That's not my point. I'm not refering to the price of the technology. I also did not say budget was a barrier to obtaining the mini-sub.
I'm commenting on the attitude of the story poster that the moment you put a piece of technology in the hands of our military it's going to be put to a purpose that is evil in nature.
Our military has a legitimate purpose, whether you like our sitting president or not. That purpose is national defense. Better tools and technology allow for a better defense, often times enabling less agressive tactics and reducing unwanted cassualties.
"It's small enough that there is concern it could simply be eaten, or worse, used by the military."
Why "or worse"? Giving our military better technology is often times the best way to avoid becoming entangled in lengthy conflicts and reliance on poor intelligence.
Perhaps this is a bit scifi - but you could apply this knowledge and build a projector that transmits narrow band at a subject's eye.
Imagine being able to make things invisible by replacing the light hitting the cornea. You could hide things in plain site. Hide doors. Make things appear that don't exist.
I notice he never had such strong views on the issue back when he owned CNN, CNN Headline News, TNN, Atlanta Superstation, WGN, New Line Cinema, and was a chair on Time Warner.
If the US Govt. Imposed a draconian policy regarding spam and the technology was dicey or imposed on end user rights (such as no more anonimity) you would see the admin here go apeshit.
Michael also seems to think that whatever is decided in the US will magically become policy for the whole net. After all, if the US govt says you must comply with a no spam list, we must expect the rest of the world is going to suddenly stop sending spam. Right?
Interplay had money problems, even back then. I heard they were overbudget and spent about $5m in development. They just couldn't afford any more. So they shelved the project.
You can do searches on google for Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury and there's websites with leaked production art and videos. They were cookin' some cool stuff.
If nothing else it would be nice to see someone do ANYTHING worthwile with the voice tracks. The tracks were recorded after Star Trek 6, and it's the last time most of these actors played their classic roles.
It would be nice to see this game finally hit the auction block, to be recycled or incorporated into another game. It featured D.Kelly's last performance as Dr. McCoy. It was never finished byInterplay because of costs, so the game never saw the lightof day beyond some cool promo trailers.
Every movie anymore is promoted on my breakfast cereal, fast food, magazine covers... I deal with it because movies have always been pimped this way.
Then the evening news started including gratuitous clips from movies in many of it's stories. But the news has become more tabloid over time, so I guess I'm not shocked.
But now we have political debate as movie promotion. Am I supposed to endure public policy being set to promote a movie? Especially one that has been blasted for being far-fetched as this? George Bush and Dick Cheney are not going to set off the freezing of the Hudson, even if you believe they own frikin' sharks with frikin' lasers on their heads!
It's a movie! It gives good trailer and sucks when you watch the whole thing! It's the guy who made the american Godzilla movie! What more proof do you need?
The Ice Age is not going to start with the flick of a switch, just like Gozilla cannot die from three sidewinder missiles.
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Rendering Shrek@Home?
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Both studios are using Renderman compliant renderers, so that's not the issue.
And there's no reason that any one machine has to render an entire image file. You could have any node build N number of scanlines and send the packet back home.
The risk would be someone running a port monitor on the return address, and re-assembling digital image files.
Attractive female: Hi, my name is Renee. Wanna dance?
Nerdy guy: (snort!) Who, me? (snort!) I'm not much of a dancer, I really don't do this kind of thing much!
Attractive female: Oh, well, that's ok. We can just talk! I'm a supermodel and just got back from Europe. What do you do?
Nerdy guy: I play Zelda. I've been playing it almost every day since it came out in the stores, which was about ten years ago. I don't have a job, per se, but it's OK because my parent have stopped bugging me about moving out and I live in their basement. As long as I don't make too much noise they leave me alone.
Attractive female: So, um. Yeah. What is Zelda?
Nerdy guy: Oh, it this really great video game that I've solved a few hundred times. I'm just trying to solve it faster now, to set records about those loosers who can't break that half hour mark. You should see me play sometime!
Nerdy guy: Hello? Where'd she go? Aw man, I didn't even get to see her tits!
Recently Wells Fargo gave my Name, SSN, Address, Bank Account info, and other info about myself and my wife to a data miner who works in an office located behind a sports bar. The office of that contractor was burglarized, and a laptop was stolen containing the data on us and an undetermined number of people ranking in the thousands.
The laptop was recovered after 30 days, found in the apartment of a known identity thief. I'm supposed to believe he never copied of shared the information. The laptop was located because it had AOL software on it. That laptop could have been penatrated even if it had never been stolen. Well Fargo information security at it's finest.
All of my family's personal info in a nice, neat package for anyone to abuse. Not a fucking thing I can do about it beyond moving my business elsewhere. Which really doesn't solve the bigger problem, our personal and financial info drifting in the wind.
If we don't go to court to test the legality of the GPL in the SCO case, it means it will happen later... perhaps against someone who doesn't have their head up their ass.
Going to trial against SCO is a sure thing for IBM, and therefore good for Linux. IBM and Redhat would tear SCO a new one, and the GPL would have it's day in court against the mental midgits from Provo.
If SCO goes bankrupt, this (I assume) goes in a legal round file somewhere. Then we can just wait for Microsoft to come at us directly with an army of lawyers that dwarfs IBM.
...of when the DVD format was introduced might buy this player.
I remember the selling points of DVDs originally were 1) No rewinding tapes 2) better video and audio 3) instant edit of content - an "R" could become a "PG" on the fly because offensive material could be flagged and skipped.
That last point turned out to be bullshit, and there is no reason why DVD couldn't deliver on that promise.
Having flags for content would not be a challenge. What would be wrong with having a menu on an R film that would make it PG, following the editing guildlines commonly used for bringing a feature movie to TV?
"Besides, it will butcher movies, not replace the content with milder cuss words like on TV."
With multiple audio tracks on a DVD, certainly one could include a "TV safe" audio track. These are commonly produced for R films during production, because a movie might air on network television.
Slashdot has been the home of DeCSS arguments that include "it's my disc and I can do whatever the hell I want with it". Someone with a different moral bearing than you cannot present that same argument with their DVD collection?
The problem here is not censorship. The material is still on the disc should the viewer choose to see it. This is no different that using Tivo and it's fast forward functions.
You appear to be a rather intolerant person towards anyone with a system of faith and the desire to watch safe(r) television in front of their children. You call them "idiots" and "god bothering prudes". You are a bigot.
I suspect the real heart of your argument is a desire to shove something down the throat of these "idiots" because it pleases you to offend them.
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That's not my point. I'm not refering to the price of the technology. I also did not say budget was a barrier to obtaining the mini-sub.
I'm commenting on the attitude of the story poster that the moment you put a piece of technology in the hands of our military it's going to be put to a purpose that is evil in nature.
Our military has a legitimate purpose, whether you like our sitting president or not. That purpose is national defense. Better tools and technology allow for a better defense, often times enabling less agressive tactics and reducing unwanted cassualties.
Yeah. You make my life more... memorable. Thanks.
Slashdot has always been the first place to point out that any technology is as good or bad as it's application.
Why "or worse"? Giving our military better technology is often times the best way to avoid becoming entangled in lengthy conflicts and reliance on poor intelligence.
Perhaps this is a bit scifi - but you could apply this knowledge and build a projector that transmits narrow band at a subject's eye.
Imagine being able to make things invisible by replacing the light hitting the cornea. You could hide things in plain site. Hide doors. Make things appear that don't exist.
Ted Turner invented big media.
I notice he never had such strong views on the issue back when he owned CNN, CNN Headline News, TNN, Atlanta Superstation, WGN, New Line Cinema, and was a chair on Time Warner.
Virgil "Gus" Grissom was the pilot who had a hatch eject mysteriously from his Mercury capsule.
Not Yeager
If the US Govt. Imposed a draconian policy regarding spam and the technology was dicey or imposed on end user rights (such as no more anonimity) you would see the admin here go apeshit.
Michael also seems to think that whatever is decided in the US will magically become policy for the whole net. After all, if the US govt says you must comply with a no spam list, we must expect the rest of the world is going to suddenly stop sending spam. Right?
Interplay had money problems, even back then. I heard they were overbudget and spent about $5m in development. They just couldn't afford any more. So they shelved the project.
You can do searches on google for Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury and there's websites with leaked production art and videos. They were cookin' some cool stuff.
If nothing else it would be nice to see someone do ANYTHING worthwile with the voice tracks. The tracks were recorded after Star Trek 6, and it's the last time most of these actors played their classic roles.
It would be nice to see this game finally hit the auction block, to be recycled or incorporated into another game. It featured D.Kelly's last performance as Dr. McCoy. It was never finished byInterplay because of costs, so the game never saw the lightof day beyond some cool promo trailers.
Every movie anymore is promoted on my breakfast cereal, fast food, magazine covers... I deal with it because movies have always been pimped this way.
Then the evening news started including gratuitous clips from movies in many of it's stories. But the news has become more tabloid over time, so I guess I'm not shocked.
But now we have political debate as movie promotion. Am I supposed to endure public policy being set to promote a movie? Especially one that has been blasted for being far-fetched as this? George Bush and Dick Cheney are not going to set off the freezing of the Hudson, even if you believe they own frikin' sharks with frikin' lasers on their heads!
It's a movie! It gives good trailer and sucks when you watch the whole thing! It's the guy who made the american Godzilla movie! What more proof do you need?
The Ice Age is not going to start with the flick of a switch, just like Gozilla cannot die from three sidewinder missiles.
Both studios are using Renderman compliant renderers, so that's not the issue.
And there's no reason that any one machine has to render an entire image file. You could have any node build N number of scanlines and send the packet back home.
The risk would be someone running a port monitor on the return address, and re-assembling digital image files.
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+1 informative
Or, um, perhaps I should just say I've ensured fair use rights for my friends and their game collections.
Mt. Everest = 6 miles
Edge of Space = 75 miles.
Space Shuttle orbit ~200 miles (typical)
International Space Station = 228 miles
Alan Shepard - before the flight of Freedom 7:
"Oh Lord, Please don't let me fuck up."
Perhaps he does use it erotically.
Attractive female: Hi, my name is Renee. Wanna dance?
Nerdy guy: (snort!) Who, me? (snort!) I'm not much of a dancer, I really don't do this kind of thing much!
Attractive female: Oh, well, that's ok. We can just talk! I'm a supermodel and just got back from Europe. What do you do?
Nerdy guy: I play Zelda. I've been playing it almost every day since it came out in the stores, which was about ten years ago. I don't have a job, per se, but it's OK because my parent have stopped bugging me about moving out and I live in their basement. As long as I don't make too much noise they leave me alone.
Attractive female: So, um. Yeah. What is Zelda?
Nerdy guy: Oh, it this really great video game that I've solved a few hundred times. I'm just trying to solve it faster now, to set records about those loosers who can't break that half hour mark. You should see me play sometime!
Nerdy guy: Hello? Where'd she go? Aw man, I didn't even get to see her tits!
Recently Wells Fargo gave my Name, SSN, Address, Bank Account info, and other info about myself and my wife to a data miner who works in an office located behind a sports bar. The office of that contractor was burglarized, and a laptop was stolen containing the data on us and an undetermined number of people ranking in the thousands.
The laptop was recovered after 30 days, found in the apartment of a known identity thief. I'm supposed to believe he never copied of shared the information. The laptop was located because it had AOL software on it. That laptop could have been penatrated even if it had never been stolen. Well Fargo information security at it's finest.
All of my family's personal info in a nice, neat package for anyone to abuse. Not a fucking thing I can do about it beyond moving my business elsewhere. Which really doesn't solve the bigger problem, our personal and financial info drifting in the wind.
I would say proposing marrage on Slashdot is way up there.
Oh my heck! I'm sorry!
Yes, they are claiming Linux has "millions of lines of code" in the Las Vegas presentation.
And that's all I have to say to an AC.
If we don't go to court to test the legality of the GPL in the SCO case, it means it will happen later... perhaps against someone who doesn't have their head up their ass.
Going to trial against SCO is a sure thing for IBM, and therefore good for Linux. IBM and Redhat would tear SCO a new one, and the GPL would have it's day in court against the mental midgits from Provo.
If SCO goes bankrupt, this (I assume) goes in a legal round file somewhere. Then we can just wait for Microsoft to come at us directly with an army of lawyers that dwarfs IBM.
...of when the DVD format was introduced might buy this player.
I remember the selling points of DVDs originally were
1) No rewinding tapes
2) better video and audio
3) instant edit of content - an "R" could become a "PG" on the fly because offensive material could be flagged and skipped.
That last point turned out to be bullshit, and there is no reason why DVD couldn't deliver on that promise.
Having flags for content would not be a challenge. What would be wrong with having a menu on an R film that would make it PG, following the editing guildlines commonly used for bringing a feature movie to TV?
"Besides, it will butcher movies, not replace the content with milder cuss words like on TV."
With multiple audio tracks on a DVD, certainly one could include a "TV safe" audio track. These are commonly produced for R films during production, because a movie might air on network television.
Slashdot has been the home of DeCSS arguments that include "it's my disc and I can do whatever the hell I want with it". Someone with a different moral bearing than you cannot present that same argument with their DVD collection?
The problem here is not censorship. The material is still on the disc should the viewer choose to see it. This is no different that using Tivo and it's fast forward functions.
You appear to be a rather intolerant person towards anyone with a system of faith and the desire to watch safe(r) television in front of their children. You call them "idiots" and "god bothering prudes". You are a bigot.
I suspect the real heart of your argument is a desire to shove something down the throat of these "idiots" because it pleases you to offend them.