Millions of dollars in damages?conduct that caused these companies to shut down their networks?retool? By this logic, if I inform someone that their house is on fire, I should be charged with arson.
No, only if you set fire to it to prove how flammable it is:)
In reality, somewhere in between. Kevin didn't actually need to copy the secrets, and it doesn't seem that he wanted to simply let them know how bad their security was. On the other hand, he didn't do any harm. The companies would have had to spend millions on shutting down their networks if they discovered the security flaw through other means.
How did they know he was copying their information anyway? Is this one of those occasions where the real crime is getting caught?
The problem seems to be the attitude of the entire publishing industry.
With the falling cost of technology, magazines can be produced for remarkably little cost. This has allowed a huge selection of magazines with highly specialised subjects. Examples include Pike fishing, and Doll collecting. These magazines are not selling in huge numbers, but the market can sometimes support more than one on each subject.
At the other end of the scale are the mainstream interest magazines. All these magazines want all of their respective market. In an attempt to achieve this, they work out what people are interested in based on the other magazines. This results in each magazine having roughly the same articles as all the others. If you don't believe me, try subscribing to two magazines aimed at the same audience for 6 months. You'll see that most of the articles that appear in one magazine will appear in the other in a modified form within a few months. They wouldn't dare do anything different.
Large publishing companies are never after a small chunk of a large market, and all computer magazines are run by large corporations. They know what the readers want (and they're right as far as this applies to the majority).
This attitude is - in my opinion - stupid. A computer magazine aimed at people who don't like violent games (not just girls/women)would only appeal to (at a wild guess) about 1-10% of the market. The difference is that they would have 100% of 1-10% of the market. The remaining 90-99% has a lot more competition, as well as a lot of loyal readers already reading the existing magazines. 1% of the non-violent games market is not huge, but is probably considerably bigger than the market for Pike fishing.
The only solution I can think of is either to set up my own publishing company or pester the big corporations for a magazine aimed at me.
People want to collect movies. They don't want disposable disks that self destruct.
This is true, but people also want to rent discs. This would be much more convenient for the increasingly lazy market if they don't have to return the them. The technology isn't and never has been a problem. Human nature is.
If you pay for DVD and don't have to return it, you feel that you own it, and it just feels wrong to buy something that won't last.
I quite like the idea. I could buy a disc, watch it, immediately, and then give it to a friend to watch if he has enough time.
I thought the main benefit of the Crusoe was that it could emulate all other processors.
The power consumption is good, but so is the power consumption of a StrongArm. What benefits does the Crusoe have? Its not like we need to run Excel on a WebPad.
Speculation based on the new (but now deceased) Amiga based computer and patents filed by Transmeta suggest that it is a processor capable of emulating an 80X86 at close to the same speed as the actual processor (clock cycle for clock cycle), as well as having its own native instruction set
Based on all the information that could ever be gleaned from the web site, it might as well be a new flavour of chewing gum.
How many false positives around firework night
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Quite a few I'd have guessed.
I remember when the explosive sniffers were new, they claimed to be able to detect someone who had shaken hands with someone who had shaken hands with someone who had been handling explosives.
Could this be a seasonal thing?
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To get useful statistics, we really need more than 9 months of data. It could just mean that people are less likely to post early in the year for some inexplicable reason.
I would only have expected a sudden lurch in september though when the University term starts
strength_of_case[Prosecution] is decremented at each iteration if prosecution wins and incremented if they lose. money_spent_on_case[Prosecution] is set to compensate. so strength_of_case[Prosecution] * money_spent_on_case[Prosecution]is roughly constant money_spent_on_case[Defence] is a user defined value. Recently the users have been setting this abnormally high.
Anyway, this shows that equilibrium will eventually be reached at a point where the two values are roughly equal.
I think what it actually was was that a search engine had one billion web pages indexed. Not that I disagree with you. This is totaly meaningless. I have a couple of web pages that no-one has linked to. I don't think they checked the database for broken links.
How long does it take to count 1 000 000 000 links anyway?
What is Be's insidious plan?
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As has been mentioned elsewhere, what BeOS seems to lack is applications.
Most people don't care about the OS. They just want a machine that will run the programs that do what they want to do. Even as a zero cost piece of software, BeOS fails to do this for most people. Surely Be aren't expecting people to download the OS and think "Wow! This is so much better than Windows that I'm going to install it". Operating systems alone aren't fun. BeOS really needs a killer ap before anyone starts using it. Be must know this. Be can also be pretty certain that no killer ap is going to be released in the near future because no-one is using BeOS. This is a platypus and egg situation.
Is the plan purely to encourage geeks to start writing for it, or is there a more sinister motive behind this?
Yes, but the point is that Xena etc. have no plot, childish dialogue and cringing one-liners.....and respectable special effects. And this is all on a TV budget. Good plot and dialogue have always been possible. Convincing effects haven't. The few minutes of stop motion in Jason and the Argonauts took months to complete. Not everyone has the budget to manage that.
Of course, I know dragons, hobbits and monsters aren't neccesary for fantasy, but without these you're missing out on a lot of possibilities. Without them you can't even film The Hobbit.
And anyway, I like the lack of plot, childish dialogue and cringing one-liners in Xena.
Reminds me of a time when Multimedia was the new buzzword. Much was made of the idea of being able to have interactive movies where you could choose one of a number of possible endings.
I always felt that this sounded a bit lame, but I was expecting the point and click adventures to head in the direction of interactive movies. This never seemed to happen either. It would have been so cool to have a version of a Monkey Island type game with real actors.
I dont see very many REAL fantasy films around that made the cinemas
Not many, but there have been some. Princess Bride and DragonHeart spring to mind.
Remember, a few years ago there were virtually no fantasy television series apart from a few childrens shows, with low production values. Now we have Xena, Hercules, and a vast number of other series with regular monster special effects. Computer graphics, as well as the efforts of television companies, has brought the cost of doing this right down.
I think you can't say for sure it is the word colour that changed into color in the States.
Quite true, and I personally think we (i.e. the English) changed it. Although Both the English and the American versions of the language have eveolved quite substantially, especially in pronunciation. If you are really interested in the development of the American version of the English language, then I would recomend the book "Made in America" by Bill Bryson.
I totally agree. Books are as easy to copy as software, and as easy to distribute. Having a binding EULA on a book would be considered ludicrous by just about everyone. So would regional coding, copy protection of any description or restrictions against resale. Why is software different?
Two monitors are well within the range of rich amateurs. Or alternatively you can use a monitor and a TV. And there's a lot of uses especially for things like video editing. Or just have two keyboards, two mice and have two people using the machine.
What I really want is 3 outputs, 3 projectors and a 120 degree screen. All acting like a single big display device.
The number IV is apparently not used because it clashes (I'm not sure, either the glyph IV or the word/number 4) with a naughty word in some Oriental language.
Not quite. 4 is just considered unlucky in a lot of asian countries because it sound similar to death or something like that. Some buildings are built without a fourth floor in China.
I think it is also something to do with skipping a number to make it obvious that this is a new generation. That was the reason with the Psion 5. They could be copying
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Millions of dollars in damages?conduct that caused these companies to shut down their networks?retool?
By this logic, if I inform someone that their house is on fire, I should be charged with arson.
No, only if you set fire to it to prove how flammable it is:)
In reality, somewhere in between. Kevin didn't actually need to copy the secrets, and it doesn't seem that he wanted to simply let them know how bad their security was. On the other hand, he didn't do any harm. The companies would have had to spend millions on shutting down their networks if they discovered the security flaw through other means.
How did they know he was copying their information anyway? Is this one of those occasions where the real crime is getting caught?
The problem seems to be the attitude of the entire publishing industry.
With the falling cost of technology, magazines can be produced for remarkably little cost. This has allowed a huge selection of magazines with highly specialised subjects. Examples include Pike fishing, and Doll collecting. These magazines are not selling in huge numbers, but the market can sometimes support more than one on each subject.
At the other end of the scale are the mainstream interest magazines. All these magazines want all of their respective market. In an attempt to achieve this, they work out what people are interested in based on the other magazines. This results in each magazine having roughly the same articles as all the others. If you don't believe me, try subscribing to two magazines aimed at the same audience for 6 months. You'll see that most of the articles that appear in one magazine will appear in the other in a modified form within a few months. They wouldn't dare do anything different.
Large publishing companies are never after a small chunk of a large market, and all computer magazines are run by large corporations. They know what the readers want (and they're right as far as this applies to the majority).
This attitude is - in my opinion - stupid. A computer magazine aimed at people who don't like violent games (not just girls/women)would only appeal to (at a wild guess) about 1-10% of the market. The difference is that they would have 100% of 1-10% of the market. The remaining 90-99% has a lot more competition, as well as a lot of loyal readers already reading the existing magazines. 1% of the non-violent games market is not huge, but is probably considerably bigger than the market for Pike fishing.
The only solution I can think of is either to set up my own publishing company or pester the big corporations for a magazine aimed at me.
People want to collect movies. They don't want disposable disks that self destruct.
This is true, but people also want to rent discs. This would be much more convenient for the increasingly lazy market if they don't have to return the them. The technology isn't and never has been a problem. Human nature is.
If you pay for DVD and don't have to return it, you feel that you own it, and it just feels wrong to buy something that won't last.
I quite like the idea. I could buy a disc, watch it, immediately, and then give it to a friend to watch if he has enough time.
This suggests that despite all the impressive morphing technology, most companies only want a low power x86.
I'm sure Transmeta don't really care as long as a sale's a sale, but it just seems a bit of a waste.
What are the limitations? Does it have to be voice? Can you set up a radio computer network?
If there's another radio operator within that radius, can you use that as a relay?
This could be used as a way of finding new uses for the remaining airwaves
I thought the main benefit of the Crusoe was that it could emulate all other processors.
The power consumption is good, but so is the power consumption of a StrongArm. What benefits does the Crusoe have? Its not like we need to run Excel on a WebPad.
Speculation based on the new (but now deceased) Amiga based computer and patents filed by Transmeta suggest that it is a processor capable of emulating an 80X86 at close to the same speed as the actual processor (clock cycle for clock cycle), as well as having its own native instruction set
Based on all the information that could ever be gleaned from the web site, it might as well be a new flavour of chewing gum.
Quite a few I'd have guessed.
I remember when the explosive sniffers were new, they claimed to be able to detect someone who had shaken hands with someone who had shaken hands with someone who had been handling explosives.
To get useful statistics, we really need more than 9 months of data. It could just mean that people are less likely to post early in the year for some inexplicable reason.
I would only have expected a sudden lurch in september though when the University term starts
Indeed. Add the < smell > tag to html.
I wonder if you could represent a smell graphically.
Wow, this thing only ways about 2lb /0.91kg.
Could this be used as a robot bloodhound? They claim that it can work in almost any environment, but how good is it at distinguishing similar odours?
if(strength_of_case[Prosecution] * money_spent_on_case[Prosecution] > strength_of_case[Defence] * money_spent_on_case[Defence])
{
win(Prosecution);
strength_of_case[Prosecution]--;
}
else
{
win(Defence);
strength_of_case[Prosecution]++;
}
strength_of_case[Prosecution] is decremented at each iteration if prosecution wins and incremented if they lose.
money_spent_on_case[Prosecution] is set to compensate. so strength_of_case[Prosecution] * money_spent_on_case[Prosecution]is roughly constant
money_spent_on_case[Defence] is a user defined value. Recently the users have been setting this abnormally high.
Anyway, this shows that equilibrium will eventually be reached at a point where the two values are roughly equal.
if(strength_of_case[Prosecution] * money_spent_on_case[Prosecution] > strength_of_case[Defence] * money_spent_on_case[Defence])
{
}
I think what it actually was was that a search engine had one billion web pages indexed. Not that I disagree with you. This is totaly meaningless. I have a couple of web pages that no-one has linked to. I don't think they checked the database for broken links.
How long does it take to count 1 000 000 000 links anyway?
As has been mentioned elsewhere, what BeOS seems to lack is applications.
Most people don't care about the OS. They just want a machine that will run the programs that do what they want to do. Even as a zero cost piece of software, BeOS fails to do this for most people. Surely Be aren't expecting people to download the OS and think "Wow! This is so much better than Windows that I'm going to install it". Operating systems alone aren't fun. BeOS really needs a killer ap before anyone starts using it. Be must know this. Be can also be pretty certain that no killer ap is going to be released in the near future because no-one is using BeOS. This is a platypus and egg situation.
Is the plan purely to encourage geeks to start writing for it, or is there a more sinister motive behind this?
Anyone seen this? Star wars done with Lego. Or mirrors here
Yes, but the point is that Xena etc. have no plot, childish dialogue and cringing one-liners.....and respectable special effects. And this is all on a TV budget. Good plot and dialogue have always been possible. Convincing effects haven't. The few minutes of stop motion in Jason and the Argonauts took months to complete. Not everyone has the budget to manage that.
Of course, I know dragons, hobbits and monsters aren't neccesary for fantasy, but without these you're missing out on a lot of possibilities. Without them you can't even film The Hobbit.
And anyway, I like the lack of plot, childish dialogue and cringing one-liners in Xena.
Reminds me of a time when Multimedia was the new buzzword. Much was made of the idea of being able to have interactive movies where you could choose one of a number of possible endings.
I always felt that this sounded a bit lame, but I was expecting the point and click adventures to head in the direction of interactive movies. This never seemed to happen either. It would have been so cool to have a version of a Monkey Island type game with real actors.
I dont see very many REAL fantasy films around that made the cinemas
Not many, but there have been some. Princess Bride and DragonHeart spring to mind.
Remember, a few years ago there were virtually no fantasy television series apart from a few childrens shows, with low production values. Now we have Xena, Hercules, and a vast number of other series with regular monster special effects. Computer graphics, as well as the efforts of television companies, has brought the cost of doing this right down.
I think you can't say for sure it is the word colour that changed into color in the States.
Quite true, and I personally think we (i.e. the English) changed it. Although Both the English and the American versions of the language have eveolved quite substantially, especially in pronunciation. If you are really interested in the development of the American version of the English language, then I would recomend the book "Made in America" by Bill Bryson.
Software should be like a book
I totally agree. Books are as easy to copy as software, and as easy to distribute. Having a binding EULA on a book would be considered ludicrous by just about everyone. So would regional coding, copy protection of any description or restrictions against resale. Why is software different?
Two monitors are well within the range of rich amateurs. Or alternatively you can use a monitor and a TV. And there's a lot of uses especially for things like video editing. Or just have two keyboards, two mice and have two people using the machine.
What I really want is 3 outputs, 3 projectors and a 120 degree screen. All acting like a single big display device.
The number IV is apparently not used because it clashes (I'm not sure, either the glyph IV or the word/number 4) with a naughty word in some Oriental language.
Not quite. 4 is just considered unlucky in a lot of asian countries because it sound similar to death or something like that. Some buildings are built without a fourth floor in China.
I think it is also something to do with skipping a number to make it obvious that this is a new generation. That was the reason with the Psion 5. They could be copying