltje te beginnen, dat ongrijpbaar blijft zelfs voor het experiment dat zojuist het Omega-sub-b deeltje heeft ontdekt..."
Yeah, that sentence is a b*tch in Dutch too...
There's the Optimus Tactus concept, which is exactly that: a programmable surface that can be any keyboard (or even input device) you want.
In my opinion the real breakthrough for that class of device is going to come when they get haptic feedback to work with multitouch screens. Haptic feedback is when you literally "feel" the virtual buttons. There are some promising advances there.
Sorry, but the victims are innocent until proven guilty. They haven't _yet_ undertaken anything criminal, just arguably shown intent. I don't want to be a stickler, but that means they get the benefit of the doubt.
From what I took away from the original demo, they were doing everything algorithmically. The original demo showed a wireframe of the Notre Dame generated completely from amateur pictures, then overlaid with those same pictures to give it texture. So yes, it is quite impressive. I'd be surprised if Google wasn't doing anything similar for Google Maps though.
Hey, I'll only believe this if we get the OMG Ponies theme to go with it!
I'd agree with this, if it wasn't so contrary to sportsmanship and the art of being a good loser. You make olympic sports sound like a kind of calculated business game, which, though probably true in the imperfect world we live in, is a damn shame.
A link to an alpha project on Sourceforge that was created three days ago and doesn't even have its own website? That apparently outputs LaTeX tables instead of something readable without having to compile it first, like HTML, SVG, or even indented text? I know it's silly to expect every story to be about a cure for cancer, but come on...
amaDEUS amaDEUS!
You mean like this?
http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/antikythera/
I believe this would be the same university that previously forbade the researchers from talking to the press.
Anhyow, the lifting of this publication ban is an excellent thing. The Dutch government has spent a lot of money in this foolhardy public transport chip card system, and is not willing to admit that it's an expensive, deeply flawed trainwreck.
After the Nijmegen investigators came out with their findings, a contra-expertise report commissioned by the government and performed by Royal Holloway University in London, was selectively edited to remove its harsh conclusions before being sent to parliament. Then, the university cracked down on the freedom of the researchers to speak to the press.
I, as a Dutch citizen, am happy that this issue is getting some serious sunshine.
I wonder about that a lot. Can anyone comment on the truthfulness of the parent post? I'd be inclined to give him the logical benefit of the doubt.
Finally a failproof solution for spam! The French will gladly take care of that one for us.
I'm Dutch, and the proper translation of voorwerp is actually 'object', though 'thing' comes close enough. We have a funny language sometimes. I like words like 'zodra' and 'zoiets', and saying 'goeiemorgen' has the benefit of being offensive to Russians the way we pronounce it, which since yesterday is a good thing :-)
Well yeah, but what would you do if all your valuable files were suddenly unbreakably encrypted? Decide it's not worth it because you can't trust the guy on the other side, or clamp to the only straw you have? I wouldn't say I'd do it, but I understand the folks who'd take the odds.
Plus, the Iranians could buy some pretty good fighter jets from the Russians if they wanted. It's not like the US has a monopoly on fighter jets.
They'd be making all of the Windows crown jewels available under the GPL that way. Love to see that, but don't think it's going to happen.