Wuhoo! Now I can be a wirehead with FDA approval.
Why is this Flamebait? My first thought too was of Gil Hamilton's old crew mate's face grinning at him with a wire running from his skull to the wall. Belter tan and all.
I wonder if there isn't a straightforward technological solution: create a database containing all of the state rules that telemarketers can use to filter their call lists.
And there is the rub. If the telemarketers were looking to deal with this problem then they would go for the straight forward solution. But to be honest most of these companies are really looking to call as many people as possible in as little time possible to pitch products and services...and repeat.. Using this 'problem' as a lever to ease restrictive laws in some states will make that goal easier. Despite the pitch of "We are trying to make your life easier and solve problems" that telemartketers use, it's all a numbers game to them, and this shows it.
I've watched people guiding blind persons, and people in wheelchairs on the ice. I assume when they park they park close to the door in the handicapped parking space so as to make the trip easier for the handicapped individual. Or my mother who is disabled would drive to the rink, and sit and watch while I skated when I was younger. Fact is handicapped space at a rink as the great grandparent said makes sense, where else should the handicapped park when they go to the rink.
try using the full quote next time: As a side note Newfoundland didn't join confederation til sometime around 1949. They fought in world war 2 as their own nation; mostly; they had fallen on hard times in the 30's and the British were really running the show.
Note the bolded section after the semi-colon you stopped on.
If I wanted to protect my car from the rain and snow, and horrors sleet I'd put it in the garage. And of course I wouldn't drive it either if I thought that way. Dood it's a car, it's meant to handle rain, snow and sleet. If it can't then I wouldn't have bought it to begin with. Besides, the boxes of old Miss Canada Calenders and Northern Juggs don't do so well in the rain, and I trip over them if they're in the house, never minding my fiance's reaction. The garage is all I got. Besides theres no room for the couch I sit to *smoke* on if I put the car in there. But maybe I misunderstood you, perhaps your point wasn't concern about the elements, but maybe a fear of your car getting stolen or something, in that case I don't know how to help you, not really much of a problem around here.
The Canadian Distributor, Raincoast Books managed to get an injunction prohibiting the people who received the books from talking about them and demanding that they return the books to Raincoast until Friday.
Did you even read this part of the story summary? Maybe this part from the injunction might answer any questions you have:
It is also important that we make you aware that the Supreme Court of British Columbia made an Order protecting the contents of the book. The terms of the Court Order mean that if you have obtained a copy of the book early you must not disclose or reveal any information about its contents or give any copies that you may have to anyone else. The Court Order also requires anyone who has a copy or copies of the book to return them to Raincoast immediately.
I hope this is a fake post, just for my sake I'm not quoting you though.
I must have missed the memo, what makes a newfie not "kanuck" [sic]?
The way they always miss the memo.
Honest to god that's the first new newfie joke I've heard in 10 years, it's so wrong, oh I know it's so wrong to make those jokes (thank you public school), but that one (spelling included) made me laugh. As a side note Newfoundland didn't join confederation til sometime around 1949. They fought in world war 2 as their own nation; mostly; they had fallen on hard times in the 30's and the British were really running the show. brief synopsis of events It took 2 hard fought referendums before they decided to join, but they were broke without the mini boom the war had given them, so it was either Canada or Great Britain to take over, and we were closer. (Horrible minimalization of events that split communities and even families. Religion, politics, language, all was involved.) Perhaps this is why they are the butt of so many jokes up here, being the latecomers to the country, though if Quebec leaves us then I'm sure we could appropriately reword all of the good Newfie jokes. And damn it, it's "The Real Canadian Superstore" (or Atlantic Superstore on the east.) It may be Canadien in Montreal, but certainly not in Vancouver, French is like the 4th or 5th most spoken language there. (insert opening for hongkouver joke, god I love a cultural mosaic.)
I swear to god my jaw dropped when I read the article summary, at first I was excited by the idea of some differing views being presented on the different license models, but then I hit the last line "Which is a better licensing model for open-source applications: BSD or GPL? What do you think?"
Please for the love of god remember the children when you post.
it stands about 60cm tall and weighs some 8.8kg. a camera, microphone, speaker, expression LED, audio recognition function, voice synthesis function, and image recognition function. A distance sensor, grip sensor, acceleration sensor, and so forth have been added, and all of these can be controlled from a PC using wired or wireless LAN.
But I think I'd have more sucess modding this one. And unlike one I made myself this one doesn't require diapers, bottles or wreck the family car in 16 years.
Just gotta note the he very carefully said more The Matrix and not more of the The Matrix movies, ie reloaded and that other one. If he is like me then he likely considers the The Matrix to be a good film on it's own, and the sequels are exactly what most sequels turn out to be, pap.
Anyways we're all free to read whatever we want in a sum total of 21 words, out of something like a thousand.
It is relatively recent in the context of computer gaming, which is older then 6-7 years by quite a bit, and 6-7 years ago it was an infant technology so to speak, now it's really evolved to a point where enough tools and scripts and apps exist to make it easily accessible to computer users with minimal programming skills. If this is the first total conversion of the HL2 engine (and I know that is debatable) it seems to indicate that the technology is still maturing. After a while, when you age, 6-7 years isn't such a long time when talking about trends that apply to 30 year old or greater concepts. Lots of trends existed 1/2 a decade ago for 2 or 3 years that don't now, that's what happens to new ideas, they either mature to something stable or die. But I'm sure it's easy to differ from me on this.
I'm a big fan of the new paths opening in game development. Sure to some extent you could always modify games as an end user, but when they started to get beyond simple text based MUDs the programming knowledge required began to increase exponentially. Now that the games are starting to standardize on some standard engines at the core, modifying the game becomes simpler through the use of defined APIs and SDKs. This gives us the hacks (aimbots and ilk) that tend to crop up in Multiplayer games, but it also gives us stuff like this program (Eclipse) which was created in 5 months(!), and it gives us the burgeoning Machima world where people are building animated stories using these game engines.
One question... (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15, @01:24PM (#12826733)
If your computer is connected to the internet through a Linksys/whatever router, how do you know you're being portscanned?
it's like a horror movie : The ISP said that there were no outside connections. The Zombie is in the house with you! Get out, do you hear me? Get out now.
I really wonder if the opera folks are psychotic about DRM ? Not to diss them and all, but it just seems kinda funny the idea of RIAA or other organizations complaining about the enormous quantities of opera being shared illegally on the internet.
"Lion King" (which was not originally planned to be such a big hit!)
The Lion King wasn't planned to be a big hit but it was, of course it wasn't really their movie at all, just a prettier version of someone elses, likely.
it worked, as a viral message nudity certainly gets my attention in a more positive way then throwing blood on people. In reading the article it wasn't the extremist anti-tech rant I expected. I'm naturally inclined to favour technological development/progress being a child of Sci-fi. Which the group makes a number of clever allusions too. The few points raised in the article really made me rethink the initial opinion I had formed on what their anit-tech message would be.
- Nano-technology doesn't have to mean sexy little machines like I assumed. It really includes any technology that involves manufacturing on a small scale. That can even be some of the new molecules that we are developing for new polymers and materials.
- The article brings up the medical device example to show where nanotech dangers are happening. The research quoted shows that if pieces (and I mean small pieces, like erodes flecks of surface of the device from the movement of the bloodstream against it) of the device encounter normal cells they are small enough to pierce the membranes, rupturing the cell wall, and they then can continue to the next cell. Get enough of these pieces and yeah I can see the danger. This is reasonable enough
- The main point of the article seemed to be that we are using a new technology that our current thinking doesn't apply too. There do not exist reliable or standardized methodologies to test the effect of these new materials (which really for most of our 100,000 year existence we didn't have much of) on us and our environment. The group wants to call attention to it and encourage more active government participation in the monitoring of these materials.
All right message received.
# Software license costs for proprietary software are significant in principle, but
in practice they are not borne by many of the public-access computer labs in
Africa.
nice, I found the same thing for much of my youth, only in my home lab with now public access. Sadly I grew up and started paying for the apps I use.
Plot Summary: Steven Spielberg says that the film will feature all of Jones' former babes in various cameo roles. Karen Allen is expected to be back for one soundbite, and other Indy girls who had smaller roles will be coming back. It is still up in the air whether or not Kate Capshaw, Spielberg's wife, will make an appearance. Sean Connery as Indy's father will be back for a few scenes, and the film is set in the early '50s.
From one of the linked sites off the 'article'. So they did make him older, and are surrounding him with old women so we don't notice. Now where are they gonna find some Nazi's I wanna know. Or is it a new enemy? Koreans? Russians? South American Nazi's?
I clicked through some of the links, and while it's an interesting article there is nothing new and what's more interesting to me is the article is filed under in depth/world/2003/ on the bbc site. The most recent update I found to it was oct. 2004. As interesting as this is, I don't know how it's very relevant or topical for today's news, there really isn't anything NEW there that hasn't already been fully covered on the bbc site since at least 2003 and a myriad of other sources for much longer.
I was told that story when touring the university of waterloo, when looking at their comp sci program. They paths aren't laid out in a manner you expect, but they get you from building to building quite nicely.
That university is interesting, relatively young (50 or so years) and they have a very efficient student organization. Their student union is run as a business to make money - and they make piles of it, then reinvest that money back into the university building things like a new building for the math department (I think) and a really sexy building for computer science.
I went to the article expecting another pseudo marketing piece, but whoa, what's there is quite a detailed analysis of social bookmarking, including a history of bookmarking that brought back my youth when mysterious programs named Archie and Gopher brought me internet content. Someone went through a lot of effort to put this together. There are some interesting conclusions drawn about the differences between search engines and places like slashdot,wiki..community sites where the ranking of the content is done either by machine (search engine) or individuals (community site). I found it interesting to hear a good explanation of why I stopped using bookmarks (when I used to have huge bookmark files) - it became easier to find the same site again through a search engine. Especially when bookmarks become outdated when URL's change.
I worked as an outside vendor with an internal part of novell (few 100people maybe) that built a beautiful SSO system - linux based and accessed novell software components better then the novell software. The solution was supposed to be for ASP's (application service providers - something from the bubble days) and allow them to link products from multiple vendors together so not only could it manage websites, but other network applications (even if they are hosted on someone else's network the other side of the continent like my companies). It wasn't an open product, and the day before we were to go live (even had a contract that would have made it profitable from day 1) Novell Laid Off 10,000 people across the company to save money (the bubble was just starting to burst). Among that 10K were my poor SSO friends, and of course 6 months of work on my part was wasted too.
There are still too many people who made money off of the series of lies designed to drive sco stock up. The whole thing was disgusting to watch from the beginning to now, at least the stock finally tanked when the industry actually started to clue in that sco was lying, but damn it that kinda market manipulation makes me sick.
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Wuhoo! Now I can be a wirehead with FDA approval. Why is this Flamebait? My first thought too was of Gil Hamilton's old crew mate's face grinning at him with a wire running from his skull to the wall. Belter tan and all.
I wonder if there isn't a straightforward technological solution: create a database containing all of the state rules that telemarketers can use to filter their call lists.
And there is the rub. If the telemarketers were looking to deal with this problem then they would go for the straight forward solution. But to be honest most of these companies are really looking to call as many people as possible in as little time possible to pitch products and services...and repeat.. Using this 'problem' as a lever to ease restrictive laws in some states will make that goal easier. Despite the pitch of "We are trying to make your life easier and solve problems" that telemartketers use, it's all a numbers game to them, and this shows it.
I've watched people guiding blind persons, and people in wheelchairs on the ice. I assume when they park they park close to the door in the handicapped parking space so as to make the trip easier for the handicapped individual. Or my mother who is disabled would drive to the rink, and sit and watch while I skated when I was younger. Fact is handicapped space at a rink as the great grandparent said makes sense, where else should the handicapped park when they go to the rink.
try using the full quote next time:
As a side note Newfoundland didn't join confederation til sometime around 1949. They fought in world war 2 as their own nation; mostly; they had fallen on hard times in the 30's and the British were really running the show.
Note the bolded section after the semi-colon you stopped on.
If I wanted to protect my car from the rain and snow, and horrors sleet I'd put it in the garage. And of course I wouldn't drive it either if I thought that way.
Dood it's a car, it's meant to handle rain, snow and sleet. If it can't then I wouldn't have bought it to begin with.
Besides, the boxes of old Miss Canada Calenders and Northern Juggs don't do so well in the rain, and I trip over them if they're in the house, never minding my fiance's reaction. The garage is all I got. Besides theres no room for the couch I sit to *smoke* on if I put the car in there. But maybe I misunderstood you, perhaps your point wasn't concern about the elements, but maybe a fear of your car getting stolen or something, in that case I don't know how to help you, not really much of a problem around here.
The Canadian Distributor, Raincoast Books managed to get an injunction prohibiting the people who received the books from talking about them and demanding that they return the books to Raincoast until Friday.
Did you even read this part of the story summary? Maybe this part from the injunction might answer any questions you have:
It is also important that we make you aware that the Supreme Court of British Columbia made an Order protecting the contents of the book. The terms of the Court Order mean that if you have obtained a copy of the book early you must not disclose or reveal any information about its contents or give any copies that you may have to anyone else. The Court Order also requires anyone who has a copy or copies of the book to return them to Raincoast immediately.
I hope this is a fake post, just for my sake I'm not quoting you though.
I must have missed the memo, what makes a newfie not "kanuck" [sic]?
The way they always miss the memo.
Honest to god that's the first new newfie joke I've heard in 10 years, it's so wrong, oh I know it's so wrong to make those jokes (thank you public school), but that one (spelling included) made me laugh.
As a side note Newfoundland didn't join confederation til sometime around 1949. They fought in world war 2 as their own nation; mostly; they had fallen on hard times in the 30's and the British were really running the show.
brief synopsis of events
It took 2 hard fought referendums before they decided to join, but they were broke without the mini boom the war had given them, so it was either Canada or Great Britain to take over, and we were closer. (Horrible minimalization of events that split communities and even families. Religion, politics, language, all was involved.) Perhaps this is why they are the butt of so many jokes up here, being the latecomers to the country, though if Quebec leaves us then I'm sure we could appropriately reword all of the good Newfie jokes.
And damn it, it's "The Real Canadian Superstore" (or Atlantic Superstore on the east.) It may be Canadien in Montreal, but certainly not in Vancouver, French is like the 4th or 5th most spoken language there. (insert opening for hongkouver joke, god I love a cultural mosaic.)
"Please for the love of god remember the children when you post."
So should we license our children under the BSD license, or the GPL one?
Really depends on the source I think. My fiance doesn't let me share my source anymore, and I certainly don't contribute it back to the tree, shudder.
I swear to god my jaw dropped when I read the article summary, at first I was excited by the idea of some differing views being presented on the different license models, but then I hit the last line
"Which is a better licensing model for open-source applications: BSD or GPL? What do you think?"
Please for the love of god remember the children when you post.
it stands about 60cm tall and weighs some 8.8kg. a camera, microphone, speaker, expression LED, audio recognition function, voice synthesis function, and image recognition function. A distance sensor, grip sensor, acceleration sensor, and so forth have been added, and all of these can be controlled from a PC using wired or wireless LAN. But I think I'd have more sucess modding this one. And unlike one I made myself this one doesn't require diapers, bottles or wreck the family car in 16 years.
Just gotta note the he very carefully said more The Matrix and not more of the The Matrix movies, ie reloaded and that other one. If he is like me then he likely considers the The Matrix to be a good film on it's own, and the sequels are exactly what most sequels turn out to be, pap. Anyways we're all free to read whatever we want in a sum total of 21 words, out of something like a thousand.
It is relatively recent in the context of computer gaming, which is older then 6-7 years by quite a bit, and 6-7 years ago it was an infant technology so to speak, now it's really evolved to a point where enough tools and scripts and apps exist to make it easily accessible to computer users with minimal programming skills. If this is the first total conversion of the HL2 engine (and I know that is debatable) it seems to indicate that the technology is still maturing. After a while, when you age, 6-7 years isn't such a long time when talking about trends that apply to 30 year old or greater concepts. Lots of trends existed 1/2 a decade ago for 2 or 3 years that don't now, that's what happens to new ideas, they either mature to something stable or die. But I'm sure it's easy to differ from me on this.
I'm a big fan of the new paths opening in game development. Sure to some extent you could always modify games as an end user, but when they started to get beyond simple text based MUDs the programming knowledge required began to increase exponentially. Now that the games are starting to standardize on some standard engines at the core, modifying the game becomes simpler through the use of defined APIs and SDKs. This gives us the hacks (aimbots and ilk) that tend to crop up in Multiplayer games, but it also gives us stuff like this program (Eclipse) which was created in 5 months(!), and it gives us the burgeoning Machima world where people are building animated stories using these game engines.
One question... (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15, @01:24PM (#12826733) If your computer is connected to the internet through a Linksys/whatever router, how do you know you're being portscanned? it's like a horror movie : The ISP said that there were no outside connections. The Zombie is in the house with you! Get out, do you hear me? Get out now.
I really wonder if the opera folks are psychotic about DRM ? Not to diss them and all, but it just seems kinda funny the idea of RIAA or other organizations complaining about the enormous quantities of opera being shared illegally on the internet.
I want an extra cup holder in mine, like the other one that slides out when I press a button.
"Lion King" (which was not originally planned to be such a big hit!)
The Lion King wasn't planned to be a big hit but it was, of course it wasn't really their movie at all, just a prettier version of someone elses, likely.
it worked, as a viral message nudity certainly gets my attention in a more positive way then throwing blood on people. In reading the article it wasn't the extremist anti-tech rant I expected. I'm naturally inclined to favour technological development/progress being a child of Sci-fi. Which the group makes a number of clever allusions too.
The few points raised in the article really made me rethink the initial opinion I had formed on what their anit-tech message would be.
- Nano-technology doesn't have to mean sexy little machines like I assumed. It really includes any technology that involves manufacturing on a small scale. That can even be some of the new molecules that we are developing for new polymers and materials.
- The article brings up the medical device example to show where nanotech dangers are happening. The research quoted shows that if pieces (and I mean small pieces, like erodes flecks of surface of the device from the movement of the bloodstream against it) of the device encounter normal cells they are small enough to pierce the membranes, rupturing the cell wall, and they then can continue to the next cell. Get enough of these pieces and yeah I can see the danger. This is reasonable enough
- The main point of the article seemed to be that we are using a new technology that our current thinking doesn't apply too. There do not exist reliable or standardized methodologies to test the effect of these new materials (which really for most of our 100,000 year existence we didn't have much of) on us and our environment. The group wants to call attention to it and encourage more active government participation in the monitoring of these materials.
All right message received.
# Software license costs for proprietary software are significant in principle, but in practice they are not borne by many of the public-access computer labs in Africa.
nice, I found the same thing for much of my youth, only in my home lab with now public access. Sadly I grew up and started paying for the apps I use.
Plot Summary: Steven Spielberg says that the film will feature all of Jones' former babes in various cameo roles. Karen Allen is expected to be back for one soundbite, and other Indy girls who had smaller roles will be coming back. It is still up in the air whether or not Kate Capshaw, Spielberg's wife, will make an appearance. Sean Connery as Indy's father will be back for a few scenes, and the film is set in the early '50s.
From one of the linked sites off the 'article'. So they did make him older, and are surrounding him with old women so we don't notice. Now where are they gonna find some Nazi's I wanna know. Or is it a new enemy? Koreans? Russians? South American Nazi's?
I clicked through some of the links, and while it's an interesting article there is nothing new and what's more interesting to me is the article is filed under in depth/world/2003/ on the bbc site. The most recent update I found to it was oct. 2004. As interesting as this is, I don't know how it's very relevant or topical for today's news, there really isn't anything NEW there that hasn't already been fully covered on the bbc site since at least 2003 and a myriad of other sources for much longer.
I was told that story when touring the university of waterloo, when looking at their comp sci program. They paths aren't laid out in a manner you expect, but they get you from building to building quite nicely. That university is interesting, relatively young (50 or so years) and they have a very efficient student organization. Their student union is run as a business to make money - and they make piles of it, then reinvest that money back into the university building things like a new building for the math department (I think) and a really sexy building for computer science.
I went to the article expecting another pseudo marketing piece, but whoa, what's there is quite a detailed analysis of social bookmarking, including a history of bookmarking that brought back my youth when mysterious programs named Archie and Gopher brought me internet content. Someone went through a lot of effort to put this together. There are some interesting conclusions drawn about the differences between search engines and places like slashdot,wiki..community sites where the ranking of the content is done either by machine (search engine) or individuals (community site). I found it interesting to hear a good explanation of why I stopped using bookmarks (when I used to have huge bookmark files) - it became easier to find the same site again through a search engine. Especially when bookmarks become outdated when URL's change.
I worked as an outside vendor with an internal part of novell (few 100people maybe) that built a beautiful SSO system - linux based and accessed novell software components better then the novell software. The solution was supposed to be for ASP's (application service providers - something from the bubble days) and allow them to link products from multiple vendors together so not only could it manage websites, but other network applications (even if they are hosted on someone else's network the other side of the continent like my companies). It wasn't an open product, and the day before we were to go live (even had a contract that would have made it profitable from day 1) Novell Laid Off 10,000 people across the company to save money (the bubble was just starting to burst). Among that 10K were my poor SSO friends, and of course 6 months of work on my part was wasted too.
There are still too many people who made money off of the series of lies designed to drive sco stock up. The whole thing was disgusting to watch from the beginning to now, at least the stock finally tanked when the industry actually started to clue in that sco was lying, but damn it that kinda market manipulation makes me sick.